'Scrubs' creator has Broadway musical based on hospital comedy in the works

Scrubs was a great show with a huge following and now thanks to the great success of the series, namely the episode entitled "My Musical," the show's creator is working on a Broadway musical based on the comedy.

"We're negotiating with different theater groups who will hopefully put up the money for a year to pay the composers to develop [spec songs]," creator Bill Lawrence told EW. "Disney has nicely become a silent partner in giving the rights for us to go shop it. And the most fun thing for a theater junkie is we've already reached the stage that various composers have been submitting songs based on an outline that we put together for the type of stuff we would do."

"We have an outline basically showing where we're looking for songs, how we would intend to do fantasies, how we would use that a cappella band as a Greek chorus that would be on stage singing the theme when people come in. When that outline goes out to composers, they'll know the tone because they've seen the show and some of the musical stuff we've done," he explained. "If I did Scrubs, I would do it as the Legally Blonde or Wicked model. It's all the same characters. The outline is kind of a mishmash of the pilot episode mushed together with the episode where Mrs. Landingham from The West Wing dies. We're combining two of our best stories with what we're allowed to cull and choose from our best comedic moments and fantasies from nine years of the show."

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