Saturday, April 15, 2006

New Broadway Shows for 2006

from Playbill.com:

AWAKE AND SING!
Belasco Theatre
First Preview: March 23
Opening: April 17
Director: Barlett Sher
Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Zoe Wanamaker
Lincoln Center Theatre's staging of Clifford Odets’ Depression-set drama about a Jewish family in the Bronx.

THREE DAYS OF RAIN
Jacobs Theatre
First Preview: March 28
Opening: April 19
Director: Joe Mantello
Cast: Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper
A revival of Richard Greenberg's drama centering around a lover's triangle and their children.

THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Studio 54
First Preview: March 24
Opening: April 20
Director: Scott Elliott
Cast: Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Nellie McKay, Ana Gasteyer, Jim Dale
Roundabout Theatre Company's staging of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical with a Wallace Shawn translated and adapted book.

THE HISTORY BOYS
Broadhurst Theatre
First Preview: April 14
Opening: April 23
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Cast: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore
London transfer of Alan Bennett's drama set in and about the walls of an English school.

LESTAT
Palace Theatre
First Preview: March 25
Opening: April 25
Director: Robert Jess Roth
Choreographer: Matt West
Cast: Hugh Panaro, Carolee Carmello
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's new musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels' lead character.

THE WEDDING SINGER
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
First Preview: March 30
Opening: April 27
Cast: Stephen Lynch, Laura Benanti, Kevin Cahoon, Felicia Finley
Composer Matthew Sklar, lyricist Chad Beguelin and a librettists Beguelin and Tim Herlihy musicalize the 1998 film about a down-on-his-luck crooner.

HOT FEET
Hilton Theatre
First Preview: April 18
Opening: April 30
Director: Maurice Hines
Choreographer: Maurice Hines
Cast: Vivian Nixon, Keith David, Ann Duquesnay
New dance musical about an aspiring young dancer and magical shoes featuring the music of Earth, Wind and Fire.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Marquis Theatre
First Preview: April 3
Opening: May 1
Director: Casey Nicholaw
Choreographer: Casey Nicholaw
Cast: Sutton Foster, Danny Burstein, Lenny Wolpe and Bob Martin
Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Bob Martin and Don McKellar create an original musical that centers on a fictitious 1928 musical.

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE
Lyceum Theatre
First Preview: April 18
Opening: May 3
Director: Wilson Milam
Cast: Peter Gerety, David Wilmot, Brian d'Arcy James, Jeff Binder,Kerry Condon
Transfer of Atlantic Theatre Company production of Martin McDonagh's black comedy about a feline-loving terrorist.

FAITH HEALER
Booth Theatre
First Preview: April 18
Opening: May 4
Director: Jonathan Kent
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones, Ian McDiarmid
Dublin's Gate Theatre's staging of Brian Friel's drama centering on a supposed traveling faith healer, his long-suffering spouse and loyal manager.

THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL
Schoenfeld Theatre
First Preview: April 14
Opening: May 7
Director: Jerry Zaks
Cast: David Schwimmer, Zeljko Ivanek, Tim Daly
Revival of the 1954 courtroom drama about a naval officer on trial for mutiny during war.

SHINING CITY
Biltmore Theatre
First Preview: April 20
Opening: May 9
Director: Robert Falls
Cast: Oliver Platt, Brían F. O'Byrne, Martha Plimpton and Peter Scanavino
Manhattan Theatre Club's staging of Conor McPherson's Dublin-set drama about a man who sees a therapist after seeing his wife's ghost.

TARZAN
Richard Rodgers Theatre
First Preview: March 24
Opening: May 10
Director: Bob Crowley
Choreographer: Meryl Tankard with aerial movement by Pichón Baldinu
Cast: Josh Strickland, Jenn Gambatese, Shuler Hensley
Disney's new musical based on the animated film featuring a score by Phil Collins and new book from David Henry Hwang.

MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME
Theatre: TBA
First Preview: TBA
Opening: Aug. 10
Director: Scott Wittman
Choreographer: Christopher Gatelli
Cast: Martin Short, Marc Shaiman, Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins and Nicole Parker
A "musical mock-autobiography" created by Short, Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and writer Daniel Goldfarb.

A CHORUS LINE
Schoenfeld Theatre
First Preview: Sept. 18
Opening: Oct. 5
Director: Bob Avian
Cast: Charlotte d’Amboise, Michael Berresse
The Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban long-running musical about Broadway dancers returns to New York.

LES MISÉRABLES
Broadhurst Theatre
First Preview: Oct. 21
Opening: Nov. 9
Director: Trevor Nunn and John Caird
Cast: TBA
A six-month return engagement of the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg musical based on the epci Victor Hugo novel.

MARY POPPINS
New Amsterdam Theatre
First Preview: Oct. 14
Opening: Nov. 16
Director: Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne
Choreographer: Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear
Cast: TBA
Disney and Cameron Mackinstosh's musical based on the film featuring Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman's score with new material from George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

THE VERTICAL HOUR
Opening: Nov. 30
World premiere of David Hare's new play about which centers on a former American war correspondent who now teaches Political Studies at Yale.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
First Preview: Fall 2006
Sharp's new dance musical which weaves a story using Bob Dylan's songs.

THE COAST OF UTOPIA
Vivian Beaumont Theater
First Preview: 2006
Lincoln Center Theater's U.S. premiere of Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy of plays.

THE WIZ
First Preview: 2006
A new revival of the "Wizard of Oz"-inspired musical

JERRY SPRINGER — THE OPERA
First Preview: 2006
Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee's darkly comic London opera set on the TV talk show and, later, in hell.

ZANNA
First Preview: Summer 2006
by Tim Acito (concept, music, lyrics and co book) and Alexander Dinelaris (co-book) about a teen matchmaker at a high school where everyone is gay.

AFTER MISS JULIE
First Preview: 2006-07
Manhattan Theatre Club's staging of Patrick Marber's re-imagining of August Strindberg’s classic.

PRINCESSES
First Preview: 2006-07
Steinkellner team for a new private-school-set musical about girls who stage A Little Princess. A
TALE OF TWO CITIES
First Preview: 2006-07
Composer-lyricist-librettist Jill Santoriello's new musical version of the Charles Dickens classic.

THE HOMECOMING
First Preview: 2006-2007
Harold Pinter's London-set drama about son returning from America with his wife to meet the family.

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY
The actor-ventriloquist's personal solo about his mentor and career last seen at the Atlantic Theater Company.

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