Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman Writing Musical Version of Honeymoon in Vegas

By Robert Simonson
08 Nov 2004

Composer Jason Robert Brown and screenwriter Andrew Bergman are collaborating on a new musical based on Bergman's 1992 comedy "Honeymoon in Vegas."

Brown and Opposite of Sex star Kerry Butler will be performing a song from the score at Manhattan's Le Jazz Au Bar on Nov. 15, Brown reported.

The screwball comedy starred Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker and James Caan. Cage played a mama's boy with a phobia of committing to his girlfriend (Parker)—that is, until a Las Vegas gambler (Caan) offers to erase Cage's gambling debt in exchange for a weekend with Parker. The film is particularly remembered for featuring 34 flying Elvis impersonators.

Bergman is best known as a screenwriter and film director, with movies such as "Soapdish," "The Freshman" and "Striptease" to his credit. But he was also the author of the Broadway play Social Security, which was a minor success in 1986. Mike Nicholas directed a cast which included Marlo Thomas, Olympia Dukakis and Ron Silver.

Brown is the Tony-winning composer of Parade and The Last Five Years.