Winter/Spring Theater Preview

 
David Greenspan’s The Myopia, an Epic Burlesque of Tragic Proportion (Jan 6) plays Atlantic Stage 2. Victor Garber stars in a new Broadway production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter (Jan 21) directed by Nicholas Martin and co-starring Brooks Ashmanskas and Harriet Harris. The Divine Sister (Feb 6)  is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns, written by and starring Charles Busch. The Transport Group revives Mart Crowley’s landmark gay drama, The Boys in the Band (Feb 19). Tony-award winners John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle to star as Mr. & Mrs. Fitch (Feb 22), a scathing world-premiere comedy about gossip columnists by Douglas Carter Beane and directed by Scott Ellis. Jon Marans’ The Tempermentals (Feb 28) transfers to off-Broadway under the direction of Jonathan Silverstein to tell the story of the early gay rights activists Harry Hay (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Rudi Gernreich (Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie), who founded the Mattachine Society.
 
The Vineyard will present the world premiere of the Kander & Ebb musical, The Scottsboro Boys (Mar 10), directed by Susan Stroman, which explores the infamous Scottsboro case of the 1930s. The critically acclaimed off-Broadway production of Geoffrey Nauff’s Next Fall (Mar 11), directed by Sheryl Kaller transfers to the Helen Hayes with its original cast. Valerie Harper returns to Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in Looped (Mar 14), Matthew Lombardo’s new comedy at the Lyceum that tells the story of Bankhead’s infamous 1965 recording session to re-dub one line of dialogue for what turned out to be her last film, Die, Die My Darling. Legendary Stephen Sondheim will have a multitude of 80th birthday celebrations: the New York Philharmonic’s Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (Mar 15–16); Roundabout’s Sondheim 80 (Mar 22); and City Center’s Stephen Sondheim (Apr 26) to mention just three. Michael Feinstein & Dame Edna Everage share (?) the spotlight in All About Me (Mar 18) at the Henry Miller, written by Christopher Durang and directed by Jerry Zaks; let the mayhem begin!
 
The Addams Family (Apr 8), the new musical by Andrew Lippa (score), Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (book), stars Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Terrence Mann, Carolee Carmello, Kevin Chamberlain and Jackie Hoffman. London’s critically acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of Jerry Herman’s La Cage aux Folles (Apr 18), starring Douglas Hodge and Kelsey Grammer, is directed by Terry Johnson and choreographed by Lynne Page. Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat headline in the Roundabout’s new Broadway musical, Sondheim on Sondheim (Apr 22), directed by James Lapine and co-starring Norm Lewis, Leslie Kritzer and Euan Morton. The first Broadway revival of Bacharach & David’s Promises, Promises (Apr 25) will star Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, with direction and choreography by Rob Ashford in his Broadway directorial debut.    N