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It’s back to Broadway for Bette Midler!

This is pretty big news for Bette Midler fans: The divine one will perform on Broadway for the first time in more than 30 years in a play about the Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers.

The play is called I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers and is written by John Logan and will be directed by Joe Mantello. It is scheduled to open on April 24 at a Shubert theater still to be determined.

Mengers had a client roster that included Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and Michael Caine.

The playwright tells the NY Times: “(Midler’s) a proper stage animal. In a one-person show in particular, you need someone who can hold an audience, who connects with an audience in a really deeply visceral way, and that’s Bette through and through.”

Midler, the Grammy and Emmy-Award winning star of The Rose, Beaches, For the Boys and The First Wives Club, began her Broadway career as an understudy and replacement cast member in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof.

She has since appeared in limited-run productions and concert tours like Bette! Divine Madness, which ended its Broadway run in 1980, and won a special Tony Award in 1974. Ms. Midler was also a producer of the recent Broadway musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

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