The Off-Broadway hit Spring Awakening will be moving to Broadway. Duncan Sheik's hit, currently playing at the Atlantic Theater Company, will be looking for a Broadway berth come fall.
The upcoming musical season is shaping up to be very interesting:
Legally Blonde
High Fidelity
The Times, They Are A Changin'
Grey Gardens
Spring Awakening
Mary Poppins
Anyone care to take a guess as to what four shows will receive a best-musical nomination? Yeah, it's a bit premature. But Grey Gardens and Spring Awakening have already established themselves as crowd pleasers, and to a certain extent critic pleasers, so they seem very likely to get nods. Mary Poppins is a huge hit in London, but that don't mean nothin' when it comes to nominations.
High Fidelity and Legally Blonde could go one way or the other. (I just got my ticket for the Boston tryout of High Fidelity, so I'll be sure to let you know what I think once I've seen it.) And Twyla Tharp's new Bob Dylan piece certainly has a shot, although I'm not a huge fan of Movin' Out.
Two remote possibilities I've left off the above list are Princesses and A Tale of Two Cities, but as I said yesterday, I don't really see either of those really coming to Broadway, at least not this season. Oh, and then there's The Grinch, which is scheduled for a limited run at the newly vacated Hilton Theater.
All in all, an intriguing season coming up, filled with unlikely Off-Broadway transfers, over-hyped behemoths, and everything in between.
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