What's on tap this season?

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Since we've been behind here at bwaydaily , I thought maybe it'd be a good idea to post some of the shows on tap for the 2011-2012 season.



FOLLIES

Theatre: Marquis Theatre

First Preview: August 7

Opening: September 12

Director: Eric Schaeffer

Cast: Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines, Danny Burstein

The Kennedy Center's critically-acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Follies will transfer to Broadway this summer for a limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre.

MAN AND BOY

Theatre: American Airlines Theatre

First Preview: September 9

Opening: October 9

Closing: November 27

Director: Maria Aitken

Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Siberry, Adam Driver, Zach Grenier, Francesca Faridany, Brian Hutchison

In Terence Rattigan's play, Frank Langella is Gregor Antonescu, a calculating businessman who reunites with his alienated son in order to solve financial issues in a time of economic turmoil.

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Theatre: Brooks Atkinson Theatre

First Preview: September 20

Opening: October 20

Director: John Turturro

Cast: Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud, Marlo Thomas, Katherine Borowitz, Jason Kravits, Richard Libertini, Mark Linn-Baker, Patricia O'Connell

An evening one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May.

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Theatre: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

First Preview: September 22

Opening: October 13

Director: Kenny Leon

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett

The play reimagines the events of the night before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphis in 1968, following the delivery of his iconic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

CHINGLISH

Theatre: Longacre Theatre

First Preview: October 11

Director: Leigh Silverman

Cast: TBA

In David Henry Hwang's new work, "Daniel, a Midwestern American businessman who's desperately looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm, travels to the provincial capital of Guiyang, only to learn how much he doesn't understand: his translators are unreliable, his Australian-born consultant, Peter, may be a fraud, and he is captivated by Xu Yan, the beautiful, seemingly supportive government official who talks the talk - but what is she saying, anyway?"

OTHER DESERT CITIES

Theatre: Booth Theatre

First Preview: October 12

Opening: November 3

Director: Joe Mantello

Cast: Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Judith Light, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski

Jon Robin Baitz's drama about a wealthy Republican family attempting to kick sand over its past will arrive on Broadway at the Booth Theatre this fall.

VENUS IN FUR

Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

First Preview: October 13

Opening: TBA

Director: Walter Bobbie

Cast: Nina Arianda, Hugh Dancy

In David Ives' play, Nina Arianda plays Vanda, a gifted young actress eager to win a role in a new play based on the classic erotic novel, "Venus in Fur." According to MTC, "Her emotionally charged audition for [writer] Thomas... becomes an electrifying game of cat and mouse blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex."

GODSPELL

Theatre: Circle in the Square

First Preview: October 13

Opening: November 7

Director: Daniel Goldstein

Cast: Hunter Parrish, Telly Leung, Uzo Aduba, Nick Blaemire, Morgan James

Revival of the Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak musical based on "The Gospel According to St. Matthew."

BONNIE AND CLYDE

Theatre: Schoenfeld Theatre

First Preview: November 4

Opening: December 1

Director: Jeff Calhoun

Cast: Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan

Frank Wildhorn's new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws.

PRIVATE LIVES

Theatre: The Music Box Theatre

First Preview: November 6

Opening: November 17

Director: Richard Eyre

Cast: Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Simon Paisley Day, Anna Madeley

The Noël Coward classic comedy concerns divorced Amanda (Cattrall) and Elyot (Gross) meeting again on adjoining hotel balconies while they are on their honeymoons with their respective new spouses.

LYSISTRATA JONES

Theatre: Walter Kerr Theatre

First Preview: November 12

Opening: December 14

Director: Dan Knechtges

Cast: TBA

In the new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, "The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop 'giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end."

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER

Theatre: St. James Theatre

First Preview: November 12

Opening: December 11

Director: Michael Mayer

Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Jessie Mueller, David Turner

The musical has been reconceived by Tony-winning director Michael Mayer, with a new book by Peter Parnell. The Tony Award-nominated score by Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) is enhanced by classics from their film scores for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970) and "Royal Wedding" (1951). The new libretto is based on the original book by Lerner.

AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre

First Preview: November 16

Opening: November 21

Cast: Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin

The concert performance reunites these Tony Award-winning stars. "Much more than a concert, this is a unique musical love story told entirely through a masterful selection of the greatest songs ever written for the stage."

STICK FLY

Theatre: Cort Theatre

First Preview: November 18

Opening: December 8

Director: Kenny Leon

Cast: TBA

Lydia R. Diamond's play "follows the LeVays, an affluent African American family who come together to spend a summer weekend at their Martha’s Vineyard home. The adult sons, aspiring novelist Kent and golden boy plastic surgeon Flip, have each brought their respective ladies (one Black and one White) to meet the parents. Food, drink and Trivial Pursuit tangle with class, race and identity politics in this contemporary comedy of manners."

DETROIT

Theatre: TBA

First Preview: Fall 2011

Director: Austin Pendleton

Cast: TBA

The new American play by Lisa D'Amour received its world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "In a 'first ring' suburb outside a mid-sized American city," press notes state, "Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who’ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control - with unexpected consequences. Shining a light on middle class American Dream, Detroit looks at what happens when we open ourselves up to something new."

SEMINAR

Theatre: TBA

First Preview: Fall 2011

Director: Sam Gold

Cast: Alan Rickman

Theresa Rebeck's play is about "four young writers who are thrilled to be participating in a private seminar taught by the brilliant but unpredictable Leonard (Rickman), an international literary legend. But as Leonard deems some students more promising than others, tensions arise. Sex is used as a weapon, alliances are made and broken, and it's not just the wordplay that turns vicious…"

THE ROAD TO MECCA

Theatre: American Airlines Theatre

First Preview: December 16

Opening: January 17, 2012

Director: Gordon Edelstein

Cast: Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale, Carla Gugino

Here's how Roundabout Theatre Company bills the Athol Fugard work: "Set in the region of South Africa known as the Karoo, The Road to Mecca tells the story of an elderly woman who has spent the years since her husband's death transforming her home into an intricate and dazzling work of art. The reclusive Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris) has become depressed and appears increasingly unable to care for herself. Pastor Marius Byleveld, who embodies the village's conservative values, is determined to get Miss Helen into an old-age home. Her friend Elsa (Carla Gugino), a young teacher from Cape Town who is deeply suspicious of the patriarchal traditions Byleveld represents, is just as determined that Miss Helen remain free."

PORGY AND BESS

Theatre: Richard Rodgers Theatre

First Preview: December 17

Opening: January 12, 2012

Director: Diane Paulus

Cast: Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier, Joshua Henry, Nikki Renee Daniels, Phillip Boykin, Bryonha Marie Parham, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Cedric Neal, J.D. Webster, Heather Hill, Phumzile Sojola, Nathaniel Stampley

A new production of the classic musical comes to Broadway following a late summer run at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts. Set in the fictional Catfish Row, SC, Porgy and Bess tells of the crippled beggar Porgy and his love for Bess. With music by George Gershwin, lyrics by his brother Ira and a book by DuBose Heyward, the work includes such songs as "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Man's Gone Now," "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York," "Summertime," "I Got Plenty o' Nothin'" and "It Ain't Necessarily So."

WIT

Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

First Preview: January 5, 2012

Opening: January 26, 2012

Director: Lynne Meadow

Cast: Cynthia Nixon

Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play receives its Broadway premiere. Here's how MTC bills the work: "Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor (Nixon) as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research."

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This is obviously not an extensive list, so check with Playbill (and here!) often.