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Whoopi Goldberg on ABC's The View
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Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner Whoopi Goldberg will play the delightfully mean orphanage mistress Miss Hannigan in the New York City stop of the upcoming national tour of
Annie, the beloved musical based on the comic-strip character Little Orphan Annie. The tour begins in Chicago and will then will play the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the holiday season from Dec. 4-Jan. 5, 2025. The tour will then play more than 25 cities including
Baltimore, Indianapolis, Costa Mesa, Milwaukee, Austin, Birmingham, and more. Goldberg will play the role only for the MSG engagement. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. Annie opened on Broadway with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics and direction by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan, in 1977, won seven Tony Awards and ran for 2,377 performances. There were Broadway revivals in 1997 and 2012. Another national tour briefly played MSG in 2006. A sequel, Annie Warbucks, played Off-Broadway in 1993. A previous attempt Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, closed disastrously out of town in 1989. The 1982 film version was directed by John Huston and starred Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Ann Reinking, Geoffrey Holder, and Aileen Quinn. A 1999 TV-movie remake featured Victor Garber, Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Audra McDonald, and Alicia Morton. In 2014, Will Smith produced an updated remake for theatrical release with Jamie Foxx, Rose Bryne, Cameron Diaz, and Quvenzhave Wallis.
This production will be directed by Jenn Thompson who played the role of Pepper, one of Annie's fellow orphans, on Broadway when she was 10 and who also directed the 2022-23 Annie tour.
“Annie is a celebration of family and what can happen when you hold on to hope above all else. We’re delighted to kick off our new 2024-2025 tour at the iconic Chicago Theater—arriving with a little ray of sunshine when we all need it most.” said Tony-winning composer Strouse in a statement. “It is also a dream come true to bring Annie back home to New York City for the first time in ten years, just in time for the holidays. And having the iconic Whoopi Goldberg join the company and make her first appearance ever in a production of Annie is a gift to us all! I know Martin and Tom would be thrilled, too.”
“I love the theatre, and in my mind, there is no better way to spend the holidays than to get back on stage,” added Goldberg. “I can’t wait to step in to the delicious role of Miss Hannigan and perform for the greatest audiences in the world—in my hometown of New York City.” Goldberg has previously appeared on Broadway in her 1984 one-woman show, in the title role of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in a 2003 revival, and in the musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Xanadu.
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David Henry Hwang
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Particle Fever: A musical based on the world's largest particle accelerator? Well, it's been said you can make a musical out of just about anything if you've got the right talent. Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (
M. Butterfly) is working on a tuner based on 2013 documentary
Particle Fever which focuses on Switzerland's Hadron Large Collider, and its part in the search for the Higgs Boson or "god particle" which could explain the creation of our universe. Hwang is writing the book and developing the story with the songwriters Bear McCreary and Zoe Sarnack. Leigh Silverman (
Suffs, Hwang's
Yellow Face) will direct.
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A scene from the documentary
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2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar
Summer 2024
Aug. 12--Once Upon a Mattress (Hudson)
Fall 2024
Sept. 12--The Roommate (Booth)
Sept. 12--Counting and Cracking (Public Theater/NYU Skirball)
Sept. 12--Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Theater555)
Sept. 12--Our Class (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 22--The Beacon (IRT)
Sept. 24--Ghost of John McCain (Soho Playhouse)
Sept. 29--The Hills of California (Broadhurst)
Sept. 30--MCNEAL (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 1--Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Oct. 1--Good Bones (Public)
Oct. 8--Bad Kreyol (MTC/Signature Theatre) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)
Oct. 16--Hold On to Me Darling (Lortel)
Oct. 16--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)
Oct. 29--Another Shot (Signature Theater Center)
Oct. 30--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)
Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 12--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)
Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)
Nov. 14--King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)
Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 22--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Nov. 26--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)
Babe (New Group/Signature Center)
We Live in Cairo (NYTW)
Winter 2024-25
Dec. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Dec. 12--Cult of Love (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Curse of the Starving Class (New Group/Signature Center)
Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)
Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)
2024-25
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Romeo and Juliet w.Tom Holland/Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (?)
Smash
Spring 2025
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)
March--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)
April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)
Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Good Night and Good Luck
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
Othello
The Picture of Dorian Gray (???)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
2025
We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
2025-26
The Queen of Versailles
Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
Waiting for Godot
2026
Hello, I'm Dolly
Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Just in Time; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Studio 54; Working Girl.
2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
New Musicals
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical
Death Becomes Her
Maybe Happy Ending
Old Friends
Redwood
Smash
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face
Musical Revivals
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard
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