Sister Act to come to Broadway Spring 2011

[musicalbluemirror]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 1:28am

There was an audition notice at the AEA Center with the info 2 days ago
No link to any online source but thought id put it out there

believe me if ya want...

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:06am

This was announced officially a few weeks back, wasn't it?

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 10:03am

Cannot wait!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 10:27am

Team Menken Spring '11, apparently! I approve.

[JBSinger]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 12:00pm

If the show is ready and a theatre available, hopefully we'll have 2 Menken tuners on Bway next season (Leap of Faith). And we get a movie score this November too: Disney's Tangled.
Menken-mania!

[AnythingGoes2]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 12:06pm

They want the Broadway or St James apparently...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:39pm

I believe Leap of Faith has or is very close to having a theatre.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:54pm

They want the Broadway or St James apparently...

Here's to hoping that they push out American Idiot.

[Brick]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:06pm

With Zaks directing. Hmmm...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:14pm

I hope it has some revisions in the works. What I saw in London was slightly above mediocre. A few funny moments, half a good score (all the songs for the men need to be replaced), unnecessarily huge sets, and a lazy, lopsided book. And if you're going to definitely set the action in the late 70s, you really need to remove some of the 80s references and orchestrations.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:18pm

"They want the Broadway or St James apparently..."

I thought they want the Marquis or the Al Hirschfeld.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:26pm

If they're keeping the same set, it wouldn't fit in the Hirschfeld (and would be a tight squeeze for the St. James).

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:32pm

The St. James Theatre will definitely be open by 2011 as will the Marquis. I think the show is too big for the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The Broadway Theatre could be open in 2011 depending on how Promises, Promises does when Chenoweth leaves.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 3:41pm

If they're keeping the same set, it wouldn't fit in the Hirschfeld

It might be for the best. The giant cheese wheel really isn't needed.

[AnythingGoes2]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:03pm

Priscilla wants the Marquis apparently...

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:25pm

What's to stop this going into The Palace?

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:38pm

I'd love Patina to do the show but I'd also love to see Jackie Hoffman as Lazarus and Daniel Breaker as Eddie.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 5:14pm

"What's to stop this going into The Palace?"

I was wondering that myself. The Palace will be open by then and its location is right in the middle of Times Square. I would think they would want the Palace most.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 5:36pm

Zaks did a terrific job with the 1987 revival of "Anything Goes" and the 1992 revival of "Guys & Dolls," but he has not lived up to those shows with his latest work.

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 7/8/10 at 6:57pm

when is West Side Story closing??

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/9/10 at 2:43am

If they keep doing a free fall with there grosses this early in the summer then I would say the end of the summer.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 7/9/10 at 4:22am

Yes, this change of director doesn't seem to have caused much of a stir. If you cast your mind back to rehearsals of Sister Act, rumour was that Anthony van Laast was doing most of the work. Looks like a quiet coup has happened at the top of this production.
Zaks didn't exactly turn Addams Family around. Like Mr Abbott, he may be in slow decline in his later years.