Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ will return to Broadway this spring, 41 years after the unique hit manufacturing left the stage.
The musical revival will start previews at The Music Field Theatre on Thursday, March 2, 2023, with opening night time set for Sunday, March 19. Producer Joey Parnes made the announcement at this time.
The manufacturing will probably be directed by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento, a forged member of the unique Broadway manufacturing, and produced in cooperation with Nicole Fosse.
The brand new staging, producers say, will probably be “totally reimagined for the twenty first century.” The revival, they stated within the announcement, “brims with a stage of heat, emotion, and colour seldom seen in fashionable interpretations of Fosse’s influential type and options a few of his most creative and infrequently carried out choreography.”
The forged will embrace Yeman Brown, Peter John Chursin, Dylis Croman, Jovan Dansberry, Karli Dinardo , Tony d’Alelio, Aydin Eyikan, Manuel Herrera, Gabriel Hyman, Kolton Krouse, Mattie Love, Krystal Mackie, Yani Marin, Nando Morland, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Ida Saki, Ron Todorowski, and Neka Zang. Further casting will probably be introduced later.
“Bob achieved immortality by his work, and I contemplate it each the accountability and honor of my life to steward his legacy for a brand new technology” stated Cilento. “None of Bob’s exhibits exemplified the fullness of his spirit fairly like Dancin’ and bringing it again on this recent approach is how I hope to maintain that spirit alive.”
Nicole Fosse added, “My father was all the time forward of the occasions together with his fingers on the heartbeat of present tradition. I’m very happy with this group that may honor his legacy.”
The inventive group will even embrace scenic design by Robert Brill; costume design by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung; lighting design by David Grill; sound design by Peter Hylenski; video design by Finn Ross; orchestrations, music supervision, vocal and incidental music preparations by Jim Abbott; Music Path by Justin Hornback; new music and dance preparations by David Dabbon; replica of Fosse’s choreography by Christine Colby Jacques; affiliate path/musical staging and extra choreographic reconstruction by Corinne McFadden Herrera; textual content session and extra materials by Kirsten Childs; and assistant musical staging and extra choreographic reconstruction by Lauren Cannon.
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ initially opened on Broadway on the Broadhurst Theatre on March 27, 1978 and later transferred to the Ambassador Theatre. The manufacturing ran for 1,774 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards, profitable for Fosse’s choreography.
The brand new staging just lately performed at San Diego’s Outdated Globe Theatre from April 19, 2022, to June 5, 2022.
