The Flamingo Kid is eyeing a Spring 2018 Broadway bow
Producers Bob Israel and Larry Hirschhorn have officially announced that a musical adpatation of the late Garry Marshall's 1984 film The Flamingo Kid is in development and aiming for a Spring 2018 opening on Broadway.
The Flamingo Kid features a book and lyrics by Tony winner Robert L. Freedman and music by Tony nominee Scott Frankel.
Producer Bob Israel commented:
"Robert and Scott are passionately drawn to this timeless story. By reinterpreting it for the stage, and making it sing, they're finding new ways to layer the emotional content, and imbue it with a new vibrancy."Larry Hirschhorn added:
"It's a valentine to the shimmering beach clubs of a bygone era."Synopsis: "Based on the hit Garry Marshall film, The Flamingo Kid takes place in the summer of 1963 and follows an 18-year-old Brooklynite who leaves his humble roots behind in favor of the sexy and alluring world of The El Flamingo - a private beach club for well-to-do Long Islanders. Torn between his father's blue collar values and those of his new, cocky mentor, Phil Brody, he finds consolation in Brody's niece, Carla, a girl with radical ideas of her own. He soon learns that there's no shortcut to lasting success, and there's no substitute for family."
The Flamingo Kid was written and directed by Garry Marshall, with Neal Marshall and Bob Goldman as co-writers. It starred Matt Dillon as Jeffrey Willis and is widely regarded as his breakthrough performance.
Robert L. Freedman won a Tony Award in 2014 for "Best Book of a Musical" with 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder' and earned a Tony nomination for his lyrics. He is also well known for writing the teleplays of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" (1997) and "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" (2001).
Scott Frankel earned a Tony nomination in 2007 for "Best Original Score" with 'Grey Gardens.' He has also worked on the Broadway productions of 'Falsettos,' 'Jerome Robbins' Broadway,' 'Into the Woods,' and 'Rags.'
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