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In response to the ending:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sam-Morrisons-SUGAR-DADDY-to-Play-The-Wallis-This-Fall-Prior-to-Broadway-in-2025-20240508

Sugar Daddy, a new production of comedian and actor Sam Morrison’s one-man show, will play the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA from September 20-October 13, 2024, prior to coming to Broadway in 2025. Opening night will be September 29. Produced by Edgewood Entertainment (Producers Dale A. Mott and Charles D. Urstadt), the production will be directed by Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Stephen Brackett (Broadway: A Strange Loop).

Tickets for The Wallis engagement are now on sale at TheWallis.org. 

Is Operation Mincemeat ‘too British’ for Broadway? The show plots its course to New York (whatsonstage.com)

Operation Mincemeat has its eyes on a cross-Atlantic journey – but has made a refreshingly frank appeal in the process.

The show, which won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Musical and two Olivier Awards (including Best New Musical), sent out an email to its mailing list today suggesting that “significant investors and producers” on the other side of the Pond are concerned that that the show is “too British”.

Charting a slightly ludicrous MI5 plot to use a deceased body in order to trick the Nazis into faked invasion plans, the show continues to wow audiences at the Fortune Theatre, where it has extended eight times so far (and will likely do so again).

Of course, Broadway is invariably more expensive than the West End. Admitting the show cost £2 million in London versus $13.5 million in New York, producers go on to explain: “But here is the truth… The Broadway industry is split. Some people, including significant investors and producers say the show is ‘too British’, and some that Broadway has become too expensive. Our supporters, including many American press and public don’t agree – and think the show will go gang-busters.”

The show has also explained how its American following has grown: “On our side – we’re looking at the stats: a year ago, two per cent of our London audience was American… Today we’re up to 11 per cent. We’ve been extended eight times, we’re up to 69 five-star reviews – more than any show in West End history – and recently we picked up two Olivier Awards… Listen. We really want to bring the show to Broadway. But we need the American ticket-buying public to tell us – is the show ‘too British’ or can we join the ranks of Six, Billy Elliot, Les Mis, Me and My Girl and Oliver!… to name but a few that have successfully crossed the pond?”

For any Americans reading this now – feel free to have your say.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/a-tony-awards-simulcast-event-will-be-held-in-damrosch-park_1739942

The Tony Awards has announced that American Express will host “Broadway Fanfare,” a simulcast event in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, June 16, at 7:30pm ET.

Open to the general public, the event includes a pre-show featuring performances and appearances by Broadway talent and photo opportunities.

The 77th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sunday, June 16, on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ in the US.

Click here for more details about Broadway Fanfare.

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Exclusive: Bonnie and Clyde the Musical, originally staged at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, will be available for streaming on demand next month.

Jordan Catalano said: "Oh and tonight's sponsor was - "Brought to you by Taco Bell - Think Outside the Bun!""

I love that this is changing every night. 

Waited for your review and it did not disappoint. Not gonna lie, I loved the opening number for Viola, though. 😂 Cannot wait to read more of your thoughts down the line. 

New musical FROM HERE, inspired by Pulse nightclub tragedy, to premiere at Signature Theatre - BWW Forum (broadwayworld.com)

https://www.playbill.com/article/a-final-encore-for-elevator-repair-services-gatz-james-ijames-good-bones-more-in-public-theaters-2024-2025-season

Counting & Cracking

எண்ணிக்கை, இல்லையேல் கையோங்கு ගණන් නොගන්නේ නම් ගණන් කරන්න 

North American Premiere
Presenting a Belvoir St Theatre & Kurinji Co-Production 
By S. Shakthidharan with Eamon Flack 
In Partnership with NYU Skirball 

Performances at NYU Skirball (566 LaGuardia Place) 

Begins September 6, 2024

Belvoir St Theatre’s COUNTING AND CRACKING, by S. Shakthidharan and directed by Eamon Flack, comes to NYU Skirball this fall for its North American Premiere after critically acclaimed productions in Australia and the United Kingdom. The sweeping, episodic play features 19 actors from across the globe on a multi-generational journey of a Sri-Lankan Australian family from 1956-2004. Radha fled Sri Lanka with her unborn child as the nation struggled with conflict. Two decades later, her son Siddhartha, now an Australian man who knows little of his family’s background, receives a call from the past that changes everything he thought he knew, and who he thought he was.

Good Bones

New York Premiere

By James Ijames 
Directed by Saheem Ali 

Begins September 19, 2024

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his sharp, funny new play, GOOD BONES. A work opportunity to revitalize the blighted neighborhood she grew up in has led Aisha and her chef husband Travis to buy and renovate a charming old house. The Public’s Associate Artistic Director Saheem Ali directs this New York premiere new play about community, change, and the soul of our cities.   

Deep History

New York Premiere

Written and Performed by David Finnigan  

Begins October 5, 2024

At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time—our ecosystems transformed, our planet on the brink of unthinkable climate disaster. But then Finnigan's hometown of Canberra was hit by bushfires. As an area the size of England burned and one billion animals perished, he started to receive texts from loved ones racing to evacuate amid the devastation. An extraordinary ride through human history, DEEP HISTORY is shot through with humor and glowing with hope.

Gatz

Final NYC Encore of Acclaimed Production 

By Elevator Repair Service 
Text: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Directed by John Collins 

Begins November 1, 2024

Ahead of the centennial of The Great Gatsby’s publication and more than a decade after its original Obie and Lortel Award-winning engagements, Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ returns to The Public for a thrilling and final New York City encore of the acclaimed production. One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn’t stop. An event not to be missed and a last chance to see this theatrical and literary tour de force by one of the American theater’s most exciting and inventive companies.  

Sumo

New York Premiere 

By Lisa Sanaye Dring  
A co-production of Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse  
Directed by Ralph B. Peña 

Winter 2025 

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, and desperate to move up the ranks, he slams headlong into his fellow wrestlers. Obie Award winner Ralph B. Peña directs this powerhouse drama.  

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.

North American Premiere of All Four Plays Presented Together

By Caryl Churchill 
Directed by James Macdonald

Spring 2025 

A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A pack of ghosts. And a secret in a bottle. A kaleidoscope of stories, each short play is a testament to how playwright Caryl Churchill has “remade the landscape of contemporary drama—and earned herself a place among the greats” (The Guardian). James Macdonald directs these wildly inventive new works. 

Twelfth Night

To reopen The Delacorte Theater 
Free Shakespeare in the Park 2025
TWELFTH NIGHT 
Directed by Saheem Ali  

Summer 2025 

The Public Theater will celebrate the opening of the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater with a Free Shakespeare in the Park all-star cast of Public alumni in a production of TWELFTH NIGHT. Join us to revel in the midsummer madness as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge plots, and the trick doors of love. The Public’s Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director, Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali directs this joyful romp welcoming all of New York back to the magic of Central Park’s beloved theater. Be there when the stage lights turn on again at The Delacorte—a New York City classic—with this high-powered production of the Bard’s classic comedy. 

Let's Keep Dancing: A Death Row Story

World Premiere Audio Play

By John Purugganan 
Directed by Oskar Eustis 

Incarcerated since 1989, John Purugganan is committed to reaching past the prison walls, becoming a tutor, mentor, and prolific writer. His audio play LET’S KEEP DANCING: A Death Row Story was a prizewinner in the first annual Arts in Corrections Playwriting Contest. Michael Green is 21 years old and has just arrived in the cell he’ll inhabit for the rest of his life. His neighbor, Hap Embleton, is 67 and has been imprisoned for most of his life. Artistic Director Oskar Eustis directs this compelling, world premiere audio play about two souls fighting to survive the row. 

Initiative

Kicking off Fall 2025 season

World Premiere 

By Else Went  
Directed by Emma Rosa Went 

Fall 2025 

Playwright Else Went, alumnus of our acclaimed Emerging Writers Group, brings her transformative new play INITIATIVE to The Public in Fall 2025. A bittersweet reflection on adolescence at the dawn of the new millennium, INITIATIVE charts the intertwined lives of seven teens from 2000-2004, as they become friends and more than friends, wrestle with their potential, face incalculable loss, and struggle to find their way in (and get out of) “Coastal Podunk, California.” Emma Rosa Went directs this epic world premiere guaranteed to make you remember the most difficult and beautiful things about growing up. 

https://www.playbill.com/article/new-musical-from-here-sets-off-broadway-premiere

Donald Rupe's new musical From Here will premiere Off-Broadway later this summer, playing the Pershing Square Signature Center. Performances begin June 27, with the limited run continuing through August 11. Opening night is June 29.

Featuring a book, music, and lyrics by Rupe (Flying Lessons), the New York run will be led by Blake Aburn as Daniel, Becca Southworth as Becca, and Omar Cardona as Ricky. Jason M. Bailey will provide arrangements and orchestrations. Additional cast and creative team members will be announced at a later date.

Set in 2016, From Here tells the story of Daniel, a 30-something gay man learning to balance life, love, and family when the Pulse Nightclub shooting changes him and his hometown forever.

On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire around 2 AM in Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, where more than 300 people were inside. The attack marked one of the deadliest against the LGBTQIA+ community in the nation’s history.

“For me, theatre is such an important part of healing and learning, and art can play an important role in honoring and remembering even the worst parts of history,” shares Rupe in a statement. “We hope that From Here will have a long-lasting effect on its audiences: that those who see it will learn from these life-changing moments, be moved by the people they meet, and that they will honor and remember them moving forward. We cannot wait to bring our musical from our beloved community in Orlando to New York this summer.”

RippedMan said: "Runtime?"

Act One was about an hour and fifteen minutes and Act Two was right around 45 minutes, I believe.

Dylan Mulvaney to Debut New Solo Musical at Edinburgh Fringe | Playbill

Dylan Mulvaney will debut a new solo musical at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, marking her first solo musical production as well as her Fringe debut. The production will play Assembly George Square Studios from July 31 to August 25.

Titled FAGHAG, the show will peel back the curtain on Mulvaney's life behind the scenes of her joyous TikTok series Days of Girlhood, which documented her gender transition. The series, a viral sensation, has made Mulvaney one of the most famous trans women in the United States.

EDSOSLO858 said: "I wonder if we’ll hear some of the things that were written for season3 before it was cancelled."

The show listing page on the KC website notes that there will be new songs, and I would think maybe some of those were potential season three songs! 🤞🏽 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/SCHMIGADOON-World-Premiere-LEGALLY-BLONDE-More-Set-For-Kennedy-Center-20242025-Season-20240507

Public Presentations | nysaf (newyorkstageandfilm.org)

The New York Stage and Film 2024 Summer Season is as follows:

Jim Dale: LIVING WITH LAUGHTER

Written and Performed by Jim Dale

Presentation: Thursday July 18, 7PM | Nelly Goletti Theatre

VIP Reception: 5:30 PM in Symphonic Hall

LIVING WITH LAUGHTER will give the audience the gift of time with Jim Dale, who John Simon noted “may just be the most charming farceur to tread the boards, to say nothing of his brilliant recorded readings of the seven Harry Potter novels, in which he manages a different, equally splendid voice for all two hundred plus characters. But let's get back to charm. This usually comes with high comedy a la Noel Coward or Cary Grant, it almost never comes with unabashedly low or middle-range farce, dazzlingly elevated to the heights attained by Jim, as he holds you in his palms, his feet, his whole body leaving you wallowing in laughter. LIVING WITH LAUGHTER is essentially Dale's telling and reenacting of his life and stage story, from Britain's beloved Music Hall and beyond it to every possible medium, including Shakespeare and Molière, displaying terrific timing and those oodles of charm which only inborn talent and hard work lightly worn can attain. It is impossible to impart all this through mere printed words; you must catch and experience the show firsthand. What you see and hear will stay with you as a touchstone for as long as you are capable of joyous remembrance.”

Prior to the presentation, there will be an exclusive VIP Reception with Jim Dale and the NYSAF artistic community, that will raise a glass to NYSAF and Marist College's shared commitment to development, dialogue, and discovery. The Reception will also acknowledge supporters for impactful programming, including the development of a new Artist-in-Residence initiative during the upcoming school year, early-career Apprenticeships, and Marist College's Summer Pre-College Program.

 

MOMMY, A ONE WOMAN CHO

Written & Performed by Margaret Cho

Additional Material by Leah Nanako Winkler

Co-Directed by Leigh Silverman & Seonjae Kim

Presentation: Friday July 19, 7PM | Fusco Recital Hall                

In MOMMY, A ONE WOMAN CHO, Grammy and Emmy Award nominated stand-up comedian, actress, and singer-songwriter Margaret Cho depicts all of the things she wishes her mother had actually said. This is a work of fiction.

 

WELL WELL WELL

By Brant Russell

Directed by Jaki Bradley

Presentation: Saturday July 20, 3PM | Fusco Recital Hall               

When Erik crashes Erika's engagement party, she's reminded of why she quit drinking in the first place. WELL WELL WELL follows two people who try to live together, try to live apart, and try to live with their changing relationships to the world and substances around them. What's the difference between love and enabling? What's the difference between a choice and an addiction? 

 

THE NINTH WOMAN

By Delta Rae

Directed by Logan Vaughn

With a special performance by Delta Rae: Saturday July 20, 7PM | Nelly Goletti Theatre

THE NINTH WOMAN is a new musical experience that transports you into the heart of a Puritan witch trial. As mob justice tangles with an all-powerful witch, the vibrant harmonies and pulse-pounding melodies of Delta Rae fuel a night of magic, passion, and twisted karma. Meet us at the bottom of the river.

 

BIGFOOT

Book by Amber Ruffin & Kevin Sciretta

Music by David Schmoll

Lyrics by Amber Ruffin

Directed by Amber Ruffin

Presentation: Sunday July 21, 1PM | Nelly Goletti Theatre

You've heard the myth and legend, but do you know the man? BIGFOOT is a hilarious musical about a small town whose horrible mayor has them convinced their problems are all the fault of Bigfoot and not his inept leadership. With book and lyrics by New York Times bestseller and Tony Award, WGA, and Emmy nominated writer Amber Ruffin (The Wiz, Some Like It Hot) and Kevin Sciretta (“Mystery Science Theater 3000”) and music by David Schmoll (The Second City), BIGFOOT is the next gut-bustin', laugh-a-minute New York musical!

The cast of BIGFOOT will include Justin Guarini (Once Upon A One More Time).

 

GENIUS

By Kate Walbert

Directed by Sheryl Kaller

Presentation: Thursday July 25, 7PM | Fusco Recital Hall            

New York City. Two artist couples—Sara and Joel, Peter and Charlotte—come together across generations and genres for an intimate dinner party that will reveal the fault lines in their relationships, and the power dynamics through which art and legacy are contested and defined.

The cast of GENIUS will include Mark Linn-Baker (The Music Man).

 

GAME NIGHT

Co-Created and Written by Shanessa Sweeney

Composed by Bongi Duma

Co-Created and Choreographed by Ray Mercer

Directed by Rufus Bonds Jr.

Presentations: Friday July 26, 7PM and Saturday July 27, 7PM | Nelly Goletti Theatre

GAME NIGHT is an exhilarating story of seven friends coming together for their monthly gathering of good times, jokes and most importantly, games. Told through dance and spoken word, they find out things about each other they never knew, some of which challenge the very core of their bond and some that will change the trajectory of the friend group. GAME NIGHT showcases the beauty and complexities of American experiences through the lens of Black American culture and unabashedly highlights the challenges of those experiences. Co-created by choreographer Ray Mercer and actress Shanessa Sweeney, GAME NIGHT is a love letter to the Culture.

 

the monsters

Written and Directed by Ngozi Anyanwu

Presentation: Saturday July 27, 3PM | Fusco Recital Hall            

the monsters is a sibling love story that follows LIL and BIG as they reconnect Wrestle with their demons Fight with their fists. All through their love of MMA.

The cast of the monsters will include Okieriete Onaodowan (A Doll's House).

 

BASEMENT, IL

By Stacy Osei-Kuffour

Presentation: Sunday July 28, 1PM | Fusco Recital Hall     

A Midwestern family comes together one night, only to be shattered by an alleged buried secret; true or not, it swallows the family whole.

 

TULIPA

By Kate Douglas

Directed by Kate Whoriskey

Featuring Jessica Hecht

Presentation: Thursday August 1, 7PM | Fusco Recital Hall         

There was a brief moment in history when a flower could ruin your life. Jessica Hecht stars in TULIPA, a riches to rags monologue set against the Dionysian backdrop of Tulipmania in the 17th century. In a world gone mad, TULIPA examines how we can find what truly nourishes us. This sensual and surprising story of self-discovery is the second collaboration between writer Kate Douglas (The Apiary) with director Kate Whoriskey (Clyde's).

The cast of TULIPA will include Jessica Hecht (Summer, 1976) and Stephanie Crousillat (The Apiary).

 

THE HEART

Based on Réparer les Vivants by Maylis deKerangal

Book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan

Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath & Ian Eisendrath

Directed by Christopher Ashley

Presentations: Friday August 2, 7PM and Saturday August 3, 7PM | Nelly Goletti Theatre        

THE HEART is based on Maylis deKerangal's novel, Réparer les Vivants, and tells the story of 24 hours in the life of a heart as a young man is leaving this world and a woman making peace with her early death receives a second chance at life. The show is a fast-paced, 9-actor ensemble piece, featuring a through-composed EDM score that takes its inspiration from the world of the high-tech hospital.

The cast of THE HEART will include Heidi Blickenstaff (Jagged Little Pill), Miguel Cervantes (Hamilton), Drew Gehling (Almost Famous), Gizel Jimenez (Cornelia Street), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Parade), Taylor Iman Jones (Six: The Musical), Zachary Noah Piser (KPOP), Wren Rivera (Teeth), and more.

 

AFTER PETER

Play by Adam Chanler-Berat & Grace McLean

Music and Lyrics by Grace McLean

Directed by Tyler Thomas 

Presentation: Saturday August 3, 3PM | Fusco Recital Hall

After the sudden death of her collaborator, Jo goes on a quest for answers that may or may not–most likely may not–help finish the piece they were working on together. Generations of artists speak to each other across the chasm of space and time in this living requiem about the intertwining of loss and the creative process, and the ways in which art hides and reveals us. 

The cast of AFTER PETER will include Kyle Beltran (“American Rust”) and Marin Ireland (Spain), as well as musician Erica Swindell.

 

DIGNITY, ALWAYS, DIGNITY

Co-Created by Zack Fine, Bryce Pinkham, Kirya Traber & Rona Siddiqui

Directed by Zack Fine

Performed by Bryce Pinkham

Presentation: Sunday August 4, 1PM | Fusco Recital Hall  

Stranded on a deserted island, a washed-up performer attempts to put on one last show before the rising waters swallow him up.

Complete casting and full creative teams for all projects will be announced shortly.

rosscoe(au) said: "My favorite review so far : There’s smoke coming out of Helen’s hole!
that alone makes me want to see it for all the wrong reasons."

A couple of my favorite one-liners from Helen:

https://www.playbill.com/article/photos-see-megan-hilty-and-jennifer-simard-on-stage-in-death-becomes-her

https://stageberry.com/finding-neverland-musical-west-end/?

However Gary let slip the show is set for a West End bow in “summer 2025”.

He told Amy Hart on her P&O Cruises Official Podcast: “I spent five years of my life writing that musical. It was a lot of blood sweat and tears but it was worth it. It was absolutely wonderful.”

Speaking previously in 2022, Gary told Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye that a brand new production was in the works with an updated book and songs.

“It’s a new show,” he teased.