Odds & Ends: Hope Stays Alive for Bombshell as Producers Consider Options & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

Hope Stays Alive for Bombshell
After the Bombshell concert's Broadway triumph earlier on this week, the question on everyone’s lips is: when is the show, with songs by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, coming to the Great White Way for real? “What we start with is one of the greatest scores that's been written for the theater in I don't know how many decades," mega producer Neil Meron told The Los Angeles Times. His producing partner Craig Zadan added about the possibility of the show hitting the Main Stem: "We always thought that it might be or we wanted it to be or we hoped it to be, but there was never any movement whatsoever about making it into a Broadway show...We don't quite know what's going to happen in the next couple of months or year." Well we know what we HOPE will happen—that the team brings in a book writer to shape Marilyn’s story for the stage! In the meantime, we’ll take Wittman’s dream to tide us over: "I would love to do this at the Hollywood Bowl...Marilyn comes home."

Matthew Broderick Teams Up With Chloë Sevigny
Matthew Broderick, who has just completed a run on Broadway in It’s Only a Play, is heading back to the screen. According to Deadline, the Tony winner will star alongside Chloë Sevigny as the parents to newcomer Shannon Tarbet in the dramatic comedy Look Away. Production began this week in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Ron Moody Dead at 91
Sad news from the U.K...Ron Moody, who scared generations of children as Fagin in the movie Oliver! and on Broadway, has died at the age of 91, reports The New York Times. Moody received an Oscar nod for his performance and a Tony nomination for reprising the role on the Great White Way in the 1984 revival of the classic tuner. Join us in raising a glass of gin to the great man singing "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" below.