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'Flamingo Kid' Broadway Musical Eyes 2018 Opening

by Patrick Hipes

Garry Marshall’s 1984 film The Flamingo Kid is getting the Broadway treatment. The Matt Dillon-starring coming-of-age film set at a swanky beach club on Long Island in the early ’60s is being developed as a musical with book and lyrics from Tony winner Robert L. Freedman (A Gentlemen's Guide To Love And Murder) and music by Scott Frankel. Marshall wrote and directed the pic, which was distributed by 20th …

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56am on July 28, 2016