A playwright who needs someone to back his next show. A mobster who needs some way to please his showgirl girlfriend.
This could be the start of a beautiful friendship - or a brand new musical comedy!
Based on the screenplay of the acclaimed film, Bullets Over Broadway brings the talents of Woody Allen and Susan Stroman together for the first time.
Loaded with big laughs, colorful characters, and the songs that made the 20s roar, Bullets Over Broadway is ready to bring musical comedy back with a bang.
The last times Woody Allen wrote plays for Broadway, his single drama suggested he hadn't seen one since middle-period Arthur Miller and his comedies were a tired throwback to Neil Simon. But with 'Bullets Over Broadway,' his first Broadway musical, Allen has created an old-fashioned, madcap lark of a show that seems precisely where it belongs. Director-choreographer Susan Stroman is back in idea-crazy form in Allen's adaptation of his 1994 backstage-Broadway movie about gangsters and tootsies and self-serious thespians in the '20s. The show takes a while to hit its stride, feeling competent but mechanical at first, as if the job could only get done if everyone bellows and hard-sells the lamest jokes. But once inspiration strikes -- and it eventually does -- the smartly cast, good-looking production relaxes into the confidence of its own gleeful, high-gloss ridiculousness.
Now open at the St. James Theatre, 'Bullets Over Broadway' is a zany, old-fashioned spectacle that features the Broadway debut of actor-writer Zach Braff and a marvelous turn from three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie as an aging diva...While not without some curious choices, 'Bullets' is certainly the best of the musicals to open on Broadway so far this season, though make note ... it's a new musical with old music...The mark of director-choreographer Stroman...is all over the deliciously escapist piece, which boasts showstoppers and glitzy costumes that would be right at home in a vaudeville revue... What's important here is this: Stroman's brand of showmanship and Allen's unparalleled wit go together, in the end, just like a hot dog and a roll.
2014 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2015 | US Tour |
Non-Equity National Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Susan Stroman |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Susan Stroman |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Nick Cordero |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Peter Hylenski |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Nick Cordero |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Zach Braff |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Choreographer | Susan Stroman |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | William Ivey Long |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Nick Cordero |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Marin Mazzie |
2014 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance | Nick Cordero |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Woody Allen |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Susan Stroman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | William Ivey Long |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeremiah J. Harris |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Doug Besterman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Nick Cordero |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Santo Loquasto |
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