'Bullets' aims for Broadway

Woodsy Allen is tuning up a stage version of "Bullets over Broadway," adapting his 1994 pic right into a musical that aims to land around the Rialto in 2013. Allen pens it in line with the script he co-written with Douglas McGrath. Show will incorporate period tunes in the 20's, the era throughout that the Gotham-set story happens. Plotline follows a youthful playwright who must cast a mobster's talent-free moll in the latest play to be able to obtain the show created. The 1994 Miramax film starred John Cusack, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest, whose perf like a demanding diva gained her an Oscar. Show's producers, Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson, make a practice of backing Allen's stage endeavors. Additionally they created this season's "Relatively Speaking," a trio of 1-functions that incorporated a seg by Allen, in addition to 1995 Off Broadway show "Dying Repel Functions," another assortment of one-functions that Allen led. Further particulars about "Bullets" -- including casting, creative team and song list -- still be set. Exact Broadway dates and theater are also up in mid-air. Aronson is among the producers of Allen's newest bigscreen outing, "Night time in Paris," that is up for four Academy awards a few days ago. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com