Bullets Over Broadway

• Original Broadway Production (2014)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Tiger Rag
• Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You
• Blues My Naughty Baby Gives to Me
• 'Taint a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast
• I Want a Hot Dog for My Roll
• They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me
• Up a Lazy River
• I'm Sitting On Top of the World
• Let's Misbehave
• There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway
• (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
• 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
• Runnin' Wild
• There's a New Day Comin'
• There'll Be Some Changes Made
• I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
• Good Old New York
• I've Found a New Baby
• The Panic Is On
• She's Funny That Way
• Finale (Yes, We Have No Bananas)

Based on Woody Allen's 1994 film of the same name

In 1928, David Shayne is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway. In order to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he agrees to hire Olive Neal, the actress/girlfriend of a gangster. She is demanding and talentless, but her gangster escort Cheech turns out to be a genius, who constantly comes up with excellent ideas for revising the play. As the players prepare for opening night, Shayne is soon in over his head claiming Cheech's rewrites as his own, cheating on his partner Ellen with the show's seductive, alcoholic leading lady Helen Sinclair, and facing his leading man, a compulsive eater, beginning an affair with Olive.

On Jan. 14, 2002, it was reported in an article on playbill.com that a musical version of Woody Allen's film Bullets Over Broadway was being planned, with a book by Allen (adapted from the screenplay he co-wrote with Douglas McGrath). The score was to be written by Marvin Hamlisch (musicl) and Craig Carnelia (lyrics). Martin Richards and Sam Crothers and Sam Crothers (aka Producers' Circle) were to be the producers. The article mentioned that the project had already been in the works for a couple of years: "A late-August 2000 report on Inside.com noted that Allen had considering directing the piece and that before Hamlisch came on board, Allen considered simply using popular songs of the 1920s and 30s, rather than an original score."

Occaional mentions of the project would turn up in the press over the next few years. As late as 2006, a Cabaret Hotline article on Craig Carnelia reported that Carneila and Hamlisch were still working on it, and that Harvey Weinstein had joined the producing team.

But then little or nothing was heard for some time. Finally it June 2012 it was reported (in this New York Times article and other places) that Susan Stroman would be the director and choreographer, and that the production would feature "existing songs from its 1920s-set period."

On August 6, 2012, Marvin Hamlisch died.