While I am still holding out to see Fun Home and Hamilton, I am getting pretty excited about Broadway's next line up of shows in 2016. Whether it be a movie musical, a favorite childhood book turned into a musical, or a star-studded cast in a hilarious revival of a play, I know where I'm going to be spending my paycheck next year. Check out the top 6 highly anticipated musicals and plays hitting the stage next several months ahead. What are you most excited to see?
- Theatre: Brooks Atkinson
- First Preview: March 25, 2016
- Opening: April 24, 2016
- Written by Sara Bareilles (music & lyrics), Jessie Nelson (book), Adrienne Shelly (original screenplay)
- Director: Diane Paulus
- Cast: Jessie Mueller
- Based on the 2007 film of the same name, which follows a pregnant waitress named Jenna who is unhappily married in the Deep South. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
- Theatre: Broadhurst
- First Preview: March 31, 2016
- Opening: April 26, 2016
- Written by Nathan Tysen (lyrics), Chris Miller (music), Claudia Shear (book)
- Director: Casey Nicholaw
- Cast: Sarah Charles Lewis, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Carolee Carmello, Michael Park, Terrence Mann
- Good girl Winnie Foster’s world has been safely contained behind the picket fence that surrounds the house she shares with her mother and grandmother. Yearning to break free, Winnie runs deep into the woods behind their house where she discovers the Tuck family and the secret they’ve been keeping.
- Theatre: Gerald Schoenfeld
- First Preview: March 24, 2016
- Opening: TBA
- Written by Duncan Sheik (music & lyrics), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (book)
- Director: Rupert Goold
- Cast: Benjamin Walker, Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano
- Patrick Bateman's days are driven by his obsessive and over-the-top materialism; by night, his mask of sanity slips away as he descends into a chilling indulgence in drugs, prostitution and murder.
- Theatre: American Airlines
- First Preview: December 17, 2015
- Opening: January 14, 2016
- Written by Michael Frayn
- Director: Jeremy Herrin
- Cast: Andrea Martin, Megan Hilty, Jeremy Shamos
- Roundabout Theatre Company revives Frayn's farce.
- Theatre: Lyceum
- First Preview: April 2, 2016
- Opening: April 25, 2016
- Written by Becky Mode
- Director: Jason Moore
- Cast: Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Broadway premiere of the hit 1999 play, about a harried reservations clerk at a hot restaurant with a mob of crazy guests...all played by one actor.
- Theatre: Walter Kerr
- First Preview: February 29, 2016
- Opening: April 7, 2016
- Written by Arthur Miller
- Director: Ivo van Hove
- Cast: Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan, Ciaran Hinds. Sophie Okonedo.
- Arthur Miller's political allegory framed as a story about a man falsely charged with witchcraft in colonial, Salem, MA.
Check out all the other musicals and plays hitting the Great White Way in 2016.
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