
Fran Drescher Tells The View That ‘The Nanny’ Musical Will Soon Premiere on Broadway
UPDATE, with video. Despite co-writer Adam Schlesinger’s passing from Covid last year, the Broadway musical “The Nanny” is “almost ready to go,” Fran Drescher told The View today.
And no, Drescher won’t be taking to the stage as her ’90s sitcom counterpart Fran Fine.
“I can’t really sing,” Drescher shared on today’s episode of ABC’s The View. “It’s going to be a very heavy singing part, so I think we’re going to have to find the next Barbra Streisand.”
Drescher, who is writing the musical with Peter Marc Jacobson, co-creator of “The Nanny,” first revealed the development of a musical adaptation more than a year ago.
At the time, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger were set to write the music, but Schlesinger died a few months later from Covid-19 at age 52.
Bloom remains on the Nanny musical production team. She and Schlesinger, along with Jack Dolgen, won an Emmy in 2019 for the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend score.
Asked about the musical during an appearance on the View today, Drescher shared: “It’s sad to see New York without the theater community, which is such a big part of the city, and I’m so, so glad that we’re through this, theater is coming back, and we’re about to open The Nanny on Broadway.”