C: Is for Coming Soon

As the year ends and a new one begins, plays will come and go. Among the losses starting January 3rd: SHREK: The Musical, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS and SUPERIOR DONUTS. January 10th sees THE 39 STEPS, BURN THE FLOOR, IN THE NEXT ROOM or The Vibrator Play. RAGTIME will join FINIAN'S RAINBOW and WISHFUL DRINKING, closing date of the 17th, unless it get another reprieve. And finally say, BYE BYE BIRDIE on the 24th. Some say this has to do with the recession, but if you look at last years list over 11 shows closed and this list is far less. Shows like SPRING AWAKENING left a hole for new recruits to fill the dwindling spaces. Shows on the forefront include: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Opening: January 21st. Victor Garber and Harriet Harris will seek to arouse our humor. Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson, open: January 24th in the revival of Arthur Miller's drama. Laura Linney, Alicia Silverstone, Brian d'Arcy James and Eric Bogosian show us how TIME STANDS STILL, January 28th.
The is it here is it not musical SPIDER-MAN, TURN OFF THE DARK is set for a Febuary 25th preview. Helen Keller is revisited in
THE MIRACLE WORKER, March 3rd, while Christopher Walken is set for a world premire in A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, March 4th. NEXT FALL is transferring from it's successful Off Broadway run March 11th. No longer Rhoda Valerie Harper, takes on Tallulah Bankhead March 14th in LOOPED. ALL ABOUT ME hits March 18th, while LEND ME A TENOR is directed by Stanley Tucci. I can not wait to click my fingers as THE ADDAMS FAMILY opens April 8th, and country fans have MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET April 11th to center on Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. HUGHIE/ KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
with Brian Dennehy makes it in time for Easter and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES has Frasier as the lead. SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
April 22nd has Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Leslie Kritzer. The 60's are back with a revival of PROMISES, PROMISES
opening April 25th with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. London's financial scandal ENRON, opens April 27th. Alices' Linda Lavin is in COLLECTED STORIES, April 28th. The phantom lives again in LOVE NEVER DIES November 11th. While a date has not been set a theatre has, AMERICAN IDIOT: Green Day's musical opens where Finian's left off. Talk about a change of pace.

Next year seems like a run on of words, but as you can see Broadway is far from over.

Happy 2010! from F.A.C.T.S.