Musical Based on Susan Seidelman’s Film Boynton Beach Club Eyes Broadway

A musical adaptation of Oscar-nominated writer/director Susan Seidelman’s film Boynton Beach Club will receive a developmental reading at the Park Vista Theatre in the show's namesake town of Boynton Beach, Florida, according to The Palm Beach Post. The musical reading, which features Broadway vets Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard), Janice Lynde (Pippin) and Barbara Walsh (Big), runs from February 10 through 12.  Seidelman hopes the musical, whose score is composed by Ned Paul Ginsburg and Michael Colby, will eventually come to Broadway.

Boynton Beach Club, a musical comedy about six South Florida seniors who, after the death of their spouses, become friends at a bereavement support group, was based on the true story of Seidelman’s mother, who lives in Boynton Beach. The musical previously had two small, invitation-only readings in New York. The original film was released in 2005 and starred Brenda Vaccaro, Dyan Cannon and Tony winner Len Cariou. 

Seidelman received an Oscar nomination for The Dutch Master. Her other directing credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, episodes of TV's Sex and the City, Making Mr. Right, She-Devil and Smithereens, which she also wrote.