2015 brings eleven new musicals to broadway, a passport to a wonderful array of exciting and colourful desternations, from the golden temples of Siam (Thailand) to the white winter cold of mother Russia. A hilarious trip on the 20th Century from Chicago to LA with crazy theatre and hollywood people, a trip to London of the past in search of Peter in Finding Neverland. Maybe a journey of love for young soldier looking for romance in Paris and a crazy American wedding going out of control and thats just to mention a few. Wow ! here is the TheatreGold quick guide the them all.
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Kristin Chenoweth & Peter Gallagher in
On The 20th Century
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to present Tony & Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth as Lily Garland and Golden Globe & SAG Award winner & Tony nominee Peter Gallagher as Oscar Jaffee in a new Broadway production of the classic musical On The 20th Century, directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Warren Carlyle. On The 20th Century features music by Cy Coleman and book & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green. It’s nonstop laughs aboard the Twentieth Century, a luxury train traveling from Chicago to New York City
American Airlines Theatre Previews from 13 Feb 2015 More Info here >>
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Kelsey Grammer Matthew Morrison
Finding Neverland
Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin, Hair) directs this innovative new musical featuring an original score by noted songwriter/composer Gary Barlow and Grammy Award winner Eliot Kennedy, with a book by celebrated playwright James Graham. Packed with mesmerizing visuals, irresistible songs and plenty of laughs, FINDING NEVERLAND is a timeless story about the power of imagination and spectacular proof that you never really have to grow up.Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, it has been brought to extraordinary life by the team behindShakespeare in Love,Chicago and Pippin.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Previews from 01 March 2015 More Info here>>
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Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara
The King and I
Tony winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) directs this classic tale of a British schoolteacher’s unexpected relationship with the imperious King of Siam. Featuring a cast of more than 50, choreography based on the original by Jerome Robbins, and a score of treasured songs including Getting to Know You,I Whistle a Happy Tune and Shall We Dance? in their glorious, original orchestrations, Lincoln Center Theater’s new staging of THE KING AND I invites you to get to know this inspiring and enchanting musical classic.The King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
Lincoln Center Theater-Vivian Beaumont Previews from 12 March 2015 More Info Here >>
4.
An American in Paris
Highly acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon directs a remarkable cast of singers, actors and dancers as they bring the magic and romance of Paris and the timeless songs of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin into perfect harmony. An American in Paris also features a book from Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Craig Lucas, sets and costumes by six-time Tony winner Bob Crowley and lighting by three-time Tony winner Natasha Katz. The romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war, is the stuff of Broadway dreams, with Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope.
The Palace Theatre Previews from March 13 2015 More Info here >>
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It Shoulda Been You
By Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi
It Shoulda Been You is a heart warming and hilarious new Broadway musical comedy . When a bride and groom from wildly different backgrounds The bride is Jewish. The groom is Catholic, her mother is a force of nature, his mother is a tempest in a cocktail shaker. They all come together to celebrate a wedding, with one unexpected arrival (The ex-boyfriend ) turns the special day into hysterical chaos. Plots are hatched and secrets are exposed as the bride’s resourceful sister is left to turn an unmitigated disaster into happily ever after, the perfect wedding starts to unravel faster than you can whistle “Here Comes the Bride!†with Sierra Bogess, David Burtka, Tyne Daly, Harret Harris.
Brook Atkinson Theatre Previews from 17 March 2015 More Info here >>
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Corey Cott Vanessa Hudgens
Gigi
This Tony and Academy Award-winning musical features glorious songs such as “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,†“I Remember It Well and The Night They Invented Champagne.†Following its run at the Kennedy Center, this glistening, re-imagined production by Call the Midwife’s Heidi Thomas and Follies director Eric Schaeffer will bring GIGI back to Broadway for the first time in 40 years! Set in the magical world of La Belle Epoque Paris, where fashion, glamour, and passion prevail, Lerner and Loewe’s celebrated musical is a romantic comedy about one young woman’s journey to find her true self… and her true love.
Neil Simon Theatre Previews from March 19 2015 More Info here >>Soon
7.
Christian Borle Brian d’Arcy James
Something Rotten
The problem with being a playwright in Renaissance England is there was a certain William Shakespeare taking all the limelight. This is the quandary faced by Nick and Nigel Bottom, the two lead characters of brand new musical “Something Rotten!, The Bottom Brothers seek out the advice of a soothsayer, who suggests that maybe they should try their hand at a play which incorporates musical numbers. Casey Nicholaw Is an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has been nominated for Tony Awards for directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), for choreographing Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005), and choreographing The Book of Mormon (2011), as well as winning for his co-direction the latter with Trey Parker. He also was nominated for the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Direction and Choreography for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), and for Outstanding Choreography for Spamalot (2005).
St James Theatre Previews from March 23 2015 More Info here >>
8.
Chita Rivera
The Visit
The Visit is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. Based on Friedrich Durrenmatt’s 1956 satirical play about greed and revenge “Der Besuch der alten Dame,” it focuses on one of the world’s wealthiest women, Claire Zachanassian, who returns to her financially depressed hometown and offers its residents a new lease on life in exchange for the murder of Anton Schell, the man who scorned her years ago. The musical adaptation of The Visit was originally developed as a vehicle for Angela Lansbury and was scheduled for a Broadway opening on March 15, 2001. It had been scheduled for a try-out in Boston for December 2000-January 2001. Frank Galati was the director with Ann Reinking as choreographer, and co-starring Philip Bosco.
Lyceum Theatre Previews from 26 March 2015 More Info here >>Soon
9.
Michael Cerveris Judy Kuhn
Fun Home
Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. As in the book, the story concerns the father-daughter relationship between Alison Bechdel and her father Bruce Bechdel. It has been called “the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian.”Fun Home is set in three time periods, which overlap on stage in a non-linear fashion. The first is Alison Bechdel’s childhood (“Small Alison”), when she struggles against her father Bruce’s obsessive demands in the ornate Victorian home he has restored, and begins to identify her inchoate sexuality. The second is her first year in college (“Medium Alison”), when she “leapt out of the closet”, identifying herself as a lesbian and beginning her first relationship; shortly after coming out to her parents, she learns that her father has had relationships with men, and four months later he commits suicide. The third (“Alison”), when Alison is a successful cartoonist and the same age that Bruce was when he died, shows her attempt to understand her relationship with her father, and the meaning of his life and death.
Circle in the Square Theatre Previews from 27 March 2015 More Info here >>Soon
10.
Tam Mutu Kelli Barrett
Doctor Zhivago
The sweeping musical romance which revolves around five intertwined lovers set against a panoramic portrait of a nation in upheaval, Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys), with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller (Ragtime), music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden), lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers (Ella Enchanted), and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine (Rocky). Doctor Zhivago is an epic romance set during the final days of Czarist Russia, the First World War and the chaos of the Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago celebrates the strength of love and art, in the face of political oppression and the horrors of war.
Broadway Theatre Previews From 27 March 2015 More Info here >>
11.
Renee Fleming
Living on Love
World-renowned soprano Rene Fleming comes to Broadway, stage as celebrated diva Raquel De Angelis. When her husband, the fiery and egomaniacal Maestro Vito De Angelis, becomes enamoured with the lovely young lady hired to ghost-writer his long-delayed autobiography, Raquel retaliates by hiring her very own and very handsome ghost-writer to chronicle her life as an opera star. As the young writers try to keep themselves out of the story while churning out chapters, the high-energy and high-maintenance power duet threatens to fall out of tune for good. A sparkling new comedy from two-time Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, adapted from a work by the revered Garson Kanin and directed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall.
Longacre Theatre Previews 20 April 2015 Info here >>
Ok its time to start booking, however one does wonder will all of these musicals make it through summer, I guess we will just have to wait and see.