Here is how Broadway is shaping up so far for Fall 2012.
Updated October 26th
This WILL change (Note, for example, the Rebecca logo above):
First, a quick chronological list by opening date (if there is one), then alphabetical, with a bit more description
Bring It On: The Musical (August 1)
Chaplin (September 10th)
An Enemy of the People (September 27th)
Grace (October 4th)
Cyrano de Bergerac (October 11th)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (October 13th)
The Heiress (November 1)
Annie (November 8th)
Glengarry Glen Ross (November 11th)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (November 13th)
The Performers (November 14th)
Scandalous (Novembe 15th)
A Christmas Story (November 19th)
Dead Accounts (November 28)
The Anarchist (December 2)
Golden Boy (December 6)
The Other Place (January 10th, 2013)
Picnic (January 13th)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (January 17th)
Cinderella (February 21)
Hands on a Hardbody (March 21)
Kinky Boots (April 4)
Diner (April 10)
Matilda (April 13)
Motown (April 14)
The Nance (April 15)
The Assembled Parties (April 17)
Alphabetically:
A Christmas Story
A musical based on the holiday movie, about a boy named Ralphie in 1940s Indiana who has one wish for Christmas — a Red Ryder BB gun.
Performances from 06 Nov 2012
Opening 19 Nov 2012
Closing 30 Dec 2012
Videos of songs from A Christmas Story
The Anarchist
By David Mamet
Lyceum Theatre
A female prisoner, who was once part of a Weather Underground-like radical group, pleads her case for parole with the warden. A Mamet play sarring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and Academy Award nominee Debra Winger in her Broadway debut.
Performances from 13 Nov 2012
Opening Dec 2 2012
Annie
Palace Theatre
The revival of the musical about the orphan who makes her way in Depression-era New York from a dismal orphanage to the home of billionaire Daddy Warbucks. “The sun will come out tomorrow…”
Performances from 03 Oct 2012
Opening 08 Nov 2012
St. James Theatre
Two cheerleading squads, one mission: claim the title at the National Cheerleading Championships. Lyrics by: Amanda Green and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Music by: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt. Book by: Jeff Whitty
Performances from 12 Jul 2012
Opening 01 Aug 2012
Closing Nov
Chaplin
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
A new musical about Charlie Chaplin, born in slums of London, who became the first international movie star
Performances from 21 Aug 2012
Opening 10 Sep 2012
American Airlines Theatre
A play about Cyrano de Bergerac, witty, intelligent but big-nosed, who pines for the beautiful Roxane but is too shy to pursue her.Instead, Cyrano writes eloquent love letters to Roxane on Christian’s behalf.
Performances from 14 Sep 2012
Opening 11 Oct 2012
Closing 25 Nov 2012
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Performances from 04 Sep 2012
Opening 27 Sep 2012
Closing 02 Dec 2012
by David Mamet
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
The 30th anniversary of David Mamet’s play stars Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale, about a new boss in a real estate firm, who tries to edge out some of the firm’s older salesmen by giving the better leads to the younger reps.
Performances from 16 Oct 2012
Opening 11 Nov 2012
Belasco
First produced on Broadway in 1937 by the Group Theater, Clifford Odet’s ply focuses on a man defying his family who wants for him a career as a classical musician for a shot at a boxing title
Opening 03 Dec 2012
By Craig Wright
Cort Theatre
Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon and Ed Asner star in this new play pitting a skeptic against a prayer warrior involved in a sketchy real-estate deal to convert hotels into Christian inns
Performances from 13 Sep 2012
Opening 04 Oct 2012
Closing 16 Dec 2012
The Heiress
Walter Kerr
A revival of the stage adaptation of Henry James’s novel Washington Square about a lonely heiress and the man who may or may not be a golddigger. Starring Jessica Chastain (The Help), Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) and David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Opening November 1
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Studio 54
Who killed Edwin Drood? Practically everyone is a suspect in this rousing Tony Award-winning musical mystery. And since author Charles Dickens left the story unfinished, it’s up to the audience to decide.
Performances from 19 Oct 2012
Opening 15 Nov 2012
Closing 03 Mar 2013
by Sharr White
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Laurie Metcalfe reprises her Obie-winning performance in a play about a woman unravelling. My review of The Other Place when it was Off-Broadway.
Performances from 11 Dec 2012
Opening 10 Jan 2013
Closing 03 Mar 2013
Broadhurst Theatre
The musical, based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel (also made into a Hitchcock movie), depicts the life of an insecure young woman who marries a wealthy widower with a terrible secret.
This show has disappeared, spectacularly
By Edward Albee
Booth Theatre
Steppenwolf Theatre members Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County) and Amy Morton are the dysfunctional couples in the revival of this landmark play.
Performances from 27 Sep 2012
Opening 13 Oct 2012
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