HARVEY

• Theatre: Studio 54
• First Preview: May 18
• Opening: June 14
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht, Charles Kimbrough
• Jim Parsons, according to Roundabout, stars as "one of modern theatre's most lovable characters, Elwood P. Dowd. Charming and kind, Elwood has only one character flaw: an unwavering friendship with a 6-foot-tall, invisible white rabbit named Harvey. In order to save the family's social reputation, Elwood’s sister Veta (Jessica Hecht) takes Elwood to the local sanatorium. But when the doctors mistakenly commit his anxiety-ridden sister, Elwood — and Harvey—slip out of the hospital unbothered, setting off a hilarious whirlwind of confusion and chaos as everyone in town tries to catch a man and his invisible rabbit."

BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL

• Theatre: St. James
• First Preview: July 12
• Opening: August 1
• Director: Andy Blankenbuehler
• Cast: Adrienne Warren, Ryann Redmond, Taylor Louderman, Jason Gotay, Elle McLemore, Ariana DeBose, Gregory Haney, Neil Haskell, Janet Krupin, Kate Rockwell, Nick Womack
• Here's how producers bill the work: "In Bring It On: The Musical, the high-stakes world of competitive cheerleading is intertwined with cutthroat high school politics to tell the story of Campbell, the heir apparent to the head cheerleader at Truman High School. Campbell is at the top of the cheerleader pyramid and she has it all — a strong squad, a doting boyfriend and a straight path to the national championships. Her entire life has been dedicated to honing routines and staying within the strict rules and guidelines, but when a surprise letter arrives, Campbell's world is thrown upside down."

CHAPLIN

• Theatre: Barrymore Theatre
• First Preview: August 21
• Opening: September 10
• Director: Warren Carlyle
• Cast: TBA
• Here's how the musical is billed: "From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn’t stop talking about - Charlie Chaplin. The brand new 22-person musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius that forever changed the way America went to the movies."

• Theatre: Broadhurst Theatre
• First Preview: October 20, 2012
• Opening: November 18, 2012
• Director: Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello
• Cast: Karen Mason, Howard McGillin, James Barbour, Donna English, Nick Wyman, Henry Stram
• 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.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Opening: October 13, 2012
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
• Cast: Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Carrie Coon, Madison Dirks
• The acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage in Washington, DC, comes to Broadway.

THE ANARCHIST

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: David Mamet
• Cast: Patti LuPone, Laurie Metcalf
• Set in a female penitentiary, the two-woman drama by David Mamet casts LuPone as Cathy, a longtime inmate with ties to a violent political organization, who pleads for parole from the warden, Ann, to be played by Metcalf.

DINER

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• 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."

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

• Theatre: Studio 54
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: Chita Rivera
• Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will step into the world of the British Music Hall this fall for the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Rupert Holmes musical.

PRINCE OF BROADWAY

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Opening: November 4, 2012
• 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."

ANNIE

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: James Lapine
• Cast: TBA
• The new production of the Tony Award-winning musical will open at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. The show, inspired by the Harold Gray comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," features music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan.

THE BIG KNIFE

• Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
• First Preview: March 22, 2013
• Director: Doug Hughes
• Cast: Bobby Cannavale
• "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?"

BIG FISH

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Spring 2013
• Director: Susan Stroman
• Cast: TBA
• 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.

MATILDA

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Spring 2013
• Director: Matthew Warchus
• Cast: TBA
• 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.

CINDERELLA

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2012-2013
• Director: Mark Brokaw
• Cast: Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana
• A re-imagined revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. The classic musical is getting a new dramatic approach from Tony Award-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane.

A FEW GOOD MEN

• First Preview: 2012-2013 season
• Attached: David Esbjornson (Director ), Ken Davenport (Producer)
• A revival of the Aaron Sorkin military-fueled courtroom drama.

YANK!

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2012-2013 Season
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: TBA
• Yank! A WWII Love Story has music by Joseph Zellnik with book and lyrics by David Zellnik. Set during World War II, Yank!, according to press notes, "chronicles the relationship between two servicemen long before Don't Ask Don't Tell was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940s, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival."

PICNIC

• Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
• First Preview: Winter 2013
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: TBA
• William Inge's play about passions of Midwesterners aroused when a stranger comes to town over a hot Labor Day holiday originally opened in 1953, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1955.

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.

BULLETS OVER BROADWAY

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2013
• Director: TBA
• 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.

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."

FLASHDANCE

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• 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 following a Toronto engagement.

EMPIRE

• First Preview: 2012
• 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.

JEKYLL & HYDE

• Director: Jeff Calhoun
• Cast: Constantine Maroulis
• 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.

MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Judith Ivey
• Cast: America Ferrera
• EW.com reports that Ferrera will play the role created by Holly Hunter in the original Off-Broadway production of Beth Henley's Miss Firecracker Contest. The play "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."

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."

KINKY BOOTS

• Director: Jerry Mitchell
• Cast: TBA
• Based on the 2005 film about a failing British shoe company that becomes a fetish-footwear manufacturer. Features new music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and libretto by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein.

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: Lauren Ambrose, Bobby Cannavale
• "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."

WHITE NOISE

• Attached: Ryan J. Davis (Conceiver), Joe Drymala (book and score), Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel, Rick Crom, Glen Kelly, Laurence O'Keefe, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and Eric Svejcar (additional songs), Sibling Theatricals, Inc. and Holly Way & Co. (Producers)
• New musical, seen at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, centering on sibling songwriters.

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."