Instead of posting these in the 2009-2010 Season thread, I thought I'd create a brand new discussion. All of the musicals that follow are either planned revivals or entirely new properties that are being tidied up at the moment.

***The lists will be cleaned up shortly.***

ANGELS
Director: Rich Fowler
Book & Lyrics: Ken Lai & Marcus Cheong
Music: Ken Lai
Cast: Robert Cuccioli, Jessica Grove, Nicholas Rodriguez
** New musical. Based on the epic Milton poem "Paradise Lost."

BETTY BOOP
Director: TBA
Book: Oscar Williams & Sally Robinson
Lyrics: TBA
Music: David Foster
Cast: TBA
** New musical. Based on the classic cartoon character.

BIG TIME
Director: Christopher Ashley
Book: Douglas Carter Beane
Music & Lyrics: Douglas J. Cohen
Cast: TBA
** New musical about down-on-their luck longue singers on the U.N. cruise ship that is held hostage by terrorists.

BRIGADOON
Director: Rob Ashford
New Book: John Guare
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe
Cast: TBA
** Two Americans journey to Scotland, and discover a magical village beyond their imagination.

BRUCE LEE: JOURNEY TO THE WEST
Director: Bartlett Sher
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang
Book: David Henry Hwang
Lyrics & Music: David Yazbek
Cast: TBA
** Musical centered on the martial arts movie star.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Director: Jack O'Brien
Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell
Book: Terrence McNally
Lyrics: Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Music: Marc Shaiman
Cast: Aaron Tveit, Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Wopat
** New musical based on the film of the same name.

DANCIN'
Director: Graciela Daniele
Choreographer: Graciela Daniele
Cast: TBA
** Roundabout Theatre Company revival of musical revue featuring Bob Fosse work.

DIRTY DANCING
Director: James Powell
Choreographer: Kate Champion
Book & Conception: Eleanor Bergstein
Lyrics & Music: TBA
Cast: Josef Brown, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Britta Lazenga
** New stage show (currently touring) based on the film of the same name.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Director: TBA
Book: Rick Elice, Marshall Brickman
Lyrics: TBA
Music: TBA
Cast: TBA
** New musical based on the film of the same name.

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Director: Michael Mayer
Playwright: Joanna Murray-Smith
Cast: TBA
** New drama centering on a feminist author who suddenly gets writer's block.

FENCES
Director: Suzan-Lori Parks
Playwright: August Wilson
Cast: TBA
** Revival of Wilson play, about a former Negro League baseball player who is now a garbage man.

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FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
Attached: India.Arie (Actor), Shirley Jo Finney (Director), Hinton Battle (Choreographer), Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group (Producers)

Revival (with revisions) of Ntozake Shange's work centering on seven women.

GODSPELL
Attached: Daniel Goldstein (Director), Christopher Gattelli (Choreographer), Gavin Creel, Diana DeGarmo, Joshua Henry (Actors), Adam Epstein (Producer)

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

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
Attached: Kenny Leon (Director), Todd Kreidler (adaptation) Jeffrey Finn Productions (Producer)

New play based on the film of the same name.

HOUDINI
Attached: Danny Elfman (Music), David Yazbek (Lyrics), Kurt Andersen (Book), Jack O'Brien (Director)

New musical centering on the magician and master escape artist.

LEAP OF FAITH
Attached: Alan Menken (Music), Glenn Slater (Lyrics), Janus Cercone (Book), Taylor Hackford (Director)

New musical based on the film of the same name.

LIBERACE: THE MAN, THE MUSIC AND THE MEMORIES
Attached: Wayland Pickard (Actor), Pamela Hall (Director), Edmund Gaynes and Nancy Bianconi (Producers)

A new musical about the life of the late pianist Lee Liberace.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Attached: Trevor Nunn (Director), Lynne Page (Choreographer), Tom Murray (Musical director), David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions, Andrew Fell and the Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh Group (Producers)

Transfer of the London revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical.

MERRY-GO-ROUND
Attached: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (Music and Lyrics), Paul Butler and Fred Fox, Jr. (Book), Andy Belling (Director), Larry Sousa (Choreographer), Bob Mackie (Costumes), Jack Stein & JNS Entertainment(Producers)

New musical about a troubled young man whose estranged father helps him travels back in time on the magical title device.

MINSKY'S
Attached: Casey Nicholaw (Director/Choreographer), Kevin McCollum and Bob Boyett (Producers)

Transfer of the new Charles Strouse-Susan Birkenhead-Bob Martin musical centering on a burlesque impresario.

NERDS://A MUSICAL SOFTWARE SATIRE
Attached: Erik Weiner and Jordan Allen-Dutton (Book, Lyrics), Hal Goldberg (Music), Jerry Zaks(Director)

New musical comedy following computer techies Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Attached: Harry Connick, Jr. (Actor), Joe DiPietro (Book), Broadway Across America (Producer)

New musical comedy with George and Ira Gershwin songs about a Long Island playboy.

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
Attached: Jerry Lewis (Director), Marvin Hamlisch (Music) and Rupert Holmes (Book and lyrics)

New musical based on the film of the same name.

ONCE
Attached: John N. Hart, Jr., Jeff Sine and Fred Zollo (Producers)

New musical based on the film of the same name.

PURE COUNTRY
Attached: Joe Nichols (Actor), Steve Dorff (Music, Lyrics), John Bettis (Lyrics), Rex McGee and Peter Masterson (Book), Peter Masterson (Director), Sean Curran (Choreographer)

New musical based on the film of the same name.

ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS
Attached: Peter Ackerman (book) Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen (score), Casey Nicholaw (Director, Choreographer), Barry Brown, Bruce Charet, Dennis Mastro, Dennis Farina and Billy Campbell (Producers)br>
A re-thinking of the 1964 Warner Brothers film of the same name.

RUSSIAN ON THE SIDE
Attached: Mark Nadler (Performer and Creator), Mark Waldrop (Director), Michael Alden and Karen Lotman (Producers)br>
One-man “comedy-in-music adventure” featuring the great American songbook music and gossip about its composers.

UNTITLED MANDELA/APARTHEID MUSICAL
Attached: Zindzi Mandela (Book), Welcome Msomi (Creator), Routh/Frankel/Baruch/Viertel Group and PSE Broadway LLC (Producers)

A new musical about South Africa's struggle for freedom from apartheid.

WHITE NOISE
Attached: Ryan J. Davis (Conceiver), Joe Drymala (book and score), Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel, Rick Crom, Glen Kelly, Laurence O'Keefe, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and Eric Svejcar (additional songs), Sibling Theatricals, Inc. and Holly Way & Co. (Producers)

New musical, seen at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, centering on sibling songwriters.

THE WIZ
Attached: Des McAnuff (Director),

Re-imagined production of the Charlie Smalls-William F. Brown musical based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

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Can we please STOP with the musicals based on films of the same name? Good Lord! Between those and the revivals, is there anything wholly original on this list?

I am dismayed about the future of Broadway. Where are the original works? I love to go to NYC when I can - usually yearly - to see several shows, but I can honestly say there's nothing on this list to entice me to make the trip in 2010.

That's exactly what I thought when I first looked over the list. It is filled to the brim with movie-to-musicals. Even Once, which was a musical movie to begin with, could get redundant, though I still think its heartfelt lyrics will be just as compelling on the Great White Way.

I got to the point where, when I saw White Noise on the list, I was expecting to see that they were bringing the Michael Keaton horror film to Broadway. However, this Noise looks like it could be quite interesting, particularly because it has additional songs written by the up-and-coming duo Pasek & Paul, who, if you haven't heard their work, are all over YouTube right now. After meeting in college, they wrote Edges, which is a song cycle of sorts (in other words, a musical without any book). This should be, I believe, the first official musical that they are contributing to.

(However, they started writing a Peter Pan musical that was simply breath-taking. Why they cancelled it, I'm don't know. Gavin Creel is on YouTube, singing "Do You Remember" from their Peter Pan cancellation. When I have a chance, I'll post a link. It's a gorgeous number.)

Just to see how many of these in-the-works were original, film-based or other types of adaptations, here the musicals are seperated.

ORIGINALS
Big Time
Merry-Go-Round
Minsky's
Untitled Mandela/Apartheid Musical
White Noise

REVIVALS
Brigadoon
Dancin'
Godspell
A Little Night Music
The Wiz

MOVIE-TO-MUSICALS
Catch Me If You Can
Dirty Dancing
Father of the Bride
Leap of Faith
Nutty Professor
Once
Pure Country

ADAPTATIONS
Angels
Betty Boop
Bruce Lee: Journey to the West
Houdini
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Russian on the Side


So the list of Originals isn't as short as I thought it would be. But still, the movie-to-musicals and adaptations are overwhelming in comparison.

The one I'm most interested in... Angels. I'm really curious about how "Paradise Lost" could work as a musical. I'm not saying it's gunna be any good, but I do think it would be interesting to see.

Kristin Chenoweth has compared her voice to Betty Boop's in the past, maybe she should consider starring in that. It could have potential.

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Kristin Chenoweth has compared her voice to Betty Boop's in the past, maybe she should consider starring in that. It could have potential.

There isn't really a linear plot with Betty Boop as is. The storyline would have to be invented by those involved... which translates to the concept that no matter how much speculation we do about the musical's story, we have no friggin' clue.

Chenoweth as Betty Boop? The only idea I've heard so far, so there you have it.

Question: Since Brigadoon is having a new book written for it, could it become eligible once again for Best Book at the Tonys? Would the committee have to decide that? Before you push the idea aside, remember that Little Mermaid was qualified for Best Score despite more than half the songs being un-original to the stage production. That's how the committee sometimes works.

Kristin Chenoweth as Betty Boop =

Also the Once musical could be very interesting! But I'm wondering how the Untitled Mandela/Apartheid Musical would work...

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Originally posted by bocaboy7:
Kristin Chenoweth as Betty Boop =

That's such a weird thought. I don't know if I like it or not.

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Also the Once musical could be very interesting!

That one actually could be very intimate. I imagine that, like the film, one of the first images is the male lead standing center-stage, singing a song faced out to the audience.

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But I'm wondering how the Untitled Mandela/Apartheid Musical would work...

Well, there's this apartheid... and it's got music....