Jerry Lewis, Marvin Hamlisch, Rupert Holmes to bring Nutty Professor to Broadway with the eizen flaven and the nice lady!

By Nathan Rabin | June 29, 2009 | 10:10pm

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Fans of Jerry Lewis, "The Pina Colada Song" and A Chorus Line are in for treat. According to Playbill , Lewis will make a fabulously tardy directorial debut by taking the reigns of a Nutty Professor musical with music by Rupert Holmes and Marvin Hamlisch and a book by Holmes, who found a second career as a screenwriter, playwright and novelist after finding fame in the seventies as a piano-tickling songster.

This isn't the first time Lewis has milked his signature film for a little extra lucre. He was a producer on the Eddie Murphy Nutty Professor remake and lent his voice to a direct-to-video 2008 sequel starring Drake Bell, the young people's favorite, as the grandson of Lewis' zany academic.