ROBERT DE NIRO is headed to Broadway later this year.

    Returning to a vehicle that marked his big-screen helming debut in 1993, De Niro will team with stage veteran Jerry Zaks to co-direct “A Bronx Tale: The Musical.”

    The show is based on the same one-man show in which Chazz Palminteri cast a nostalgic gaze back at his 1960s childhood on the streets of the New York neighborhood, recounting the conflicted sense of loyalty and love that saw him divided between his father and a local mob boss.

    The musical premiered to positive reviews and commercial success in February at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, which won this year’s Tony Award for Regional Theater.

    The transfer is being produced by another Broadway newcomer, Tommy Mottola, with the Dodgers and De Niro’s Tribeca Productions.

    The gangster role of Sonny was played at the Paper Mill by Nick Cordero, currently appearing on Broadway in “Waitress,” while Jason Gotay starred in the Palminteri stand-in role of Calogero, who narrates the story.

    The musical features a doo-wop score by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, who previously worked together on Disney’s “Tangled” and the stage version of “The Little Mermaid.”(SD-Agencies)