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News that long-running sitcom The Nanny is headed to the stage, with help from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom, brings to mind other potential transfers
It’s easy to forget what a successful sitcom The Nanny was back in the 1990s. It won an Emmy and a Rose D’Or. It was the subject of a reunion special just five years after it went off the air. It has been remade countless times around the world; as Dadi in Turkey, La Tata in Italy and My Fair Nanny in Russia. So the news that The Nanny will soon become a Broadway musical makes perfect sense.
Creators Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson announced the project yesterday, with the pair writing the new show’s book and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger hired to write the songs. And while this might be premature, I think it could work. On TV, intentionally or otherwise, The Nanny always had a slightly unworldly quality to it, and a sense of self-awareness that drifted back and forth from total sincerity to flat-out fourth-wall-breaking. It always felt like more of a live performance than a fully realised sitcom, and so it might turn out that Broadway might well be its natural home. Continue reading...