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"Bullets Over Broadway" Coming to Broadway
Six years after his Bullets Over Broadway hit the big screen, Allen and Broadway veteran Marvin Hamlisch are reportedly teaming up to make a musical adaptation, according to the New York Daily News.
And the Great White Way ain't seen nuthin' like it.
Bullets made fun of Broadway circa 1920. It starred John Cusack as David Shayne, a struggling young playwright who essentially sells his soul to get his play staged by letting a mobster (played in the film by Chazz Palminteri) bankroll the production. Along the way, the wannabe bard has to deal with a string of comic problems: he's forced to cast the gangster's dimwitted gal-pal as a psychiatrist, his leading lady won't lay off the booze (or him for that matter), a meddling bodyguard/hitman thinks he can save the show and the mobster financier turns out to be a better writer than Shayne. Tracey Ullman and Jennifer Tilly also costarred.
The film, which featured a soundtrack of Broadway favorites from the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, earned seven Oscar nominations, with Dianne Weist winning for Best Supporting Actress.
Hamlisch will start writing the score to Bullets this fall. He is currently busy preparing for an August workshop of his latest musical, The Sweet Smell of Success, starring John Lithgow. Allen, whose stage résumé includes Play It Again Sam (which, unlike Bullets, was a play before a movie), will reportedly be adapting the screenplay he cowrote with Douglas McGrath.
The stage version of Bullets is apparently still in the early development stage: the News doesn't mention any directors, lyricists or librettists for the project. Aside from Allen and Hamlisch, Jean Doumanian, who executive produced the film, and Marty Richards are on board as producers. (Doumanian and Allen amicably parted ways in March after a long and fruitful producer-director relationship.)
"I'm very excited about the project," Hamlisch told the News. "Between now and August, let the lawyers worry about it. Then we'll worry about it."
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