NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Cy Coleman, who gave Broadway such musicals as "Sweet Charity," and "I Love My Wife," has a new show titled "The Great Ostrovsky" going into rehearsal.
The musical, with a book by Avery Corman, author of "Kramer vs. Kramer," went into rehearsal this week at a midtown New York studio and is scheduled to open March 6 at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia for a limited three-week run.
Corman told UPI that interest has been expressed by Broadway theatrical groups but there were no firm commitments yet for a New York production.
Corman, who also produced "Barnum" and "On the Twentieth Century," said the show focuses on a fictional Yiddish theater star, David Ostrovsky, whose character is based on such stage greats as Jacob Adler and Maurice Schwartz, and on the tumultuous drama behind the scenes of Yiddish-language theater in New York in the 1920s. Coleman's Broadway-style score will include klezmer music, he said.
Cast as Ostrovsky for the Philadelphia production is Bob Gunton, and Louise Pitre, who recently starred in "Mamma Mia!" on Broadway, plays his sister, Rose.
