Roundabout season includes PENZANCE, YELLOW FACE, and more

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:02pm

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New year, new season announcement. Say hello to our 2024–25 shows 👋 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aSju28
 
📣BROADWAY📣
YELLOW FACE (Fall 2024)
By David Henry Hwang
Directed by Leigh Silverman
 
ENGLISH (Winter 2025)
By Sanaz Toossi
Directed by Knud Adams
 
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Spring 2025)
Music by Arthur Sullivan & Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
Adaptation by Rupert Holmes
Orchestrations by Joseph Joubert and Daryl Waters
Music Direction by Joseph Joubert
Choreographed by Warren Carlyle
Directed by Scott Ellis
 
📣OFF-BROADWAY📣
THE COUNTER (Fall 2024)
By Meghan Kennedy
Directed by David Cromer
 
LIBERATION (Winter 2025)
By Bess Wohl
Directed by Whitney White

📣UNDERGROUND📣
Coming soon… stay tuned!

Updated On: 1/9/24 at 03:02 PM

[inception]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:09pm

May move my Fall 24 trip to Spring 25.

Also based upon leaks last week of Met's 24/25 season on reddit

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:18pm

Why are they "adapting" The Pirates of Penzance and setting it in New Orleans? It is a timeless classic. Do they not trust the material? I'm normally pretty open to this sort of thing, but as a G&S fan this feels like sacrilege.

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:18pm

inception said: "Also based upon leaks last week of Met's 24/25 season on reddit"

Oooh... do tell! ;P

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:22pm

This is pretty exciting!  I've always wanted to see Yellow Face and I'm excited to see English coming back around again.  I'm curious about Pirates of Penzance as well!

It seems like all their Broadway productions are happening in the Todd Haines Theatre (formerly American Airlines).  Do we expect announcements for Studio 54 to come later, or would they just continue operating that as a rental theater?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:45pm

This is a strong season –– stronger than recent years, I'd say.

I am curious about the PIRATES adaptation because "G&S by way of New Orleans jazz" could be incredibly hit or miss. But it's nice to see Rupert Holmes involved with a musical again.

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:52pm

Thrilled to finally get to see English. Let’s hope Infinite Life and Downstate comes to Broadway now too. 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:53pm

Broadway Bob* said: "inception said: "Also based upon leaks last week of Met's 24/25 season on reddit"

Oooh... do tell! ;P"

Season is looking pretty bland to me, are you referring to the new Antony and Cleopatra or maybe the new Salome with Grigorian?  So far the Salome and the Frau are the only rumored productions on wiki catching my attention.

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 3:54pm

The Distinctive Baritone said: "Why are they "adapting"The Pirates of Penzanceand setting it in New Orleans? It is a timeless classic. Do they not trust the material? I'm normally pretty open to this sort of thing, but as a G&S fan this feels like sacrilege."

People said the same thing in the eighties about the Papp Pirates, and it went on to become a classic in its own right.

[All So Ozmopolitan]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 4:16pm

The Distinctive Baritone said: "Why are they "adapting" The Pirates of Penzance and setting it in New Orleans? It is a timeless classic. Do they not trust the material? I'm normally pretty open to this sort of thing, but as a G&S fan this feels like sacrilege."

Roundabout has been interested in Pirates for a while now and recently staged a benefit concert reading of it in the fall of 2022. The adapted elements work well and reinvigorate the material with a more contemporary style, but it still feels within the realm of the timeless classic you're referring to. It's safe to assume this Broadway revival will just be a full-bodied production of that same concert. 

[inception]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 5:02pm

Yes, if I choose the right week in May I can see both.  But I'll wait until the official announcement comes out to make my plans.

Play Esq. said: "Broadway Bob* said: "inception said: "Also based upon leaks last week of Met's 24/25 season on reddit"

Oooh... do tell! ;P"

Season is looking pretty bland to me, are you referring to the newAntony and Cleopatra or maybe the new Salome withGrigorian? So far the Salome and the Frau are the only rumored productions on wikicatching my attention."

 

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 12:32pm

So happy Yellow Face is coming to Broadway.  For my money, it's Hwang's best play.

[kurtal]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:10pm

English was one of my favorite shows of 2022, so I'm thrilled that it's going to get a broader audience.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:45pm

I guess we should assume YELLOWFACE is a Revival, since it premiered in 2008? Unless DHH has done a ton of work on it?

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:56pm

The Distinctive Baritone said: "Why are they "adapting"The Pirates of Penzanceand setting it in New Orleans? It is a timeless classic. Do they not trust the material? I'm normally pretty open to this sort of thing, but as a G&S fan this feels like sacrilege."

This is not the first time it has had a new adaptation. Nell Benjamin and Gordon Greenburg did a new adaptation several years back. And let’s not forget that horrible Kristi McNichol (or however you spell her name) The Pirate Movie from 1982. 

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 11:57pm

Matt Rogers said: "The Distinctive Baritone said: "Why are they "adapting"The Pirates of Penzanceand setting it in New Orleans? It is a timeless classic. Do they not trust the material? I'm normally pretty open to this sort of thing, but as a G&S fan this feels like sacrilege."

This is not the first time it has had a new adaptation. Nell Benjamin and Gordon Greenburg did a new adaptation several years back. And let’s not forget that horrible Kristi McNichol (or however you spell her name) The Pirate Movie from 1982."

The Benjamin/Greenberg Pirates! was a delight.  We wish that one was coming in from the  Huntington, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, MUNY.

 

[OuttaTowner]

Posted: 1/11/24 at 12:31am

One of the best, most joyous evenings that I ever spent in a theater was some years back seeing Pirates at Barrington Stage, with Kyle Dean Massey, Scarlet Strallen and Will Swenson, sheer perfection as the Pirate King. How I wish that glorious production had transferred to the city!

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/11/24 at 7:10pm

Dates announced

https://deadline.com/2024/04/roundabout-theatre-season-1235882433/

"Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the dates for its 2024-25 season, with David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face starring Daniel Dae Kim kicking off the company’s Broadway line-up with an October 1 opening night.

The previously announced Broadway productions also include English by Sanaz Toossi, opening January 23, 2025; and The Pirates of Penzance, reimagined with a New Orleans setting and starring Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce, opening April 24, 2025."

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/24 at 9:39pm

I’m surprised at how late in the season Pirates is opening. 

[CJRochester]

Posted: 4/12/24 at 2:18pm

Kad said: "I’m surprised at how late in the season Pirates is opening." 

April 24th, being the last Thursday in April, could likely be the cutoff for Tony nominations in 2025. I don't think the Tony committee has announced that far ahead, but wonder if that's what Roundabout is thinking,