B'way Update: Take Me Out Returns; Leads for Merrily

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams
in Take Me Out.
Credit: Joan Marcus

The Tony-winning revival of Take Me Out will return to Broadway this fall. The 2002 Richard Greenberg play about a gay baseball player coming out is reopening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on Oct. 27 for a limited run of 14 weeks. Jesse Tyler Ferguson who won a Tony for his performance as Mason Marzac, the gay business manager, and Jesse Williams who was nominated for his role as Darren Lemming, the out gay player, will reprise their roles but the remainder of the cast has not been announced. The Second Stage revival opened at the Hayes Theater on April 4 and ran for 79 performances. Because of extensive nude scenes, audiences were required to secure their phones in locked containers during the performance. Controversy erupted when a nude video of Jesse Williams was shared online.

We may not know the whole cast of Take Me Out, but the leads have been announced for the Off-Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theater Workshop. Previously announced Daniel Radcliffe will be joined by Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening) and Tony winner Lindsay Mendez (Carousel). This show begins previews on Nov. 21 with an opening set for Dec. 12 for a run through Jan. 8, 2023.

Lindsay Mendez, Daniel Radcliffe
and Jonathan Groff will headline
the latest revival of Merrily We Roll Along.

2022-23 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule
Aug. 25--Kinky Boots (Stage 42)
Aug. 28--Two Jews, Talking (Theater at St. Clement's)
Aug. 30--As You Like It (Delacorte)

Sept. 10--Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
Sept. 13--Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood (York Theater Company)

Sept. 22--Sesame Street: The Musical (Theater Row)

Sept. 29--american (tele)visions (New York Theatre Workshop)

Oct. 2--Leopoldstadt (Longacre)

Oct. 2--Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (Public Theater)

Oct. 3--Cost of Living (MTC/Friedman)

Oct. 6--1776 (Roundabout/AA)

Oct. 6--Peerless (Primary Stages/59E59)

Oct. 9--Death of a Salesman (Hudson) 

Oct. 13--The Piano Lesson (Barrymore)

Oct. 19--A Raisin in the Sun (Public Theater)

Oct. 19--The Year of Magical Thinking (Keen Company/location TBA) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 20--Topdog/Underdog (Golden)

Oct. 26--Straight Line Crazy (The Shed/Griffin)

Oct. 27--Take Me Out (return engagement) (Schoenfeld)

Oct. 30--A Man of No Importance (CSC)

October--Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons); Downstate (Playwrights Horizons); Only Gold (MCC Theater)

Nov. 2--Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (MTC/City Center Stage I)

Nov. 2--Camp Siegfried (Second Stage/Tony Kiser) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Nov. 3--Almost Famous (Bernard Jacobs)

Nov. 6--You Will Get Sick (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Nov. 9--Where We Belong (Public Theater) 

Nov. 10--Kimberly Akimbo (Booth)

Nov. 15--the bandaged place (Roundabout/Underground)

Nov. 16--Plays for the Plague Year (Public Theater) 

Nov. 17--& Juliet (Sondheim)
Nov. 20--KPOP (Circle in the Square)

Nov. 21--Becky Nurse of Salem (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Nov. 21--Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (New World Stages)

Nov. 29--Des Moines (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

Dec. 1--Ain't No Mo (Belasco)

Dec. 1--Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Land (York Theater Company)

Dec. 4--A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Broadhurst)

Dec. 8--The Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones)

Dec. 11--Some Like It Hot (Shubert)

Dec. 12--Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop)

Dec. 19--Between Riverside and Crazy (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 20--The Collaboration (MTC/Freidman)

February--The Trees (Playwrights Horizons)

March 1--the best we could (a family tragedy) (MTC/City Center Stage I)

March 8--Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen Company/Theater Row)

March--Regretfully So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons)

April 13--Camelot (Lincoln Center/Vivian Beaumont)

April 29--Fuenta Ovejuna (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

May 16--King James (MTC/City Center Stage I)

May--Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons)

July 9--Orpheus Descending (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

Fall 2022 (no dates yet)

Summer, 1976 (MTC/City Center Stage II)

2022-23 (no dates or theaters yet)

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Black Orpheus, Cinderella, Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical, Dancin', Pal Joey, Square One

Winter 2022-23

Dark Disabled Stories (Public)

The Wanderers (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Spring 2023 

Prime Facie (a Shubert theater TBA)

The Thanksgiving Play (Second Stage/Hayes)

Good Bones (Public)

Shadow/Land (Public)

Fall 2023

Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC/City Center Stage II)

2023, 2024 and Beyond

Game of Thrones, The Great Gatsby, Frida, the Musical, High Noon

Future--Good Night, Oscar; The Devil Wears Prada; The Griswolds' Family Vacation; The Karate Kid; Back to the Future; Our Town; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Sing Street; Smash; Soul Train; The Who's Tommy; Working Girl