Musical Version of Maupin's Tales of the City Eyes Broadway Bow

A musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is headed to Broadway. Jeff Whitty, Tony-winning librettist of Avenue Q will write the book, while his fellow Avenue Q alum, Jason Moore, will direct. The music will be written by Jason Sellard and John Garden of the pop band Scissor Sisters. Sellards will also provide the lyrics for the new show, which is eyeing a Broadway bow in the 2009-2010 season.

Maupin's bestselling 1978 novel is both a portrait of the sexually and politically charged 1970s and a comedy of manners. It began as a serialization by Maupin in the San Francisco Chronicle and follows the comic adventures of a young Midwestern woman who moves to 28 Barbary Lane and encounters a host of eccentric characters whose lives intertwine in surprising ways.

Maupin's Tales turned into a series of seven books, as well as a television mini-series for both PBS and Showtime. The musical will cover the first novel, Tales of the City, and touch on story lines that continue in the second book, More Tales of the City.

The new musical for is being produced by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum and Robyn Goodman, the producers of Avenue Q.