Schedule subject to change.

SEPTEMBER

SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE

• Helen Hayes Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 20, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 10, 2002
  
• Director: John Tillinger
  
• Cast: Frank Gorshin
  
• Rupert Holmes' new one-man play about entertainer George Burns.

• Music Box Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 17, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 20, 2002
  
• Director: James Lapine
  
• Cast: Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis, John Cunnigham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Lewis Cleale
  
• A translation of the French musical Le Passe Muraille featuring music by Michel LeGrand.

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• Virginia Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 23, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 17, 2002
  
• Director: Robert Longbottom
  
• Cast: Lea Salonga, Jose Llana, Randall Duk Kim
  
• This musical revival has music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein and a new book by David Henry Hwang.

• Richard Rodgers Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 30, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 24, 2002
  
• Director and choreographer: Twyla Tharp
  
• Cast: John Selya, Elizabeth Parkinson, Keith Roberts, Ashley Tuttle, Scott Wise, Benjamin Bowman, Michael Cavanaugh
  
• Featuring songs by Billy Joel, this dance musical choreographed by Tharp will have a pre-Broadway run at chicago's Shubert Theatre June 25 Aug. 4.

• Royale Theatre
  
• First Preview: Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 22
  
• Cast: Jackie Mason
  
• Mason's latest one-man show.

• Cort Theatre
  
• First Preview: Oct. 7, 2002
  
• Opening: Oct. 31, 2002
  
• Director: Harold Prince
  
• Cast: Linda Lavin, Frank Wood, Michele Pawk
  
• Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton's play based on Burnett's memoir.

• Minskoff Theatre
  
• First Preview: Oct. 14, 2002
  
• Opening: Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Director: John Rando
  
• Choreographer: John Carrafa
  
• Cast: Michael Crawford, Rene Auberjonois, Max von Essen, Ron Orbach and Mandy Gonzalez
  
• A musical based on the 1967 Roman Polanski film "The Fearless Vampire Killers", with book and lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Jim Steinman.

• Vivian Beaumont Theatre
  
• First Preview: Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Opening: Dec. 19, 2002
  
• Director: Gerald Gutierrez
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• A new production of George S. Kauman and Edna Ferber's 1932 comedy.

• Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  
• First Preview: Nov. 25, 2002
  
• Opening: Dec. 12, 2002
  
• Director: Jack O'Brien
  
• Cast: Cherry Jones, Swoosie Kurtz, Harry Groener
  
• Nora Ephron's play about the feuding literary femmes Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.

• Broadway Theatre
  
• First Preview: Nov. 26, 2002
  
• Opening: Dec. 8, 2002
  
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
  
• Cast: Three rotating casts for the two leads
  
• This production of Puccini's opera was first mounted at the Sydney Opera House in 1990.

• Martin Beck Theatre
  
• First Preview: Nov. 19, 2002
  
• Opening: Dec. 5, 2002
  
• Director: Jonathan Kent
  
• Cast: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ernie Sabella
  
• The classic musical adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote.

• American Airlines Theatre
  
• First Preview: December 2002
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Joe Dowling
  
• Cast: Brian Bedford, Henry Goodman
  
• Moliere's comedy about a religious hypocrite.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: Jan. 7, 2003
  
• Opening: early 2003
  
• Director: Dan Sullivan
  
• Cast: Danny DeVito
  
• A new revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about desperate real estate salesmen.

• Longacre Theatre
  
• First Preview: January 2003
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: David Leveaux
  
• Cast: Natasha Richardson and Philip Seymour Hoffman
  
• Strindberg's classic drama about class and sexual warfare.

• Eugene O'Neill Theatre
  
• First Preview: February 2003
  
• Opening: March 2003
  
• Director: David Leveaux
  
• Cast: Antonio Banderas
  
• A revival of the Maury Yeston musical based on Fellini's film "8 1/2."

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: early 2003
  
• Opening: early 2003
  
• Director: Connie Grappo
  
• Choreographer: TBA
  
• The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: spring 2003
  
• Opening: spring 2003
  
• Director: Michael Greif
  
• Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
  
• A new musical based on the film "Swing Time" featuring the music of Jerome Kern and a book by Jeffrey Hatcher

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: spring 2003
  
• Opening: spring 2003
  
• Director: Scott Ellis
  
• Choreography: Ann Reinking
  
• Cast: Liz Callaway
  
• A new musical employing the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: spring 2003
  
• Opening: spring 2003
  
• Director: Walter Bobbie
  
• A new production of the Cy Coleman musical about an ever-optimistic dance hall hostess.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: March 24, 2003
  
• Opening: Apr. 24, 2003
  
• Director: Sam Mendes
  
• Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
  
• Cast: Bernadette Peters
• A new production of the classic Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about Gypsy Rose Lee and her hard-driving stage mother.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Gabriel Barre
  
• Cast: Linda Eder
• Frank Wildhorn's new musical about the French sculptress.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: September 2003
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
  
• Choreographer: Joey McKneely
  
• Cast: Hugh Jackman
  
• The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Director: Joe Mantello
  
• Cast: Kristin Chenoweth
  
• Stephen Schwartz's Oz-flavored new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel