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.
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.
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).
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.
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...)
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.
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...?
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.
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.
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