Garth Drabinsky Sets MADAME SOUSATZKA Musical For Broadway Return

Deadline has reported that producer Garth Drabinsky's musical adaptation of the novel Madame Sousatzka, will arrive on Broadway next fall following an out-of-town tryout in Toronto this spring.

The novel MADAME SOUSATZKA centers on a renowned Russian piano teacher, Irina Sousatzka, who gets a new student -- Bengali piano prodigy Manek. The pair quickly forms a bond over their immigrant backgrounds.

Following a stop at Toronto's Elgin Theatre from February 25th through April 9th, the show is expected to make its way to New York next October at a yet unannounced Broadway theater. The show, which has a score by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, is set to include Tony Award-winners Judy Kaye and Victoria Clark and Tony nominee Montego Glover, who BroadwayWorld previously reported would be taking part in a workshop of the show.

Though the show is scheduled to cross the border for a Broadway run, it is likely that the Canadian impresario will not be coming along with it. The producer of acclaimed Broadway productions of "Show Boat" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" remains under indictment with the SEC following the 1998 collapse of the fraudulent Production Company, Livent, which Drabinsky famously drove into bankruptcy.

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