Fran Drescher Shares The Nanny Broadway Musical Update

Fran Drescher took to The Kelly Clarkson Show today where she gave an update on her planned stage adaptation of The Nanny, which was first announced earlier this year.

"We're working on it right now," Drescher said. "In a way, I'm always turning lemons into lemonade. The fact that we have this protracted 'shut down Broadway' period has really given us an opportunity to really refine and perfect the show... in the musical, I think we're really going to bust open from the small box and the TV into big muscial numbers with staff at the Sheffields' house, and we never really saw him actually produce a show, but now that will be a part of the show, whatever he's producing. The show within the show is how they call it. You know, we'll go to Queens, we'll cross the bridge, we'll be in Manhattan. It's going to be phenomenal and I'm very, very excited about it." 

It remains to be seen whether Dresher and/or any of her former colleages will perform in the show, but if the first question that comes to mind is whether or not someone whose trademark is a famously nasal voice should be singing, it turns out that voice does manage to translate into song surprisingly well — here's proof:

The Nanny ran from 1993-1999 on CBS, starring Drescher as a fashionista cosmetics huckster turned unlikely nanny to the three children of Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), a successful Broadway producer. 

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