ENRON to Open on Broadway in April 2010

ENRON, written by Lucy Prebble, recently began a six-week run at London's Royal Court Theatre on September 17 and will move to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre on January 16, prior to an official opening Jan. 26, 2010. It will replace the soon-to-close CALENDAR GIRLS. The New York Times is reporting that the production will move to Broadway at a Shubert Theater to be determined in April 2010. The Broadway transfer will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT Productions, Caro Newling for Neal St. Productions and The Shubert Organization.  

Based on the real-life financial scandal of 2001, ENRON premiered this summer at the Chichester Festival.  It's British incarnation is produced by Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre in conjunction with Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT Productions, Caro Newling for Neal St. Productions, Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel.  It is directed by Rupert Goold and designed by 2009 Tony Award winner Anthony Ward.  Music and sound is by Adam Cork, with lighting by Mark Henderson, video and projection by Jon Driscoll and movement by Scott Ambler.

The show stars original cast Samuel West, Gllian Budd, Peter Caulfield, Howard Charles, Andrew Corbett, Amanda Drew, Susannah Fellows, Stephen Fewell, Tom Godwin, Tom Goodman-Hill, Orion Lee, Eleanor Matsuura, Tim Pigott-Smith, Ashley Rolfe, and Trevor White.

Rupert Goold's previous productions include Chichester's Minerva Theatre staging of Macbeth (that transferred to the West End and Broadway) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (transferred to the West End, and is set for a fall U.K. tour beginning September 26 at Bristol Old Vic. Additional credits include Time and the Conways at the National Theatre, Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear, and West End productions of Pinter's No Man's Land and Oliver! (currently at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). He is currently directing Turandot for English National Opera, where it opens at the London Coliseum on Oct. 8.