Could Ralph and Alice Kramden, Ed and Trixie Norton, Brooklyn’s favorite TV couples, be headed to Broadway?
According to reports from the New York Observer, the Bensonhurst family has a musical in the making.
Four-time Emmy winner for The Simpsons Hank Azaria is to play Ed Norton and Smash’s sexy Megan Hilty is to be his wife Trixie in a workshop in November organized by Goodspeed Musicals and Jeffery Finn Productions. In the main roles, the heavy lifting is being done by Broadway veterans Tony-winner Michael McGrath as Ralph Kramden and Drama Desk nominee for A Catered Affair Leslie Kritzer as the long-suffering, sharp-tongued Alice.
…Tony Award-winner John Rando will direct a book by TV writer/producers Dusty Kay (Entourage, Roseanne) & Bill Nuss (NCIS, 21 Jump Street), with music by Stephen Weiner and lyrics by Peter Mills and choreography by Emmy Award-winner Joshua Bergasse. They’re all hoping that the newly married Ralph and Alice and their upstairs neighbors are still fresh in the memories of generations of viewers…
Read full story at NYO.
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Although the show was on TV for only one season, 1955-1956, many of the newer generations are familiar with the Kramden’s from re-run especially on New Years Eve on PIX11 every year.
Could The Honeymooners re-birthed bring some life to Broadway? I think they can!
Time will tell!