It's been a while since we mentioned the musical version of The Nutty Professor, based on the Jerry Lewis movie and directed for the stage by that same gentleman. As you may recall, Jer kept announcing it would open on Broadway on such-and-such a date…and he seemed to be the only person who thought that. Eventually, the show had a brief tryout run in Nashville in 2012, followed by Jerry again proclaiming it would open momentarily in Manhatttan…but it didn't.
Well, The Nutty Professor is finally going to play New York…for one night. A staged concert version will be presented at Birdland (which is a music venue, not an actual theater) on February 15. Will this snowball into an actual, full-scale production? I doubt it…but I won't be sure it won't until I hear Jerry announce that it definitely will.