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Saturday, May 05, 2001

Film Version of Contact In the Works

Marni Nixon To Replace Joan Roberts in Follies

Critics Welcome Mac Back in Melville

Culkin, Hill & Campion Headline Irish Rep Benefit

Dreyfuss and Mason Take NYC Barnes and Noble Prisoner May 11

David Alan Basche Tackles The Tragedy of Macbeth in NYC, May 5-12

Unity is Rule One: SAG Puts Int'l Non-Union Projects In Crosshairs w/ Celebrity Campaign

WGA Outlines Key Points of New Deal With Producers, May 4

Sam Sapienza, Owner of Sam's Restaurant in NYC's Theatre District, Dead at 71

Tom Sawyer Offers Discounted Tickets for All Shows

PHOTO CALL: Come and Meet Those Dancing Feet at 42nd Street

PHOTO CALL: Dames: Ebersole and the Chorines of 42nd Street Take Their Opening Bow May 2
I love the word chorines. Other words I like, terpsichorean - of or relating to dancing and Terpsichore - the Greek Muse of dancing and choral song

PHOTO CALL: We Only Have Eyes For You: 42nd Street's Stars Ebersole, Levering and Elder

PHOTO CALL: Gibson, Lavin, Minnelli Listen to Lullaby of Broadway at 42nd Street Opening

PHOTO CALL: Thou Shalt Not on 42nd Street

DIVA TALK: Wild Women, Divas & Broads

Lauren Kennedy Cast in Trevor Nunn South Pacific in London

The Latest on the 2001 Contact National Tour

How Were the Reviews?: "Encores!" Hair

"Will and Grace" Star To Be B'way's New Music Man, May 8

Judy Kuhn and Wilson Jermaine Heredia Serenade Laura Nyro Fans in Eli's Comin', Opening May 7

Idina Menzel Puts Heart, Songs on Her Sleeve at Joe's Pub, May 5

Reba McEntire and Stones In His Pockets Stars Accept Special 2001 Drama Desk Award

Agatha Christie Play Festival Pays Tribute to "Queen of Crime," May 7

SCENE AND HEARD: Five Seasons of Rent

Buzz Lines: BEST OF THE BEST
The theater world mourns the passing of OTIS L. GUERNSEY, JR. even as it hails his successor as editor of the Best Plays series, JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS.

A Dazzling Biography of Moss Hart
Charles Wright reviews the new biography of MOSS HART, one of the most colorful and talented figures in American theater history.

Princess Charming 'Cinderella's' magic triumphs over its production

Secret City: City Hall Subway Station

CAST MAKES 'CINDERELLA' CHARMING
And, yes, the gal with the footloose footwear is Jamie-Lynn Sigler, better known around New Jersey and HBO as Tony Soprano's bright but wayward daughter. And she can sing!

The Toronto Star Cariou enjoys a deadly feast in The Dinner Party by Richard Ouzounian

The Toronto Star An island of emotions
Fugard play a work no serious theatregoer could think of missing by Richard Ouzounian

The Toronto Star Broadway babies put on a big show
Spiffy, spectacular revival of 42nd Street sets feet tapping by Richard Ouzounian

Off Topic - For you New Yorkers, sorry about the Knicks. I know how you feel, my team, The Heat, were knocked out as well. Does this mean we have to root for the Raptors now?

posted at 5/5/2001 11:56:38 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Ann B. Davis, Roger Rees, Lance Henriksen, John Rhys-Davies, and Karl Marx.

Alternative Weakly: New York Press Ditches Theatre Criticism
Is there anything scarier than people who don't go to the theatre making decisions about the theatre? I'm not sure.

'Hair': When Love Was In and Youthful Confidence High by Ben Brantley

'Will Mr. Merriwether Return From Memphis?': Gentleman Callers Need Not Apply by Neil Genzlnger

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Friday, May 04, 2001

Bulletin: WGA/Producers Avert Strike; Deal to be Announced From West Coast
Murdock McBride with his ear to the floor came up with this one right under the weekend wire... Is this good news or bad news for Broadway? We Will (&Grace) see...

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Laura, Lea, Sean, and Jane by Ken Mandelbaum

Critics Disagree About 42nd Street

Joanne Woodward to Direct Three Days of Rain at Westport

Hear the Beat: 42nd Street Cast Album Gets Recorded May 7

Bells Cast Album Will Ring on Fynsworth Alley Label; May 14 is Studio Date

Tony-Winner McKechnie Goes Inside the Music in Queens, May 4

PHOTO CALL: Design for Sondheim: Cumming and Roundabout Honor Composer-Lyricist April 30

PHOTO CALL: Follies Stars Honor Sondheim April 30

PHOTO CALL: Linden, Kenneth Cole Caught Gershwin Alone April 30

Money, Money, Money: NYC's Women's Project Stages Tandem Acts May 6 and 7

Tony Award Nominations To Be Announced May 7

New York Theatre Workshop Slips Into Nocturne, May 4

New Moby Dick Musical Aims for B'way With May 4 Tryout

Jane Krakowski Is Next Sally in Cabaret?

SCENE AND HEARD: Tapping into 42nd Street's Opening Night Party

Black Troupe Searches for Missing Face in African Project, May 4

Hal Linden Reflects on a Gathering of Memories

SCENE AND HEARD: George Gershwin Not Quite Alone

O Pioneers! Theatre Review by Matthew Murray

IT'S A LONG SHOT, BUT ... By MICHAEL RIEDEL
I am going to go out on a limb today and make a breathtakingly bold prediction: "The Producers" is going to get a lot of Tony Award nominations Monday morning.Now I know that sounds crazy, but I really do detect the stirrings of some momentum for "The Producers" within the theater industry.

posted at 5/4/2001 10:22:58 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Audrey Hepburn.

A Conversation With Athol Fugard by Peter Filichia

How Were the Reviews?: Macaulay Culkin's OB Madame Melville

'Madame Melville': Lessons From Teacher, Strictly Extracurricular by Ben Brantley

Otis L. Guernsey Jr., Editor and Drama Critic, Dies at 82


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Thursday, May 03, 2001

Martin Moran's 'Bells' Diary.

Audition number three. As I waited, the hallway was teeming with young princes and ingenues trying out for a musical version of Cinderella. They all looked eighteen, very Up-With-People. Such teeth, such skin. "If only they knew," I thought. "They'd leave right now and get an MBA!"

David Auburn Speaks! Proof Playwright Surprised by Pulitzer Win

Theatre.com wraps up the season for us. Warning - a few spoilers in here.

You too can meet Derek Jeter! This contest is only open to those under 17, so yes, I lied about my age - I think I could pass for 16 if I tried!

posted at 5/3/2001 02:06:45 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link



On B'way, He 'Alone' Is Watching Over Gershwin
Steven Spielberg sent Hershey Felder in search of Holocaust survivors and he came back with George Gershwin.

Otis Guernsey Jr., Theatre Writer and "Best Plays" Contributor, Dead at 82

Lyricist-Librettist Fred Alley Dead at 38; Penned Regional Hits and Musical Spitfire Grill

Report: Mike Nichols May Direct Fiennes, Hopkins in Moscow, Off-Broadway in 2002

The Age of Aquarius Runs May 3-7, as Hair Plays City Center Encores!

Tour of R&H's Cinderella, With Sigler, Kitt and Quinton, Lands in NYC May 3-13

Broadway�s Adventures of Tom Sawyer Offers Discounted Tix

Nelson's Madame Melville, Starring Culkin, Opens Off-Broadway May 3

New Musical, The IT Girl, With Bobbed Hair, Opens May 3 at the York

Food for Thought: Lunch Hour Theatre Runs Mondays at NAC Thru June 28

People Mag Picks Follies Star Danner as One of the 50 Most Beautiful People

Tom Sawyer Offers Special Family Prices, Celebrates "Tom Sawyer Way"

Arthur Laurents to Speak During Gay & Lesbian Night at George Street Playhouse, May 3

Two Generations of Rock Musicals Join in "Encores!" Hair May 3-7

Macaulay Culkin's Off-B'way Melville Opens May 3

Eartha Kitt Cinderella Tour Headed for New York May 3

The Fantasticks Marks 41st Anniversary, May 3

Diva Fans Alert! Joe's Pub Hosts Rubin-Vega, Callaway, Menzel, Pinkins and More Great Ladies May 3-9

New Coven of Witches for London Eastwick

New Minsky Musical Plans May 4 Reading in NY

For Youngsters and Veterans Alike, There�s No Business Like Show Business by Charles Nelson

Jim Caruso is...Prying! CATHY RIGBY and DAVID ALAN BASCHE relate their most mortifying moments, on stage and off.

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Today's birthdays include Betty Comden, William Inge, Richard D'oyly Carte, Bing Crosby, and James Brown.

How Were the Reviews? 42nd Street on Broadway

'42nd Street': You've Got to Come Back a . . . You Know by Ben Brantley

Those Dancing Feet by Ken Mandelbaum

Dropping Some More Names by Peter Filichia

Broadway Grosses: In the Money

I just saw a commercial for The Producers. It's about time! I'm worried that show may not be able to find an audience in time for the Tonys!

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Wednesday, May 02, 2001

Bialystock and Bloom Are Doing a Show: Lane and Broderick to Host Tonys

Producers' Lane and Broderick To Host the 2001 Tony Awards, June 3
It's confirmed. The Producers stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will host the 2001 Tony Awards.

Parade Composer Jason Robert Brown Offers a Sneak Peek at His Last Five Years Musical

Linney, Buscemi, Ricci, Manheim to Star in HBO Laramie Project Film

42nd Street Leads in 2001 Astaire Award Nominations

Buzz Lines: It�s official: NATHAN LANE and MATTHEW BRODERICK will host this year�s Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday, June 3.

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Today's birthdays include: Theodore Bikel, Christine Baranski and Lorenz Hart.

'King Hedley II': The Agonized Arias of Everyman in Poverty and Pain by Ben Brantley
In August Wilson's "King Hedley II," a grand, ungainly three-hour drama of an underclass in the age of Reagan, you will hear some of the finest monologues ever written for an American stage.

Some Progress Noted in Hollywood Writers' Talks
Negotiations between Hollywood's writers and its leading movie studios and television networks stretched late into the night, and adjourned without a deal until Wednesday afternoon.

Broadway Grosses: April 23-29 - Part 1

West 45th Street Named �Tom Sawyer Way� May 2 in Honor of Broadway Musical
I guess it is better than Jekyll Highway...

Naughty, Gaudy, Bawdy, Sporty 42nd Street Revival Opens May 2

"Laramie Project" Film Begins Shooting May 2 in WY; HBO Pic Aimed at Fall

Aaron Carter Sticks With Seussical to May 13; Rigby is Cat to May 20

Seattle's 5th Avenue Premieres Prince and Plays Night Music in 2001-02

Levering Joins Cast of Stroman-Connick Musical Thou Shalt Not

WGA Talks Likely to Continue Tonight; Any Strike Would Require Authorization

Bway-Bound Summer of `42 Readying for Palo Alto, June 19-July 15

David Alan Basche Tackles The Tragedy of Macbeth in NYC, May 5-12

Will Bialystock und Bloom Host Tony Awards?

Tom Hanks Film "That Thing You Do" May Become Musical

Fynsworth Takes On Bells Are Ringing Cast Album
This is excellent news on many fronts. First of all, congratulations to Bruce Kimmel for taking his idea, running with it and seeing it to fruition. Secondly, this breakthrough gives Broadway producers another option in choosing a record label to record their cast album. A win-win all around.

Stage Version of Hanks' That Thing You Do! in the Works

Carter and Rigby Extend Their Seuss Stays

Will Bialystock and Bloom Host the Tonys?

42nd Street Returns to 42nd Street May 2

Producers, Full Monty, Urinetown Top Drama Desk Award Nominations

How Were the Reviews?: King Hedley II on Broadway

Rigby and Carter Extend in Seussical

Fynsworth Allery To Record Bells Are Ringing, May 16

Springtime for Christmas in Washington by Peter Filichia

Ockrent shows move toward prod'n
'Minsky's' gets third reading
    NEW YORK -- Director Mike Ockrent was at work on "The Producers," as well as two other original stage musicals, "Rooms" and "The Night They Raided Minsky's," when he died in December 1999. Ockrent's wife, Susan Stroman, who had originally signed on to choreograph "The Producers," took the directing reins as well on the Mel Brooks musical -- and the rest is Broadway history.
'Rent' down; 'Fever' up. Road grosses slip .6%

'King' takes royal road to B'Way. Wilson play has hit Pittsburgh, Seattle, Boston, LA, Chi, and D.C.

'The Producers' plays in Peoria
B'way hit shines in media spotlight
    NEW YORK -- A reporter from CNN Financial News phoned the Variety offices last week to ask about "The Producers."

    "What does it mean financially for Broadway?" he wanted to know.

    After the $100 ticket price, the $20 million advance and the $2.8 million day-after take were explained, Variety posed its own question: "When is the last time CNN Financial News did a story on a Broadway show?"
A-hem... Hey Variety, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones....

'Producers,' 'Monty' lead Drama Desk noms. Few shows left out of running

Roundabout way to B'way for 'Syracuse'
Co.'s first musical at refurbished venue
    Todd Haimes, artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, confirmed that the Rodgers & Hart musical "Boys From Syracuse" would complete the company's 2001-2002 season at its American Airlines Theatre.
Don't you think it is about time The Producers' website was launched? If the show was not such an outrageous hit, this would have been a problem. As the case is with it selling so well, it really is not a big deal.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2001

Army Archerd: "Producers" stars land Tonys gig

Awards, Nominations and Broderick Bio Keep The Producers Downstage Front

Producers and Full Monty Lead Drama Desk Nominations

Producers, Full Monty Top Drama Desk Award Nominations

Report: Lane and Broderick To Host the 2001 Tony Awards

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2001 Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced:
The following shows received the most nominations:
The Producers: 14 (tied for most ever with Ragtime and The Secret Garden)
The Full Monty: 12
Urinetown: 9
Bat Boy: 8
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds .....: 6

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On this day in 1786, The opera ''The Marriage of Figaro,'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered in Vienna. Today's birthdays include: Judy Collins, Jack Paar and Winthrop Rockefeller.

The Party's Hardly Over for Faith Prince
As a telephone answering service operator who falls in love with one of her clients in the revival of "Bells Are Ringing," Faith Prince has apparently done it again.

'George Gershwin Alone': A Solo Requiem for America's Mozart
Hershey Felder's stage biography, "George Gershwin Alone," at the Helen Hayes Theater, makes a great case for his subject as the American Mozart.

Fresh Face: Hershey Felder by Paul Wontorek

Patrick Wilson has been offered the role of Curly in the upcoming Broadway revival of Oklahoma!
Patrick made his breakout in another R&H classic. He was Billy Bigelow in the Carousel Tour. But I wonder how this will affect his rock-and-roll career?

A Thousand Clowns To Make Home at Longacre

Q&A: Christine Ebersole by David Finkle

On the Way to BELLS by Martin Moran

I am still having problems running Netscape 4.7 on Broadway.com. This has been for about a week now. Internet Explorer 5.0 works fine.

Ft. Lee Council Votes to Raze Barrymore House Despite Activists� Efforts

Broadway Stars Doodle for Barrow Group May 7

Mitchell Is Officially King of Broadway, Beginning May 1

2000-01 NYC THEATRE AWARDS ROUNDUP

National Corporate Theatre Fund Gala Benefits Regional Theatres, April 30

Richard Christiansen, Dean of Chicago Theatre Critics, to Retire in 2002

Selleck to Send in the Clowns July 4 at Bway's Longacre

"West Wing"'s Spencer Stars in MTC Glimmer May 1

How Were the Reviews?: George Gershwin Alone

Drop That Name 2001 by Peter Filichia

National Casting Underway for Luhrman's Broadway Boheme

Broadway Theatre Awards Go National by Peter Filichia

Pirates of Penzance Performed Aboard a Sailing Ship in NY Harbor, May 1

A Half Decade of Paying the Rent by Michael Buckley

Auds dim B'way B.O. lights. Only 'Gathering,' 'Invention' improve

So we are about to come upon the theatre world's May Madness� and I suppose it is going to be a horse race. The most important decision overall to the industry? Who hosts the Tony Awards... but I hear that it is only moments away from being announced.

It was a weekend full of quotes. I though I would share one of them with you.
    "Every two years State Farm holds its annual conference..." - Jason Robert Brown, who quickly realized what he just said, at his outstanding Cooper Union show.


posted at 5/1/2001 09:12:23 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Monday, April 30, 2001

Toronto Star: King of the theatre
David Mirvish dominates Toronto's stages after his deal for Pantages
    Toronto impresario David Mirvish has signed a deal that gives him control of a third major theatre - the 2,200-seat Pantages - for 15 years, The Star has learned.

    The lease was signed last week at the New York head office of the SFX Theatrical Group, North America's dominant theatre touring business.
Toronto Star: Battle for theatre dominance ends where it began

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Fit To Be Tied: Outer Critics Announce 2001 Winners:

Photo Op: KING HEDLEY II "Opening" - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Today's birthdays include: Al Lewis, Kirsten Dunst and Eve Arden.

Guggenheim's Latest Branch Is to Open in Cyberspace
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation plans to start an ambitious Web site that will offer cultural content and services, attempting to combine art and e-commerce.

Los Angeles Fears a Walkout and Faces Other Uncertainties
Most companies associated with movie and television production have less than four employees, and they are the ones most likely to feel the pain if actors and writers walk out.

Toronto Star: `I haven't played it safe'
Athol Fugard looks ahead, but can't escape his past glories or the uncertain future of his tortured homeland by Richard Ouzounian

Toronto Star: Lion King roars along by Richard Ouzounian

Equity Prez Patrick Quinn Hoss Kick-Off �Talk� With Chita Rivera, May 10

George Gershwin Alone Opens at Bway's Hayes, April 30

Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Include Producers and Ties

As Rent Turns Five April 29, Producer Looks Back � and Forward

Producers' Investors Clear Channel Will Mount Show in London in 1-2 Years

Online Classics Tries to Go Next Step in Bringing Live Performance to the `Net

Dedicated to New Musicals, �Premieres,� a Start-up Nonprofit Stages Readings in May-June

So You Wanna Write a Libretto? BMI Accepting Applications for Workshop, Til May 1

Report: Nunn's Cherry Orchard May Grow on Bway

League Names Bway Awards Production Team; Harris Poll People to Aid Cyber Voting

Spring-Summer Broadway Season Schedule

George Gershwin Alone Opens on Broadway April 30

Tom, I Saw Yer Musical by Peter Filichia

'Boheme' casting call. 'Nontraditional casting search' launched
Finished with his "Moulin Rouge" chores, director Baz Luhrmann has now turned to his next project, a Broadway staging of the Puccini classic "La Boheme."...

Buzz Lines: ROBERT EVAN is set to lead a powerhouse cast in NEIL BERG�s concert production of Chess in Nyack, New York.


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Big Hopes Still on the Table as the Writers' Deadline Nears

Review: Andrews and Plummer in a TV Show

Equity Prez Patrick Quinn Hoss Kick-Off �Talk� With Chita Rivera, May 10

Roundabout Annual Spring Benefit Gala Honors Stephen Sondheim, April 30

Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Named April 30; Ceremony May 24

Denver Preem of Pork Pie Has Bway's White, Reed and Robinson, May 17-June 16

Waltzing Musetta: Aussie Luhrmann's Boheme Dances to Bway in 2002; Casting Starts April 30

George Gershwin Alone Opens at Bway's Hayes, April 30

Tom, I Saw Yer Musical by Peter Filichia

Regional Theatre Association to Honor Holbrook, Benning on April 30

What Shows Will Be Eligible for the 2001 Tony Awards?

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Sunday, April 29, 2001

Today's birthdays include: Celeste Holm, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jerry Seinfeld, Kate Mulgrew, Daniel Day-Lewis, Eve Plumb, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, Uma Thurman, Duke Ellington, William Randolph Hearst, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

Sharing the Stage With August Wilson

A Revival of 'Hair,' a Graying Pit Band

A Love for Words and the Works They Give Birth To
I have seen Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love" and Stephen Sondheim's "Follies": both men are utterly in love with language and utterly enthralled by the states of mind and heart that language almost exhausts itself trying to convey.

Theater Star Needed a Rest, but Got a Break
"I was looking forward to six months off, because doing `Kiss Me, Kate' was exhausting," Mr. Mitchell said over a bowl of clam chowder at a restaurant in the theater district. "And then I got a call from my agent. He said the good news was that I was up for the lead in the next August Wilson play" � the title role in "King Hedley II," which opens tonight at the Virginia Theater � "and the bad news was that I was going to get absolutely no time off."

CDs: Super Heroes by Ken Mandelbaum

As Rent Turns Five April 29, Producer Looks Back � and Forward

Producers' Investors Clear Channel Will Mount Show in London in 1-2 Years

Online Classics Tries to Go Next Step in Bringing Live Performance to the `Net

Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Ryan's Daughter and the Runt of the Litter

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer Reunite for TV's 'On Golden Pond,' Live, April 29

Sound of Music Stars Andrews and Plummer Reunite for TV On Golden Pond April 29

Roundabout Theatre Company Honors Stephen Sondheim in April 30 Gala

Bubbly Black's Childs Sheds Musical Skin at Joe's Pub April 30

TWO SIDES TO �STREET'
The musical "42nd Street" is back on Broadway. Twenty years after winning a Tony for Best Musical, 12 years after setting records as one of the longest-running shows ever, this star-is-born saga will open at the Ford Center on May 2.

THE WRITE WAY TO GO FOR THESE SCRIBES by Clive Barnes
The American cultural consumer is a mean and ravenous beast - rather like the American cultural critic. And in the sour mouths of both critters, the artist is forever hearing the aggrieved cry, "What have you done for me lately?"

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2007-08
Broadway Season

June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)

July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]

Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)

Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)

Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)

Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)

Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)

Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)

Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins

Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends

Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)

Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]

Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]

Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)

Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)

Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]

Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)

Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)

Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)

Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]

Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)

Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)

Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)

Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]

Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)

Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)

May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)

May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

TBA - Godspell

2008-09
Broadway Season

Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]

Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet

TBA - 50 Words

TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)

TBA - American Buffalo

TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]

TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]

TBA - Being There [Permut]

TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]

TBA - Billy Elliot

TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]

TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]

TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]

TBA - Broomhilda

TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]

TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]

TBA - Camelot

TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]

TBA - Catch Me If You Can

TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]

TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]

TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]

TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]

TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]

TBA - Duet

TBA - Equus

TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]

TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]

TBA - Farragut North [Richards]

TBA - Father of the Bride

TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)

TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]

TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers

TBA - Golden Boy

TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]

TBA - Hitchcock Blonde

TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest

TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]

TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)

TBA - Josephine [Waissman]

TBA - Leap of Faith

TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]

TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]

TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman

TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]

TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]

TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

TBA - Orphans

TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]

TBA - Paper Doll

TBA - The Paris Letter

TBA - The Philadelphia Story

TBA - Peter Pan

TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]

TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

TBA - Poe the Musical

TBA - Rain Man [MGM]

TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

TBA - South Pacific

TBA - Speed-the-Plow

TBA - Stalag 17

TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities

TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]

TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]

TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]

This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.

 
   


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