GHOST THE MUSICAL

• Theatre: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
• Previews: March 15
• Opening: April 23
• Director: Matthew Warchus
• Cast: Caissie Levy, Richard Fleeshman
• The high-tech London pop musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film transfers to Broadway. According to producers, "Ghost The Musical is a timeless fantasy about the power of love. Walking back to their apartment one night, Sam and Molly are mugged, leaving Sam murdered on a dark street. Sam is trapped as a ghost between this world and the next and unable to leave Molly who he learns is in grave danger. With the help of a phony storefront psychic, Oda Mae Brown, Sam tries to communicate with Molly in the hope of saving and protecting her."

CLYBOURNE PARK

• Theatre: Walter Kerr Theatre
• First Preview: March 26
• Opening: April 19
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
• Cast: Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos, Frank Wood
• The Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum's January 2012 production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play will move to Broadway to open in spring 2012. According to CTG, "In 1959, the house, which is located in a white neighborhood at 406 Clybourne St. in Chicago, is sold to an African-American family (the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun). Then, in 2009, after the neighborhood changed into an African-American community, the house is sold to a white couple. It is through this prism of property ownership that Norris' lacerating sense of humor dissects race relations and middle class hypocrisies in America."

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

• Theatre: Imperial Theatre
• First Preview: March 29
• Opening: April 24
• Director: Kathleen Marshall
• Cast: Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Judy Kaye, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Michael McGrath, Estelle Parsons
• The new show "features some of George and Ira Gershwin's most beloved songs as well as some unknown gems in the Gershwin catalog. This screwball romantic comedy takes place in the 1920s and centers around a wealthy playboy who gets mixed up with a hilarious trio of bootleggers."

• Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
• First Preview: March 30
• Opening: April 26
• Director: John Tillinger
• Cast: Ben Daniels, Jennifer Tilly, Melora Hardin, Spencer Kayden, Adam James
• Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress for Dinner, featuring the further farcical adventures of Robert and Bernard, from the author's Boeing-Boeing, will get a new Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre in spring 2012.

THE COLUMNIST

• Theatre: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
• First Preview: April 3
• Opening: April 25
• Director: Daniel Sullivan
• Cast: John Lithgow
• David Auburn's latest drama portrays the dilemma faced by powerful Washington columnist Joseph Alsop, who publicly hosted the Kennedy Camelot circle while keeping hidden deep parts of himself.

LEAP OF FAITH

• Theatre: St. James Theatre
• First Preview: April 3
• Opening: April 26
• Director: Christopher Ashley
• Cast: Raul Esparza, Jessica Phillips, Kendra Kassebaum
• With music by Academy and Grammy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater, Leap of Faith had its world premiere in Los Angeles.

THE LYONS

• Theatre: Cort Theatre
• First Preview: April 5
• Opening: April 23
• Director: Mark Brokaw
• Cast: Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley, Gregory Wooddell
• The Lyons is "an outrageously funny and stirring work about a family grappling with the impending death of its patriarch. When Ben Lyons’ wife, Rita, and their grown children gather to say goodbye, they learn that despite being a family, each of them is utterly isolated. Afraid of closeness and afraid of solitude, they are propelled into foreign territory - human connection."

HARVEY

• Theatre: Studio 54
• First Preview: May 18
• Opening: June 14
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht, Charles Kimbrough
• Jim Parsons, according to Roundabout, stars as "one of modern theatre's most lovable characters, Elwood P. Dowd. Charming and kind, Elwood has only one character flaw: an unwavering friendship with a 6-foot-tall, invisible white rabbit named Harvey. In order to save the family's social reputation, Elwood’s sister Veta (Jessica Hecht) takes Elwood to the local sanatorium. But when the doctors mistakenly commit his anxiety-ridden sister, Elwood — and Harvey—slip out of the hospital unbothered, setting off a hilarious whirlwind of confusion and chaos as everyone in town tries to catch a man and his invisible rabbit."

FLASHDANCE

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: August 2012
• Opening: September 20, 2012
• Director: Sergio Trujillo
• Cast: TBA
• Flashdance, the movie-inspired pop-rock musical that had a short life in London in 2010-11, is aiming for Broadway following a Toronto engagement.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Opening: October 13, 2012
• Director: Pam MacKinnon
• Cast: Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Carrie Coon, Madison Dirks
• The acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage in Washington, DC, comes to Broadway.

THE ANARCHIST

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: David Mamet
• Cast: Patti LuPone, Laurie Metcalf
• Set in a female penitentiary, the two-woman drama by David Mamet casts LuPone as Cathy, a longtime inmate with ties to a violent political organization, who pleads for parole from the warden, Ann, to be played by Metcalf.

DINER

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: Kathleen Marshall
• Cast: TBA
• Diner features a book by Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Barry Levinson, who directed and wrote the screenplay for the original film, and music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. "It’s Christmas 1959 in Baltimore and six high school buddies, now in their twenties, reunite as the second member of the group is about to tie the knot," according to press notes. "Trying to deal with their new responsibilities, the group has awkwardly stumbled into adulthood and the only place they can make sense of their new lives is at their old hangout, The Fells Point Diner."

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

• Theatre: Studio 54
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: Scott Ellis
• Cast: Chita Rivera
• Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will step into the world of the British Music Hall this fall for the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Rupert Holmes musical.

PRINCE OF BROADWAY

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Opening: November 4, 2012
• Director: Harold Prince and Susan Stroman
• Cast: Linda Lavin, Sebastian Arcelus, Sierra Boggess, Daniel Breaker, Josh Grisetti, Shuler Hensley, Richard Kind, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Tony winner LaChanze, Caroline O'Connor, David Pittu, Emily Skinner
• Here's how the project is characterized: "Celebrating the most influential and successful career in the American theatre of the past 60 years, Prince of Broadway will look at the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to Hal Prince creating some of the most enduring and beloved theater of all time, from 1954's The Pajama Game to The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history."

ANNIE

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Fall 2012
• Director: James Lapine
• Cast: TBA
• The new production of the Tony Award-winning musical will open at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. The show, inspired by the Harold Gray comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," features music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan.

BIG FISH

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: Spring 2013
• Director: Susan Stroman
• Cast: TBA
• The fanciful new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will be directed and choreographed by Stroman (Contact, Crazy for You, The Producers), with music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family) and a libretto by August.

CINDERELLA

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2012-2013
• Director: Mark Brokaw
• Cast: Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana
• A re-imagined revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. The classic musical is getting a new dramatic approach from Tony Award-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane.

A FEW GOOD MEN

• First Preview: 2012-2013 season
• Attached: David Esbjornson (Director ), Ken Davenport (Producer)
• A revival of the Aaron Sorkin military-fueled courtroom drama.

YANK!

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2012-2013 Season
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: TBA
• Yank! A WWII Love Story has music by Joseph Zellnik with book and lyrics by David Zellnik. Set during World War II, Yank!, according to press notes, "chronicles the relationship between two servicemen long before Don't Ask Don't Tell was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940s, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival."

PICNIC

• Theatre: American Airlines Theatre
• First Preview: Winter 2013
• Director: Sam Gold
• Cast: TBA
• William Inge's play about passions of Midwesterners aroused when a stranger comes to town over a hot Labor Day holiday originally opened in 1953, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1955.

HOUDINI

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2013-2014 season
• Director: Jack O'Brien
• Cast: Hugh Jackman
• Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman will bring his magic back to Broadway during the 2013-2014 season in the new Stephen Schwartz-Aaron Sorkin musical.

BULLETS OVER BROADWAY

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: 2013
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• A musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Academy Award-nominated film, about a playwright whose first taste of success comes with mobsters and a domineering diva attached, will arrive on Broadway in 2013.

EMPIRE

• First Preview: 2012
• Director: Matt Lenz
• Cast: TBA
• An original musical, romantic comedy with book, music & lyrics by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Empire is a love story set against the construction of the Empire State Building. When an ambitious architect and hard-headed reporter tangle, the stage is set for a collision of dreams and daring as the iconic New York City landmark rises into the sky, creating a symbol of hope at a time when the city needed it most.

JEKYLL & HYDE

• Director: Jeff Calhoun
• Cast: Constantine Maroulis
• Nederlander Presentations, Inc. announced Jan. 29 that Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde will return to Broadway in spring 2013 for a limited engagement following a 25-week national tour.

MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Judith Ivey
• Cast: America Ferrera
• EW.com reports that Ferrera will play the role created by Holly Hunter in the original Off-Broadway production of Beth Henley's Miss Firecracker Contest. The play "is the story of Carnelle Scott, a young, rebellious, and slightly unruly woman living in the small town of Brookhaven, Mississippi. Carnelle desperately wants to win the local Miss Firecracker Contest, convinced that it will restore her reputation and allow her to leave Brookhaven in 'a crimson blaze of glory.' As she works her way towards the coveted title of Miss Firecracker, she is joined by an eccentric but loyal group of supporters."

REBECCA

• Director: Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello
• Cast: TBA
• The musical, based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, "is the story of Maxim de Winter, his new wife [simply, 'I,' as in the first-person] and Mrs. Danvers, the controlling and manipulative housekeeper of Maxim's West Country estate of Manderley — where the memory of his first wife, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, still casts a shadow." Having premiered in Vienna in 2006, Rebecca features original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze, music by Sylvester Levay, English book adaptation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard) and English lyrics by Hampton and Kunze.

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Peter DuBois
• Cast: TBA
• A new dramatic adaptation of Manuel Puig's novel is being adapted by Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries") and Allan Baker.

THE OLD MASTERS

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Michael Rudman
• Cast: Brian Murray and Sam Waterston
• Simon Gray's work premieres at Long Wharf in January prior to a Broadway transfer.

DETROIT

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• 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."

KINKY BOOTS

• Director: Jerry Mitchell
• Cast: TBA
• Based on the 2005 film about a failing British shoe company that becomes a fetish-footwear manufacturer. Features new music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and libretto by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein.

FAT PIG

• Theatre: Belasco Theatre
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Neil LaBute
• Cast: TBA
• Neil LaBute 's Fat Pig, according to press notes, "tells the story of Tom, a very eligible bachelor who falls for the beautiful, bright and plus-sized Helen. Tom is overjoyed with his new relationship but his shallow co-workers are less enthusiastic. Tom shrugs off their objections but eventually the cruel jabs of his acerbic friend Carter and Jeannie, a former flame, force him to question his own values and the importance of conventional good looks."

FUNNY GIRL

• Theatre: TBA
• Opening: TBA
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Bobby Cannavale
• "Six Feet Under" star Lauren Ambrose will inhabit legendary vaudeville comedienne Fanny Brice in a Center Theatre Group production that will premiere at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre prior to an intended Broadway transfer.

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: David Cromer
• Cast: Nicole Kidman
• The show, according to previous production notes, "tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she will be the source of re-uniting him with his childhood sweetheart, Heavenly Finley. Chance has no idea that his past actions have damaged Heavenly's life or that her Mayor father has sworn out an edict on him."

TOXIC AVENGER

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: TBA
• Cast: TBA
• The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical about an unlikely superhero in New Jersey that played over 300 performances at Off-Broadway's New World Stages may be headed to Broadway. A casting notice for the upcoming run at Houston's Alley Theater (Jan. 20-Feb. 12, 2012) says that Broadway rehearsals will begin in early March 2012 with an opening at the end of March/early April.

ENTER LAUGHING

• Theatre: TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Stuart Ross
• Cast: TBA
• The showbiz comedy, authored by late Tony Award winner Joseph Stein and Stan Daniels, is inspired by the early life of writer Carl Reiner.

UNCHAIN MY HEART

• TBA
• First Preview: TBA
• Director: Sheldon Epps
• Cast: Brandon Victor Dixon, Nikki Renée Daniels, Harrison White, Tasha Taylor
• A new Suzan-Lori Parks-scripted musical centering on the life of entertainer Ray Charles.

ANGELS

• Attached: Ken Lai (book, music and lyrics) and Marcus Cheong (book and lyrics), Rich Fowler (Director), Robert Cuccioli, Jessica Grové and Nicholas Rodriguez (Actors), Marcus Cheong, Frank Monteleone, Dale Smith (Producers)
• New musical based on the epic Milton poem "Paradise Lost."

BETTY BOOP

• Attached: David Foster (Music), Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson (Book), Ostar Productions (Producer)
• New musical based on the classic cartoon character.

BIG TIME

• Attached: Douglas Carter Beane (Book), Douglas J. Cohen (Music and Lyrics), Christopher Ashley (Director), Robert Ahrens (Producer)
• New musical about down-on-their-luck lounge singers on a U.N. cruise ship that is held hostage by terrorists.

BRIGADOON

• Attached: Rob Ashford (Director), John Guare (New Book), Ostar Productions and Liza Lerner (Producers)
• Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical centering on two Americans journey in Scotland.

BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL

• Attached: Andy Blankenbuehler (Director, Choreographer), Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt (music), Amanda Green (lyrics), Jeff Whitty (Book), Universal Pictures Stage Productions with Charlie Lyons and Armyan Bernstein of Beacon Communications (Producer)
• New musical set in the world of competitive cheerleading.

BRUCE LEE: JOURNEY TO THE WEST

• Attached: Bartlett Sher (Director), Elephant Eye Theatrical (Producer), Dou Dou Huang (Choreographer)
• A new David Yazbek-David Henry Hwang musical centering on the martial arts movie star.

DANCIN'

• Attached: Graciela Daniele (Director, Choreographer), Roundabout Theatre Company (Producers)
• Revival of the musical revue featuring the work of Bob Fosse.

DIRTY DANCING

• Attached: Josef Brown, Amanda Leigh Cobb and Britta Lazenga (Actors), Eleanor Bergstein (Concept, Book), James Powell (Director), Kate Champion (Choreographer), Jacobsen Entertainment in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions (Producers)
• New stage show (currently touring) based on the film of the same name.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE

• Attached: Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman (Book)
• New musical based on the film of the same name.

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

• Attached: Michael Mayer (Director)
• Joanna Murray-Smith's new drama centering on a feminist author who suddenly gets writer's block.

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.

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.

HUGHIE/ KRAPP'S LAST TAPE

• Attached: Brian Dennehy (Actor), Robert Falls/ Jennifer Tarver (Director)
• Transfer of the Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett works.

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.

LOVE AND MERCY

• Attached: Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel (Producers)
• A new Jon Robin Baitz play about a matinee idol-cum-politician, his screenwriter wife and novelist daughter.

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.

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.

PURE COUNTRY

• Attached: Joe Nichols and Lorrie Morgan (Actor), Peter Masterson (Director), Warren Carlyle (Choreographer), Steve Dorff (Music, Lyrics), John Bettis (Lyrics), Rex McGee and Masterson (Book), Randall L. Wreghitt, Chris Presley and Ellen Rusconi (Producer)
• New musical based on the film of the same name about a country music superstar who leaves it all to find himself.

ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS

• Attached: Rupert Holmes (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.

UNTITLED WOODSTOCK MUSICAL

• Attached: Michael Lang and Samuel G. Nappi (Producers)
• New musical based on Lang's memoir, "The Road to Woodstock."

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.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

• Attached: Anna Shapiro (Director), Elizabeth Ireland McCann and Joey Parnes (Producers)
• A revival of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman classic comedy.

ZORBA

• Attached: David Leveaux (Director), Antonio Banderas (Actor), Barry and Fran Weissler (Producers)
• A revival of the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Joseph Stein musical based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel "Zorba the Greek."