2019-2020 BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS

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Here is the starter list of next season’s Broadway productions. Only those with a confirmed theater and opening night are listed. Shows in bold have opened.

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Broadhurst
Opens 5/30/19
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in this revival of Terrence McNally’s romance play. Limited run to August 25.

Moulin Rouge
Al Hirschfeld
Opens 7/25/19
Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film gets a stage adaptation starring Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit under Alex Timbers’ direction.

Sea Wall/A Life
Hudson
Opens 8/8/19
Two one-act plays (Sea Wall by Simon Stephens and A Life by Nick Payne) feature Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. Through 9/29/19.

Betrayal
Jacobs
Opens 9/5/19
Another revival of the Pinter chestnut, this time starring Tom Hiddleston. Moves to Broadway directly from an acclaimed run in London. Limited engagement of 17 weeks.

Derren Brown: Secret
Cort
Opens 9/15/19
Mentalist show plays a limited run to January 4 after an off-Broadway run at Atlantic Theatre Company.

The Height of the Storm
Samuel J. Friedman
Opens 9/24/19
Two-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins will reprise their roles from the London production of Florian Zeller’s (The Father) play in this Manhattan Theatre Club presentation.

The Great Society
Beaumont
Opens 10/1/19
Sort of a sequel to All the Way, this play follows LBJ’s 1964 presidential campaign and the following political nightmare of Vietnam. Brian Cox stars.

Freestyle Love Supreme
Booth
Opens 10/2/19
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s improvised hip-hop musical comes to Broadway for a 16-week run.

Slave Play
Golden
Opens 10/6/19
Jeremy O. Harris’ provocative play about race moves to Broadway following a popular run at New York Theatre Workshop.

Linda Vista
Helen Hayes
Opens 10/10/19
Tracy Letts’ play about a divorced man navigating middle age and having to start a new life.

The Rose Tattoo
American Airlines
Opens 10/15/19
Marisa Tomei stars in a Roundabout revival of Tennessee Williams’ play. Through 12/8.

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Longacre
Opens 10/16/19
16-week engagement for the teen superhero musical which played off-Broadway and on tour.

The Sound Inside
Studio 54
Opens 10/17/19
Mary-Louise Parker returns to Broadway in a play by Adam Rapp, directed by David Cromer. (Despite playing at Studio 54, this is not a Roundabout production.)

American Utopia
Hudson
Opens 10/20/19
Limited engagement of a staged David Byrne concert

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Lunt-Fontanne
Opens 11/7/19
Biomusical of the pop/rock icon transfers from London with star Adrienne Warren.

Slava’s Snowshow
Stephen Sondheim
Opens 11/13/19
Because Roundabout has to pay the bills, they are leasing the Sondheim to this commercial production for the holiday season (to Jan. 5). The Olivier-award winning entertainment returns to Broadway over a decade since it last played at the Helen Hayes.

The Inheritance
Barrymore
Opens 11/17/19
Matthew Lopez’s Olivier-winning play based on Howard’s End comes to Broadway, directed by Stephen Daldry.

A Christmas Carol
Lyceum
Opens 11/20/19
Campbell Scott stars in this adaptation of the perennial holiday chestnut, transferring from London’s Old Vic and directed by Matthew Warchus.

Jagged Little Pill
Broadhurst
Opens 12/5/19
Musical with an original story (book by Diablo Cody) based on Alanis Morissette’s angsty album

Harry Connick, Jr. – A Celebration of Cole Porter
Nederlander
Opens 12/12/19
The popular crooner does a staged concert of Cole Porter classics. The Broadway engagement is three weeks and is scheduled to be followed by a national tour.

My Name Is Lucy Barton
Samuel J. Friedman
Opens 1/15/20
Laura Linney in a solo play by Rona Munro, adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Strout. Richard Eyre directs.

A Soldier’s Play
American Airlines
Opens 1/21/20
Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier star in the Roundabout production of the Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 play.

Grand Horizons
Helen Hayes
Opens 1/23/20
New family drama by Bess Wohl, directed by Leigh Silverman.

West Side Story
Broadway
Opens 2/20/20
Ivo van Hove directs a new, modernist take on the classic musical derived from the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet. If you thought last season’s new take on Oklahoma! was divisive, let’s just wait and see what this one brings!

Girl From the North Country
Belasco
Opens 3/5/20
Writer/director Conor McPherson uses the songs of Bob Dylan to depress us all with a story about the residents of a Midwestern boarding house in the Depression. Comes to Broadway following runs at London’s Old Vic and the Public Theatre off-Broadway.

Six
Brooks Atkinson
Opens 3/12/20
An original musical about the six wives of Henry VIII that has been a hit on the West End and in regional productions.

The Minutes
Cort
Opens 3/15/20
Tracy Letts stars in his own play about a town council. Anna D. Shapiro directs a top-level cast that also includes Jessie Mueller, Ian Barford, and Armie Hammer.

Hangmen
Golden
Opens 3/19/20
Transfer of Martin McDonagh’s Olivier-winning comedy.

Company
Jacobs
Opens 3/22/20
Gender-switched revival of Sondheim’s classic comes to Broadway after winning raves and Oliviers for the National Theatre in London. Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, Tony winners both, will star.

The Lehman Trilogy
Nederlander
Opens 3/26/20
Epic play spanning nearly 200 years tells the story of the rise and spectacular fall of Lehman Brothers. Sam Mendes directs the play by Stefano Massini (as adapted by Ben Power).

Diana
Longacre
Opens 3/31/20
Get ready for your royals fix. This musical, about the beloved princess and incubated in La Jolla, is directed by Tony-winner Christopher Ashley with music by Joe DiPietro, of Bon Jovi fame. David Bryan also collaborated on the book and score, completing the reunion of Memphis creatives.

Mrs. Doubtfire
Stephen Sondheim
Opens 4/5/20
Rob McClure and Jenn Gambatese star in this season’s man-in-a-dress musical, based on the 1993 Robin Williams film.

Caroline, or Change
Studio 54
Opens 4/7/20
Sharon D. Clarke reprises her Olivier-winning performance in this Broadway revival of the Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Booth
Opens 4/9/20
Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett lead director Joe Mantello’s revival of the Albee chestnut.

Plaza Suite
Hudson
Opens 4/13/20
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in the first Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s 1968 comedy. John Benjamin Hickey directs.

American Buffalo
Circle in the Square
Opens 4/14/20
Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne, and Darren Criss star in a revival of the David Mamet play.

Flying Over Sunset
Beaumont
Opens 4/16/20
James Lapine provides the book and direction and Tom Kitt and Michael Korie provide the score for an original musical about famous creatives on an LSD trip together. Tony nominees Harry Hadden-Paton, Carmen Cusack, and Tony Yazbeck star.

Sing Street
Lyceum
Opens 4/19/20
Adaptation of the film about a teenage Irish band in the ’80s transfers directly from the NYTW to Broadway despite middling reviews.

Birthday Candles
American Airlines
Opens 4/21/20
Emmy winner Debra Messing stars in a Roundabout production of Noah Haidle’s play. Limited run to June 21.

How I Learned to Drive
Samuel J. Friedman
Opens 4/22/20
Mary-Louise Parker takes on her second starring role of the season in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. David Morse co-stars.

Take Me Out
Hayes
Opens 4/23/20
Scott Ellis directs this revival of Richard Greenberg’s Tony-winning play, starring Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Patrick J. Adams.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 242 Posts: 4201 View Predictions]

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Oscar winner Faye Dunaway will be returning to Broadway this summer as Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway premiere of Matthew Lombardo’s Tea at Five.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Faye-Dunaway-To-Return-to-Broadway-as-Katharine-Hepburn-In-Matthew-Lombardos-TEA-AT-FIVE-20181206

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AMAZING. I am, however, concerned about Tillinger as director – his track record is an awfully mixed bag and he hasn’t been on Broadway since the creaky Don’t Dress for Dinner in 2012.

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[adamuncParticipant Joined: Jul 5th, 2011 Topics: 64 Posts: 3689 View Predictions]

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I can’t see Dunaway as Hepburn. And the playwright has a career marked by floperoonies. Hard pass.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 242 Posts: 4201 View Predictions]

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According to Michael Riedel, Florian Zeller’s new family drama, In the Height of the Storm, is apparently gonna be making a Broadway transfer through Manhattan Theatre Club next fall with Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins reprising their roles from the West End.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rialto-Chatter-Will-Jonathan-Pryce-And-Eileen-Atkins-Head-To-Broadway-In-THE-HEIGHT-OF-THE-STORM-20181220

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The Michael Jackson bio-musical, which is now under the title of Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, will have its world premiere in Chicago this fall prior to a Broadway arrival sometime next year.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Michael-Jackson-DONT-STOP-TIL-YOU-GET-ENOUGH-to-Premiere-in-Chicago-Broadway-Bound-2020-20190123

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[adamuncParticipant Joined: Jul 5th, 2011 Topics: 64 Posts: 3689 View Predictions]

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I’ve already had enough of jukebox musicals, so I think I’ll stop.

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[Jeffrey KareParticipant Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 242 Posts: 4201 View Predictions]

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Audra McDonald & Michael Shannon will both be returning to Broadway in a revival of Terrence McNally’s two-hander, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Performances will begin in May.
http://www.playbill.com/article/audra-mcdonald-and-michael-shannon-to-star-in-frankie-and-johnny-in-the-clair-de-lune-on-broadway

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Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s upcoming stage musical adaptation of Magic Mike will have its pre-Broadway premiere in Boston this fall.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Tom-Kitt-and-Brian-Yorkeys-MAGIC-MIKE-Musical-Will-Make-Pre-Broadway-Premiere-in-Boston-This-Fall-20190124

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The Alanis Morissette musical titled Jagged Little Pill will be coming to Broadway this fall.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-JAGGED-LITTLE-PILL-Will-Come-To-Broadway-This-Fall-20190128

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Adrienne Warren will be reprising her role as Tina Turner from the hit West End biomusical on Broadway this fall.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Adrienne-Warren-Will-Lead-TINA-THE-TINA-TURNER-MUSICAL-on-Broadway-This-Fall-20190205?fbclid=IwAR0gSyLRD1OWU2Z79qzzd13155DhWgBqgbqbtFnd2itvr5OaQ5j4Hk5WKt0

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As previously rumored, Manhattan Theatre Club will be presenting a Broadway transfer of Florian Zeller’s play, The Height of the Storm, with Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins reprising their roles from the London production.
http://www.playbill.com/article/jonathan-pryce-and-eileen-atkins-will-reprise-star-turns-in-florian-zellers-the-height-of-the-storm-on-broadway

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The Michael Jackson estate, facing questions prompted by the new documentary detailing abuse allegations against the singer, announced today that it’s canceling the planned Chicago tryout of Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough. They are now aiming to bring the musical straight to Broadway next summer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/theater/michael-jackson-chicago-musical-cancelled.html

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Queen Audra returns to Broadway in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, announced today to officially open at the Broadhurst on May 30. Michael Shannon co-stars, directed by Arin Arbus.

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It’s also worth noting that Terrence McNally will end up having two shows at the Broadhurst (Anastasia and Frankie & Johnny) back-to-back.

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