The new stage adaptation will be performed in nine theatres including Norwich, Sheffield and Richmond.
"It's a surprise, " said the playwright, who is currently working on a stage adaptation of the children's movie Shrek.
Also up for best new musical is another screen-to-stage adaptation, Top Hat, based on the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film.
"The Bodyguard manages to fall simultaneously into two pretty suspect categories - the screen-to-stage adaptation and the jukebox musical, " write Paul Taylor in The Independent.
There was an informal London stage adaptation, but the next major incarnation was shot on videotape five years after Hammerstein's death in 1960 (Rodgers died in 1979).
The stage adaptation will use songs from the film's soundtrack, which memorably included You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones' You Can Leave Your Hat On.
The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which also includes a stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's beloved short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" adapted by British playwright Roy Williams.
Only one new musical of substance opened in New York this year: "Giant, " a masterly stage adaptation by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson of Edna Ferber's 1952 blockbuster novel, which came to the Public Theater after runs in Arlington, Va.
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The stage adaptation of Donaldson's most famous character the Gruffalo, which I saw a couple of years ago in Felixstowe, was based on the comparatively simple premise of actors playing the scary monster, the even scarier mouse and other characters along the way.
With the same wit and precision he brings to his lyrics, he fielded questions about the challenges of rhyming traditional Chinese characters (complete with a demonstration), why living in Los Angeles hasn't influenced his aesthetic (but Bali might), and his progress on a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
Tom Hooper's adaptation of stage musical Les Miserables came away with the most honours on the night, winning four awards.
Hathaway won for her role as a doomed single mother forced into prostitution in the adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic novel.
Tom Hooper's adaptation of the popular stage hit enjoyed the biggest ever UK opening for a movie musical, beating a record set by Mamma Mia!
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