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By Playbill Staff
08 May 2008

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MANDY PATINKIN ON BROADWAY

• Schoenfeld Theatre
  
• Performance: May 19
  
• Cast: Mandy Patinkin with Paul Ford (on piano)
  
• One-night-only benefit concert performance with the Broadway veteran.

• Broadway Theater
  
• First Preview: June 16
  
• Opening: June 26
  
• Director: Neil Goldberg
  
• The latest creation featuring European artistry with circus and Broadway theatrics.

• Lyceum Theatre
  
• First Preview: July 5
  
• Opening: July 17
  
• Director: Michael Berresse
  
• Cast: Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff and Larry Pressgrove
  
• New musical by Bowen and Bell about the making of a new musical.

• Theatre: TBA
  
• First Preview: July
  
• Opening: August
  
• Director: Daniel Goldstein
  
• Choreographer: Christopher Gattelli
  
• Cast: Gavin Creel
  
• Revival of the Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak musical based on "The Gospel According to St. Matthew."

• Theatre: TBA
  
• First Preview: July
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Shirley Jo Finney
  
• Choreographer: Hinton Battle
  
• Cast: India.Arie
  
• Revival of Ntozake Shange's work centering on seven women.

• Al Hirschfeld Theatre
  
• First Preview: Aug. 19
  
• Opening: Sept. 18
  
• Director: Warren Carlyle
  
• Choreographer: Warren Carlyle
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Jill Santoriello's musical inspired by the Charles Dickens classic.

• Broadhurst Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 5
  
• Opening: Sept. 25
  
• Director: Thea Sharrock,
  Cast: Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths
  
• Transfer of the recent London revival of the Peter Shaffer play about a troubled stable boy.

• Biltmore Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 11
  
• Opening: Oct. 2
  
• Director: Casey Nicholaw
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Nick Whitby's 1939-set black comedy centering on a German acting troupe.

• Imperial Theatre
  
• First Preview: Sept. 17
  
• Opening: Oct. 16
  
• Director: Stephen Daldry
  
• Choreographer: Peter Darling
  
• Cast: David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish
  
• New Elton John-Lee Hall musical based on the film of the same name about a working-class boy's dream of becoming a ballet dancer.

• Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  
• First Preview: September
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Jeremy Sams
  
• Choreographer: Christopher Gattelli
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish's new musical centering on a teen about to have his bar mitzvah.

• Theatre: TBA
  
• First Preview: Oct. 23
  
• Opening: Nov. 20
  
• Director: Michael Wilson
  
• Cast: Elizabeth Ashley, Arthur French, Hallie Foote, Penny Fuller and Gerald McRaney
  
• Transfer of the Primary Stages Off-Broadway mounting of Horton Foote's human comedy.

• Studio 54
  
• First Preview: Nov. 11
  
• Opening: Dec. 11
  
• Director: Joe Mantello
  
• Choreographer: Graciela Daniele
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart musical (with new book by Richard Greenberg) about a scheming charmer.

• Broadway Theatre
  
• First Preview: Nov. 8
  
• Opening: Dec. 14
  
• Director: Jason Moore
  
• Choreographer: Josh Prince
  
• Cast: Brian d'Arcy James, Chester Gregory II, Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber, John Tartaglia and Kecia Lewis-Evans
  
• New Jeanine Tesori/David Lindsay-Abaire musical about an ogre and his fairytale journey.

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

• Theatre: TBA
  
• First Preview: December
  
• Opening: January 2009
  
• Director: Richard Maltby, Jr.
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• New musical by Neil Bartram (score) and Brian Hill (book) about a writer who returns home to eulogize his lifelong friend.

• Biltmore Theatre
  
• First Preview: Jan. 2, 2009
  
• Opening: Jan. 22
  
• Director: David Grindley
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Richard Greenberg's 1960's Catskill-set play centering on a mother and daughter.

• Theatre: TBA
  
• First Preview: February 2009
  
• Opening: March
  
• Director: Kathleen Marshall
  
• Choreographer: Kathleen Marshall
  
• Cast: Harry Connick, Jr.
  
• Joe DiPietro pens the new musical comedy with George and Ira Gershwin songs about a Long Island playboy.

• Studio 54
  
• First Preview: April 17, 2009
  
• Opening: TBA
  
• Director: Graciela Daniele
  
• Cast: TBA
  
• Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the musical revue featuring the work of Bob Fosse.

AMERICAN BUFFALO

• Attached: Robert Falls (Director), John Leguizamo (Actor), Elliot Martin, Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza (Producers)
  
• Revival of David Mamet drama centering on a trio who plan to steal a coin collection.

• 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.

• Attached: Marc Shaiman (Music, Lyrics), Scott Wittman (Lyrics), Terrence McNally (Book), Jack O'Brien (Director), Jerry Mitchell (Choreographer)
  
• New musical based on the film of the same name.

• Attached: Robert Falls (Director), Brian Dennehy (Actor), Jeffrey Richards (Producer)
  
• Transfer of the Goodman Theatre staging of the Eugene O'Neill drama.

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

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

• Attached: Suzan-Lori Parks (Director)
  
• Revival of August Wilson's drama about a former Negro League baseball player who is now a garbage man.

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

• Attached: Danny Elfman (Music), David Yazbek (Lyrics), Kurt Andersen (Book), Jack O'Brien (Director)
  
• New musical centering on the magician and master escape artist.

• Attached: Alan Menken (Music), Glenn Slater (Lyrics), Janus Cercone (Book), Taylor Hackford (Director)
  
• New musical based on the film of the same name.

• Attached: Doug Hughes (Director), Roundabout Theatre Company (Producer)
  
• Revival of the Robert Bolt drama about King Henry VIII's loyal subject Sir Thomas More.

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

• Attached: Steve Dorff (Music, Lyrics), John Bettis (Lyrics), Rex McGee and Peter Masterson (Book), Peter Masterson (Director), Sean Curran (Choreographer)
  
• New musical based on the film of the same name.

• Attached: Neil Pepe (Director), Jeremy Piven (Actor), Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Steve Traxler (Producers)
  
• Revival of David Mamet's Hollywood-set tale of two execs hot on making a blockbuster.

• Attached: David Kirshenbaum (Score) Jack Heifner (Book), Judith Ivey (Director)
  
• New musical based on the play centering on three cheerleaders.

• Attached: Tony Taccone (Director), Carrie Fisher (Actor), Jonathan Reinis (Producer)
  
• Fisher's auto-biographical solo show based on her life and career.

• Attached: Des McAnuff (Director),
  
• Re-imagined production of the Charlie Smalls-William F. Brown musical based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

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