Woody Allen is adapting the original screenplay he co-wrote with Douglas McGrath for the 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway as a musical and will take it to Broadway in 2013. The New York Times reports that Julian Schlossberg and Allen’s sister and Midnight In Paris producer Letty Aronson will produce the stage version, for which Allen is writing the book. It will feature existing music from the Prohibition-era 1920s in which the film is set. Dianne Weist won a Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in the film, which centered on a young playwright (John Cusack) who is forced to cast the girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) of a mobster in order to mount the production. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including for Allen’s script. Schlossberg and Aronson also produced Allen’s Relatively Speaking, a group of one-act plays that played Broadway last year. Allen’s Midnight In Paris is up for four Oscars on Sunday.


But this is exciting!
When is Jeff Richmond of “30 Rock” gonna write a Broadway score? Like everything on Broadway – it all depends – but he could be perfect for it. His music each week is just one of the reasons why “30 Rock” has a unique tone and style all its own. It seems to me that “Bullets Over Broadway” might be right in his sweet spot or comfort zone. Richmond may be in Woody’s.
Jeff’s musical Melancholy Baby is legendary in New York and Chicago, where it was called Hamlet The Musical. Some of the funnest songs ever.
I’m ordering tickets to the reading of the first draft!
No original score? I guess we won’t be getting a “Don’t Speak” production number. Patti LuPone as Helen Sinclair please.
There is only one person who can play Helen Sinclair – HARRIET HARRIS. Lupone ain’t funny.
This is not new news to anyone in the theatre industry. This planned production has been talk about for years…since the mid 2000s. There were composers attached at one time but apparanrly not now.
Hello, Joe Perrotta from the Bullets Over Broadway press office here.
Who may I speak with to make a correction/clarification in your announcement item?
Happy to either call someone directly or email.
Thank you.
ugh. There is a flat on my Woody Allen bandwagon.
Woud do you mean Patt Lupone isnt funny,, have you seen her perform in concert live!,, She is hysterical. I can t thing of anyone better to play Helen Sinclair!!!!!