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Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Openings
By Robert Simonson
19 Apr 2003
Schedule subject to change.
MARCH
GYPSY
Shubert Theatre
First Preview: March 31
Opening: May 1
Director: Sam Mendes
Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
Cast: Bernadette Peters, Tammy Blanchard, Kate Reinders, John Dossett
A new production of the classic Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about Gypsy Rose Lee and her hard-driving stage mother.
APRIL
ENCHANTED APRIL
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: April 8
Opening: April 29
Director: Michael Wilson
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Cumpsty, Daniel Gerroll, Michael Hayden
A new play by Matthew Barber based on the book about four Victorian women vacationing in Tuscany.
THE LOOK OF LOVE
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
First Preview: April 4
Opening: May 4
Director: Scott Ellis
Choreography: Ann Reinking
Cast: Liz Callaway, Jeanine La Manna, Shannon Lewis, John Dokuchitz
A new musical revue employing the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME: THE READING
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
First Preview: April 11
Opening: April 30
Director: Estelle Parsons
Cast: Al Pacino, Marisa Tomei, Dianne Wiest, David Strathairn
A staged reading of Wilde's tale of lust and revenge.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Plymouth Theatre
First Preview: April 26
Opening: May 6
Director: Robert Falls
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Venessa Redgrave, Phlip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Sean Leonard
A new production of Eugene O'Neill's greatest play
VICTORY BEGINS AT HOME
Virginia Theatre
First Preview: April 29
Opening: TBA
Cast: Bill Maher
Comedian Maher's stand-up commentary on current events.
MAY
MASTER HAROLD....AND THE BOYS
Booth Theatre
First Preview: May 6
Opening: May 29
Director: Lonny Price
Cast: Danny Glover, Michael Boatman and Christopher Denham
A new revival of Athol Fugard's South African drama.
SUMMER 2003
AVENUE Q
Golden Theatre
First Preview: July
Opening: July 31
Director: Jason Moore
Choreographer: Ken Roberson
Cast: Ann Harada, Jen Barnhart, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jordan Gelber, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia and Rick Lyon
The hit Off-Broadway musical in which people and puppets sing side by side.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Virginia Theatre
First Preview: July 22
Opening: Aug. 14
Director: Connie Grappo
Choreographer: Kathleen Marshall
Cast: Hunter Foster, Billy Porter, Alice Ripley, Lee Wilkof, Reg Rogers
The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.
FALL 2003
TABOO
Plymouth Theatre
First Preview: Fall 2003
Opening: Fall 2003
Director: Christopher Renshaw
Choreographer: Mark Dendy
Cast: Boy George
The London musical about the life of George Alan O'Dowd, who is better known as pop star Boy George.
THE BOY FROM OZ
Imperial Theatre
First Preview: Sept. 16, 2003
Opening: Oct. 16, 2003
Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
Choreographer: Joey McKneely
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Isabel Keating, Beth Fowler
The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Minskoff Theatre
First Preview: TBA
Opening: TBA
Director: TBA
Choreographer: TBA
Cast: Alfred Molina
A revival of the classic musical about the travails of Tevye the Dairyman and his daughters.
WICKED
Gershwin Theatre
First Preview: October 2003
Opening: Oct. 30
Director: Joe Mantello
Choreographer: Wayne Cilento
Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Carole Shelley, Norbert Leo Butz
Stephen Schwartz's Oz-flavored new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel
THE VIOLET HOUR
Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
First Preview: Oct. 16
Opening: Nov. 6
Director: Evan Yionoulis
Cast: TBA
Richard Greenberg's new play set in 1919 about a driven young publisher at the start of his career.
HENRY IV
Lincoln Center Theater
First Preview: Fall 2003
Opening: Fall 2003
Director: Jack O'Brien
Cast: Kevin Kline, Richard Easton
Shakespeare's history plays "Henry IV" Parts I & II
NEVER GONNA DANCE
Broadhurst Theatre
First Preview: Fall 2003
Opening: Fall 2003
Director: Michael Greif
Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
A new musical based on the film "Swing Time" featuring the music of Jerome Kern and a book by Jeffrey Hatcher
2004
DROWNING CROW
Biltmor Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
First Preview: Jan. 29, 2004
Opening: Feb. 19, 2004
Director: TBA
Cast: TBA
Regina Taylor's take of Chekhov's The Seagull, re-set in the Gullah islands of South Carolina.
KING LEAR
Theatre TBA
First Preview: February 2004
Opening: TBA
Director: TBA
Cast: Christopher Plummer
Shakespeare's towering tragedy of an aging king and his three daughters.
BOMBAY DREAMS
Theatre TBA
First Preview: Spring 2004
Opening: Spring 2004
Director: Steven Pimlott
Choreographer: Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan
The London Bollywood-style musical by composer A. R. Rahman and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber
THE WIZ
Theatre TBA
First Preview: 2004
Opening: 2004
Director: Des McAnuff
Choreographer: TBA
A new revival of the "Wizard of Oz"-inspired musical
SIGHT UNSEEN
Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
First Preview: May 6, 2004
Opening: May 25, 2004
Director: Daniel Sullivan
A revival of Donald Margulies' play about a painter conflicted about his art and his past.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Theatre TBA
First Preview: TBA
Opening: TBA
Director: TBA
Cast: Ashley Judd, Mark Ruffalo, Ned Beatty
A revival of Tennessee William's drama of desire, disillusionment and mendacity.
2005
THE COAST OF UTOPIA
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
First Preview: 2005
Opening: 2005
Director: Jack O'Brien
Cast: TBA
The U.S. Premiere of Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy of plays.
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