Dynasty's Joan Collins & Linda Evans to Reunite for Legends!

Legends! looks like it will finally be coming to Broadway. Producer Ben Sprecher has enlisted former Dynasty co-stars Joan Collins and Linda Evans to star in the piece, which is eyeing a Toronto tryout in 2006 before its Great White Way debut, according to The New York Post.

James Kirkwood's Legends! was expected to come to Broadway in the late 1980s with Carol Channing and Mary Martin starring as the two warring Hollywood divas being wooed to do a stage show together, Star Wars: The Play, by a producer with no credibility. The pre-Broadway tour of Legends! began in Dallas in January 1986. Plagued by negative press including mostly harsh reviews, by the time it folded in Palm Beach in January of the following year, the tour was better known for the backstage drama between Channing and Martin than anything that happened onstage. Kirkwood later wrote Diary of a Mad Playwright about his harrowing experience on the road with the show.

In this new production, Collins will play Sylvia Glenn, the acerbic star originally played by Channing. Evans will play Martin's part, the seemingly sweet Leatrice Monsee.

No director has been announced for the staging.