All singing, all dancing, all Armistead Maupin: "Tales of the City" hits the boards this summer

What rhymes with "Mary Ann Singleton"? Fans of Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City will find out this summer with the debut of the long-awaited stage musical adaptation.

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Jake Shears

Variety reports that a musical adaptation of Tales of the City is one of the highlights of the upcoming summer series at the O'Neill Theater in New Haven, Conn. The production, which hopes to eventually make it to Broadway, will run July 4-11.

Jeff Whitty

Maupin's not the only gay artist involved, however. Avenue Q's Jeff Whitty has written the book for this new musical, while Jake Shears and John Garden of the Scissor Sisters contributed the songs. No word as to who has been cast as Mrs. Madrigal, Michael, Mona and the rest of the Barbary Lane gang.

Maupin's work has already been successfully adapted for television (three Tales of the City mini-series), movies (The Night Listener) and even opera (Jake Heggie's Anna Madrigal Remembers) so why not Broadway?