New News Flashes: Ben Foster and the Rascals Coming to Broadway

Ben Foster

No sooner do I post the latest blog, then I get an update in the old email. The replacement for Shia LaBeouf in Orphans has been found. That was quick. Were the producers putting a list together when trouble began in rehearsals? It's Ben Foster, who I know best as the bisexual boyfriend of the gloomy daughter on Six Feet Under. Since then he's done a bunch of movies including The Messenger and 3:10 to Yuma.

Also coming to Broadway for a limited run are The Little Rascals who will play 15 performances at the Richard Rodgers April 15-May 5 in a reunion concert called Once Upon a Dream. This will be the first time the group has played together since 1970. So here's the final, final 2012-13 rundown:

NEW PLAYS

Ann
The Anarchist
The Assembled Parties
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dead Accounts
Grace
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers
Lucky Guy
The Nance
The Other Place (previously produced Off-Broadway)
The Testament of Mary
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (transfer from Off-Broadway)

NEW MUSICALS
Bring It On
Chaplin
A Christmas Story
Hands on a Hard Body
Kinky Boots
Matilda
Motown the Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Scandalous: The Life and Times of Aimee Semple MacPherson

PLAY REVIVALS
The Big Knife
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cyrano de Bergerac
An Enemy of the People
Glengarry Glen Ross
Golden Boy
Harvey
The Heiress
Macbeth
Orphans
The Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

MUSICAL REVIVALS
Annie
Fela!
Elf the Musical
Jekyll and Hyde
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin

SPECIALTIES
Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons on Broadway
Lewis Black: Running on Empty
Manilow on Broadway
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream