Tales of the City: musical based on Armistead Maupin's stories, aims for Broadway

Jeff Whitty (librettist) and Jason Moore (director) of the Broadway musical Avenue Q, are working on their next musical, Tales of the City, a stage musical based on the highly succesfull stories of Armistead Maupin. The duo are aiming to present the musical during the 2009 - 2010 Broadway season.

The musical comedy tells the stories of the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, and is based on the first and second novel's in Mauphin's "Tales of the City' Series, which begins with Mary Ann Singleton moving to San Francisco from Cleveland, OH, where she takes up lodgings with the unusual Anna Madrigal, landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, and is introduced to her extremely eccentric tenants.

Jason Sellards (composer/lyricist) is working and John Garden (composer) of the rock band Scissor Sisters on the shows score.

Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City' is a series of six books, that were published in the 70's and 80's, the first four books were serialised for San Francisco Chronicle and the fifth for the San Francisco Examiner prior to novilisation.

Maupin has recently published a seventh book, 'Michael Tolliver Lives' (2007), which the author says is not meant to be a new sequel in the series. The new book brings readers up todate with the former inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, telling how they now fare in the 21st century, after surviving the hectic days of 70's and 80's San Francisco.