\'Pump Boys and Dinettes\' Returning to Broadway

The 1980s musical “Pump Boys and Dinettes” is returning to Broadway next spring in a new production featuring direction and musical staging by John Doyle (“Sweeney Todd”), the producers announced on Monday. The new production is conceived and written by the original team of John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. A theater will be announced later, as will dates and casting.

“We are thrilled to bring this musical back for today's audience in a fully interactive and immersive experience with on-stage seating and a bar to boot,” one of the producers, Abby Lee, said in statement released on Monday.

“Pump Boys and Dinettes” is set on Highway 57 between two towns in North Carolina and brings together four guys at the local gas station with two sisters cooking up a storm at a nearby roadside eatery. The musical opened Off Broadway in 1981 and moved to Broadway at the Princess Theater in February 1982 and ran fo r 573 performances. It was nominated for both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical.