LOS ANGELES, July 9 — With an Oscar, a Palme d'Or and a Golden Globe to its name, 1959's "Black Orpheus" is headed for Broadway, but this time adapted as a musical at the hands of a Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award-winning director.

The film, directed by Frenchman Marcel Camus, took inspiration from Greek legend Orpheus and Eurydice and, in turn, the 1954 stage play by Brazil's Vincius de Moraes, "Orfeu da Conceição."

With George C. Wolfe to direct from a Lynn Nottage script, "Black Orpheus" will bring Rio de Janiero's carnival atmosphere to New York for the musical's worldwide debut. The show's producers have permission to use tunes from the original film, allowing them to preserve De Moraes's hallmark bossa nova sound.

Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 for "Ruined," while Wolfe is a multiple Tony award winner as both director and producer, with "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" (1993), "Angels in America: Perestroika" (1994), and "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" (1996) among his directorial achievements. — AFP-Relaxnews