James D. Watts Jr.

Tulsa World Scene Reporter

Tanninger Entertainment, the Tulsa-based firm that has brought a number of Tony Award-winning shows to Broadway including “The Outsiders,” is developing a new musical built around the music of the iconic synth-pop band Erasure.

“Oh L’amour – The Erasure Musical” will incorporate as many as 30 of the songs created by the duo of Vince Clarke and Andy Bell in a story about self-discovery and survival in late 1980s San Francisco. This will be the first Broadway-bound musical for which Tanninger Entertainment will be the lead producers.

“It’s really the first project that we are developing from the ground up,” said Jay Krottinger, who with Ryan Tanner and Patricia Chernicky are the principals of Tanninger Entertainment. The company has helped pr

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