Schedule subject to change.
JULY
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
- American Airlines Theater
- First Preview: July 25, 2002
- Opening: Aug. 18, 2002
- Director: Scott Ellis
- Cast: TBA.
- A revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company.
- Belasco Theatre
- First Preview: July 26, 2002
- Opening: Aug. 8, 2002
- Director: Joe Mantello
- Cast: Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci
- A revival of Terrence McNally's 1987 play.
- Helen Hayes Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 17, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 10, 2002
- Director: John Tillinger
- Cast: Frank Gorshin
- Rupert Holmes' new one-man play about entertainer George Burns.
- Music Box Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 17, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 20, 2002
- Director: James Lapine
- Cast: Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis, John Cunnigham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Lewis Cleale
- A translation of the French musical Le Passe Muraille featuring music by Michel LeGrand.
- Virginia Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 23, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 17, 2002
- Director: Robert Longbottom
- Cast: Lea Salonga, Jose Llana, Randall Duk Kim
- This musical revival has music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein and a new book by David Henry Hwang.
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 30, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 24, 2002
- Director and choreographer: Twyla Tharp
- Cast: John Selya, Elizabeth Parkinson, Keith Roberts, Ashley Tuttle, Scott Wise, Benjamin Bowman, Michael Cavanaugh
- Featuring songs by Billy Joel, this dance musical choreographed by Tharp will have a pre-Broadway run at chicago's Shubert Theatre June 25 Aug. 4.
- Royale Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 8, 2002
- Opening: TBA
- Cast: Jackie Mason
- Mason's latest one-man show.
- Cort Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 7, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 31, 2002
- Director: Harold Prince
- Cast: Linda Lavin, Frank Wood, Michele Pawk
- Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton's play based on Burnett's memoir.
- Minskoff Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 14, 2002
- Opening: Nov. 21, 2002
- Director: John Rando
- Choreographer: John Carrafa
- Cast: Michael Crawford, Rene Auberjonois, Max von Essen, Ron Orbach and Mandy Gonzalez
- A musical based on the 1967 Roman Polanski film "The Fearless Vampire Killers", with book and lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Jim Steinman.
- Theatre: A Shubert House TBA
- First Preview: Nov. 25, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 12, 2002
- Director: Jack O'Brien
- Cast: Cherry Jones, Swoosie Kurtz, Harry Groener
- Nora Ephron's play about the feuding literary femmes Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.
- Broadway Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 21, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 8, 2002
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Cast: Three rotating casts for the two leads
- This production of Puccini's opera was first mounted at the Sydney Opera House in 1990.
- Martin Beck Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 19, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 5, 2002
- Director: Jonathan Kent
- Cast: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ernie Sabella
- The classic musical adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
- American Airlines Theatre
- First Preview: December 2002
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Joe Dowling
- Cast: Brian Bedford
- Moliere's comedy about a religious hypocrite.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: Jan. 7, 2003
- Opening: early 2003
- Director: Dan Sullivan
- Cast: Danny DeVito, Ben Stiller
- A new revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about desperate real estate salesmen.
- Longacre Theatre
- First Preview: January 14, 2003
- Opening: TBA
- Director: David Leveaux
- Cast: Natasha Richardson and Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Strindberg's classic drama about class and sexual warfare.
- American Airlines Theatre
- First Preview: March 2003
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Mark Brokaw
- Wilder's classic about the nature of life, as illustrated by the residents of a turn-of-the-century, small New England town.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: March 2003
- Opening: TBA
- Director: David Leveaux
- Cast: Antonio Banderas has been mentioned for the lead
- A revival of the Maury Yeston musical based on Fellini's film "8 1/2."
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: early 2003
- Opening: early 2003
- Director: Connie Grappo
- Choreographer: TBA
- The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Michael Greif
- Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
- A new musical based on the film "Swing Time" featuring the music of Jerome Kern and a book by Jeffrey Hatcher
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Scott Ellis
- Choreography: Ann Reinking
- Cast: Ruthie Henshall, Liz Callaway
- A new musical employing the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Walter Bobbie
- A new production of the Cy Coleman musical about an ever-optimistic dance hall hostess.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Cast: Bernadette Peters
- A new production of the classic Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about Gypsy Rose Lee and her hard-driving stage mother.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: TBA
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Gabriel Barre
- Cast: Linda Eder
- Frank Wildhorn's new musical about the French sculptress.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: September 2003
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
- Choreographer: Joey McKneely
- Cast: Hugh Jackman
- The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: TBA
- Opening: Oct. 31, 2003
- Director: Joe Mantello
- Cast: Kristin Chenoweth
- Stephen Schwartz's Oz-flavored new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel