BUNHEADS' Creator Sherman-Palladino to Take On Broadway?

In a recent interview with Deadline.com, BUNHEADS creator Amy Sherman-Palladino revealed that her aspirations for the future include plans to do a Broadway musical. “I would love to do a musical on Broadway,” she commented. “Yeah, it's something I'm talking to someone about. I’m vying for a gig, I’m out there trying to push myself on somebody, it’s in the works. I think that would be delicious.”

Sherman-Palladino recently returned to television with the new ABC Family comedy BUNHEADS, starring Tony-Award winner Sutton Foster. The show follows the story of a Las Vegas showgirl, who impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school. Broadway vet Kelly Bishop co-stars on the show. 

In the interview, Sherman-Palladino shared that the new series had originally been written as a play based on her own dancing experiences. "I was working on a play that was sort of based on my ballet school growing up, about four little girls and the mothers of the four little girls outside the glass window. My whole background is dancing. My mother is a dancer. My whole interest is Broadway and musicals."

Originally, ABC Family was hoping that Sherman-Palladino would create a GLEE-like series, however the Gilmore Girls creator had other ideas in mind. “I don’t really want to do Glee because there is a Glee. And I didn’t really want to do a show where I have to do a musical number every week, because I like to do shows about people.”