Wednesday, December 11, 2013

'Bull Durham' musical headed to Broadway

It sounds like our old pals Crash Davis, Nuke LaLoosh and Annie Savoy will all be making it to "The Show" together after all. Broadway show that is.

It was announced on Tuesday evening that Bull Durham, the iconic 1988 comedy from Minor Leaguer-turned-Hollywood director Ron Shelton, is being made into a musical. The production, adapted for the stage by Shelton, is set to premiere at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in September 2014 in advance of a Broadway run.



In addition to helping establish the A-list credentials of Kevin Costner (Crash Davis), Tim Robbins (Nuke LaLoosh)  and Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy), Bull Durham helped start a Minor League Baseball renaissance, not just in the Bulls' home of Durham, N.C., but nationwide. Inspired by the film, moviegoers were moved to seek out their own, oft-neglected teams, helping in its own small way to pave the way toward the industry's current vibrancy. So what better place to read about this breaking story than MiLB.com — the official website of Minor League Baseball?




In an exclusive interview, Shelton and several of his key creative collaborators gathered in a conference room at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel to talk about how the project came to be, adapting to a new medium and, above all, his certainty in its eventual success. As The Great White Way rookie put it: "We've got a composer [Susan Werner] who's never composed for Broadway, a writer who's never written for Broadway and a director [Kip Fagan] who's never directed for Broadway!"

As Crash said:

"Come on, Rook. Show us that million-dollar arm, 'cause I got a good idea about that five-cent head of yours."

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