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The Buzz: Broadway Bound
Wednesday, June 28, 2000 By Andrew Druckenbrod, Post-Gazette Classical Music Writer
Woody Allen has engaged Marvin Hamlisch, principal conductor of the Pittsburgh Pops, to write the score to a Broadway adaptation of his movie "Bullets Over Broadway." Allen's 1994 movie pokes fun at Broadway, showing a young playwright who makes compromise after compromise to get his play staged in 1920s New York. "I think this is a fabulous opportunity," Hamlisch told the Post-Gazette yesterday. "Working with Allen is exciting. I wrote the scores to [Allen's films] 'Bananas' and 'Take the Money and Run,' and I am thrilled if this gets worked out." Hamlisch has agreed to the task, but the details have yet to be ironed out. "It will happen, but I don't like to count my chickens before they hatch," said Hamlisch. "It's called 'lawyers.' " The film version of "Bullets" used standards by a host of Broadway composers, including Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin. The New York Daily News reported that Jean Doumanian (also co-producer of the film) and Marty Richards will produce the show on Broadway. Allen wrote the screenplay with Douglas McGrath. The movie won Dianne Wiest the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Hamlisch, meanwhile, is preparing for an August workshop of his latest musical, "The Sweet Smell of Success," produced by SFX and starring John Lithgow. A Broadway production could follow.
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