‘Jerry Springer’ Broadway bound

The outrageous hit London musical “Jerry Springer -- The Opera” is coming to the United States. It will open at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco next spring before transferring to Broadway in October 2005.

The musical, loosely based on Jerry Springer’s TV talk show, began its life as a cult production in a small London fringe theater before becoming a hit at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival, then being produced at London’s National Theatre.