Big laughs, roaring 20s, comedy with a bang: Bullets Over Broadway

(TULSA, OK) The national tour of the new musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway, written by Woody Allen and based on the screenplay by Allen and Douglas McGrath for the 1994 film, will make its premiere for one show only Tuesday, March 8 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center (later this season in OKC).

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! Loaded with big laughs, colorful characters and the songs that made the 20s roar, Bullets Over Broadway brings musical comedy back with a bang.

Following his work on the Broadway production of Bullets Over Broadway, originally directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, the tour is helmed by director Jeff Whiting.  

The creative team includes Jason Ardizzone-West (scenic design), Carolyn Wong (lighting design, based on the original Broadway lighting design by Donald Holder), Shannon Slaton (sound design) and Bernie Ardia (wig and hair design). The tour features six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long’s original Broadway costumes. Bullets Over Broadway features existing music of the period, including Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do, Let’s Misbehave, I’m Sitting On Top Of The World and Runnin’ Wild.   

Hailed by Time Magazine as, “Musical Theatre Gold!” and described as “A Fun Machine from Start to Finish!” by The New Yorker,  Bullets Over Broadway tells the story of an aspiring young playwright newly arrived on Broadway in 1920 New York who is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

The original production of Bullets Over Broadway premiered on Broadway last season at the St. James Theatre. The production received six Tony-Award nominations, including Best Book of a Musical and Best Choreography.  

Presented by Celebrity Attractions, Bulets Over Broadway comes to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center for one performance only Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased via phone (918) 596-7111 or (800) 364-7111, in person at the Tulsa PAC Ticket Office, or online at MyTicketOffice.com.

Bulets Over Broadway will also perform in Oklahoma City May 23-29 at the Civic Center. Tickets for the OKC show will be on sale March 28 by calling (800) 869-1451. 

Bullets Over Broadway is an add-on production to Celebrity Attractions’ 2015-2016 Broadway Season, which includes Cinderella, Jersey Boys and 42nd Street; and the limited add-on production of Mamma Mia!

The Gayly - 2/27/2016 @ 8:12 a.m. CST