Fahrenheit Filmmaker Moore to Play B'way in Fall

Will Michael Moore finally make it to Broadway? Broadway.com has learned plans are back on to bring the filmmaker's one-man show, reported for a Gotham run that never materialized during the 2002-2003 season, to the Great White Way.

Moore has been in the news as of late because of his controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which focuses on the relationship between the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the Bush Administration. Despite the fact that the movie won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Picture, Disney refused to let its subsidiary Miramax, the company that was originally set to distribute the film, do so. After weeks of wrangling, Miramax co-chairs Bob and Harvey Weinstein set up the Fellowship Adventure Group to buy the rights to the film so it could be distributed. It will now be released in theaters nationwide next Friday, June 25.

Moore is famous for his liberal views and his attacks on just about everything associated with capitalism. He has found great success with his best-selling book Stupid White Man and Dude Where's My Country and the acclaimed films Bowling for Columbine winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and Roger & Me. He also had his own television series, The Awful Truth.

Moore performed his solo show Michael Moore Live! in November and December of 2002 at London's Roundhouse Theater. In it he offered his views on everything from football fans to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. The piece played to sold-out houses but only received mixed reviews. In his review of Michael Moore Live!, Variety's Matt Wolf wrote: "There's something wonderfully bracing about so fearless a voice being raised toward the disenfranchised, complete with the statistics to back up his assertions. But in performance, at least, a lively and enquiring mind seems to have a pretty shaky intellect. The first five minutes contain at least two mistakes about contempo Britain. After a while, you begin to weary of a man so insistent to assert his liberal populism that he has forgotten to put on a show. On the other hand, I suppose it's a good thing that Moore is on our side, since this amount of energy harnessed to the right could be really scary."

If it all works out as planned, look for the satirist on Broadway in a limited run this fall.