Supervision Media to create tuners to bigscreen

LONDON -- Supervision Media has partnered with Broadway Worldwide to create four musicals to cinemas worldwide. The venture, named Direct From Broadway, is definitely an exclusive multi-year certification deal, that will bring "Memphis," "Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical," "Putting It Together" and "Smokey Joe's Coffee shop: The Tunes of Leiber and Stoller" towards the bigscreen. Only among the shows, this years Tony champion "Memphis," is running on Broadway. Another three have lengthy since shuttered: The "Hyde" perf stars David Hasselhoff, who became a member of the Frank Wildhorn tuner toward the finish of their Rialto run from 1997-2001, while recording of Sondheim revue "Putting It Together" comes from the 1999 revival starring Carol Burnett. Lieber and Stoller revue "Smokey Joe's Coffee shop" went from 1995-2000. "Memphis" will unspool November. 24 in Blighty and Ireland. Other European areas, Nigeria and Hong Kong may have tests through the finish of the season, with Australia, Latin America and New Zealand to follow along with in March. "Smokey Joe's Coffee shop" will launch Jan. 26 in Europe while "Jekyll & Hyde" and "Putting It Together" follows on February. 25 and March 22, correspondingly. From April these shows is going to be obtainable in movie theaters worldwide. Initiative reps another part of the ongoing screen growth of legit entertainment to the bigscreen, where HD transmissions of stage performances have grown to be progressively common. London's Royal National Theater, for example, finds success when it comes to with NT Live, which sees National shows tested in movie theaters all over the world. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com