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Film ‘Black Orpheus’ to be adapted for Broadway

FILE - This April 4, 2012 file photo shows playwright and director George C. Wolfe at a screening of the film"The Intouchables" in New York. Wolfe will direct a play adapted from the Oscar-winning film "Black Orpheus." Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage will write the story. “Black Orpheus” is the 1959 film by Marcel Camus, recreating the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in the Rio de Janeiro carnival. (AP Photo/Starpix, Marion Curtis, File) FILE - This April 4, 2012 file photo shows playwright and director George C. Wolfe at a screening of the film"The Intouchables" in New York. Wolfe will direct a play adapted from the Oscar-winning film "Black Orpheus." Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage will write the story. “Black Orpheus” is the 1959 film by Marcel Camus, recreating the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in the Rio de Janeiro carnival. (AP Photo/Starpix, Marion Curtis, File)

By Associated Press July 7, 2014 1 min read

NEW YORK (AP) – With all eyes on Brazil and the World Cup, Broadway is getting into the act with plans to adapt the Oscar-winning film “Black Orpheus” for the stage.

Producers said Monday that Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage will write the story and Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe will direct. The play will have its world premiere on Broadway but no timetable was set.

“Black Orpheus” is the 1959 film by Marcel Camus, recreating the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes that year and also a Golden Globe and an Oscar for best foreign-language film a year later. The soundtrack popularized the nascent genre of bossa nova.