NewsPHOTO CALL: Bullets Over Broadway Musical, Starring Zach Braff and Marin Mazzie, on Opening Night; Red Carpet Arrivals, Curtain Call and Cast PartyWoody Allen's 1994 film comedy Bullets Over Broadway, about an aspiring playwright who gets a shot at the big time when a wealthy gangster takes a sudden interest in producing, officially opened on Broadway April 10 at the St. James Theatre. Zach Braff and Marin Mazzie star as playwright David Shayne and stage diva Helen Sinclair.
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Matthew Blank, Joseph Marzullo
April 11, 2014
Five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Scottsboro Boys, The Producers, Contact) directs and choreographs the musical that has been adapted by Allen from his Academy Award-nominated film, which he co-wrote with Douglas McGrath. It began Broadway previews March 11.
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Bullets Over Broadway Musical, Starring Zach Braff and Marin Mazzie, on Opening Night
Veteran musical supervisor Glen Kelly (The Producers, The Nance, Young Frankenstein) has adapted and penned additional lyrics for the pre-existing songs from the 1920s and 30s, which are used for the score. The score includes such songs as "Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness," "Running Wild," "Let's Misbehave," "I Found A New Baby" and more.
"Bullets Over Broadway" centers on an aspiring playwright who finds out that his play God of Our Fathers is getting the Broadway treatment thanks to a wealthy gangster who has taken a sudden interest in producing. The only snag is that his dimwitted moll has to star in one of the leading roles. Thrown into the mix are a mafia thug with a real knack for playwrighting and a theatrical grand dame who gives Norma Desmond a run for her money.
Allen's numerous films include "Blue Jasmine," "Annie Hall," "Manhattan," "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Husbands and Wives," "Love and Death," "Stardust Memories," "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and many more (about one a year since the 1970s). His plays include Don't Drink the Water (1966), Death Knocks (1968), Play It Again, Sam (1969), Death (1975), God (1975), The Query (1976), My Apology (1980), The Floating Light Bulb (1981), Death Defying Acts (1995), Writer's Block (2003) and A Second Hand Memory (2004).
The musical is produced by Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg and co-produced by Edward Walson, Leroy Schecter, Roy Furman, Broadway Across America, Just for Laughs Theatricals/Jacki Barlia Florin, Harold Newman and Jujamcyn Theaters and associate producer Don't Speak, LLC.