2014-15 Season

Upcoming Broadway Musicals (Chronological by Opening Night)

ON THE TOWN

• Theatre: Lyric Theatre (formerly Foxwoods)
• First Preview: September 20, 2014
• Opening: October 16, 2014
• Music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics & book by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; conceived by Jerome Robbins
• Director: John Rando
• Cast: Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Clyde Alves, Megan Fairchild, Alysha Umphress, Elizabeth Stanley, Jackie Hoffman
• Set in wartime 1944, On the Town chronicles the adventures of three sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City. Their fabulous day-long journey is spurred by a search for sailor Gabey’s dream girl, ‘Miss Turnstiles.’ Along the way, each sailor falls in love with a woman, and with New York City itself.

THE LAST SHIP

• Theatre: Neil Simon Theatre
• First Preview: September 30, 2014
• Opening: October 26, 2014
• Written by Sting (music & lyrics), Brian Yorkey and John Logan (book)
• Director: Joe Mantello
• Cast: Michael Esper, Rachel Tucker, Jimmy Nail, Aaron Laza, Sally Ann Triplett, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Fred Applegate
• Life in the English seafaring town of Wallsend has always revolved around the local shipyard. But Gideon Fletcher (Esper) dreams of a different future, and travels the world, leaving his life — and his love — behind. When he returns home fourteen years later, Gideon finds the shipyard’s future in grave danger and his childhood sweetheart engaged to someone else.

SIDE SHOW

• Theatre: St. James Theatre
• First Preview: October 28, 2014
• Opening: November 17, 2014
• Music by Henry Krieger; book & lyrics by Bill Russell
• Director: Bill Condon
• Cast: Erin Davie, Emily Padgett
• The remarkable true story of the Hilton twins, Daisy and Violet, who were legends in their time and the highest paid performers on the vaudeville circuit. Side Show is their heartwarming search for first love and acceptance amidst the spectacle of fame and scrutiny under the spotlight.

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS

• Theatre: Nederlander Theatre
• First Preview: November 18, 2014
• Opening: January 15, 2015
• Written by Jason Robert Brown (music & lyrics), Andrew Bergman (book)
• Director: Gary Griffin
• Cast: Rob McClure, Tony Danza, Brynn O’Malleye, David Josefsberg, Nancy Opel, Matthew Saldivar
• Based on the classic 1992 film comedy, Honeymoon In Vegas tells the story of commitment-phobe Jack Singer, his not-so-patient girlfriend Betsy, and a professional gambler named Tommy Korman who hasn’t gotten over his wife’s death. It’s also the story of a Hawaiian show-tune queen, a Las Vegas icon, a guy named Foccaccia and a team of flying Elvises.

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

• Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
• First Preview: February 12, 2015
• Opening: March 12, 2015
• Written by Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden & Adolph Green (book & lyrics)
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher
• A struggling Broadway producer tries to get a former lover, now a Hollywood star, to sign a contract to star in his latest (and as yet un-conceived) play as they travel on the luxury train Twentieth Century Limited from Chicago to New York.

THE KING AND I

• Theatre: Vivian Beaumont
• First Preview: March 12, 2015
• Opening: April 16, 2015
• Written by Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)
• Director: Barlett Sher
• Cast: Kelli O’Hara, Ken Watanabe
• In 1860s Siam, Anna, a British schoolteacher, is hired as part of King Mongkut’s drive to modernize his country.

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

• Theatre: Palace Theatre
• First Preview: March 13, 2015
• Opening: April 12, 2015
• Written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin (music & lyrics), Craig Lucas (book)
• Director: Christopher Wheeldon
• Cast: Robert Fairchild, Leanne Cope, Veanne Cox, Jill Paice, Brandon Uranowitz, Max von Essen
• Hoping to start a new life, World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan chooses newly-liberated Paris as the place to make a name for himself as a painter. But Jerry’s life becomes complicated when he meets Lise, a young Parisian shop girl with her own secret – and realizes he is not her only suitor. A classic American film about young souls in Paris is re-imagined for the Broadway stage.

FINDING NEVERLAND

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: March 2015
• Opening: April 2015
• Written by James Graham (book), Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy (music & lyrics), Allan Knee (original play)
• Director: Diane Paulus
• Cast: Jeremy Jordan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jeanna de Waal, Michael McGrath, Carolee Carmello
• M. Barrie’s last play was an abysmal failure and his career is threatened by crippling writers block. But then a chance meeting in a London park with a woman and her spirited young boys provides just the inspiration he needs.

FUN HOME

• Theatre: Circle in the Square
• First Preview: April 4, 2015
• Opening: April 22, 2015
• Written by Lisa Kron (book), Jeanine Tesori (music & lyrics), Alison Bechdel (graphic novel)
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: TBA
• When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: March 2015
• Opening: April 2015
• Written by Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics), Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart (book)
• Director: Alex Timbers
• Cast: TBA
• Pseudolus, a slave in ancient Rome, goes to great lengths to gain his freedom by securing a courtesan for his young master, Hero. A revival of the classic musical.

Tony winner James Corden was expected to star in this Broadway revival, as first reported by the New York Times. Alex Timbers will direct. In August Corden emerged as the likely successor to Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show, meaning he will likely pull out of this revival. The New York Post reports that producers are pushing forward and looking for a new star.

Possibilities:

BULL DURHAM

• Theatre: TBA
• Target Opening: Spring 2015
• Written by Susan Werner (music & lyrics), Ron Shelton (book)
• Director: Kip Fagan
• Cast: John Behlmann, Melissa Errico, Will Swenson
• Veteran catcher ‘Crash’ Davis (Swenson) has been brought to the Durham Bulls to prepare rookie Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Behlmann), a hot rod pitcher with a ‘million dollar arm and a five cent head,’ for the majors. With who will Annie Savoy (Errico), self-appointed high priestess and muse of the Bulls, share her wisdom, experience and bed?
• Book writer Ron Shelton (adapting his own screenplay) has said the show hopes to transfer to Broadway in the spring of 2015 if a September world premiere run at Alliance Theatre goes well.

DAMES AT SEA

• Theatre: TBA
• Target Opening: 2014
• Written by Jim Wise (music), George Haimsohn (book & lyrics), Robin Miller (book & lyrics)
• Director: Randy Skinner
• Cast: TBA
• Ruby steps off a bus from Utah and into her first Broadway show, but hours before the opening night curtain is to rise, the cast learns their theater is being demolished. So Ruby and the cast, with the help of some adoring sailors, set a plan in motion to perform the show on a naval battleship. Dames at Sea premiered off-Broadway in 1968 and ran for 575 performances – this would be its first-ever Broadway production.

GIGI

• Theatre: TBA
• Target Opening: Spring 2015
• Written by Frederick Loewe (music), Alan Jay Lerner (book & lyrics), Heidi Thomas (adaptation)
• Director: Eric Schaeffer
• Cast: TBA
• A young French girl being groomed for the life of a courtesan attracts the attention of an older playboy whom she had always considered a friend, in Lerner and Loewe’s stage adaptation of their 1958 film musical, based on Colette’s novel. This production is a re-envisioned adaptation by Heidi Thomas.
• Schaeffer’s production will premiere at the Kennedy Center in January 2015. It is aiming for a Broadway bow later in 2015.

KING KONG

• Theatre: TBA
• Target Opening: Early 2015
• Written by Craig Lucas (book), Marius de Vries (composer & arrangements), Michael Mitnick and Richard Thomas (additional lyrics)
• Director: Daniel Kramer
• Cast: TBA
• A musical adaptation of Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace’s novella.

King Kong had its world premiere at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. In January 2014, producer Gerry Ryan confirmed in a radio interview that the production was aiming for a December opening at the Foxwoods Theatre. However, these plans later changed, and the show is now rumored for an early 2015 bow at a different theater.

Off-Broadway Musicals (Chronological by Opening Night)

ALLEGRO

• Classic Stage Company
• First Preview: November 1, 2014
• Opening: TBA
• Director: John Doyle
• Cast: TBA

A new production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical following a man’s life from cradle to early manhood.

A CHRISTMAS MEMORY

• Irish Repertory Theatre at the DR2 Theatre
• First Preview: November 25, 2014
• Opening: December 4, 2014
• Director: Charlotte Moore
• Cast: TBA

Duane Poole, Larry Grossman and Carol Hall’s musical about a young boy celebrating his last Christmas with his family.

SOUL DOCTOR

• Actors Temple Theatre
• First Preview: November 25, 2014
• Opening: December 14, 2014
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA

Daniel S. Wise and David Schechter’s musical about Jewish music star Shlomo Carlebach, and his unlikely friendship with Nina Simone.

INTO THE WOODS

• Roundabout Theatre Company — Laura Pels Theatre
• First Preview: December 18, 2014
• Opening: January 22, 2015
• Director: Noah Brody, Ben Steinfeld
• Cast: TBA

Fiasco Theater’s production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical about fairy tales and what happens after “happily ever after.”

HAMILTON

• The Public Theater
• First Preview: January 20, 2015
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Thomas Kail
• Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda

The world premiere of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about Alexander Hamilton.

AMERICAN PSYCHO

• Second Stage Theatre
• First Preview: February 2015
• Opening: March 2015
• Director: Rupert Goold
• Cast: TBA

The New York premiere of Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s musical based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.

THE TOTAL BENT

• The Public Theater
• First Preview: March 3, 2015
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Joanna Settle
• Cast: TBA

The world premiere of Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s musical about a young black musical prodigy in Montgomery, Alabama.

IOWA

• Playwrights Horizons – Peter Jay Sharp Theater
• First Preview: March 2015
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Ken Rus Schmoll
• Cast: TBA

The world premiere of Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond’s musical play about a mother and daughter who move to Iowa when Mom finds her soulmate there on Facebook.