Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season

[brdwybound04]

Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#1

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:01am

Am I missing any potential or confirmed shows specifically for the 08/09 season? Since we are less than two weeks away from the new season, I was trying to wrack my brain around what's been previously mentioned, here's my tentative list:

New Shows:
A Tale of 2 Cities, Shrek, Billy Elliot, 9 to 5, Vanities, 13.

Revivals:
Godspell, Dancin', Pal Joey, West Side Story, The Wiz, An American in Paris, Brigadoon.

Have I missed anything? ( I realize that there are shows also aiming for 2010, such as Spiderman, Catch Me If You Can, etc.) Please keep responses limited to 08/09 season!

~Ben

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#2

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:07am

New Musicals: [title of show]

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[verynewyorkcurious]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#2

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:08am

Equus
Dividing The Estate

[B3TA07]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#3

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:10am

The Wiz? Seriously?

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[CapnHook]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#4

Posted: 5/31/08 at 1:13am

Why is the focus always on musicals?

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[TooDarnHot]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#5

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:14am

Vanities and WIZ aren't actually confirmed. At least The Wiz revival isn't.

they were aiming for December of this year but they still haven't officially announced the 3 city pre-bway tryout (Toronto, Chicago, San Fran) that was supposed to start in September.

It might not happen after all....

for Revivals, you're missing the new Gershwin musical Connick is in and the MERRRILY WE ROLL ALONG revival.

for new musicals, you're missing STORY OF MY LIFE and SPIDERMAN and [TITLE OF SHOW]

let's also not forget the possiblity of EVER AFTER, CHILDREN OF EDEN (yes it's still possible), CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, and maybe even FIRST WIVE'S CLUB.

[LimelightMike]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#6

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:17am

TooDarnHot, MERRILY isn't coming this season, it's slated for '09-'10 ... at the earliest.

[sszabo]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#7

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:20am

I might be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure the Harry Connick Jr. show will be a "new" show a la Crazy For You. It's called Nice Work If You Can Get It and the ads for Boston call it a new Gershwin musical.

[TooDarnHot]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#8

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:21am

sszabo - my bad.

limelight - since when??? I thought it was making the cut off date for '08 - '09

[LimelightMike]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#9

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:26am

Per Roundabout's "Chat with Stephen Sondheim" on May 6th, which I happily took part in: Todd_Haimes notes, "We hope to produce Merrily We Roll Along in 2009/2010 Broadway season. And that production will be directed by James Lapine."

[broadwaybelter]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#10

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:34am

Pure Country is slated for the 08/09 season

"Vanities and WIZ aren't actually confirmed. At least The Wiz revival isn't"

Vanities has been confirmed for a while, just shy of a theatre Updated On: 5/31/08 at 02:34 AM

[TooDarnHot]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#11

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:39am

thanks Limelight.

Hey, I heard CATZ! is coming back this season too.


EYEDENNUUHH is playing Macavity.

[Vespertine1228]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#12

Posted: 5/31/08 at 3:05am

I'm sorry if I missed this elsewhere, but was there a particular reason why the London reworking of Porgy and Bess never arrived?

[BobbyBubby]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#13

Posted: 5/31/08 at 3:14am

An American in Paris would be considered a New Musical not a revival. It was a film before now, never a stage musical, and besides, it isn't a straighforward copy of the film, per Playbill:

Ludwig set out to pen "a new American musical in its own right," he states, describing the work as a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a fictional 1950's movie entitled "An American in Paris." In Ludwig's adaptation, Parisian music-hall star Michel Gerard (Groener) fails to arrive for filming of a new Hollywood musical in which he is set to star. As filming in Paris is halted, the film's producer sends his reluctant secretary, Rebecca Klemm (Dilly), to locate the missing star.

[into_the_woods2]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#14

Posted: 5/31/08 at 3:34am

sounds like a pretty good season...i really hope vanities does open

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch

[Rotel1026]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#15

Posted: 5/31/08 at 8:50am

Whatever happened to Dancing in the Dark? I thought that was trying to come in this season too.

[uncageg]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#16

Posted: 5/31/08 at 9:06am

Looks like Vanities is confirmed for the fall.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[keen on kean]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#17

Posted: 5/31/08 at 9:56am

Add to potential new musicals next season: LEAP OF FAITH.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#18

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:48pm

Let's hope and pray for "The Visit" after the very favorable reviews for the Signature Theatre production, that would be something!

[lakezurich]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#19

Posted: 5/31/08 at 2:57pm

Last I heard the producers of The Wiz revival were going to take it out on 2 more out of town try-outs (one of which is rumored to be Chicago) before making the trek to Broadway.

None of this is confirmed though, just rumor. But I would love for The Wiz revival to stop in Chicago on the way to Broadway. I saw some video clips and the show looked AMAZING.

Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"

lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical

Updated On: 5/31/08 at 02:57 PM

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#20

Posted: 5/31/08 at 3:26pm

I heard Glory Days is coming back.

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

[thatgirl712]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#21

Posted: 5/31/08 at 3:29pm

It looks like a good season.

If I heard the bells and the banjos ring

[scaryclowns223]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#22

Posted: 5/31/08 at 4:20pm

I use this page to double check whenever I'm thinking about upcoming shows, it's EXCELLENT.

Use it!


http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/80060.html

[TooDarnHot]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#23

Posted: 5/31/08 at 4:32pm

Lake - it was a valid rumor. FIERCEY516 posted the rumor about the 3 city tryout (Toronto, Chicago, and San Fran) for this Fall, which would lead to a Broadway run.

I was at the same event where Bill Brown, the author of THE WIZ, told the audience that. He said that's what the Producers told him they were "planning" on doing. This was in early March.

[ljay889]

re: Upcoming 08/09 Broadway Season#24

Posted: 5/31/08 at 4:46pm

Hopeful: The Visit

Wishful Thinking: Bounce (playing a run at The Public and a quick transfer to Broadway).