Thirty years after Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” arrived in cinemas, a musical adaptation is taking the stage.

The theatrical division of Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that the new musical, which has been in development for eight years, would have its first production at the National Theater in Washington in October, with the goal of then transferring to Broadway.

The musical, a comedy about a ghost seeking to scare a family out of a house, is being directed by Alex Timbers (“Peter and the Starcatcher,” “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”). The songs are by Eddie Perfect, an Australian musician who is also writing the songs for a musical adaptation of “King Kong” that is scheduled to open on Broadway this fall; the book is by Scott Brown, a former theater critic for New York magazine, and Anthony King, the former artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.