The 2014 - 2015 Season has begun! But first...
The First Opening Night: July 14. 2013
The Last Opening Night: April 24, 2014
Well, Smash got cancelled, and Spider-Man closed. But Broadway continues to be a part of the National landscape. And that is a very good thing. With the Tonight Show back in New York, there's even more Broadway on late night. Frozen introduced a whole bunch of families to a very Broadway sound - written by the latest (and youngest) member of the EGOT club - Robert Lopez. And then John Travolta introduced the world to Adele Dazeem, and a very Broadway-style song, "Let It Go," made the Billboard Top 10. The pop version did not. As a result, the whole world, not just her long term Broadway fans, knows the name Idina Menzel.
Oh, and there was actually a Broadway season, too! And, really, what a season! There were a few clunkers, and no one show really broke out as a sensation. BUT, and this is big for me, ALL of the shows - even the clunkers - has some really great things about them. True excellence. From discovering the fantastic Amber Imam in Soul Doctor to the dazzling company of Twelfth Night to the breathtaking The Glass Menagerie to the heartbreaking The Bridges of Madison County all the way to the perfectly marvelous Michelle Williams in Cabaret. There were star turns aplenty - Idina, Fantasia, etc. - and there were stars galore, too. Most of the movie stars this season joined the ranks of the show folk by bringing their "A game," like stage veterans Denzel Washington, Marisa Tomei, Toni Colette, Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Craig, and debutantes Zach Braff, Zachary Levi, Zachary Quinto, Orlando Bloom, and Debra Messing. And there were several career-defining performances including Andy Karl, Sutton Foster, Will Swensen, Tyne Daly, and maybe the two most celebrated performances of the season: Audra McDonald and Neil Patrick Harris. No matter how the Tony nominations turned out today, I think Broadway fans were the biggest winners of all.
Below is the breakdown of all 40 shows that opened this season, plus some interesting categories, including a look at how many shows actually started out as BOOKS, not MOVIES! And you'll see *, which means that the show stars actors known primarily for their stage career, and **, which means that the show features actors known primarily for their film and TV work.
Special Presentation: 700 Sundays
Special Presentations (4):
None of these shows were deemed eligible for the 2014 Tony Awards.
Forever Tango Il Divo: A Musical Affair
Let It Be 700 Sundays
Play Revival: A Raisin in the Sun
Play Revivals (14):
Romeo and Juliet No Man's Land
The Glass Menagerie Waiting for Godot
The Winslow Boy Machinal
Betrayal A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night, or What You Will Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Richard III Of Mice and Men
Macbeth The Cripple of Inishmaan
Musical Revival: Violet
Musical Revivals (4):
Les Miserables Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Violet Cabaret
New Play: Mothers and Sons
New Plays (10):
A Time to Kill Mothers and Sons
The Snow Geese The Realistic Joneses
Outside Mullingar Act One
Bronx Bombers The Velocity of Autumn
All the Way Casa Valentina
New Musical: Bullets Over Broadway
New Musicals (12):
First Date Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Soul Doctor The Bridges of Madison County
Big Fish Rocky
A Night with Janis Joplin Aladdin
After Midnight If/Then
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Bullets Over Broadway
Audra McDonald in
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Stage Star* Vehicles (13):
The Bridges of Madison County If/Then
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Big Fish
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill The Snow Geese
Mothers and Sons Violet
The Velocity of Autumn The Glass Menagerie
Twelfth Night/Richard III No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot
Lady Day at Emerson' Bar and Grill
Daniel Radcliffe in
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Movie/TV Star** Vehicles (11):
First Date Bullets Over Broadway
Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses
All the Way A Raisin in the Sun
Cabaret Of Mice and Men
Betrayal The Cripple of Inishmaan
Romeo and Juliet
Rocky
Based on a Movie (3):
Rocky Aladdin Bullets Over Broadway
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Based on a Book (10):
Big Fish The Bridges of Madison County
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Cabaret
A Time to Kill Act One
Casa Valentina Violet
Les Miserables Of Mice and Men
First Date
Completely Original (10):
First Date If/Then Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Realistic Joneses Mothers and Sons The Snow Geese
Bronx Bombers Outside Mullingar The Velocity of Autumn
All the Way
A Night with Janis Joplin
Real People (7):
A Night with Janis Joplin Soul Doctor
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Bronx Bombers
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Act One
All the Way
Twelfth Night
The Bard (4):
Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Twelfth Night Richard III
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