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News Roundabout's 2002-2003 Slate Is Bway Bonanza, with Nine, Look of Love, Our Town, More The Roundabout Theatre Company announced its 2002-2003 season March 13, and the upcoming slate includes seven shows, six of which are aimed at Broadway venues: Rodgers and Hart's The Boys From Syracuse; Strindberg's classic Miss Julie; the revue of Burt Bacharach songs called The Look of Love choreographed by Ann Reinking; Moliere's Tartuffe starring Brian Bedford; the Maury Yeston musical, Nine; and Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

The Roundabout Theatre Company announced its 2002-2003 season March 13, and the upcoming slate includes seven shows, six of which are aimed at Broadway venues: Rodgers and Hart's The Boys From Syracuse; Strindberg's classic Miss Julie; the revue of Burt Bacharach songs called The Look of Love choreographed by Ann Reinking; Moliere's Tartuffe starring Brian Bedford; the Maury Yeston musical, Nine; and Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

The Duncan Sheik-Steve Sater pop musical retelling of Wedekind's Spring Awakening is the only Off Broadway show announced for the Roundabout season, although one more production is likely to be announced for an Off-Broadway staging.

The dates and some venues for the not-for-profit's schedule are to yet to be announced, but are expected to be split among Roundabout's various properties, including the flagship American Airlines Theatre (Broadway), the former American Place Theatre space (Off-Broadway), the Gramercy Theatre (Off-Broadway) and perhaps Studio 54 (Broadway), where the Roundabout's Cabaret is still going great guns.

Antonio Banderas has been mentioned in the theatre community as a possibility for starring the revival of composer-lyricist Yeston and librettist Arthur Kopit's Nine. That has not been officially announced.

The season begins with the previously-announced revival of The Boys From Syracuse, a musical treasure-chest of Rogers and Hart songs, including "Sing For Your Supper, "This Can't Be Love" and "Falling in Love With Love." It opens the season this summer. Here's the lineup as released by Roundabout, whose artistic director is Todd Haimes:

The Boys From Syracuse (first preview July 23), with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by George Abbott, book updated by Nicky Silver, will be directed by Scott Ellis at The American Airlines Theatre. Based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, this farcical musical comedy tells the tale of two sets of identical twins and the women who can't tell them apart. It's set in ancient Rome.

Miss Julie by August Strindberg, translated by Richard Nelson and directed by David Leveaux at a Broadway venue. "In the stately kitchen of a wealthy Count's estate, the war between the sexes is simmering to a boil. The Count's beautiful, aggressive daughter, Miss Julie, has set about to seduce Jean, the Count's footservant. But what begins as a manipulative flirtation soon turns into a dangerous and erotic game of passion, power and betrayal."

The Look of Love, The Songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, "pays grand homage to this formidable music duo who have received Grammys, Oscars and gold records; featuring the choreography of Ann Reinking and staging by Scott Ellis at a Broadway venue. This musical revue includes more than 30 Bacharach-David landmark melodies" such as "I Say a Little Prayer," "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head," "Alfie," "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "Walk on By" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"

Tartuffe by Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Joe Dowling and starring Brian Bedford (Orgon) at the American Airlines Theatre. "The plot of Tartuffe focuses on Orgon's role as benevolent patron to Tartuffe, whom he has established in his home as a saintly person of high religious and moral stature. Orgon has been completely duped by Tartuffe, a hypocritically pious impostor posing as a religious zealot. No one else in his household has been fooled by Tartuffe; however, Orgon has ordered his family and servants to obey Tartuffe, and in doing so gives his home and wealth to Tartuffe."

Nine with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, book by Arthur Kopit and directed by David Leveaux at a Broadway venue. "Nine's central character, and only man in the musical, is Guido Contini, a film director in the Fellini mold. He has contracted to write and direct a film, but is unable to come up with a suitable plot. After recent box office failures, he finds himself drifting towards a nervous breakdown. Guido finds himself examining his past flawed relationships with the many women who have come through his life and the struggle to act his mature age of 40 as opposed to nine." The songs include "Be Italian," "Be On Your Own," "The Bells of St. Sebastian," "A Call From the Vatican," "I Can't Make This Movie," "Long Ago," "A Man Like You," "My Husband Makes Movies," "Nine," "Not Since Chaplin," "Now's the Moment," "Only With You," "Simple' and more.

Spring Awakening, "a new rock-musical with music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater and directed by Michael Mayer at an Off-Broadway theater." Based on the 19th-century German dramatist Frank Wedekind's tragedy, Spring Awakening "re-illuminates his bold commentary on the sexual taboos society placed on children. Now, over a century later, Billboard chart-topper Duncan Sheik propels the rock musical genre into the 21st century."

Our Town is the beloved classic about the rituals of American small-town life, and the universality of human behaviors and milestones, A director and venue will be announced.

For subscription ticket information, call Roundabout ticket services at (212) 719-1300 .

Visit roundabouttheatre.org.

 
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