A few years back, Rupert Holmes (left) wrote the book, Jerry Lewis (center) directed and Marvin Hamlisch (right) made the musical The Nutty Professor, based on the center guy's movie of the same name. The show had one not-in-New-York tryout engagement in Nashville in 2014 and then went nowhere for a while. The deaths of Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hamlisch probably had something to do with that. Last year, it had a one-month revival at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine.
Shows are supposed to live on despite their creators' mortalities, both stagings got encouraging reviews and Mssrs. Holmes and Hamlisch had pretty good track records. It was amusing that Jerry kept announcing firm but totally spurious dates when the show would play other cities and when it would open on Broadway but it's not impossible that it deserved to play those cities, New York especially.
Perhaps it will help keep it alive and get it finally on more stages that there is a studio-recorded album soon to be released. The press releases about it, of which I've received many copies, do not say when it will be out or who will be heard on it but it does seen to be pending. It would not surprise me if this show finally does make it to Broadway. And I'll bet whoever tries to get it there will at least try to get Martin Short to play the lead…if someone hasn't already.