Schedule subject to change.
SEPTEMBER
SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE
- Helen Hayes Theatre
- Opening: Oct. 10, 2002
- Director: John Tillinger
- Cast: Frank Gorshin
- Rupert Holmes' new one-man play about entertainer George Burns.
- Music Box Theatre
- Opening: Oct. 20, 2002
- Director: James Lapine
- Cast: Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis, John Cunnigham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Lewis Cleale
- A translation of the French musical Le Passe Muraille featuring music by Michel LeGrand.
- Virginia Theatre
- Opening: Oct. 17, 2002
- Director: Robert Longbottom
- Cast: Lea Salonga, Jose Llana, Randall Duk Kim
- This musical revival has music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein and a new book by David Henry Hwang.
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 30, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 24, 2002
- Director and choreographer: Twyla Tharp
- Cast: John Selya, Elizabeth Parkinson, Keith Roberts, Ashley Tuttle, Scott Wise, Benjamin Bowman, Michael Cavanaugh
- Featuring songs by Billy Joel, this dance musical choreographed by Tharp will have a pre-Broadway run at chicago's Shubert Theatre June 25 Aug. 4.
- Royale Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 8, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 22
- Cast: Jackie Mason
- Mason's latest one-man show.
- Cort Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 7, 2002
- Opening: Oct. 31, 2002
- Director: Harold Prince
- Cast: Linda Lavin, Frank Wood, Michele Pawk
- Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton's play based on Burnett's memoir.
- Minskoff Theatre
- First Preview: Oct. 14, 2002
- Opening: Nov. 21, 2002
- Director: John Rando
- Choreographer: John Carrafa
- Cast: Michael Crawford, Rene Auberjonois, Max von Essen, Ron Orbach and Mandy Gonzalez
- A musical based on the 1967 Roman Polanski film "The Fearless Vampire Killers", with book and lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Jim Steinman.
- Vivian Beaumont Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 21, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 19, 2002
- Director: Gerald Gutierrez
- Cast: Christine Ebersole, Dorothy Loudon, Joe Grifasi, James Rebhorn, Emily Skinner, Byron Jennings
- A new production of George S. Kauman and Edna Ferber's 1932 comedy.
- Booth Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 22, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 4, 2002
- Director: James Naughton
- Cast: Paul Newman
- A new production of Thornton Wilder's classic.
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 25, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 12, 2002
- Director: Jack O'Brien
- Cast: Cherry Jones, Swoosie Kurtz, Harry Groener
- Nora Ephron's play about the feuding literary femmes Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.
- Broadway Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 26, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 8, 2002
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Cast: Three rotating casts for the two leads
- This production of Puccini's opera was first mounted at the Sydney Opera House in 1990.
- Martin Beck Theatre
- First Preview: Nov. 19, 2002
- Opening: Dec. 5, 2002
- Director: Jonathan Kent
- Cast: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ernie Sabella
- The classic musical adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
- American Airlines Theatre
- First Preview: Dec. 6, 2002
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Joe Dowling
- Cast: Brian Bedford, Henry Goodman, J. Smith-Cameron
- Moliere's comedy about a religious hypocrite.
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre
- First Preview: February 2003
- Opening: March 2003
- Director: David Leveaux
- Cast: Antonio Banderas
- A revival of the Maury Yeston musical based on Fellini's film "8 1/2."
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: summer 2003
- Opening: summer 2003
- Director: Connie Grappo
- Choreographer: TBA
- The Alan Menken-Howard Ashman satiric musical about a man-eating plant.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 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
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Scott Ellis
- Choreography: Ann Reinking
- Cast: Liz Callaway
- A new musical employing the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: spring 2003
- Opening: spring 2003
- Director: Walter Bobbie
- A new production of the Cy Coleman musical about an ever-optimistic dance hall hostess.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: March 24, 2003
- Opening: Apr. 24, 2003
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
- Cast: Bernadette Peters
- A new production of the classic Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about Gypsy Rose Lee and her hard-driving stage mother.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: April 2003
- Opening: Spring 2003
- Director: Marianne Elliott
- Cast: Hilary Swank
- A new revival of William Gibson's drama about blind and deaf Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: TBA
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Gabriel Barre
- Cast: Linda Eder
- Frank Wildhorn's new musical about the French sculptress.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: TBA
- Opening: TBA
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Cast: TBA
- A new play from the author of Art
- Imperial Theatre
- First Preview: Sept. 16, 2003
- Opening: Oct. 16, 2003
- Director: Philip Wm. McKinley
- Choreographer: Joey McKneely
- Cast: Hugh Jackman
- The Australian born musical about the life of Peter Allen.
- Theatre TBA
- First Preview: TBA
- Opening: Oct. 31, 2003
- Director: Joe Mantello
- Choreographer: Wayne Cilento
- Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Dana Ivey
- Stephen Schwartz's Oz-flavored new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel
