Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello team up on new musical

In an unusual creative collaboration, composer Burt Bacharach and songwriter Elvis Costello are creating a new musical, with a book by TV hitmaker Chuck Lorre.

The musical will be based on Bacharach and Costello's1998 album Painted from Memory, which features the Grammy-winning song I Still Have That Other Girl and tracks such as God Give Me Strength and This House is Empty Now.

Lorre, creator of TV sitcom hitsTwo and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, contacted Bacharach to ask if he could pen the book to the musical, the composer told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The show "won't be a comedy," but Bacharach did say he hopes it will go to Broadway.

Though he declined to share the storyline, he said that he and Costello have renewed the collaboration they began in 1996, when they teamed up to write the song God Give Me Strength for the movie Grace of My Heart. The pair plan to write new songs for the musical.

Bacharach, who turns 85 on Sunday,released his memoir Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music on Tuesday.