The 2018-2019 Broadway Season - Confirmed Productions

[BroadwayConcierge]

It's insanely early, but so many shows have already started announcing for this season that I thought it'd make sense to start a thread compiling them all (similar to the one I've been maintaining for the 2017-2018 season).

Again, I classify a "confirmed" production as a show that has announced either official production dates or a venue.

New Musicals
• Ain't Too Proud – Imperial Theatre 
• Be More Chill – Lyceum Theatre
• Beetlejuice – Winter Garden Theatre
• The Cher Show – Neil Simon Theatre
• Gettin' the Band Back Together – Belasco Theatre
• Hadestown – Walter Kerr Theatre
• Head Over Heels – Hudson Theatre
• King Kong – Broadway Theatre
• Pretty Woman – Nederlander Theatre
• The Prom – Longacre Theatre
• Tootsie – Marquis Theatre 

Musical Revivals
• Kiss Me, Kate – Studio 54

New Plays
• American Son – Booth Theatre
• Bernhardt/Hamlet – American Airlines Theatre
• Choir Boy – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
• The Ferryman – Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
• Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus – Booth Theatre
• Hillary & Clinton – Golden Theatre
• Ink – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
• The Lifespan of a Fact – Studio 54
• The Nap – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
• Network – Belasco Theatre
• Straight White Men – Hayes Theatre
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Shubert Theatre

Play Revivals
• All My Sons – American Airlines Theatre
• The Boys in the Band – Booth Theatre
• Burn This  – Hudson Theatre
• King Lear – Cort Theatre
• Torch Song – Hayes Theatre
• True West – American Airlines Theatre
• The Waverly Gallery – Golden Theatre

Other
• Celebrity Autobiography – Marquis Theatre
• Mike Birbiglia's The New One – Cort Theatre
• Ruben & Clay's Christmas Show – Imperial Theatre

[Itonlytakesajourney]

Any chance Crazy for You might come in? Laura Osnes is free, and so is Tony Yazbeck after Prince of Broadway. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Dreamgirls and The Secret Garden seem likely.

[Alex Kulak2]

Didn't Tracy Letts have a play coming to Broadway?

[Alex Kulak2]

Also, Young Jean Lee has Straight White Men coming to Broadway.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Yup Straight White Men has the Hayes in July 2018

[BroadwayConcierge]

Alex Kulak2 said: "Didn't Tracy Letts have a play coming to Broadway?"

I think you're referring to The Minutes, which is supposedly slated for this current season, though we haven't heard anything since they announced.  

And thanks for the Straight White Men reminder, y'all! Added

[BroadwayConcierge]

I assume that since it's starting performances on April 30, 2018 that today's announcement about The Boys in the Band marks the first play revival announced for the 2018-2019 season...

[BroadwayConcierge]

List updated with Kiss Me, Kate announcement.

[BwayLB]

How about the Wiz? I'm anxious to see if Neil Meron & Craig Zadan are still committed to bringing the revival to Broadway. Bring in a new cast if needed

[LesWickedly]

I'd say The Wiz is pretty much dead.

[BwayLB]

^ I just thought I would bring it up since we haven't heard anything in a while. Plus I really liked the Wiz Live on NBC two years ago. The cast was amazing although the pacing was rushed in bits and pieces

[Tag]

The Wiz rights are currently held by the guy who was the head of - and who got fired from - Cirque du Soliel Theatrical.

[BwayLB]

If it doesn't happen I promise not to get too upset about it

[RippedMan]

I kind of would love to see what Cirque could do with The Wiz. They have great ideas, but aren't good at the book musical thing. So a show with an already established book/music, would be great. 

[Tag]

Their theatrical division doesn't exist anymore, so we'll never get that chance!

[BwayLB]

^ That's very sad. At least NBC did better last year with Hairspray Live

[BroadwayConcierge]

List has included King Kong, but bumping this thread since it now has a more official announcement.

[BroadwayConcierge]

List updated with Pretty Woman announcement.

[BroadwayConcierge]

List updated with MTC's season announcement.

The Nap is definitely a new play, but I'm not 100% sure on Choir Boy. I've listed it in the Play Revival category for now, but I'm totally open to change it if somebody thinks this is incorrect!

[theatregoer3]

Isn't "Beetlejuice" eyeing 2018-19?

[JBroadway]

BroadwayConcierge said: "The Nap is definitely a new play, but I'm not 100% sure on Choir Boy. I've listed it in the Play Revival category for now, but I'm totally open to change it if somebody thinks this is incorrect!"

I'd be very surprised if they consider it a revival. First off, I doubt they would allow it to fall under the classic rule when has not worked its way into the theatrical cannon between its premier and now. Second, its off-Broadway premier was only 5 years ago, which admittedly is a bit of a large gap for a new play on Broadway, but gaps of 2, 3, and 4 years do happen, and 5 or more is not unheard of. Consider that The Visit, which was deemed a new musical, had premiered something like 15 years earlier in regional theatre. 

Third, and perhaps most importantly, the press release specifically refers to this production as a "transfer" as opposed to a revival. And it will once again be directed by Trip Cullman, which isn't a sure sign of it being considered new (Blackbird comes to mind as an exception), but it increases the likelihood that they will view it as a transfer of a new play, and not a revival of an established one. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

JBroadway, wow, thank you for explaining that so well! I always get a little tripped up on classifying shows that have a prior history like that. I really appreciate it. I've moved it to the New Plays category

theatregoer3, yup! And so is Tootsie! But I'm trying to keep this list limited to productions that are confirmed to open, either by announcing official dates or a venue (just because so many things are "announced" but end up falling through). 

[BroadwayConcierge]

List updated with Head Over Heels announcement.

[BroadwayConcierge]

List updated with The Ferryman announcement.