'Monopoly The Musical' Broadway's Next Hit?

Monopoly, Hasbro's globally popular board game that has been around for more than 100 years, will reportedly be taking a new form some time in the future: a Broadway play.

Variety broke the news Monday that Rhode Island-based Hasbro and The Araca Group, a merchandising and live production company, have struck a deal to bring several of Hasbro's products to the stage, starting with Monopoly.

"Monopoly: The Musical" is still "at least three or four years away," Variety reports. And just about every other detail about the show — Where it will play? Who will it star? What exactly is going to happen in a musical about a real estate board game? — is unknown.

But one Araca Group partner told Variety what it won't be.

“I can tell you this: It’s not going to be a musical about people sitting around playing Monopoly,” Matthew Rego said. “What turns us on is creating something that explores the world of Monopoly, kind of like the Lego movies have done with Legos.”

Read the full story from Variety here.

Giant money-making Broadway shows such as "The Lion King" and "Wicked" have spawned from other traditional properties, and Hasbro is hoping some of its big names can get in the mix as well.

Monopoly would certainly fit that bill.

The game was originally developed as "The Landlord's Game" in 1903 by a woman named Elizabeth Magie, who wanted to make a statement about large monopolies of the time such as those owned by Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller.

But a version of the game created by Charles Darrow, which more resembled the Monopoly played today, was the one sold to Parker Brothers in the 1930s. The company eventually bought Magie's patent as well to obtain full control of the idea.

Offshoots of the game have included a popular McDonald's promotion, a short-lived TV show, a comic book and countless variations such as Pokemon Monopoly and Beetles Monopoly.

The Monopoly game has been sold in 103 countries in 37 languages.