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By Robert Simonson
and Playbill Staff
05 May 2003

This feature is updated periodically. Schedule subject to change.

APRIL

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

• 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 6
  
• Opening: June 1
  
• Director: Lonny Price
  
• Cast: Danny Glover, Michael Boatman and Christopher Denham
  
• A new revival of Athol Fugard's South African drama.

BIG RIVER

• American Airlines Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 1
  
• Opening: July 24
  
• Director-Choreographer: Jeff Calhoun
  
• Cast: Michael Arden, Gina Ferrall, Phyllis Frelich, Tyrone Giordano, Dan Jenkins, Michael McElroy, Gwen Stewart, Alexandria Wailes
  
• The Deaf West Theatre revival of the musical based on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

• Golden Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 11
  
• Opening: July 31
  
• Director: Jason Moore
  
• Choreographer: Ken Roberson
  
• Cast: Ann Harada, Jen Barnhart, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jordan Gelber, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia and Rick Lyon
  
• The hit Off-Broadway musical in which people and puppets sing side by side.

• Virginia Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 16
  
• Opening: Aug. 14
  
• Director: Connie Grappo
  
• Choreographer: Kathleen Marshall
  
• Cast: Hunter Foster, Billy Porter, Alice Ripley, Lee Wilkof, Reg Rogers
  
• The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.

THE BOY FROM OZ

• Imperial Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 16
  
• Opening: Oct. 16
  
• Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
  
• Choreographer: Joey McKneely
  
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Stephanie Block, Beth Fowler, Isabel Keating, Jarrod Emick, Mitchel Federan and Michael Mulheren
  
• The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.

• Brooks Atkinson Theatre
  
• First Preview: October
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Robert Johanson
  
• Cast: Jackie Mason
  
• Mason's latest entertainment, with music.

• Gershwin Theatre
  
• First Preview: October
  
• 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.

• Plymouth Theatre
  
• First Preview: Oct. 21
  
• Opening: Nov. 13
  
• Director: Christopher Renshaw
  
• Choreographer: Mark Dendy
  
• Cast: Boy George
  
• The London musical about the life of George Alan O'Dowd, who is better known as pop star Boy George.

• Broadhurst Theatre
  
• First Preview: Oct. 27
  
• Opening: Dec. 4
  
• Director: Michael Greif
  
• Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
  
• Cast: Noah Racey, Nancy Lemenager
  
• A new musical based on the film "Swing Time" featuring the music of Jerome Kern and a book by Jeffrey Hatcher

• 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: November
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Arthur Penn
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Larry Gelbart's comedy based on Jonson's Volpone.

• 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.

DROWNING CROW

• 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

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: 2004
  
• Opening: 2004
  
• Director: Des McAnuff
  
• Choreographer: TBA
  
• A new revival of the "Wizard of Oz"-inspired musical

• 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.

• Theatre TBA
  
• First Preview: TBA
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: TBA
  
• Cast: Ashley Judd, Mark Ruffalo, Ned Beatty
  
• A revival of Tennessee William's drama of desire, disillusionment and mendacity.

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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