Editor’s notes: Broadway’s Fall forecast ‘15 - Theater Scene New York Broadway Review

Few musicals, many revivals in the most diverse season in 10 years

- plus list of Broadway openings by date and location

After last season’s boffo windup featuring the best of the best (King & I, American in Paris, Something Rotten, The Curious Incident of the Dog.., On The Twentieth Century, On The Town, Its Only A Play, You Cant Take It With You et al)…,) this season appears dour indeed so far in the hands of Pinter, Sam Sheppard, Miller. - these are not lighthearted after work pick-me ups!

This season is touted as the most diverse in 10 years.

While Trump is bashing Hispanics, the Broadway community is welcoming them, along with Asians, African Americans, the deaf, and, of course, Brits, in a season displaying more diversity than the preceding one, which, in co9ntrast, had only two productions addressing the issue (Disgraced and the short lived Holler If You Hear Me)

Producers are brave to present reminders of our uncomfortable history: Amazing Grace, Color purple, Allegiance,…but will they sell?

The state of the musical is quite revolutionary. After the tradition breaking Hamilton’s Rap “score”, the Estefans’ juke box musical will feature their Latin music, and the music master himself, Andrew Lloyd Webber, is back to his early success with rock in an attempt to keep relevant.

It is said “Broadway is a treadmill of the tried and true” and this season is loaded with hand me downs, re-imagined revivals: a black version of The Gin Game, a pared down Purple, Spring Awakening performed by a deaf

cast, Shepard’s grim Fool for Love, Pinter’s elusive Old Friends, reaching way back for Dames At Sea, Sylvia (keeping it in the family former star Sylvia Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband, Matthew Broderick is in this version), another Fiddler, another View from the Bridge (along with The Crucible later this season in honor if Arthur Miller’s centennial), and the hilarious Noises Off.

Thank goodness for some new plays: David Mamet’s A China Doll, and William Goldman’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel Misery, Emil Zola’s Therese Raquin.

And there is the requisite Sprinkling of Stars (Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Keira Knightley – what, no Jackman???)

Meanwhile new shows are popping up Off Broadway like firecrackers on Independence Day – are they sustainable?

Here is a list of Broadway openings and their locations by date:

Spring Awakening Tickets - Broadway