Bebe Neuwirth to Star in Musical Comedy Pilot Browsers

Amazon Studios has tapped Bebe Neuwirth to lead one of the newly formed studio’s first pilots, reports Deadline.

The Emmy winner will star in Browsers, a musical comedy set in Manhattan that chronicles the lives of four twentysomethings who begin their first post-college jobs at a news website. Neuwirth will lead a cast of five 21-year-olds in the single-camera comedy, which will be written by Emmy winner David Javerbaum (lyricist of Broadway's Cry-Baby) and directed by Broadway actor-turned-film director Don Scardino.

Neuwirth is best known to TV audiences for her roles on Cheers and Frasier. Her Broadway credits include A Chorus Line, Dancin’, Little Me, Sweet Charity (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical), Damn Yankees, Chicago (Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical), Fosse and The Addams Family.