BWW's On This Day - July 26, 2012

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events!

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

Americana Broadway - 1926

Bachelorette Off-Broadway - 2010

New Girl in Town Off-Broadway - 2012

Purple Dust Regional (US) - 1965

The Premise West End - 1962

The Shape of Things Broadway - 1947

Triangle Waterford, CT (Regional) - 2006

Zhivago San Diego, CA (Regional) - 2005

OPENING SOON:

New Girl in Town
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 7/26/12

Spamalot
(West End - 2012)
opening 7/31/12

Undisputed Truth
(Broadway - 2012)
opening 7/31/12

Bring It On: The Musical
(Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/1/12

Bronte
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/1/12

The Last Smoker in America
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/2/12

Siren's Heart
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/5/12

Bullet For Adolf
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/8/12

Soho Cinders
(West End - 2012)
opening 8/8/12

The Book of Mormon
(US Tour - 2012)
opening 8/14/12

The Train Driver
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/14/12

Harrison, TX: Three Plays
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/14/12

Volcano
(West End - 2012)
opening 8/16/12

Soul Sister
(West End - 2012)
opening 8/23/12

Detroit
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/24/12

Cougar the Musical
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/26/12

Heartless
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
opening 8/27/12

American Idiot
(US Tour - 2012)
opening 8/29/12

The Bodyguard
(West End - 2012)
opening 9/1/12

CLOSING SOON:

The Sunshine Boys
(West End - 2012)
closing 7/28/12

Democracy
(West End - 2012)
closing 7/28/12

The Common Pursuit
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 7/29/12

Love Goes to Press
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 7/29/12

Fela!
(Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/4/12

Posh
(West End - 2012)
closing 8/4/12

Memphis: A New Musical
(Broadway - 2009)
closing 8/5/12

Triassic Parq
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/5/12

Play Without Words
(West End - 2012)
closing 8/5/12

Harvey
(Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/5/12

Slowgirl
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/5/12

What You Will
(West End - 2012)
closing 8/6/12

Undisputed Truth
(Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/12/12

Tiny Bubbles
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/13/12

Skippyjon Jones
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/17/12

Ghost the Musical
(Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/18/12

Long Day's Journey Into Night
(West End - 2012)
closing 8/18/12

What the Butler Saw
(West End - 2012)
closing 8/25/12

Closer Than Ever
(Off-Broadway - 2012)
closing 8/25/12

COMING UP:

Saturday July 28, 2012:
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Andrew Upton and directed by Tamas Ascher (whose staging of Ivanov for Katona Jozsef Theatre was critically acclaimed at Lincoln Center Festival 2009), will be a highlight of the Lincoln Center Festival this Summer.">UNCLE VANYA Closes at the Lincoln Center

Sunday July 29, 2012:
ONCE Cast to Perform at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors 7/29

Monday July 30, 2012:
Jacobs Theater presents ONCE on Broadway

Monday July 30, 2012:
Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde, Les Miserables), Helen Hayes Award-winner Natascia Diaz (Man of La Mancha, Seussical, The Capeman, Carnival) and Drew Sarich (Les Miserables, Lestat, starring in the upcoming Broadway-bound production of Rocky the Musical in Europe) will star in the July 30th 7:30pm benefit concert of the Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Bjorn Ulvaeus musical CHESS for The Actor's Fund. This special CHESS "In Concept" Concert will take place at LaGuardia Arts at Lincoln Center (100 Amsterdam Avenue). This stripped down all through-sung concert-version will focus on the music, lyrics and characters, emulating the original 1984 concept album and incorporating virtually all of the original London score.">Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz & Drew Sarich to Lead Actor's Fund CHESS Benefit Concert 7/30

Tuesday July 31, 2012:
Mike Tyson and Spike Lee announced last week that his Vegas act is heading to Broadway. Mike Tyson: UNDISPUTED TRUTH, directed by Lee, will now play Broadway's Longacre Theatre for 12 performances only, July 31-August 12.">Mike Tyson's UNDISPUTED TRUTH Opens

Wednesday August 1, 2012:
Universal Pictures Stage Productions/Glenn Ross, Beacon Communications/Armyan Bernstein and Charlie Lyons and Executive Producers Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson announced today that the new musical comedy Bring It On: The Musical will open on Broadway on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at The St. James Theatre (246 W. 44th Street) direct from a 13-city National Tour, for a 12-week limited engagement through Sunday, October 7, 2012. Previews are set to begin Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 8pm.">BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL Opens on Broadway

Wednesday August 1, 2012:
Mikhail Baryshnikov, who famously left the Soviet Union in 1974, returns to the theater to perform for the first time in his mother tongue in the Dmitry Krymov Laboratory's production of a haunting new play, In Paris, as part of the Lincoln Centre Festival this Summer. ">Mikhail Baryshnikov Opens IN PARIS at the Lincoln Center Festival

Thursday August 2, 2012:
Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, Ann Harada and Peter Bartlett will join Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince in a workshop of the new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA August 2nd and 3rd in New York, it has been announced by the musical's producer Center Theatre Group in association with Robyn Goodman, Stephen Kocis and Jill Furman.">Clark, Osnes, Fontana Lead Bway's CINDERELLA Workshop