The Bedwetter on Broadway?! Sarah Silverman Talks Up 'Killer' Musical Memoir

Sarah Silverman is hoping to air out her wet sheets on the Broadway stage. The actress and comedian told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show on September 23 that the musical version of her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee is moving forward, and that composer Adam Schlesinger has already written “like five killer songs” for the brewing project.

As Silverman first revealed to Rolling Stone earlier this year, Cry-Baby composer Schlesinger first approached her with the idea of adapting the bestseller for the stage. Since the musical will follow her life from age six to 19, Silverman won’t actually appear in the show, but is co-writing the book.

The Bedwetter chronicles Silverman’s life from her upbringing in New Hampshire (including her misfortune as a bedwetter until the age of 16) to her career as comic, including her all-too-brief Saturday Night Live stint, her stand-up film Jesus is Magic to Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program. The memoir includes a forward by herself and an afterword by God.

Silverman appeared off-Broadway for a limited run of Jesus is Magic at 45 Bleecker in 2002, but has never appeared on the Broadway stage. She was, however, featured as Alexi Darling in the 2005 film adaptation of Rent, appeared in the 2011 L.A. Actors Fund concert production of Funny Girl and previously took part in New York’s 24 Hour Plays benefit.

After asking if there would be actual urinating onstage (spoiler: there won’t), Stern gave the project the thumbs up: “I think this is the most original idea I’ve ever heard.”