Update: THE BOOK OF MORMON's Casey Nicholaw to Direct Austin Powers Musical?

By: Dec. 12, 2011
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As BroadwayWorld reported this morning, Austin Powers may soon be singing and dancing on a Broadway stage.

Mike Myers, who created the famous character, is reportedly in talks to adapt the franchise into a Broadway musical; however, while he is set to star in a fourth Austin Powers film for New Line sometime in the near future, he will allegedly not be recreating his famous spoof onstage. 

No official announcement has been made - but The Hollywood Reporter revealed that THE BOOK OF MORMON's Tony Award-winning co-director, Casey Nicholaw, is in talks to direct a musical adaptation of the movies. 

According to the report, Nicholaw will be joined by Colin Callender and partner Sonia Friedman as producers, along with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello, who will be writing the music for the show.

The Austin Powers franchise, written by and starring Mike Myers as the title character, parodies numerous James Bond, Derek Flint, Jason King, and Matt Helm films, following the British spy's heroic quest to bring the villain Doctor Evil to justice. The films poke fun at the plots, rampant sexual innuendo, and one-dimensional stock characters characteristically associated with 1960s spy films, as well as the cliché of the ultra-suave male superspy. 



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