Wednesday, October 16, 2024

B'way Update: Real Women Sets Dates

Satya Chávez and Lucy Godínez in
Real Women Have Curves
at the American Repertory Theater

(Photo: Nile Hawver/Maggie Hall)
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
, previously announced for Broadway sometime in 2025, has landed on specific dates and will be a part of what is becoming a very crowded 2024-25 season. Previews for the show based on t
he play by Josefina López and HBO’s Real Women Have Curves, (Screenplay by Josefina López and George LaVoo) will begin April 1 with an opening set for April 27 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Music and lyrics are by Grammy Award-winning artist Joy Huerta of the Mexican pop duo Jesse & Joy and composer/lyricist Benjamin Velez, book by Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, music supervision by Nadia DiGiallonardo, and direction and choreography by Tony and Olivier Award winner Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys). American Repertory Theater at Harvard University presented the show's world premiere in 2023.

In 1987, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Ana is ready to spread her wings. Her dreams of college and a career in New York City are bursting at the seams, but her family’s expectations would keep her home, working at their garment factory. Should Ana pursue her own dreams at the expense of her family’s? 


2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Fall 2024
Oct. 16--Hold On to Me Darling (Lortel)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Oct. 21--Drag The Musical (New World Stages)
Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 23--Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep)
Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)
Oct. 27--We Live in Cairo (NYTW)
Oct. 28--Shit. Meet. Fan. (MCC Theater)
Oct. 29--Another Shot (Signature Theater Center)
Nov. 7--Walden (Second Stage/Kiser)
Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Nov. 10--We Are Your Robots (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
Nov. 10--Strategic Love Play (Audible/Minetta Lane)
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. 17--Elf the Musical (Marquis)
Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)
Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 25--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) 
Nov. 26--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)
Babe (New Group/Signature Center)
This Is My Favorite Song (Playwrights Horizons)

Winter 2024-25
Dec. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Dec. 11--All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Hudson) (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. 20--The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Jan. 25--Henry IV (TFANA/Polonsky Theater Center)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
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 (?)

Spring 2025
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)
March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)
March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)
March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)
March 23--Othello (Barrymore)
March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)
March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
March--The Picture of Dorian Gray (a Shubert theater TBA)
March--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
Mid-March--Purpose (Hayes)
April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)
April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)
April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)
April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
April 27--Real Women Have Curves (Shubert theater TBA)
May 1--Tony Nominations announced
May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)
May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)
June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)
June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Good Night and Good Luck
Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)
The Picture of Dorian Gray 
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
Smash

2025
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sugar Daddy

Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

2025-26
The Queen of Versailles

Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
The Seat of Our Pants (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; The Karate Kid; La La Land; 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
All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job 
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow

New Musicals
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Death Becomes Her
Just in Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Old Friends
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Redwood
Smash
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face

Musical Revivals
Elf the Musical
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties
The Picture of Dorian Gray

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