Norbert Leo Butz, Patti LuPone, Frank Langella & More Tapped for HBO's Broadway Homage, The Miraculous Year

Tony Award winners Norbert Leo Butz, Patti LuPone, Frank Langella and Eddie Redmayne, as well as Tony nominees Hope Davis and Stark Sands, will be among the stars bringing Broadway to the small-screen in HBO's forthcoming pilot The Miraculous Year, according to The New York Post. Written by recent Tony-winning Red playwright John Logan and directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), the pilot is currently in pre-production for a premiere to air sometime early 2011.

Described as a chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of Terry Segal, a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer, The Miraculous Year is widely assumed to be based (loosely) on the life of  Stephen Sondheim, with whom scribe Logan collaborated on the screen adaptation of Sweeney Todd. The pilot, which makes industry digs at commercial hits like Wicked and spotlights real-life theater hangouts such as Angus McIndoe, establishes Segal as a snarky and brilliant talent in the process of adapting the novel Bel Ami for the Broadway stage while simultaneously juggling a difficult family (and chasing chorus boys).

Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) has been tapped for the role of Segal, with LuPone (Gypsy) as his musical's fit-throwing diva and Langella (Frost/Nixon) as his abusive father. Redmayne (Red), Davis (God of Carnage) and Sands (American Idiot) appear in as yet unspecified roles. Also on board is Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza), who will reportedly pen the music to The Miraculous Year's show-within-a-show musical.

No official statement regarding the show has been released at this time.