By Robert Simonson
16 Apr 2010

If it weren't for the Pulitzer flap, the big news of the week would have been that "Harry Potter" and Equus star Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway musical debut in Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (a Pulitzer winner!) in 2011.

Tony Award winner Rob Ashford, who is currently staging the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, will direct and choreograph How to Succeed. Promises, Promises producers Broadway Across America (John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth Williams), Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will present the revival.

Radcliffe and Ashford previously took part in a December 2009 reading of the musical in New York City.

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A new musical featuring a score and book by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q Tony winner Robert Lopez will open on Broadway in March 2011. Entitled The Book of Mormon (Ooo — I can see the protesters outside the theatre now), the production will be co-directed by Avenue Q's Jason Moore and Parker.

The Book of Mormon, according to the New York Post, "tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries sent off to spread the word in a dangerous part of Uganda. Their tale is told alongside the story of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Latter-day Saints."