Rialto Chatter: SCARLET PIMPERNEL Broadway Revival in the Works? WONDERLAND to Make West End Debut?

Just last night PBS aired a new episode of its 66TH AND BROADWAY series, this time featuring the work of composer Frank Wildhorn, and on the show, he revealed scoops on the status of two of his projects.

He commented: "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL which has had a wonderful life, and a wonderful international life... I think I can tell you that the revival is coming. That's what they tell me, so I'm going to believe them! The romantic, cock-eyed optimistic that I am, I'm still believing them! "

Wildhorn later went on to reveal: "A couple of years ago, before BONNIE & CLYDE, we had WONDERLAND which opens in London next fall."

Tony Award-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn's first contribution to Broadway was writing additional songs for the Julie Andrews musical, VICTOR/VICTORIA in 1995, after which he went on to compose six original Broadway musicals. He is one of the only composers to have three musicals running at the same time, with JEKYLL & HYDE, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, and THE CIVIL WAR.

His other works include DRACULA, WONDERLAND, and BONNIE & CLYDE as well as the international hits CARMEN, THE COUNT OF ONTE CRITSTO, RUDOLF, and the upcoming DEATH NOTE FOR JAPAN, CASANOVE FOR VIENNA, MATA HARI AT THE MOULIN ROUGE, and THE MAN WHO LAUGHS FOR SOUTH KOREA.

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