Beane and Cohen’s Big Time May Hit Broadway in 2010

Xanadu producer Robert Ahrens has announced plans to bring the musical Big Time, written by Douglas Carter Beane and Doug Cohen and to be directed by Christopher Ashley, to Broadway. Plans are for a workshop reading in New York in September 2008, followed by an out of town tryout in 2009, and a Broadway opening in spring of 2010. No other casting or creative team information is available.

First seen in 2005 as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the show is a musical comedy about two down-on-their-luck lounge singers on a U.N. cruise ship that is held hostage by terrorist’s intent on destroying the world.

Beane is nominated the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Xanadu, which was directed by Ashley. He was nominated last year for The Little Dog Laughed. Cohen is best known as the composer-lyricist of No Way to Treat a Lady and The Opposite of Sex. Ashley is currently artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.