11 NEW MUSICALS - WOW

It feels like we are in a golden age for new musicals. I remember the year there were so few new musicals, the Tony score category had 2 plays with music nominated.

Harmony

Days of Wine and Roses

Water for Elephants

Lempicka

Suffs

The Outsiders

Gutenberg! The Musical!

Here Lies Love

How to Dance in Ohio

The Notebook

Back to the Future


WHAT AN AMAZING SEASON!!!!!!!

Updated On: 9/16/23 at 08:43 AM

Also, Once Upon A One More Time.

I think we'll pass 2016/17's 13 new musicals. It's so early to already have so many announced and it sounds like there are more that are ready. There's always a few surprises as well. We probably still have around 3 months for something to announce!

We definitely haven't had a season that feels this packed since that season!

OhHiii said: "bwayphreak234 said: "Also, Once Upon A One More Time."

Think the OP meant to clarify to original scores."

Ah, makes sense!

Also have A Wonderful World and Death Becomes Her having tryouts here in Chicago.

We may also get Swept Away and In Dreams (though a jukebox score for both).

BroadwaysBroad said: "Yay

don’t forget the wanderer!!!!!"

Is that definitively coming? I haven't heard much from it since I saw it at Paper Mill.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Wondering if GUTENBERG will be deemed a revival or new work for Tonys purposes. Their advertising is focused on the newness of it, but the material has existed for more than fifteen years and shouldfall under the "classics" rule (if HEDWIG and BLACKBIRD are revivals...)"

Pretty sure it'll be new. All their advertising is "new musical." So I'd assume they'd grant them that because why not?

Falsettolands said: "respectfully, it would make very little sense for Gutenberg to be considered a new musical. I can see the arguments for it, but the 2006 production was widely attended and featured prominent names- and it has consistently been produced regionally since then. I'm not certain I'd even like to see this production having already seen it twice before."

It could come down to how much work was done on the written material since then (and I don't know the material well enough to answer that).

I suppose the only thing separating GUTENBERG from HARMONY is that one was licensed & recorded, and the other was not...

Respectfully, I'm just going on the show's own marketing materials. They call it a new musical therefore it's 99.9% likely they'll be considered a new musical.

right but if I produce Bat Boy on broadway and I promote it as a "new musical" that...doesn't make it a new musical. And it's only a few years older than Gutenberg and has received similar trajectory. So if the committee has any sense they will at least review the language, because it also felt a little murky and odd that Riverside and Crazy was considered a new play last season simply because it was "marketed" as such.

Right. But do we not think it would be odd to promote yourself as a new musical and not be put in the new musical category? Like would no one on the Broadway league be like “hey guys, you can’t really promote yourself as a new musical.”

RippedMan said: "Right. But do we not think it would be odd to promote yourself as a new musical and not be put in the new musical category? Like would no one on the Broadway league be like “hey guys, you can’t really promote yourself as a new musical.”"

I don’t think eligibility should answer to marketing decisions. Distinctions of revival or new work really only matter for awards, anyway. I, personally, think adding some variation of “a new musical” to marketing is generally pointless- I’m not sure it’s any more helpful to ticketbuyers than just indicating it’s a musical.