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‘Gilligan’s Island’ floats to B’way

“Gilligan’s Island” is floating its way to Broadway as a musical.

As recycled Hollywood properties continue racking up big awards and audiences on Broadway, producer Dianne Fraser has acquired stage rights to “Gilligan’s Island: The Musical,” Deadline.com reports, with plans to launch the goofy ‘60s TV show on Broadway as soon as next year.

While the musical version will be, “very similar to the format of the original show, with [characters] Gilligan, the Skipper, the Howells, Ginger, Maryanne and the Professor stranded on an island,” the creators have, “added another character: an alien,” the showbiz Web site adds.

“It’s not intentionally campy, it’s funny in a broad way and very true to the show,” Fraser says. “It’s still Gilligan, the bumbling sidekick to the professor, saving the world. And yes, it’s all seven characters, plus an alien. The songs are very commercial.”

Fraser plans to launch the show on Broadway either next year or in 2014, and is lining up a director and financing, and, “maybe an ‘American Idol’ contestant to play Gilligan, to open up the show.”

The show’s book was co-written by the late Sherwood Schwartz, who created “Gilligan’s Island” as well as “The Brady Bunch.” Fraser says it was his dream to bring “Gilligan” to New York. The score was written by Schwartz’s daughter Hope and her husband, former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber.

The project’s been kicking around the local theater circuit for years, after debuting in North Carolina in 1992, and playing cities including Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles. According to the show’s Web site, songs include, “The Professor’s Lament” and “Goodbye Island.” (We assume that its famous theme song, laying out the plot of, “seven stranded castaways” embarking on that fateful “three-hour tour” will figure heavily, too.)

At the Tony Awards last night, the live audience was shown coming attractions from upcoming Broadway shows, with many spun from familiar Hollywood properties, including a musical version of the 2000 cheerleading movie “Bring It On” and a “King Kong” musical featuring an enormous gorilla puppet.