Nicole Kidman’s acclaimed movie To Die For is to be turned into a new stage musical by the brains behind Broadway hit Xanadu. Producers Tara Smith and B. Swibel are currently updating Joyce Maynard’s novel, upon which Kidman’s 1995 film was based, and hope to announce a premiere date by the end of 2007.

Kidman won her first Golden Globe Award for her role as scheming and overly-ambitious weathergirl Suzanne Stone Maretto in the Gus Van Sant movie.

Swibel tells BroadwayWorld.com: “We hope to deliver upon the brilliance of the story and characters created in the novel and film with an original musical score.”

I really liked that movie, as twisted – and messed up as it was.  But a musical?  Weird.