“Pal Joey” To Return to B’way
According to Variety:
“Pal Joey” gets friendly with Broadway next season, with the long-discussed revival of the 1940 Rodgers & Hart tuner set to play the Roundabout Theater Company’s Studio 54 this fall. No casting has been set. Thesps rumored in the past to be circling the project include Christian Hoff (“Jersey Boys”), Stockard Channing and, prior to Hoff, Hugh Jackman.
Helmer Joe Mantello (“Wicked”), long associated with the revival, will direct the tuner, which features a new book by Richard Greenberg (“Three Days of Rain”) revising the original libretto by John O’Hara. Graciela Daniele choreographs and Paul Gemignani is music director.
Set in the 1930s, musical centers on a cad who seduces a rich married woman so she will set him up with his own night club. O’Hara based the show on his series of short stories.
Score for “Joey” includes standards “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and “I Could Write a Book.” New revival will include the tune “I’m Talking to My Pal,” which was cut during the tuner’s original out-of-town tryout in Philly.
Musical has been revived three times on the Rialto (the last time in 1976), and a concert version starring Peter Gallagher and Patti LuPone was staged by Encores! in 1995. A 1957 pic starred Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.
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