{"id":18897,"date":"2012-02-23T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=18897"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:00:48","slug":"woody-allen-adapting-bullets-over-broadway-as-musical-for-great-white-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/23\/woody-allen-adapting-bullets-over-broadway-as-musical-for-great-white-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen Adapting BULLETS OVER BROADWAY As Musical For Great White Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Woody Allen is adapting his Academy Award nominated screenplay Bullets Over Broadway<\/strong> into a full-on Broadway musical.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em><\/a> is reporting that Allen is transforming his story of a playwright, played by John Cusack in the 1994 film, who is forced to hire a mobster’s girlfriend to play the lead in a show he is attempting to produce in order to get the funds necessary to mount it. The show’s tunes will be chosen from popular jazz songs of the era.<\/p>\n

This, of course, isn’t the first time that Allen will have work produced for the stage. He wrote the play Don’t Drink The Water<\/em>, which was turned into a 1969 movie that Allen did not participate in and a 1994 television movie in which he directed and starred. More famous was his play Play It Again Sam<\/em>, which became the 1972 film.<\/p>\n

This is also the not the first time that Allen has created a musical using pre-existing songs. His 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You<\/strong> used a number of songs from the American Songbook, including a few from the movies of one of Allen’s idols, the Marx Brothers.<\/p>\n

Although it appears as if the project is in a relatively early stage, the producers seem hopeful for a 2013 premier.<\/p>\n