HERE COMES J. EDGAR! musical eyeing Broadway?

As Here Comes J. Edgar's long-awaited stage debut starts to sell out in the UK, Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold are already eyeing a Broadway and West End run. The musical is set to premiere at the King's Head Theatre, after first airing on the radio in 1994, starring Kelsey Grammer, John Goodman and Christopher Guest.

Shearer and Leopold first wrote both the book and the lyrics alongside Peter Matz, Barbara Streisand’s musical director, three decades ago. In a new interview with Variety, they state that the show was "close" to coming to Broadway with Grammer and Goodman, but plans never came together.

Here Comes J Edgar! tells the public and private story of J. Edgar Hoover who, as director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, secured his position as the most powerful man in America by gathering information on the private lives of others. Yet, behind all the machismo, was his concealed sexuality, his secret partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. This was a man who stopped at nothing to use the secrets of others to build and exert his control … yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets … hidden … in plain sight.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HERE-COMES-J-EDGAR-Musical-Eyes-Broadway-Transfer-20260707