RIALTO CHATTER: MAMBO ITALIANO Broadway-Bound in 2013?

Le Journal de Montreal reports this morning that the musical, Mambo Italiano, may be headed to Broadway in 2013.

Mambo Italiano's film scribe and playwright, Steve Galluccio tells Le Journal: "The project is very serious. I work with a producer that is packed and everything could be finalized this fall. They would bring it on Broadway in 2013."  Galluccio will reportedly not be adapting his film into a musical, commenting that for that he's going to reply "on the experts."

"If I rely on the success achieved at present La Cage aux Folles," he says, "it goes without saying that the life of Angelo does not bother me. We work hard to make this a reality and I do believe we are close to this dream. "

Mambo Italiano was famously adapted for the screen in 2003 by Steve Galluccio and director Émile Gaudreault based on Galluccio's theatrical play by the same name. The play/film is based on Galluccio's own life and experiences and tells the story of Angelo Barberini, the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the United States of America. Angelo shocks his parents - and his sister, Anna - by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend (and childhood best friend), policeman Nino Paventi, isn't as ready to come out of the closet - especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina.