Sunday, January 20, 2008
Broadway preview: Spring onstage
amNY.com: "The fall season gave us a plethora of plays, but a disconcerting shortage of good musicals and a crippling stagehand strike. The spring theater season, however, will be pretty lively. We'll see long-awaited revivals of three classic American musicals, a Tennessee William play with an all-black cast, the Broadway transfers of both a hip-hop musical and alternative rock musical, and even Elaine Stritch doing Beckett."
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It looks like this spring we will see the musicals that have a much better chance of winning Tony's in June. After a very lackluster fall/winter season, the musical definitely will be taking center stage again. This will mostly be around the three EXTREMELY hyped revivals rather than the new musicals, but I still think that those new musicals could be the ones eying the Tony in the coming months.
I believe Bob Lenzi is taking a year off to tour with the South Pacific. I hope everything goes well with the production. And I would really want to go see Ian McKellen's King Lear. I know the review at London wasn't as good as they and we all hoped, but I have to doubt about McKellen's capability for Shakespearian roles.
Looks like a great mix. As I was reading this post, I found myself most excited about Dead Man's Cell Phone b/c of Mary Louise Parker (one of my favorite actresses). And another one falls into the marketing trap of celebrity....
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