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Bullets Over Broadway: Music From the Motion Picture

Bullets Over Broadway

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Bullets Over Broadway the Musical is a jukebox musical written by Woody Allen, based on his and Douglas McGrath's 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway about a young playwright whose first Broadway play is financed by a gangster. The score consists of jazz and popular standards of the years between World War I and about 1930 by various songwriters.

Opened
2014
Performances
156
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Various (1920s standards)Lyrics: VariousBook: Woody Allen

Productions1 on Broadway

2014 St. James Theatre Original. April 10, 2014 · Susan Stroman 156 performances

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In 2014 she played the aging diva Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen’s musical version of his 1994 movie, Bullets Over Broadway. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p468

none is currently slated for recursive musical film adaptations. Of the most recent Broadway musicals based on films—Once, Bullets over Broadway, Rocky, Ghost, Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Carrie: The Musical— book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p883

filmmakers returned to ancient Broadway melodies for inspiration and sometimes musically felicitous reinterpretation, as seen in Woody Allen’s original film musical Everyone Says I Love You (Miramax, 1997) and prominently in most of his richly musical comedy soundtracks from Manhattan’s Gershwin tribute to Radio Days a… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-to-sondheim-and-lloyd-web#p228

Just as when she went from Ragtime to Kiss Me, Kate, swinging from serious drama to rollicking comedy, in 2014 Mazzie followed up Carrie with Bullets Over Broadway, based on Woody Allen’s hit film. The show, though eagerly anticipated, was not well received and closed after 156 performances. book:here-s-to-the-ladies-conversations-with-more-of-the-great-eddie-shapiro-oxford-u#p410

Despite a production helmed by the much-heralded Susan Stroman, the musical lost in all six categories in which it was Tony nominated; it shuttered after a mere 156 performances. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p139

Nick Cordero. He’d played characters outside the law in Bullets over Broadway (2014) and A Bronx Tale (2016); he’d received nominations from various organizations for both. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p170

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