Happy New Year! BWW Looks Forward to All the New Productions of 2013!
By: BWW Special Coverage Jan. 01, 2013
Happy New Year, all! To kick off this brand new year, BroadwayWorld looks ahead at all the upcoming productions slated to take the Broadway stage in 2013!
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Samuel J. Friedman Theater Previews from:Dec. 11, 2012Opening Date: January 10, 2013Closing Date: February 24, 2013 |
The Other Place Three-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne, The Big Bang Theory, November, Long Day's Journey into Night) stars in MTC's Broadway-premiere production of The Other Place, a riveting new thriller by fast-rising playwright Sharr White and directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. The Other Place had its world premiere at MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director), opening on March 28, 2011 where it extended due to popular demand. The Other Place was nominated for two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Drama League Award, and three Lucille Lortel Awards. Metcalf won an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the production. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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American Airlines Theater Previews from: Opening Date: Closing Date: |
PICNIC William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar). Passionate, sensual and delightfully funny, Picnic is a timeless American classic about the line between restraint and desire.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Richard Rodgers TheaterPreviews from: Dec. 18, 2013Opening Date: January 17, 2013Closing Date: March 30, 2013 |
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. He is distressed by the rocky relationship between his beloved son Brick, an aging football hero who has turned to drink, and his beautiful and feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of Southern gentility slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies and suppressed sexuality reach a boiling point. CAT stars Scarlett Johansson as Maggie, Ciarán Hinds as Big Daddy, Benjamin Walker as Brick and Debra Monk as Big Mama, and is directed by Rob Ashford.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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St. James Theatre Opening Date:January 18, 2013 Closing Date: |
MANILOW ON BROADWAY With worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, Grammy Award-winning superstar Barry Manilow's success is a benchmark in popular music. His concerts sell out instantly. Rolling Stone crowned him "a giant among entertainers...the showman of our generation," and Frank Sinatra summed up Manilow best when Ol' Blue Eyes told the British press, "He's next." He currently has 49 Top 40 hits. And now, Manilow is returning to the place where it all began, his hometown, New York City, with a new concert series on Broadway - marking his return to The Great White Way for the first time in more than two decades with MANILOW ON BROADWAY for a limited 17-performance engagement presented by Jujamcyn Theaters and STILETTO Entertainment.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Broadway Theatre Previews from:January 25, 2013 Opening Date: TBD |
CINDERELLA Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA is coming to Broadway for the first time ever! Four-time Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane's (Sister Act, Xanadu) delightfully romantic and hilarious take on the ultimate makeover story features all the classic elements you remember-the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more-plus some surprising new twists! Rediscover some of Rodgers + Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible" and "Ten Minutes Ago" in this outrageously fun Broadway musical for dreamers of all ages.CINDERELLA stars Laura Osnes in the title role, Santino Fontana as The Prince, and Victoria Clark as the Fairy Godmother.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Vivian Beaumont Theatre Previews from:February 18, 2013Opening Date: March 7, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
ANN Holland Taylor steps into the shoes of Ann Richards, the impassioned Governor of Texas who dedicated her life to empowering, expanding and enriching the lives of her constituents, friends and family. ANN is an inspiring and hilarious new play that brings you face to face with a complex, colorful and captivating character bigger than the state from which she hailed. Taylor takes the audience on a journey, neither political nor a history lesson, swirling together the past and present to reunite Ann Richards with old friends and introduce her to a new generation. ANN played to sold-out audiences at Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House in the summer of 2010, San Antonio's Empire Theatre in the fall of 2010, and Austin's Paramount Theatre in the spring of 2011. In the fall of 2011 the new play opened to critical acclaim at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre, and went on to have a smash hit run at Washington DC's Kennedy Center in winter of 2011/2012. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre Previews from: March 21, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
HANDS ON A HARDBODY For ten hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they'll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand new truck in order to win it. In the hilarious, hard-fought contest that is HANDS ON A HARDBODY only one winner can drive away with the American Dream. Inspired by true events and based on the acclaimed 1997 documentary of the same name, the production is directed by Neil Pepe (Broadway's Speed-The-Plow), with musical staging by Sergio Trujillo (Memphis, Jersey Boys). The world premiere production of Hands on a Hardbody opened Saturday, May 12, 2012 at La Jolla Playhouse and played a limited engagement there through June 2012. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Cort Theatre Previews from:March 4, 2013Opening Date: March 20, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Based on Truman Capote's most beloved masterwork, Breakfast at Tiffany's is set in New York City in 1943. 'Fred' (Cory Michael Smith) a young writer from Louisiana, meets Holly Golightly (Emilia Clarke), a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly - including Fred. But Fred is poor, and Holly's other suitors include a playboy millionaire and the future president of Brazil. As war rages on in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with Fred - just as her past catches up with her. Directed by Sean Mathias, the production also stars six-time Emmy Award nominee George Wendt. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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American Airlines Theatre Previews from: April 1, 2013 Closing Date: June 2, 2013 |
THE BIG KNIFE Starring Emmy Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Bobby Cannavale and helmed by Tony Award winner Dough Hughes, Roundabout Theatre Company presents an electrifying new production of Clifford Odets' classic tale about keeping your integrity in the face of success. In the golden age of Hollywood cinema, actors may have all the glory, but studio execs have all the power. The Hoff-Federated studio has had its most successful star, Charlie Castle, over a barrel ever since it helped cover up a mistake that could have ended his career. When a woman with insider knowledge threatens to come forward, the studio heads will stop at nothing to protect Charlie's secret... but how far is he willing to go before he quits the movie business for good? Set in a glossy world of rumor mills and rocky friendships, Clifford Odets' The Big Knife is a riveting, bitingly funny look at how challenging it can be to stay true to yourself when everyone expects you to play a part. This is the first new Broadway production since The Big Knife premiered on Broadway in 1949, directed by Lee Strasberg. Click here for tickets and more information. |
| Broadhurst TheatrePreviews from: March 1, 2013Opening Date: April 1, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
LUCKY GUY Nora Ephron's LUCKY Guy Marks a return to her journalistic roots in a new play about the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s, as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary. From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998. Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Al Hirschfeld TheatrePreviews from: March 3, 2013Opening Date: April 4, 2013 Closing Date: TBD |
KINKY BOOTS In KINKY BOOTS, the new musical from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Harvey Fierstein (book), Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), Charlie Price (Tony Award nominee Stark Sands) has suddenly inherited his father's shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola (Porter). A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man he's meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible... and discovers that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world. Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell directs and choreographs. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre April 7, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
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Circle in the Square Theatre Previews from: April 8, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES This new production of PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES, John Doyle's visionary tribute to life by the roadside, takes place on Highway 57. Somewhere in America's heartland, between Frog Level and Smyrna, North Carolina, stands a rest stop, for those who need a good rest. The four hard-working fellas at the gas station, Jim, Jackson, Eddie and L.M., have been known to do some auto repairs, but only when aided by ample quantities of time, great tunes and a few beers while they're at it. Just a few feet away, there's also a roadside eatery, the Double Cupp Diner, where the Cupp sisters, Prudie and Rhetta, celebrate their famous home cooking and gift for song with the same zeal they bring to their kinship with the boys. With joy, heartbreak and hilarity, these Pump Boys and Dinettes also play a stunning variety of musical instruments including guitar, piano, bass, fiddle, banjo, ukulele, harmonicas and yes, even kitchen utensils.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:TBA Opening Date: TBD |
DINER Based on the critically acclaimed 1982 film, DINER has a book by Academy Award winner and original DINER screenwriter Barry Levinson, music & lyrics by 9-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, and direction and choreography by 3-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. DINER is set in Baltimore, 1959, when six high school friends reunite at the one place they know they'll always belong: the Diner. Now in their twenties, the friends have stumbled into adulthood and struggle to keep from growing apart. Life, love, responsibility - it's all on the table. DINER celebrates good times, great music and best friends.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Shubert Theatre Previews from:March 4, 2013Opening Date: April 11, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
MATILDA THE MUSICAL MATILDA premiered at The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the RSC, playing to sold-out audiences for twelve weeks from November 2010 to January 2011. Capturing the imagination of young and old alike, the production transferred to London's West End on October 25, 2011 where the show continues to play to sold-out houses. Roald Dahl's magical story about a girl with extraordinary powers has been a favorite novel for millions of people across the world since it was published in 1988. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Previews from:March 11, 2013Opening Date: April 13, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOWN will feature a book by Berry Gordy and music and lyrics from the Motown legendary catalogue, featuring dozens of hit songs made famous by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five and many more. MOTOWN is a gripping story about the protégés and stars of a uniquely talented musical family who, under Berry Gordy's guidance, began as 'the Sound of Young America' and went on to become some of the greatest superstars of all time.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Lyceum Theatre Previews from:March 21, 2013Opening Date: April 15, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
THE NANCE A nance, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "an effeminate or homosexual man." In the world of 1930's burlesque, a nance was a wildly popular character, a stereotypically camp homosexual man, most times played by a straight performer. In The Nance, playwright Douglas Carter Beane tells the story of Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane), a headline nance performer in New York burlesque, who also happens to be a homosexual. Integrating burlesque sketches into his drama, Beane paints, with humor and pathos, the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930's New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his messy offstage life.Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Previews from: April 17, 2013Closing Date: June 2, 2013 |
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES welcomes us to the world of the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In a sprawling Central Park West apartment, former movie star Julie Bascov (Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht) and her sister-in-law Faye (Tony and Emmy Award winner Judith Light) bring their families together for their traditional holiday dinner. But tonight, things are not usual. A house guest (Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos) has joined the festivities for the first time and he unwittingly - or perhaps by design - insinuates himself into the family drama. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. A stunning new play infused with humor, THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES is an incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Stephen Sondheim Theatre Previews from: April 21, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL The touching American classic, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who dreams of returning to her small hometown of Bountiful, TX one last time, against the wishes of her overprotective son and domineering daughter-in-law. Her journey becomes a heartbreaking but ultimately life-affirming and inspiring tale that examines the fragility of memory and celebrates the enduring power of hope and faith. Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson will return to Broadway for the first time in 30 years to star in a new production of Horton Foote's beloved classic. Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:TBAOpening Date: April 24, 2013Closing Date: TBD |
I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Music Box Theatre Previews from:March 23, 2013 Opening Date: TBD |
PIPPIN Everything has its season... and this season, PIPPIN returns to Broadway for the first time since it first thrilled audiences 40 years ago! Direct from Boston's A.R.T. and with a beloved score by Tony Award nominee STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (GODSPELL, WICKED) that includes the favorites "Magic to Do," "Glory" and "Corner of the Sky," PIPPIN tells the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a happy but simple life? Or will he risk everything for a singular flash of glory? Click here for tickets and more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:April 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
JEKYLL & HYDE Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:Spring 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST is the inspiring story of Carnelle Scott (Amber Tamblyn), a Southern orphan living in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Carnelle is furiously rehearsing her patriotic tap dance for The Miss Firecracker Contest-hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation as the town's "Miss Hot Tamale" and allow her to leave Brookhaven in a "crimson blaze of glory." The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker Queen, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and two small children) and Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount (recently released from a mental institution), threatens to derail Carnelle's total makeover. Carnelle perseveres-leading to a climax of hilarity, heart and radiant fireworks! Tony Award winner Judith Ivey makes her Broadway directorial debut. Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:Spring 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
BIG FISH A rollicking fantasy set in the American South, BIG FISH centers on the charismatic Edward Bloom, whose impossible stories of his epic adventures frustrate his son Will. As Edward's final chapter approaches, Will embarks on his own journey to find out who his father really is, revealing the man behind the myth, the truth from the tall tales. Overflowing with heart, humor and inventive stagecraft, BIG FISH is an inspirational tribute to the power of family, dreaming big and the unpredictable adventure of life itself. BIG FISH is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman and stars Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz.Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:Spring 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN swirls around 80-year-old Alexandra, an artist facing the indignities of old age and her family's insistence on moving her to a nursing home. With nothing to lose, Alexandra has locked herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with a pile of Molotov cocktails and is now in a standoff with her children and the police. When Alexandra is visited by her youngest son Chris - who has climbed into her second floor window ending a 20-year absence from her life - in the blink of an eye the emotional bombs start detonating. Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella star in the production.Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:August 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
FLASHDANCE THE MUSICAL Written by Tom Hedley and Robert Cary, with music by Robbie Roth, lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth, FLASHDANCE THE MUSICAL is based on the Paramount Pictures film: screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, story by Tom Hedley. Set in Pittsburgh, USA, Flashdance The Musical tells the story of 18-year old Alex, a welder by day and 'flashdancer' by night, whose dream is to obtain a place at the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy. This musical about holding on to your dreams and love against all the odds features an iconic score including Maniac, Manhunt, Gloria, I Love Rock and Roll and the Academy award-winning title track Flashdance -What a Feeling.Click here for more information. |
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American Airlines Theatre Previews from:Fall 2013Opening Date: TBA Closing Date: |
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY The Philadelphia Story is a witty comedy of romance and manners set in Philadelphia high society during the late 1930s. The play was last seen on Broadway in 1981 starring Blythe Danner, Frank Converse and Edward Herrmann. The Philadelphia Story premiered on Broadway in 1939 starring Katherine Hepburn and following its successful run, was made into the well-known, and Academy Award nominated, 1940 film also starring Hepburn, with Cary Grant and James Stewart.Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBAPreviews from: Fall 2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
PRINCE OF BROADWAY Celebrating the most influential and successful career in the American theater of the past 60 years, PRINCE OF BROADWAY will look at the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to Hal Prince creating some of the most enduring and beloved theater of all time, from 1954's The Pajama Game to The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history. PRINCE OF BROADWAY will be directed by Mr. Prince with co-direction and choreography by Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact, Crazy for You). David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys, Chicago [adaptation]) is writing the book and Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade) is writing vocal and dance arrangements. Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
HOUDINI Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, a new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's iconic 1994 crime-comedy film will arrive home on Broadway in 2013 featuring a book by Woody Allen. Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 crime-comedy film written by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and directed by Woody Allen. It stars an ensemble cast including John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri, and Jennifer Tilly. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Allen and co-writer Douglas McGrath for Original Screenplay, Allen for Director and Tilly and Palminteri for Supporting Actress and Actor respectively. Wiest won Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Click here for more information. |
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Theatre TBA Previews from:2013Opening Date: TBAClosing Date: TBD |
EVER AFTER EVER AFTER, a new musical based on the 20th Century Fox Film, will open on Broadway in the 2013-2014 season. The production will be directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. EVER AFTER tells the story of Danielle de Barbarac, the daughter of a Nobleman in 16th Century France, who embarks on a series of adventures, standing up to her scheming stepmother, befriending Leonardo DaVinci and winning the love of the crown prince of France. This new musical sets the record straight on the fable of Cinderella, showing how a strong-willed, independent girl can make her dreams come true without the help of fairy godmothers, talking mice, or magic pumpkins. Casting, dates and other creative team will be announced at a later date.Click here for more information. |
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