By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on June 29, 2009 10:38 PM
Nutty Professor Will Become A Broadway Musical Aiming To Land On Broadway In The 2010-2011 Season By Rupert Holmes, Marvin Halmish , And Jerry Lewis
Rupert Holmes and Marvin Hamlish Team Up For A Nutty Musical
Rupert Holmes (Curtains, Say Goodnight Gracie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and songwriter Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success, They're Playing Our Song) are working on a new Broadway musical based on the classic Jerry Lewis film comedy The Nutty Professor. Lewis himself will direct the production of this Nutty musical, which is aiming to hit Broadway in the 2010-2011 season.
Jerry Lewis is no stranger to the stage, having starred in the touring production of the musical Damn Yankees in the '90s. The 1963 movie The Nutty Professor, which Lewis starred in and co-wrote with Bill Richmond, is about Julius Kelp, a geeky genius who creates a potion that transforms him into smooth operator Buddy Love.
