Broadway gets ready for 'High Fidelity'

NEW YORK, April 24 (UPI) -- The 2000 John Cusack film "High Fidelity" is getting the Broadway musical treatment, producers announced Monday.

The show based on the novel by Nick Hornby opens in Boston in September with an eye toward a December Broadway debut, Playbill.com reported.

"Chicago" and "Sweet Charity" director Walter Bobbie will helm the stage show written by Tom Kitt, Amanda Green and David Lindsay-Abaire.

"High Fidelity" is the story of a relationship-challenged record store owner who re-traces his romantic history in an effort to find out what he's doing wrong.

The original Hornby story was set in England, the Cusack film was set in Chicago and the musical will be set in New York, Playbill said.