(NEW YORK) - A stage version of Saturday Night Fever, ParamountPictures' 1977 blockbuster, is in the works for an April 1998 opening atthe London Palladium. Irv Lichtman reports in Billboard Bulletin thatthe producer of the show, in which the Bee Gees will complement theiroriginal score with new songs, is Robert Stigwood, who also produced thefilm and whose label RSO Records reaped the benefits of the SaturdayNight Fever album, the best-selling soundtrack of all time. If theLondon stage production proves successful, it's likely to move to theU.S. about a year later. Another Stigwood-associated film classic,Grease, is slated for a new run in movie houses next year, when itcelebrates its 20th birthday.
(photo courtesy of Bee Gees)