Hippest Trip, Smash, Sinatra, Buena Vista Social Club, Operation Mincemeat, Real Women Have Curves, The Preacher’s Wife, Dead Outlaw, The Secret Life of Bees, The Queen of Versailles, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Galileo, In Dreams, The Bedwetter, Gun & Powder, Gatsby, Teeth, White Girl in Danger, The Connector, Here We Are, Summer Stock, Private Jones, The 12, Sing Street, Destiny of Desire, Opening Night, Burlesque, The Witches, Hercules, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, The Devil Wears Prada, Ride, Two Strangers, Come Fall In Love, Monsoon Wedding, The Wanderer, Soft Power, Kiss my Aztec, The Karate Kid, To Wong Foo, The Violet Hour, Death Note, Your Lie in April, Fortress of Solitude, Ride the Cyclone
Hippest Trip, Smash, Buena Vista, Preacher’s Wife, Mincemeat, Dead Outlaw, and QOV should all be coming in this season. G&P might also announce sometime this month — they’re not performing at BroadwayCon this year for nothing.
2025-26 is looking very jukebox heavy already: Johnny and June, Sinatra, Purple Rain, Burlesque, Lord of the Rings, perhaps Just for One Day / Fangirls / Mad Hatter.
Gatsby comes in soon after the Bruni production closes, whenever that may be. Not sure about Real Women Have Curves at this point, but I won’t be surprised if that takes a NY house too.
I don’t think there will be as many houses available this season given how many successful shows there are from last season. Theres also more musical revivals and new plays this season too. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get less than 10 new musicals.
Broadway Flash said: "Hippest Trip, Smash, Sinatra,Buena Vista Social Club, Operation Mincemeat, Real Women Have Curves, The Preacher’s Wife, Dead Outlaw, The Secret Life of Bees, The Queen of Versailles, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Galileo, In Dreams, The Bedwetter, Gun & Powder, Gatsby, Teeth, White Girl in Danger, The Connector, Here We Are, Summer Stock, Private Jones, The 12, Sing Street, Destiny of Desire, Opening Night, Burlesque, The Witches, Hercules, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, The Devil Wears Prada, Ride, Two Strangers, Come Fall In Love, Monsoon Wedding, The Wanderer, Soft Power, Kiss my Aztec, The Karate Kid, To Wong Foo, The Violet Hour, Death Note, Your Lie in April, Fortress of Solitude
what’s the scoop on these"
Some more new musicals out there, The Lost Boys (promoted on the Tonys) Take The Lead and Mystic Pizza (Papermill) Muhammad Ali Musical, I’m Every Woman The Chaka Kahn Musical, Millions at the Alliance, Becoming Nancy (getting workshopped in UK by Jerry Mitchell) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is likely to transfer after its West End run, The Artist musical after it transfers to the West End, Empire Records (premieres this fall regional) Ken Davenport said he will continue workshopping the Joy Mangano musical soon.
some other shows floating out there, In Pieces, Wild About You, Amber Ruffins “Big Foot”, Beaches, Thelma and Louise, Maggie, My Best Friends Wedding, Three Houses, The Lonely Few,
Some of the shows on that list are long dead. Fortress of Solitude played the Public in 2014. There's an album at least. But it just wasn't great. Creatives involved are either dead (composer Friedman) or moved on.
Director Daniel Aukin was most recently focused on a little show called Stereophonic; and choreographer Camille A. Brown has had her hand in a few things as well including Hell's Kitchen.
Edit: Also bookwriter Itmar Moses is probably more focused on his newer original work Dead Outlaw.
Even a failed show has its positives when the people involved learn lessons that they then use to create new works that are more successful - by that I mean works that tell their stories more successfully, & not how they do financially.
If the show hasn’t even had a production yet, I didn’t include it on the list. I know there’s lots of musicals in development. I heard Fortress of Solitude was being picked up again with Andre DeSheilds. I could see Smash, Hippest Trip, Queen of Versailles, and Operation Mincemeat, maybe gun and powder coming in this season. I still don’t think it’ll be as many as last season.
i need your lie in april to happen. I've read the manga, I rewatch the anime every year in april and I cry worse ever single year. I don't know if it'll happen but please please please please please please please please please
Mr. Wormwood said: "I haven't really been paying attention but is there still speculation that Hercules will replace Aladdin following its West End run?"
This could come to NYC since the firing of deBessonet now may wield a stronger production. Depends on the Nicholaw production developments from Hamburg to '25 West End. As for replacing Aladdin, it seems to be doing fine?
I am curious about Swept Away and Maybe Happy Ending- and Satchmo-so much of what is coming here in the fall are revivals (Sunset Boulevard, Once Upon a Mattress, Gypsy) and then there's Tammy Faye and Death Becomes Her..but the ones I'm curiou about- do they have a chance to survive in a very competitive landscape?
Louis Armstrong is more popular than I thought, so I think it can turn into a real hit. And it got good reviews out of town. The Avett Brothers have a big following, and also the show got great reviews. I think maybe happy ending has the least chance of success, but I guess Darren Criss is the big draw there.
This season will be all about the plays and musical revivals, as there are so many megastars to move the needle that we may get very, very close to pre-COVID box office figures.