Broadway Real Estate 2020-2021 season

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/13/20 at 6:41pm

Keeping a tab with shows postponing their runs due to the current shutdown.

 

Al Hirschfeld: Moulin Rouge

Ambassador: Chicago

American Airlines:  1776 (Spring 2021)/Birthday Candles (ppd until Fall 2021)

August Wilson: Mean Girls

Barrymore: vacant

Belasco: Girl From the North Country

Booth: vacant

Broadhurst: Jagged Little Pill

Broadway: West Side Story

Brooks Atkinson: Six*

Circle In The Square: American Buffalo *ppd until Spring 2021

Cort: The Minutes *ppd until Spring 2021

Friedman: How I Learned to Drive *ppd until Spring 2021

Gershwin: Wicked

Golden: vacant

Hayes: Take Me Out *ppd until Spring 2021

Hudson: American Utopia (TBD) / Plaza Suite *ppd until Spring 2021

Imperial: Ain't Too Proud

Jacobs: Company*

Longacre: Diana*

Lunt-Fontanne: Tina

Lyceum: Sing Street

Lyric: Harry Potter

Majestic: Phantom

Marquis: vacant

Minskoff: The Lion King

Music Box: Dear Evan Hansen

Nederlander: The Lehman Trilogy *ppd until Spring 2021 but at a different theater

Neil Simon: MJ *ppd until Spring 2021

New Amsterdam: Aladdin

O'Neil: The Book of Mormon

Palace: vacant/under renovations

Richard Rodgers: Hamilton

Schoenfeld: Come From Away

Shubert: To Kill a Mockingbird

St. James: vacant

Sondheim: Mrs. Doubtfire*

Studio 54: Caroline, or Change *ppd until Spring 2021

Vivian Beaumont: Flying Over Sunset *ppd to Spring 2021

Walter Kerr: Hadestown

Winter Garden: The Music Man *scheduled to start previews April 7, 2021

*show started previews but never opened.

 

Updated On: 6/26/20 at 06:41 PM

[jagman1062]

Posted: 5/13/20 at 11:27pm

Company was postponed to the Fall, should Broadway reopen.  My May 31 ticket was refunded and I now have a ticket for October 4.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 5/14/20 at 2:38am

Wasn't the Britney musical slated to start this summer originally? Actually.... did they ever OFFICIALLY announce a theatre and dates before the world went crazy? I know there was chatter and I know they cancelled the out of town run in Chicago but things blended so much together around the middle of March that I can't for the life of remember what happened with this one. It was rumored for the Marquis?

[matt1982]

Posted: 5/14/20 at 7:41am

Scarlet Leigh said: "Wasn't the Britney musical slated to start this summer originally? Actually.... did they ever OFFICIALLY announce a theatre and dates before the world went crazy? I know there was chatter and I know they cancelled the out of town run in Chicago but things blended so much together around the middle of March that I can't for the life of remember what happened with this one. It was rumored for the Marquis?"

Yes, the word was the Marquis this summer, but I'm not sure that was ever official.  

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/14/20 at 4:29pm

The St. James is now vacant with Frozen announcing they will not return.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 5/14/20 at 4:33pm

BWAY Real Estate is going to be depressing come the end of the year for the 2020-2021 season! We are going to see a lot of theaters left empty!

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 5/15/20 at 12:00am

Don’t be surprised to find these vacant theatre be filled with:
Beauty and the Beast revival
Hercules
Love Never Dies (Webber has made multiple comments to believe that it will be seeing life on Broadway within the next 12-15 months. My thought is at the Broadhurst or Imperial.)
Joseph taking up space at the Marquis.

I’m going to say for the year of 2021 that will be what you will see as “new”

But if the theatres don’t open up by September I do believe that article from a month ago saying that likely the cap for theatres with productions will only be around 20.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/15/20 at 7:25am

I think any show with a high weekly nut will be in danger. To fill some theaters, I think we'll see some limited run plays come the Spring as well as a few one-man/one-woman shows.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 5/15/20 at 7:59am

I do wonder as well if 4000 miles will make an appearance by the end of 2021. It seems a perfect fit if they transfer it in the fall

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/15/20 at 8:07am

I think we could also see the return of Freestyle Love Supreme as it can get put up rather quickly and is inexpensive to run.

[KingOfTheMine]

Posted: 6/24/20 at 8:30pm

It seems that The Lehman Trilogy is looking for a new theater to come in next season.  Does anyone know what's going into the Nederlander?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-LEHMAN-TRILOGY-Looking-for-New-Home-to-Arrive-on-Broadway-in-2021-20200624

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/24/20 at 9:59pm

It's interesting that certain shows haven't announced anything(The Minutes, Birthday Candles, Take Me Out, American Buffalo).

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 6/24/20 at 11:55pm

Why would Lehman be looking for another theater? That’s weird.

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 12:17am

SouthernCakes said: "Why would Lehman be looking for another theater? That’s weird."

 

It was a limited run to begin with. The theater was only committed to rent it to them within that frame.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 12:19am

ACL2006 said: "It's interesting that certain shows haven't announced anything(The Minutes, Birthday Candles, Take Me Out, American Buffalo)."

Roundabout has said they’re committed to doing “Birthday Candles” next year and 2ST has said that they’ll still be doing “Take Me Out”, as well. 

[markypoo]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 9:48am

I too am curious about The Minutes.

[KingOfTheMine]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 2:13pm

markypoo said: "I too am curious about The Minutes."

They just announced their postponement, and so did American Buffalo.  Interesting that several shows seem to be jumping on the bandwagon by committing to open in spring 2021.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-THE-MINUTES-Will-Arrive-on-Broadway-in-Spring-2021-20200625

Updated On: 6/25/20 at 02:13 PM

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 10:26pm

I just wonder what show swooped in and took the Nederlander.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/25/20 at 10:39pm

Wasn’t it “Almost Famous”?

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 6/26/20 at 2:48am

It's interesting to see how, with the likely extension of the season for the Tonys, MJ and possibly 1776 are now apart of this 2019-2021 season. I wouldn't be shocked to see A STRANGE LOOP, ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME, SOME LIKE IT HOT, and ALMOST FAMOUS trying to sneak in. Same with rumored revivals of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and JOSEPH. Of course, it depends on theatre availability, but this was a relatively weak Tony season, especially for Best Score (really we only had SIX, maybe FLYING OVER SUNSET). If ONE MORE TIME took the Marquis, maybe a limited run of LOVE NEVER DIES at the St. James before Disney came in? And A STRANGE LOOP could take any of the smaller venues, it's not a large show. I'm not sure how large-scale ALMOST FAMOUS is...

The only shows I really worry for, in terms of a return, are DIANA, SING STREET, and GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. I think JAGGED LITTLE PILL will try to hold on for a Tony ceremony, same with SIX, WEST SIDE STORY, and COMPANY.  I think most of the long-runners will come back, but I'm curious to see about MEAN GIRLS. It recouped recently, but do they think they can get more profit out of it reopening?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/26/20 at 6:46pm

I wonder where BIRTHDAY CANDLES will go if 1776 is still on for the Spring? I'd also guess and say AMERICAN UTOPIA isn't returning in the Spring but maybe Fall 2021?

[ElphabaGoodman]

Posted: 6/26/20 at 7:04pm

ACL2006 said: "I wonder where BIRTHDAY CANDLES will go if 1776 is still on for the Spring? I'd also guess and say AMERICAN UTOPIA isn't returning in the Spring but maybe Fall 2021?"

Birthday Candles has been postponed to fall 2021, at the American Airlines 

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 6/26/20 at 7:20pm

. Same with rumored revivals of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and JOSEPH.Of course, it depends on theatre availability, but this was a relatively weak Tony season, especially for Best Score (really we only had SIX, maybe FLYING OVER SUNSET). If ONE MORE TIME took the Marquis, maybe a limited run of LOVE NEVER DIES at the St. James before Disney came in? And A STRANGE LOOP could take any of the smaller venues, it's not a large show. I'm not sure how large-scale ALMOST FAMOUS is...

The only shows I really worry for, in terms of a return, are DIANA, SING STREET, and GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. I think JAGGED LITTLE PILL will try to hold on for a Tony ceremony, same with SIX, WEST SIDE STORY, and COMPANY. I think most of the long-runners will come back, but I'm curious to see about MEAN GIRLS. It recouped recently, but do they think they can get more profit out of it reopening?"

 

 

very interesting with everything you’ve suggested  because they are very much inline with mine.

 

i wouldn’t be surprised if beauty and the beast makes a revival in time for Christmas 2021. I would also think Joseph could do a quick sneak in for the summer 2021. As well as a limited run of Love Never Dies.

 

My two big worries are for Girl From the North and Diana  both of which had limited marketing and interest to begin with (but both I wanted to see). Personally I think we’ve seen the end to Mean Girls   I wouldn’t be surprised if they toured and then went straight to licensing   

 

[KingOfTheMine]

Posted: 6/27/20 at 12:31pm

Brave Sir Robin2 said: "...If ONE MORE TIME took the Marquis, maybe a limited run of LOVE NEVER DIES at the St. James before Disney came in?..."

I've always hoped that if ALW ever brings in Love Never Dies, it will play the St. James or the Broadhurst.  Neither of those theatres would really be a great fit for it: the stage of the Broadhurst is probably too small for the Australian / US tour staging, and they wouldn't be able to fill the St. James.  Even so, it would just be fun to be able to see LND playing right next to the original at the Majestic.