Broadway schedule


Plays with scheduled openings and theatres

2004

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

* Minskoff Theatre
* First Preview: Jan. 23, 2004
* Opening: Feb. 26, 2004
* Director: David Leveaux
* Choreographer: TBA, realizing Jerome Robbins' original
* Cast: Alfred Molina
* A revival of the classic musical about the travails of Tevye the Dairyman and his daughters.

DROWNING CROW

* Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
* First Preview: Jan. 29, 2004
* Opening: Feb. 19, 2004
* Director: Marion McClinton
* Cast: Alfre Woodard
* Regina Taylor's take of Chekhov's The Seagull, re-set in the Gullah islands of South Carolina.


KING LEAR

* Lincoln Center Theater
* First Preview: Feb. 11, 2004
* Opening: March 4, 2004
* Director: Jonathan Miller
* Cast: Christopher Plummer, Brent Carver
* Shakespeare's towering tragedy of an aging king and his three daughters.

TWENTIETH CENTURY

* American Airlines Theatre
* First Preview: Feb. 27, 2004
* Opening: March 28, 2004
* Director: Walter Bobbie
* Cast: Alec Baldwin, Anne Heche
* Ken Ludwig's new adaptation of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play

SLY FOX

* Barrymore Theatre
* First Preview: March 2004
* Opening: April 1, 2004
* Director: Arthur Penn
* Cast: Richard Dreyfuss
* Larry Gelbart's comedy based on Jonson's Volpone.


ASSASSINS

* Studio 54
* First Preview: March 19, 2004
* Opening: April 22, 2004
* Director: Joe Mantello
* Cast: Neil Patrick Harris
* Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical about presidential assassins.

BOMBAY DREAMS

* Broadway Theatre
* First Preview: March 29, 2004
* Opening: April 29, 2004
* Director: Steven Pimlott
* Choreographer: Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan
* The London Bollywood-style musical by composer A. R. Rahman (with new book contributions by Thomas Meehan) and produced by Waxman Williams Entertainment.

MATCH

* Theatre TBA
* First Preview: Spring 2004
* Opening: Spring 2004
* Director: TBA
* Cast: Ray Liotta, Frank Langella
* A new play by Stephen Belber.

THE WIZ

* Theatre TBA
* First Preview: 2004
* Opening: 2004
* Director: Des McAnuff
* Choreographer: TBA
* A new revival of the "Wizard of Oz"-inspired musical

SIGHT UNSEEN

* Biltmore Theatre—Manhattan Theatre Club
* First Preview: May 6, 2004
* Opening: May 25, 2004
* Director: Daniel Sullivan
* Cast: Liev Schreiber, Laura Linney
* A revival of Donald Margulies' play about a painter conflicted about his art and his past.

THE FOREIGNER

* American Airlines Theatre
* First Preview: Spring 2004
* Opening: Spring 2004
* Director: Scott Schwartz
* Cast: TBA
* The Larry Shue comedy of mistaken identity.

SUMMER 2004

AFTER THE FALL

* American Airlines Theatre
* First Preview: June 11, 2004
* Opening: July 8, 2004
* Director: Michael Mayer
* Cast: TBA
* Arthur Miller's soul-searching autobiographical drama.

THE FROGS

* Lincoln Center Theater
* First Preview: June 2004
* Opening: TBA
* Director: Susan Stroman
* Choreographer: Susan Stroman
* Cast: Nathan Lane
* Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shrevelove's musical take on Aristophanes' comedy, reworked by Lane.

THE PAJAMA GAME

* Theatre: TBA
* First Preview: Summer 2004
* Opening: Summer 2004
* Director: Kathleen Marshall
* Choreographer: Kathleen Marshall
* Cast: TBA
* A revival of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' musical tale of love among labor strife.

FALL 2004

PACIFIC OVERTURES

* Roundabout Theatre Company
* Theatre: TBA
* First Preview: Fall 2004
* Opening: Fall 2004
* Director: Amon Miyamoto
* Cast: TBA
* Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the cultural and political opening of Japan.

2005

THE COAST OF UTOPIA

* Vivian Beaumont Theatre
* First Preview: 2005
* Opening: 2005
* Director: Jack O'Brien
* Cast: TBA
* The U.S. Premiere of Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy of plays.


Posted: Fri - December 12, 2003 at 10:28 PM          

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