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#THE MINUTES BROADWAY PROFESSIONAL#
In 2002, when Take Me Out arrived at The Public Theater, the play starred Daniel Sunjata as Darren Lemming, a mixed-race professional baseball player who comes out to the public as gay. Take Me Out: previews begin March 9, opens on April 4 While Variety critic Steven Oxman once deemed The Minutes “nearly certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era,” the play, Letts told Vulture in 2020, ultimately takes a much wider view, considering “how we conduct our politics, and why we do it, especially in America.” (In New York, Katrina Lenk-who won a Tony in 2018 for her performance in The Band’s Visit-takes over from Craig, while the great Patti LuPone reprises her role as Joanne.) It arrives from London, where audiences first encountered Bobby, the 35-year-old confirmed bachelor originated by Dean Jones, transformed into Rosalie Craig’s commitment-shy Bobbie. Jacobs Theatre, in a production directed by Marianne Elliott ( The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2018’s Angels in America). More than 50 years after its Broadway premiere, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s genre-defying musical Company opens at the Bernard B. Company: previews begin November 15, opens December 9 Below, find a list of the musicals and plays on our must-see list this winter and spring.
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In any case, between the plays and musicals delayed by the pandemic and brand-new productions, a rich Broadway season this way comes-and you’d do well to start booking your tickets now. At this particular moment, however, things are a little bit different: The 2020 Tonys took place some 15 months late, shows that should have been up for over a year by now are only just beginning previews…you get the idea. With the cutoff date for Tony Award eligibility typically falling in late April, what autumn is for films, the spring traditionally is for theatre.