The Nanny to Be a Broadway Musical From Fran Drescher and Rachel Bloom
A queen from Queens will have her day on the Great White Way: The Nanny is being adapted as a Broadway musical, The New York Times reports.
Fran Drescher, who starred in the CBS sitcom for the entirety of its run, is developing the production. The Emmy-winning team of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger, Crazy Ex‘s executive music producer, will write the stage show’s music and lyrics. Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson, who created the television show with her, will write the musical’s book.
Scott and Brian Zeilinger, the team behind the musicals Mean Girls and Dear Evan Hansen, will produce.
The Nanny premiered in 1993 and followed Drescher’s Fran Fine, a door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman who stumbled into a job babysitting three well-to-do children on Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side. Over the course of six seasons, Fran and the children’s father, successful Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (played by Charles Shaughnessy), fell in love, married and had children of their own.
Drescher will not play Fran in the musical, per the Times — couldn’t you plotz?! — and other casting has not yet been decided.
The series also starred Daniel Davis as Niles, the Sheffield’s butler, and Lauren Lane as C.C., Maxwell’s business partner who at one point was romantically interested in Maxwell. (Niles and C.C. wound up together by the finale, though.)
Are you excited to hear about a Nanny musical? Hit the comments and let us know!
My experience reading this headline: The Nanny (NO!!) to become broadway musical (NO!!!) from Fran Drescher (NO!!!!) and Rachel Bloom (OMG ARE OPENING NIGHT TICKETS ON SALE YET?!!!)
That’s actually funny because I had the exact opposite reaction. The Nanny. yes. A musical. Yes. Drescher, YES! Rachel Bloom, oh lord was no one else available.
Same. Exactly.
How would this work? Not even from a musical standpoint but from a Broadway standpoint. The “will they or won’t they” and the Lucille Ball comedy was what made the show what it was.
This is the best possible news. It meant so much for me to see a proud Jewish woman on tv growing up. As an adult, Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch Did it again. What a wonderful team to adapt this together!
Sounds too good to be true. Would be great if they did it right. Maybe Barbra Streisand will show up this time.
I suddenly had the idea of an opening scene in the play – Enter the Nanny (Fran Drescher, reading the play script) walking into her husband’s office (Charles Shaughnessy). She sits down and says (in her most posh, high cultured voice) “Sheffield, honey – do you actually thing people will pay MONEY to see a MUSICAL about a Jewish Nanny, going to work for an English man. And what is this part about her voice?” And then fade out and then “Nanny: The Musical” begins
The Nanny was one of my favourite shows growing up, and Rachel and Adam are a dream team song-wise, so I’m looking forward to that even if I’ll never get to see it ’cause I don’t live anywhere near the US.
Can’t wait! That comedic team will be a tough act to follow, though!
Love Love Love ❤️❤️❤️ the Nanny! I still watch the Nanny every night in Reruns Just saw my first Broadway show in NYC this past Dec. Would come back to see the Nanny Broadway show!! If this makes it to Broadway it must be good! Maybe Maxwell will get his hit bigger than Cats!!
That would be freaking hilarious if this show beat out an ALW–even if it was only for one night!
Laura Benanti isn’t Jewish, but she could SO play the Nanny. John Barrowman or Julien Ovenden for Maxwell Sheffield.
And so begins a limitless stream of classic sitcoms becoming Broadway musicals
Not every sitcom does a Broadway show make
With these stellar teams involved, this seems like a WIN-WIN-WIN.
OMFG THIS IS FANTASTIC. Brilliant idea. Absolutely brilliant. And with Drescher & Bloom!!! 😍😍😍😍. I’m so glad they’re doing this instead of the pressure to make a tv revival. And what a way to honour the show, in a meta way
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Can I buy my tickets now???!!!!? :P