14 (Maybe 15) Shows Set To Begin Preview In March

[Jordan Catalano]

Is this some kind of a record? There's

Lucky Guy
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Matilda
Kinky Boots
Ann
Motown
The Assembled Parties
Pump Boys & Dinettes
Orphans
The Nance
The Big Knife
Pippin
The Testament of Mary
The Trip To Bountiful

and we don't have a start date for Bette Midler's show which is opening in April so that might start previews in late March, as well.

March is usually a busy month for shows starting but this seems kind of insane. There's no way some of these can not be eaten up by the others.

[frogs_fan85]

Ann is actually starting February 18, but your point of course still holds.

You're completely right, this is a total over saturation. Granted about half of these are limited engagements scheduled to close by the end of July. There are definitely going to be some shows that will get totally lost in the shuffle. And there are still a handful of theaters that could house a spring tenant, so this number could get even more ridiculous.

[Phantom of London]

In March every Broadway theatre has normally loaded in with their new show, not a house is empty.

Yet st James, Neil Simon and Marquis still haven't got a Show, time is running out fast.

[SondheimFan5]

What theater is Kinky Boots in??

[tking001]

The Hirschfeld

[Blockhead24]

ETA: too slow

[Smaxie]

>Yet st James, Neil Simon and Marquis still haven't got a Show, time is running out fast.<

Who cares? Better they sit empty than hastily booked with something unworthy.

[emilyfaye48]

I wish Toxic Avenger would happen

[mikem]

Last year, 14 Broadway shows opened in April and 4 in March. A number of them were successful, but some definitely got lost in the shuffle, particularly towards the end. Seven shows opened in the last 5 days of Tony eligibility, with only one of them (Nice Work) having any substantial financial success. The other six were lukewarm at the box office at best (Streetcar Named Desire, Ghost, The Lyons, The Columnist, Don't Dress for Dinner, and Leap of Faith).

[broadwayworldreader]

Won't the Barrymore be left open this spring along with the aforementioned three... Or at least as of right now.

[frogs_fan85]

The Barrymore, Belasco, Golden, and Longacre also do not have tenants. One of those however will probably end up housing I'LL EAT YOU LAST starring Bette Midler.

[JoeKv99]

I would point out this is GOOD NEWS but I don't want to spoil the party.

[newintown]

Looking forward to several of these; of the 5 revivals, only really interested in The Big Knife (never seen it, never done). Of the 10 new pieces, I'm only not interested in the jukebox show (Motown) and the unnecessary stage adaptation of a terrific book/terrific movie (Breakfast At Tiffany's). Everything else sounds like it has something potentially interesting to offer. (Maybe not Testament of Mary...)

[SonofRobbieJ]

I'm reading Testament of Mary (the novella) now. It's a gorgeous work, and could make for a fascinating stage piece.

[JuanValjean72]

Let's not forget the Stephen Sondheim Theatre which hasn't had anything since Anything Goes closed in July 2012. Shame that some uninteresting (to me at least) new musicals are popping up tho. Kinky Boots? Motown? Ugh, nothing really attracts my attention other than the Edwin Drood and Pippin revivals.

[Jordan Catalano]

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is going into the Sondheim.

[RippedMan]

Bad season for new musicals.

[roadmixer]

Both the Marquis and the New Amsterdam are now planning "renovations" which means dark. I don't think that the money is flowing quite as freely as the OP infers with such a bountiful list. Anybody else see this article in the Times last week...?

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/theater/for-some-shows-path-to-broadway-is-pockmarked.html?_r=0
Times Article

[RippedMan]

I wonder what kind of renovations the Marquis is going to get?

[roadmixer]

Word has it that the Marriott will be renovating the lobby areas to include a retail concourse outside the theatre lobby along with retail at street level along 7th Avenue. No word on any specific renovations to the theatre proper other than possibly some tweaks to the dressing room levels. The whole thing should be gutted and started over but that will never happen.

[evic]

They need to fumigate the Marquis from the stench of Evita.

[DEClarke]

I wish Toxic Avenger would happen

Emilyfaye48, in an interview I did with Constantine Maroulis he more or less alluded to the fact that TOXIC AVENGER will make its Broadway debut with him in the role sometime after he leaves JEKYLL & HYDE.

[Jersey Girl2]

I hope so DE- I loved it!

[Emmaloucbway]

Wait isn't Jekyll and Hyde coming to Broadway this season or did I miss any news?

[Jersey Girl2]

IT'S COMING- April 5th.
Right now they are selling tickets until the end of June.

[Addison D.]

I'm very excited about 'Kinky Boots'--I've got tix for the very beginning of previews as well as early in the run.

Cyndi Lauper is such an extraordinary talent and Harvey's no slouch--I think it could/should be remarkable.

I'm curious--is people's lack of excitement based on something tangible? Or just a gut-level thing?