'Bullets' aims for Broadway

Woodsy Allen is tuning up a stage version of "Bullets over Broadway," adapting his 1994 pic in to a musical that aims to land round the Rialto in 2013. Allen pens it using the script he co-written with Douglas McGrath. Show will incorporate period tunes within the 20's, the era throughout the Gotham-set story happens. Plotline follows a young playwright who must cast a mobster's talent-free moll within the latest play to have the ability to have the show produced. The 1994 Miramax film starred John Cusack, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest, whose perf just like a demanding diva acquired her an Oscar. Show's producers, Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson, create a practice of backing Allen's stage endeavors. Furthermore they produced this season's "Relatively Speaking," a trio of just one-functions that incorporated a seg by Allen, additionally to 1995 Off Broadway show "Dying Repel Functions," another range of one-functions that Allen brought. Further particulars about "Bullets" -- including casting, creative team and song list -- be set. Exact Broadway dates and theater will also be up in mid-air. Aronson is probably the producers of Allen's latest bigscreen outing, "Evening amount of time in Paris," that's up for four Oscars a couple of days ago. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com