Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello to Write Music for Chuck Lorre's Broadway Show

(AP) Bacharach, Costello aiming for Broadway
NEW YORK
One of television’s most successful sitcom writers is joining with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello to create a musical based on the artists’ 1998 album “Painted From Memory.”

Bacharach said Tuesday that Chuck Lorre, creator of “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory,” contacted him and said he wanted to write a story to go with the music.

The dark and lush album was an unusual collaboration between a pop classicist and an Englishman who usually traffics in rock `n’ roll. They earned a Grammy for one of its songs, “I Still Have That Other Girl.”

Costello said he and Bacharach are writing additional music for the play.