Tickets on Sale Oct. 31 for U.S. Premiere of Witches of Eastwick in D.C. | Playbill

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News Tickets on Sale Oct. 31 for U.S. Premiere of Witches of Eastwick in D.C. Tickets will go on sale Oct. 31 — Halloween — for the American premiere of the musical The Witches of Eastwick, coming to Signature Theatre in Shirlington, VA, in 2007.

Tickets will be available starting at 10 AM Halloween morning through Tickets.com at (800) 955-5566 and online at www.signature-theatre.org.

First seen in London's West End, The Witches of Eastwick will be directed by Eric Schaeffer (who staged it in London).

The musical comedy will play June 5–July 15, 2007, in The MAX, the 299-seat double-height black-box space located in Signature's new two-theatre complex scheduled to open in January 2007.

Signature's first project in the new building will be Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (Jan. 12-Feb. 25, 2007).

Schaeffer originally developed The Witches of Eastwick, based on the novel by John Updike and the Warner Bros. motion picture, with book writer and lyricist John Dempsey, composer Dana P. Rowe, and producer Cameron Mackintosh — the same creative team behind the American premiere of The Fix, presented at Signature in 1998. Schaeffer directed The Witches of Eastwick's world premiere in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Prince of Wales.

"The Witches of Eastwick — despite its various English, Russian, Japanese, and Australian productions — is an American musical," stated collaborators Dempsey and Rowe. "How wonderful it is then to be bringing it to American soil at long last. In deciding upon a national premiere, we could think of no greater launching pad than the Signature Theatre, having had such a wickedly good time there doing The Fix a few seasons back. We hope the Signature audiences enjoy dancing with the devil as much as we enjoyed dreaming up the dance."

According to Signature, "In the tiny New England town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, three unhappy women innocently plot and conjure for their perfect man over a heady brew of brownies and weak martinis. When their longings are made flesh in the arrival of one Darryl Van Horne, all hell breaks loose. Quite literally."

No casting has been announced.

For more information, visit www.signature-theatre.org.

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Signature's new production of My Fair Lady was recently extended to Nov. 26.

 
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