Cromer to Direct Broadway's YANK!

"David Cromer, who is currently represented in New York by his Obie and Lortel Award-winning production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at The Barrow Street Theatre, will helm the upcoming Broadway production of the new musical Yank! A WWII Love Story.

Igor Goldin directed the acclaimed Off-Broadway production, which ended its extended run at the York Theatre Company April 4.

Cromer will make his Broadway musical debut with Yank!, which will arrive during the 2010-11 season. Cromer also received Obie and Lucille Lortel awards for his direction of the musical Adding Machine and a third Lucille Lortel Award for his direction of When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center Theater. He also directed last season's Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, and is currently at work on his production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Writers' Theatre in Chicago. His productions in Chicago have won a total of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Production and Best Director for The Cider House Rules, The Price and Angels in America..."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139393

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Well my interest in seeing this just went way up.

Well...this is a random pairing. But it'll get me to see it again. Not a fan of this show but a huge fan of Cromer.

Goldin is directing LIBERTY if it finds an off-Broadway house this fall.

Healy of the Times elaborates:

"But as theater directors go Mr. Cromer comes with real star cachet, which will probably help the producers raise the $5 million they estimate as the cost of mounting the musical on Broadway. Theater critics also pointed to some problems with the musical during this winter’s run, at least some of which Mr. Cromer will undoubtedly address for Broadway."

I absolutely hated it at the York. If anyone can fix the problems, though, it's Cromer. This production might be decent now.

^ Yeah. I wish them the best, but I don't think it will make it either. Cromer certainly looks like a good choice, though, to get it there. Before that announcement, I doubted the $5 million appearing.

I didn't see the production Off-Broadway. Can anyone tell me what was wrong with it?

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Can anyone tell me what was wrong with it?

The book was inane. Actually laughable.

You never know they might axe Bobby and try to put Justin Timberlake or Zac Efron in it. I mean, YANK! will be a tough sell on Broadway. No?

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