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Swept Away will play the Longacre.
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After the Tonys, there is still lots of Broadway news to report:
Swept Away and
Eureka Day now have dates for upcoming runs and the latter announces its casting. Manhattan Theater Club has announced three world premiere productions for its Off-Broadway 2024-25 season, one of which will be co-production with Signature Theatre.
Swept Away, the musical following four survivors of an 1888 shipwreck, will begin previews at the Longacre Theater on Oct. 29 and open on Nov. 19. The musical features a book by John Logan (Red, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), direction by Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and choreography by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown). Previous stagings have been seen at Arena Stage and Berekely Rep.
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Zoe Chao will star in
Eureka Day. |
Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's comedy about the havoc wrecked by vaccination requirements at a California elementary school, will begin previews on Nov. 25 and open on Dec. 16 at Manhattan Theater Club's Broadway berth, the Samuel J. Friedman. The cast will include Zoe Chao (Peacock's If You Were the Last), Tony nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown), Tony nominee Jessica Hecht (Summer 1976, The Assembled Parties), Tony winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Emmy nominee Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley). This Broadway premiere MTC engagement will be directed by Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County) following a London production. Eureka Day previously played Off-Broadway in 2019.
