Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows

By Matthew Blank
and Kenneth Jones
05 Apr 2013

Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows

This list is updated periodically.

MATILDA

  • Theatre: Shubert
  • First Preview: March 4, 2013
  • Opening: April 11, 2013
  • Written by Dennis Kelly (book), Tim Minchin (music and lyrics)
  • Director: Matthew Warchus
  • Cast: Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Bertie Carvel, Lesli Margherita, Gabriel Ebert, Lauren Ward
  • Matilda The Musical is written by playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by the Australian comedian, musician and composer Tim Minchin. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 story about a girl with extraordinary powers.

MOTOWN

  • Theatre: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
  • First Preview: March 11, 2013
  • Opening: April 14, 2013
  • Written by Berry Gordy (book)
  • Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
  • Cast: Brandon Victor Dixon, Valisia Lekae
  • Motown, the new musical based on the life of music producer and hit-maker Berry Gordy, will groove onto Broadway in spring 2013 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. The musical promises "a gripping story about the protégés and stars of a uniquely talented musical family who, under Berry Gordy's guidance, began as 'the Sound of Young America' and went on to become some of the greatest superstars of all time."

THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES

  • Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman
  • First Preview: March 21, 2013
  • Opening: April 17, 2013
  • Written by Richard Greenberg
  • Director: Lynne Meadow
  • Cast: Judith Light, Jessica Hecht, Jeremy Shamos, Mark Blum, Sam Robards
  • Richard Greenberg's new play, according to Manhattan Theatre Club, "welcomes us to the world of the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In a sprawling Central Park West apartment, former movie star Julie Bascov [Hecht] and her sister-in-law Faye [Light] bring their families together for their traditional holiday dinner. But tonight, things are not usual. A house guest has joined the festivities for the first time and he unwittingly — or perhaps by design — insinuates himself into the family drama. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. A stunning new play infused with humor, The Assembled Parties is an incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium."



THE NANCE

  • Theatre: Lyceum Theatre
  • First Preview: March 21, 2013
  • Opening: April 15, 2013
  • Written by Douglas Carter Beane
  • Director: Jack O'Brien
  • Cast: Nathan Lane, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jonny Orsini
  • A nance, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “an effeminate or homosexual man.” In the world of 1930’s burlesque, a nance was a wildly popular character, a stereotypically camp homosexual man, most times played by a straight performer. In The Nance, playwright Douglas Carter Beane tells the story of Chauncey Miles (to be played by Nathan Lane), a headline nance performer in New York burlesque, who also happens to be a homosexual. Integrating burlesque sketches into his drama, Beane paints, with humor and pathos, the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930’s New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his messy offstage life.

THE BIG KNIFE

  • Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
  • First Preview: March 22, 2013
  • Opening: April 16, 2013
  • Written by Clifford Odets
  • Director: Doug Hughes
  • Cast: Bobby Cannavale, Marin Ireland, Richard Kind, Adam Rapp
  • "In the golden age of Hollywood cinema, actors may have all the glory, but studio execs have all the power," according to Big Knife press notes. "The Hoff-Federated studio has had its most successful star, Charlie Castle, over a barrel ever since it helped cover up a mistake that could have ended his career. When a woman with insider knowledge threatens to come forward, the studio heads will stop at nothing to protect Charlie’s secret... but how far is he willing to go before he quits the movie business for good?"

I'LL EAT YOU LAST

  • Theatre: Booth Theatre
  • First Preview: April 5, 2013
  • Opening: April 24, 2013
  • Written by John Logan
  • Director: Joe Mantello
  • Cast: Bette Midler
  • Midler will play the legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers (1932-2011) in the one-character play. "Sue Mengers was an American original," according to press notes. "She was the first female 'superagent' at a time when women talent agents of any kind were almost unheard of. She came from near poverty, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, and worked her way up through pluck, charm, and a legendary wit. In that uniquely American way, she invented herself; and when the career she wanted didn't exist, she invented that as well: 'Superagent.' It was a term Hollywood all but coined for her. By the 1970's, she represented almost every major star in Hollywood and went on to become the town’s most renowned hostess."

MACBETH

  • Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  • First Preview: April 7, 2013
  • Opening: April 21, 2013
  • Written by William Shakespeare
  • Director: John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg
  • Cast: Alan Cumming
  • Alan Cumming stars in a one-man interpretation of this great tragedy, a multimedia theatrical experience of Shakespeare's notorious tale of desire, ambition and the supernatural.

PIPPIN

  • Theatre: The Music Box
  • First Preview: March 23, 2013
  • Opening: April 25, 2013
  • Written by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson
  • Director: Diane Paulus
  • Cast: Matthew James Thomas, Patina Miller, Terrence Mann, Rachel Bay Jones, Charlotte d'Amboise
  • The American Repertory Theater production of Pippin transfers to Broadway.

THE TESTAMENT OF MARY

  • Theatre: Walter Kerr
  • First Preview: March 26, 2013
  • Opening: April 22, 2013
  • Written by Colm Tóibín
  • Director: Deborah Warner
  • Cast: Fiona Shaw
  • Tony Award nominee and four-time Olivier Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw will star in the Broadway world-premiere stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín's recent novella The Testament of Mary, which depicts the story of Mary following the crucifixion of Christ.

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

  • Theatre: Stephen Sondheim Theatre
  • First Preview: March 30, 2013
  • Opening: April 23, 2013
  • Written by Horton Foote
  • Director: Michael Wilson
  • Cast: Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Condola Rasha
  • The Trip to Bountiful, according to press notes, tells the story of "Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who dreams of returning to her small hometown of Bountiful, TX one last time, against the wishes of her overprotective son and domineering daughter-in-law. Her journey becomes a heartbreaking but ultimately life-affirming and inspiring tale that examines the fragility of memory and celebrates the enduring power of hope and faith."

JEKYLL & HYDE

  • Theatre: Marquis Theatre
  • First Preview: April 5, 2013
  • Opening: April 18, 2013
  • Written by Frank Wildhorn (music), Leslie Bricusse (book and lyrics),
  • Director: Jeff Calhoun
  • Cast: Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox, Teal Wicks
  • Nederlander Presentations, Inc. announced Jan. 29 that Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde will return to Broadway in spring 2013 for a limited engagement following a 25-week national tour.
  • ORPHANS

    • Theatre: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
    • First Preview: March 26, 2013
    • Opening: April 18, 2013
    • Written by Lyle Kessler
    • Director: Daniel Sullivan
    • Cast: Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster
    • The play, Lyle Kessler's best known, is about Harold, a shady businessman who is kidnapped by Treat and Phillip, two brothers — one a predatory and domineering thief, the other an innocent man-child — who have raised themselves without the benefit of parents. After a short time, however, the wily Harold turns the tables and begins to dictate the course of the brothers' lives.

    FIRST DATE

    • Theatre: Longacre Theatre
    • First Preview: July 9, 2013
    • Opening: August 4, 2013
    • Austin Winsberg (book), Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (music and lyrics)
    • Director: Bill Berry
    • Cast: TBA
    • First Date, according to producers, "is Broadway's new musical comedy about the most dangerous human endeavor in existence, the dreaded blind date. When tightly wound Aaron is set up with cool girl Casey, a quick drink turns into a hilarious dinner served with sides of Google background checks, fake emergency phone calls, a slew of bad boy and uptown girl exes, and some seriously saucy chemistry. Set in a jaded city full of missed connections, their unpredictable evening unfolds in real time. Can this mismatched pair turn what could be a dining disaster into something special before the check arrives, or end up at another table for one?"

    ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: July 2013
    • Written by Ted Swindley
    • Director: John Rando
    • Cast: Crystal Bowersox and Annette O'Toole
    • Always… Patsy Cline, according to press notes, is a "fun loving, crowd-pleasing musical full of down-home country humor and a big heart. Based on a true story, the show features nearly thirty classic songs from the Patsy Cline songbook which will be heard for the first time on a Broadway stage. The show tells of the friendship that developed between Patsy and Louise Seger, her most devoted fan. Louise narrates the story of the day in 1961 when she met Patsy at Houston’s Esquire Ballroom. Afterward, Patsy kept in touch by writing her long hand-written letters until the day she died tragically in a plane crash. She signed the letters '(Love) Always, Patsy Cline.'"

    FLASHDANCE

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: August 2013
    • Written by Tom Hedley (book), Robert Cary (book and lyrics), Robbie Roth (music and lyrics)
    • Director: Sergio Trujillo
    • Cast: TBA
    • Flashdance, the movie-inspired pop-rock musical that had a short life in London in 2010-11, is aiming for Broadway. The musical, according to press notes, "tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a working-class girl from Pittsburgh with a dream of becoming a professional dancer. She works by day as a steel mill welder, and a bar dancer at night while aspiring to be accepted at a prestigious ballet academy. When Alex catches the eye of her boss Nick Hurley, their romance shows her the meaning of love and drives her ambition to pursue her dream."

    ROMEO AND JULIET

    • Theatre: Richard Rodgers Theatre
    • First Preview: August 24, 2013
    • Opening: September 19, 2013
    • William Shakespeare
    • Director: David Leveaux
    • Cast: Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Jayne Houdyshell, Joe Morton
    • According to producers, "In this new production, the members of the Montague household will be white, and the blood relatives of the Capulet family will be black. While race defines the family lineages, the original cause of the ‘ancient quarrel’, passed down by successive generations to their young, has been lost to time. Shakespeare’s dramatization of the original poem sets the two young lovers in a context of prejudice, authoritarian parents, and a never ending cycle of ‘revenge.’ Against this background, the strength of their love changes the world."

    BIG FISH

    • Theatre: Neil Simon Theatre
    • First Preview: September 5, 2013
    • Opening: October 6, 2013
    • Written by Andrew Lippa (music and lyrics) and John August (book)
    • Director: Susan Stroman
    • Cast: Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert
    • The fanciful new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will be directed and choreographed by Stroman (Contact, Crazy for You, The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family) and a libretto by August.
    BETRAYAL

    • Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre
    • First Preview: October 1, 2013
    • Opening: November 3, 2013
    • Written by Harold Pinter
    • Director: Mike Nichols
    • Cast: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall
    • According to producers, "Emma (Weisz) is married to Robert (Craig), a publisher, but she has long had an affair with Jerry (Spall), a literary agent and Robert's best friend; as, in a brilliant device, time is regained, so the full complexity of their relationships comes to light."

    DINER

    • Theatre: TBA
    • Opening: Fall 2013
    • Written by Sheryl Crow (music and lyrics) and Barry Levinson (book)
    • Director: Kathleen Marshall
    • Cast: TBA
    • Diner features a book by Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Barry Levinson, who directed and wrote the screenplay for the original film, and music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. "It’s Christmas 1959 in Baltimore and six high school buddies, now in their twenties, reunite as the second member of the group is about to tie the knot," according to press notes. "Trying to deal with their new responsibilities, the group has awkwardly stumbled into adulthood and the only place they can make sense of their new lives is at their old hangout, The Fells Point Diner."

    NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: Fall 2013
    • Written by Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett
    • Director: Sean Mathias
    • Cast: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart
    • Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will return to Broadway in fall 2013 in a limited engagement of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Directed by Sean Mathias, the productions will be performed in repertory.

    THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

    • Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
    • First Preview: Fall 2013
    • Director: Alex Timbers
    • Cast: TBA
    • Roundabout Theatre Company will produce a new Broadway production of Philip Barry's comedy of class, manners and marriage. "The Philadelphia Story is a witty comedy of romance and manners set in Philadelphia high society during the late 1930s," according to Roundabout. "The play was last seen on Broadway in 1981 starring Blythe Danner, Frank Converse and Edward Herrmann. The Philadelphia Story premiered on Broadway in 1939 starring Katharine Hepburn and following its successful run, was made into the well-known, and Academy Award-nominated, 1940 film also starring Hepburn, with Cary Grant and James Stewart."

    PRINCE OF BROADWAY

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: Fall 2013
    • Director: Harold Prince and Susan Stroman
    • Cast: Linda Lavin, Sebastian Arcelus, Sierra Boggess, Daniel Breaker, Josh Grisetti, Shuler Hensley, Richard Kind, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Tony winner LaChanze, Caroline O'Connor, David Pittu, Emily Skinner
    • Here's how the project is characterized: "Celebrating the most influential and successful career in the American theatre of the past 60 years, Prince of Broadway will look at the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to Hal Prince creating some of the most enduring and beloved theater of all time, from 1954's The Pajama Game to The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history."

    THE SUNSHINE BOYS

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: 2013-2014 season
    • Written by Neil Simon
    • Director: Thea Sharrock
    • Cast: Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths
    • In the play, "kings of comedy, Willie Clark (DeVito) and Al Lewis (Griffiths), aka The Sunshine Boys, haven’t spoken to each other in years. When CBS call for the vaudevillian greats to be re-united for a nostalgic History of Comedy, past grudges resurface as they take centre stage once more. Ageing ailments aside, can this legendary double-act overcome their differences for one last show?"

    HOUDINI

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: 2013-2014 season
    • Director: Jack O'Brien
    • Cast: Hugh Jackman
    • Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman will bring his magic back to Broadway during the 2013-2014 season in the new Stephen Schwartz-Aaron Sorkin musical.

    EVER AFTER

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: 2013-2014 season
    • Director: Kathleen Marshall
    • Cast: TBA
    • Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's Cinderella musical, inspired by the 1998 film of the same title that starred Drew Barrymore.

    BACKBEAT

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: 2013
    • Director: David Leveaux
    • Cast: TBA
    • The show is set in 1960 when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (the drummer before Ringo Starr joined the group) and Stuart Sutcliffe (the band's original bassist) "embarked on their journey from the docks of Liverpool to the red light district of Hamburg," where "they worked in the clubs of the tawdry Reeperbahn, performing rock 'n' roll covers night after night, all the while honing what would become the Beatles' sound."

    BULLETS OVER BROADWAY

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: 2013
    • Director: Susan Stroman
    • Cast: TBA
    • A musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Academy Award-nominated film, about a playwright whose first taste of success comes with mobsters and a domineering diva attached, will arrive on Broadway in 2013.

    IF/THEN

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: March 4, 2014
    • Opening: March 27, 2014
    • Written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
    • Director: Michael Greif
    • Cast: Idina Menzel
    • Here's how it's billed: "On the verge of turning 40, Elizabeth moves to New York City, the ultimate city of possibility, intent on a fresh start – new home, new friends, and hopes for a resurgent career. But even in her carefully planned new life, the smallest decision or most random occurrence will impact her world in ways she never dreamt possible. Set against the ever-shifting landscape of modern day Manhattan, If/Then is a romantic and original new musical about how choice and chance collide and how we learn to love the fallout."

    LES MISERABLES

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: Spring 2014
    • Written by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer
    • Director: Laurence Connor and James Powell
    • Cast: TBA
    • Cameron Mackintosh's 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables, which features fresh scenic and narrative elements, and new orchestrations, will make its Broadway premiere in spring 2014.

    ALADDIN

    • Theatre: New Amsterdam
    • First Preview: 2014
    • Written by Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics), Tim Rice (lyrics), Chad Beguelin (book and lyrics)
    • Director: Casey Nicholaw
    • Cast: TBA
    • Disney's stage adaptation of the 1992 Academy Award-winning animated film Aladdin will play a pre-Broadway engagement at Toronto's Mirvish Theatre this fall prior to a Broadway bow at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2014.
    IN THE WORKS

    A FEW GOOD MEN

    • Written by Aaron Sorkin
    • Attached: David Esbjornson (Director), Ken Davenport (Producer)
    • A revival of the military courtroom drama.

    MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Judith Ivey
    • Cast: Amber Tamblyn
    • Miss Firecracker Contest, according to previous press notes, "is the story of Carnelle Scott, a young, rebellious, and slightly unruly woman living in the small town of Brookhaven, Mississippi. Carnelle desperately wants to win the local Miss Firecracker Contest, convinced that it will restore her reputation and allow her to leave Brookhaven in 'a crimson blaze of glory.' As she works her way towards the coveted title of Miss Firecracker, she is joined by an eccentric but loyal group of supporters."

    THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Written by Eric Coble
    • Director: Molly Smith
    • Cast: Stephen Spinella, Estelle Parsons
    • The show, according to press notes, "swirls around 80-year-old Alexandra, an artist facing the indignities of old age and her family’s insistence on moving her to a nursing home. With nothing to lose, Alexandra has locked herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with a pile of Molotov cocktails and is now in a standoff with her children and the police. When Alexandra is visited by her youngest son Chris - who has climbed into her second floor window ending a 20-year absence from her life - in the blink of an eye the emotional bombs start detonating."

    PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Opening: TBA
    • Director: John Doyle
    • Cast: TBA
    • The new take is being billed as "John Doyle's visionary tribute to life by the roadside." It "takes place on Highway 57. Somewhere in America's heartland, between Frog Level and Smyrna, North Carolina, stands a rest stop, for those who need a good rest. The four hard-working fellas at the gas station, Jim, Jackson, Eddie and L.M., have been known to do some auto repairs, but only when aided by ample quantities of time, great tunes and a few beers while they're at it. Just a few feet away, there's also a roadside eatery, the Double Cupp Diner, where the Cupp sisters, Prudie and Rhetta, celebrate their famous home cooking and gift for song with the same zeal they bring to their kinship with the boys. With joy, heartbreak and hilarity, these Pump Boys and Dinettes also play a stunning variety of musical instruments including guitar, piano, bass, fiddle, banjo, ukulele, harmonica…and yes, even kitchen utensils."

    REBECCA

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Opening: TBA
    • Written by Michael Kunze (original book and lyrics), Sylvester Levay (music), Christopher Hampton (English book adaptation), with English lyrics by Hampton and Kunze
    • Director: Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello
    • Cast: TBA
    • The musical, based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, "is the story of Maxim de Winter, his new wife [simply, 'I,' as in the first-person] and Mrs. Danvers, the controlling and manipulative housekeeper of Maxim's West Country estate of Manderley — where the memory of his first wife, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, still casts a shadow." Having premiered in Vienna in 2006, Rebecca features original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze, music by Sylvester Levay, English book adaptation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard) and English lyrics by Hampton and Kunze.

    COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: TBA
    • Cast: Zooey Deschanel
    • The Broadway-bound stage version of "Coal Miner’s Daughter," according to press notes, will tell the "remarkable story of country music legend Loretta Lynn, from her impoverished Kentucky childhood to her unlikely and triumphant rise to become the First Lady of Country Music and one of the greatest women of her generation."

    EMPIRE

    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Matt Lenz
    • Cast: TBA
    • An original musical, romantic comedy with book, music & lyrics by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Empire is a love story set against the construction of the Empire State Building. When an ambitious architect and hard-headed reporter tangle, the stage is set for a collision of dreams and daring as the iconic New York City landmark rises into the sky, creating a symbol of hope at a time when the city needed it most.

    KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Peter DuBois
    • Cast: TBA
    • A new dramatic adaptation of Manuel Puig's novel is being adapted by Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries") and Allan Baker.

    THE OLD MASTERS

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Michael Rudman
    • Cast: Brian Murray and Sam Waterston
    • Simon Gray's work premieres at Long Wharf in January prior to a Broadway transfer.

    DETROIT

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Austin Pendleton
    • Cast: TBA
    • The new American play by Lisa D'Amour received its world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "In a 'first ring' suburb outside a mid-sized American city," press notes state, "Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who’ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control - with unexpected consequences. Shining a light on middle class American Dream, Detroit looks at what happens when we open ourselves up to something new."

    FAT PIG

    • Theatre: Belasco Theatre
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Neil LaBute
    • Cast: TBA
    • Neil LaBute 's Fat Pig, according to press notes, "tells the story of Tom, a very eligible bachelor who falls for the beautiful, bright and plus-sized Helen. Tom is overjoyed with his new relationship but his shallow co-workers are less enthusiastic. Tom shrugs off their objections but eventually the cruel jabs of his acerbic friend Carter and Jeannie, a former flame, force him to question his own values and the importance of conventional good looks."

    FUNNY GIRL

    • Theatre: TBA
    • Opening: TBA
    • Director: Bartlett Sher
    • Cast: TBA
    • "Six Feet Under" star Lauren Ambrose will inhabit legendary vaudeville comedienne Fanny Brice in a Center Theatre Group production that will premiere at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre prior to an intended Broadway transfer.

    SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: David Cromer
    • Cast: Nicole Kidman
    • The show, according to previous production notes, "tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she will be the source of re-uniting him with his childhood sweetheart, Heavenly Finley. Chance has no idea that his past actions have damaged Heavenly's life or that her Mayor father has sworn out an edict on him."

    TOXIC AVENGER

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: TBA
    • Cast: TBA
    • The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical about an unlikely superhero in New Jersey that played over 300 performances at Off-Broadway's New World Stages may be headed to Broadway. A casting notice for the upcoming run at Houston's Alley Theater (Jan. 20-Feb. 12, 2012) says that Broadway rehearsals will begin in early March 2012 with an opening at the end of March/early April.

    ENTER LAUGHING

    • Theatre: TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Stuart Ross
    • Cast: TBA
    • The showbiz comedy, authored by late Tony Award winner Joseph Stein and Stan Daniels, is inspired by the early life of writer Carl Reiner.

    UNCHAIN MY HEART

    • TBA
    • First Preview: TBA
    • Director: Sheldon Epps
    • Cast: Brandon Victor Dixon, Nikki Renée Daniels, Harrison White, Tasha Taylor
    • A new Suzan-Lori Parks-scripted musical centering on the life of entertainer Ray Charles.

    ANGELS

    • Attached: Ken Lai (book, music and lyrics) and Marcus Cheong (book and lyrics), Rich Fowler (Director), Robert Cuccioli, Jessica Grové and Nicholas Rodriguez (Actors), Marcus Cheong, Frank Monteleone, Dale Smith (Producers)
    • New musical based on the epic Milton poem "Paradise Lost."

    BETTY BOOP

    • Attached: David Foster (Music), Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson (Book), Ostar Productions (Producer)
    • New musical based on the classic cartoon character.

    BIG TIME

    • Attached: Douglas Carter Beane (Book), Douglas J. Cohen (Music and Lyrics), Christopher Ashley (Director), Robert Ahrens (Producer)
    • New musical about down-on-their-luck lounge singers on a U.N. cruise ship that is held hostage by terrorists.

    BRIGADOON

    • Attached: Rob Ashford (Director), John Guare (New Book), Ostar Productions and Liza Lerner (Producers)
    • Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical centering on two Americans journey in Scotland.

    BRUCE LEE: JOURNEY TO THE WEST

    • Attached: Bartlett Sher (Director), Elephant Eye Theatrical (Producer), Dou Dou Huang (Choreographer)
    • A new David Yazbek-David Henry Hwang musical centering on the martial arts movie star.

    DANCIN'

    • Attached: Graciela Daniele (Director, Choreographer), Roundabout Theatre Company (Producers)
    • Revival of the musical revue featuring the work of Bob Fosse.

    DIRTY DANCING

    • Attached: Josef Brown, Amanda Leigh Cobb and Britta Lazenga (Actors), Eleanor Bergstein (Concept, Book), James Powell (Director), Kate Champion (Choreographer), Jacobsen Entertainment in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions (Producers)
    • New stage show (currently touring) based on the film of the same name.

    FATHER OF THE BRIDE

    • Attached: Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman (Book)
    • New musical based on the film of the same name.

    THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

    • Attached: Michael Mayer (Director)
    • Joanna Murray-Smith's new drama centering on a feminist author who suddenly gets writer's block.

    GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER

    • Attached: Kenny Leon (Director), Todd Kreidler (adaptation) Jeffrey Finn Productions (Producer)
    • New play based on the film of the same name.

    HUGHIE/ KRAPP'S LAST TAPE

    • Attached: Brian Dennehy (Actor), Robert Falls/ Jennifer Tarver (Director)
    • Transfer of the Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett works.

    LIBERACE: THE MAN, THE MUSIC AND THE MEMORIES

    • Attached: Wayland Pickard (Actor), Pamela Hall (Director), Edmund Gaynes and Nancy Bianconi (Producers)
    • A new musical about the life of the late pianist Lee Liberace.

    LOVE AND MERCY

    • Attached: Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel (Producers)
    • A new Jon Robin Baitz play about a matinee idol-cum-politician, his screenwriter wife and novelist daughter.

    MERRY-GO-ROUND

    • Attached: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (Music and Lyrics), Paul Butler and Fred Fox, Jr. (Book), Andy Belling (Director), Larry Sousa (Choreographer), Bob Mackie (Costumes), Jack Stein & JNS Entertainment(Producers)
    • New musical about a troubled young man whose estranged father helps him travels back in time on the magical title device.

    MINSKY'S

    • Attached: Casey Nicholaw (Director/Choreographer), Kevin McCollum and Bob Boyett (Producers)
    • Transfer of the new Charles Strouse-Susan Birkenhead-Bob Martin musical centering on a burlesque impresario.

    NERDS://A MUSICAL SOFTWARE SATIRE

    • Attached: Erik Weiner and Jordan Allen-Dutton (Book, Lyrics), Hal Goldberg (Music), Jerry Zaks(Director)
    • New musical comedy following computer techies Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

    THE NUTTY PROFESSOR

    • Attached: Jerry Lewis (Director), Marvin Hamlisch (Music) and Rupert Holmes (Book and lyrics)
    • New musical based on the film of the same name.

    PURE COUNTRY

    • Attached: Joe Nichols and Lorrie Morgan (Actor), Peter Masterson (Director), Warren Carlyle (Choreographer), Steve Dorff (Music, Lyrics), John Bettis (Lyrics), Rex McGee and Masterson (Book), Randall L. Wreghitt, Chris Presley and Ellen Rusconi (Producer)
    • New musical based on the film of the same name about a country music superstar who leaves it all to find himself.

    ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS

    • Attached: Rupert Holmes (book) Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen (score), Casey Nicholaw (Director, Choreographer), Barry Brown, Bruce Charet, Dennis Mastro, Dennis Farina and Billy Campbell (Producers)br>
    • A re-thinking of the 1964 Warner Brothers film of the same name.

    RUSSIAN ON THE SIDE

    • Attached: Mark Nadler (Performer and Creator), Mark Waldrop (Director), Michael Alden and Karen Lotman (Producers)br>
    • One-man “comedy-in-music adventure” featuring the great American songbook music and gossip about its composers.

    UNTITLED MANDELA/APARTHEID MUSICAL

    • Attached: Zindzi Mandela (Book), Welcome Msomi (Creator), Routh/Frankel/Baruch/Viertel Group and PSE Broadway LLC (Producers)
    • A new musical about South Africa's struggle for freedom from apartheid.

    UNTITLED WOODSTOCK MUSICAL

    • Attached: Michael Lang and Samuel G. Nappi (Producers)
    • New musical based on Lang's memoir, "The Road to Woodstock."

    YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

    • Attached: Anna Shapiro (Director), Elizabeth Ireland McCann and Joey Parnes (Producers)
    • A revival of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman classic comedy.

    ZORBA

    • Attached: David Leveaux (Director), Antonio Banderas (Actor), Barry and Fran Weissler (Producers)
    • A revival of the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Joseph Stein musical based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel "Zorba the Greek."