Hamilton popped the cork on the new Broadway Season and the stage has been set. Who will take home the prize this year? We have a theatrical melting pot this season, and there will be something for everybody. We even have a father and daughter performing in different shows on Broadway and Rumer has it, the last name is Willis. Put on your seat belt and get ready for another wild ride to the Tony Awards. Through December we have 17 Broadway openings, including 6 revival plays, 4 revival musicals, 3 new plays and 3 new musical productions. Click on the show titles and link directly to the official web page.
SPRING AWAKENING – Musical, Revival
Theatre: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
First Preview: September 8 – Opens September 27
What you want to know: See Marlee Matlin make her Broadway stage debut in this re-mastered coming of age musical revival now with a full signing cast (ASL-American sign language).
OLD TIMES – Play, Revival
Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
First Preview: September 17, 2015 – Opens October 6
What you want to know: Clive Owen makes his New York stage debut in this revival play about a husband and wife whose lives are stirred when they get a visit from someone from the past.
FOOL FOR LOVE – Play, Revival
Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
First Preview: September 15, 2015 – Opens October 8
What you want to know: Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell star in this story of dysfunctional love. After more than a decade apart, the ex-lovers are stuck in a seedy motel in the desert trying to decide if they should be together.
THE GIN GAME – Play, Revival
Theatre: Golden Theatre
First Preview: September 23, 2015 – Opens October 14th
What you want to know: This revival play has a cast of Broadway royalty in James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson playing some tumultuous games of gin rummy while in a nursing home.
DAMES AT SEA – Musical, Revival
Theatre: Helen Hayes Theatre
First Preview: September 24, 2015 – Opens October 22
What you want to know: This is a re-imagined Broadway musical about a dame in a Broadway Musical is being labled the 'biggest little musical on Broadway'. Danny Garner makes his Broadway debut. This show had a previous long run Off-Broadway in 1968 where it premiered is now making it's first run on Broadway.
SYLVIA – Play, Revival
Theatre: Cort Theatre
First Preview: October 2, 2015 – Opens October 27
What you want to know: This revival play Stars Matthew Broderick, and Annaleigh Ashford who plays a puppy. Who can resist a puppy?
THÉRÈSE RAQUIN – Play, Revival
Theatre: Studio 54
First Preview: October 1, 2015 – Opens October 29
What you want to know: The lovely Keira Knightley makes her Broadway debut alongside Broadway icon Judith Light in this dramatic and steamy love story.
KING CHARLES III – Play, New
Theatre: Music Box Theatre
First Preview: October 10, 2015 – Opens November 1
What you want to know: This new play is about….guess? Don’t we just love British history? Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play in London.
ON YOUR FEET! – Musical, New
Theatre: Marquis Theatre
First Preview: October 5, 2015 – Opens November 5
What you want to know: This promises to be one of the most exciting new musicals to hit the stage this season. The music is written by Gloria Estefan and the story is based on her and husband Emilio’s experiences in the pursuit of the American Dream.
ALLEGIANCE – Musical, New
Theatre: Longacre Theatre
First Preview: October 6, 2015 – Opens November 8
What you want to know: If George Takei, Lea Salonga and Telly Leung are not enough to get you to to the theatre, then I give up. This brand new musical set during the Japanese American internment of WWII tells a tale of the Kimura family in the time following Pearl Harbor.
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE – Play, Revival
Theatre: Lyceum Theatre
First Preview: October 21, 2015 – Opens November 12
A revival play set on the Brooklyn waterfront about a longshoreman who has an unnatural and protective interest in his niece, and goes off the deep end when she falls in love with an immigrant.
CHINA DOLL – Play, New
Theatre: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
First Preview: October 21, 2015 – Opens November 19
What you want to know: Starring Al Pacino. Christopher Denham. Drama. Play. This is all you need to know. Now go and try to get a ticket. Stop staring and go before it’s too late.
THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE ON BROADWAY
Theatre: Neil Simon Theatre
First Preview: November 19, 2015 – Opening TBA
What you want to know: Whoa Whoa Whoa it’s magic. Not Broadway Magic, just Magic on Broadway.
MISERY – Play, New
Theatre: Broadhurst Theatre
First Preview: October 22, 2015 – Opening November 15
What you want to know: Star Studded cast included Bruce Willis making his Broadway debut and Laurie Metcalf in this new play. A writer is rescued by a crazed fan, only to be held hostage by her indefinitely. My feet are killing me!
SCHOOL OF ROCK - THE MUSICAL – Musical, New
Theatre: Winter Garden Theatre
First Preview: November 9, 2015 – Opens December 6
What you want to know: The belting Sierra Boggess stars in this new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical about a guy that will do anything in his quest to make a rock and roll band, including recruiting his 5th grade students to compete in the Battle of the Bands.
THE COLOR PURPLE – Musical, Revival
Theatre: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
First Preview: November 9, 2015 – Opens December 10
What you want to know: Jennifer Hudson makes her long awaited New York Stage debut as Shug Avery in this Musical Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning inspirational novel by Alice Walker.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – Musical, Revival
Theatre: Broadway Theatre
First Preview: November 20, 2015 – Opens December 20
What you want to know: Broadway veteran Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht take the stage in this musical revival about a guy with a fiddle on a roof. Oh comon’. You know this story!
I'm looking forward to seeing you at the theatre -Thisbroadsway 9/28/15