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By Robert Simonson
05 Mar 2003

Schedule subject to change.

FEBRUARY

VINCENT IN BRIXTON

• John Golden Theatre
  
• First Preview: Feb. 13
  
• Opening: March 6
  
• Director: Richard Eyre
  
• Cast: Clare Higgins, Jochem ten Haaf
  
• Nicholas Wright's play about the early life of Vincent van Gogh.

• American Airlines Theatre
  
• First Preview: Feb. 23
  
• Opening: March 31
  
• Cast: Yakov Smirnoff
  
• Comic Yakov Smirnoff in his new act.

• Broadhurst Theatre
  
• First Preview: Feb. 27
  
• Opening: March 27
  
• Director: Lonny Price
  
• Cast: Sally Mayes, Leo Burmester, Matt Cavenaugh and Jenn Colella
  
• A new musical based on the 1980 film about a Texas honky-tonk bar, with songs from the movie, and new songs by Jeff Blumenkrantz and Jason Robert Brown.

THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE

• Lyceum Theatre
  
• First Preview: March 7
  
• Opening: March 30
  
• Director: Kenneth Branagh
  
• Cast: Hamish McColl, Sean Foley, Toby Jones
  
• McColl, Foley and Eddie Braben's comedy homage to a classic British comic team.

• Circle in the Square
  
• First Preview: March 11
  
• Opening: March 31
  
• Director: Matthew Warchus
  
• Cast: Helen Hunt, John Turturro, Linda Emond, Brent Spiner
  
• A new play from the author of Art

• American Airlines Theatre
  
• First Preview: March 14
  
• Opening: April 3
  
• Director: Laurence Boswell
  
• Cast: Eddie Izzard, Victoria Hamilton
  
• A revival of the Peter Nichols drama about a couple coping with a severely disabled child.

• Eugene O'Neill Theatre
  
• First Preview: March 21
  
• Opening: April 10
  
• Director: David Leveaux
  
• Cast: Antonio Banderas, Chita Rivera, Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, Mary Stuart Masterson
  
• A revival of the Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit musical based on Fellini's film "8 1/2."

• Shubert Theatre
  
• First Preview: March 31
  
• Opening: May 1
  
• Director: Sam Mendes
  
• Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
  
• Cast: Bernadette Peters, Tammy Blanchard, Kate Reinders, John Dossett
  
• A new production of the classic Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about Gypsy Rose Lee and her hard-driving stage mother.

A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD

• Cort Theatre
  
• First Preview: April 2
  
• Opening: April 13
  
• Director: David Petrarca
  
• Cast: Mark Linn-Baker, Jay Goede
  
• The Robert and Willie Reale musical based on the children's book about a pair of amphibians with an unwavering friendship.

• Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  
• First Preview: April 8
  
• Opening: April 29
  
• Director: Michael Wilson
  
• Cast: Molly Ringwald, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Cumpsty, Daniel Gerroll
  
• A new play by Matthew Barber based on the book about four Victorian women vacationing in Tuscany.

• Brooks Atkinson Theatre
  
• First Preview: April 4
  
• Opening: May 4
  
• Director: Scott Ellis
  
• Choreography: Ann Reinking
  
• Cast: Liz Callaway, Jeanine La Manna, Shannon Lewis, John Dokuchitz
  
• A new musical revue employing the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

• Music Box Theatre
  
• First Preview: April 8
  
• Opening: April 24
  
• Director: Marianne Elliott
  
• Cast: Hilary Swank, Skye McCole Bartusiak
  
• A new revival of William Gibson's drama about blind and deaf Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.

• Plymouth Theatre
  
• First Preview: April 26
  
• Opening: May 6
  
• Director: Robert Falls
  
• Cast: Brian Dennehy, Venessa Redgrave, Phlip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Sean Leonard
  
• A new production of Eugene O'Neill's greatest play

MASTER HAROLD....AND THE BOYS

• Booth Theatre
  
• First Preview: May
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Lonny Price
  
• Cast: Danny Glover
  
• A new revival of Athol Fugard's South African drama.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

• Virginia Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 22
  
• Opening: Aug. 14
  
• Director: Connie Grappo
  
• Choreographer: TBA
  
• Cast: Hunter Foster, Billy Porter, Alice Ripley, Lee Wilkof, Reg Rogers
  
• The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: summer 2003
  
• Opening: summer 2003
  
• Director: Christopher Renshaw
  
• Choreographer: Mark Dendy
  
• Cast: Boy George has been mentioned
  
• The London musical about the life of George Alan O'Dowd, who is better known as pop star Boy George.

THE BOY FROM OZ

• Imperial Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 16, 2003
  
• Opening: Oct. 16, 2003
  
• Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
  
• Choreographer: Joey McKneely
  
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Isabel Keating, Beth Fowler
  
• The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.

• Minskoff Theatre
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Choreographer: TBA
  
• Cast: Alfred Molina
  
• A revival of the classic musical about the travails of Tevye the Dairyman and his daughters.

• Gershwin Theatre
  
• First Preview: October 2003
  
• Opening: Oct. 30
  
• Director: Joe Mantello
  
• Choreographer: Wayne Cilento
  
• Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Carole Shelley, Norbert Leo Butz
  
• Stephen Schwartz's Oz-flavored new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel

• Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
  
• First Preview: Oct. 16
  
• Opening: Nov. 6
  
• Director: Evan Yionoulis
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Richard Greenberg's new play set in 1919 about a driven young publisher at the start of his career.

• Lincoln Center Theater
  
• First Preview: Fall 2003
  
• Opening: Fall 2003
  
• Director: Jack O'Brien
  
• Cast: Kevin Kline, Richard Easton
  
• Shakespeare's history plays "Henry IV" Parts I & II

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: 2003-04
  
• Opening: 2003-04
  
• 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

SWEET CHARITY

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: January 2004
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Marisa Tomei, Robert Cuccioli
  
• A new production of the Cy Coleman musical about an ever-optimistic dance hall hostess.

• Biltmor Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
  
• First Preview: Jan. 29, 2004
  
• Opening: Feb. 19, 2004
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Regina Taylor's take of Chekhov's The Seagull, re-set in the Gullah islands of South Carolina.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: February 2004
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Christopher Plummer
  
• Shakespeare's towering tragedy of an aging king and his three daughters.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: Spring 2004
  
• Opening: Spring 2004
  
• Director: Steven Pimlott
  
• Choreographer: Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan
  
• The London Bollywood-style musical by composer A. R. Rahman and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
  
• First Preview: May 6, 2004
  
• Opening: May 25, 2004
  
• Director: Daniel Sullivan
  
• A revival of Donald Margulies' play about a painter conflicted about his art and his past.

THE COAST OF UTOPIA

• Vivian Beaumont Theatre
  
• First Preview: 2005
  
• Opening: 2005
  
• Director: Jack O'Brien
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• The U.S. Premiere of Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy of plays.

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