In his song “New York, New York” Frank Sinatra says that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. For actors…and musicians…that sentiment extends in particular to Broadway.
And as Broadway begins gearing up for a new season this fall, theater fans may get a bit of a surprise as to whom some of the performers will be.
Academy Award winning actor Robert Downey Jr will be making his Broadway debut this fall in the play “McNeal” which is set to open September 5.
Academy Award winner George Clooney is making his Broadway debut in the stage production of “Good Night, and Good Luck”.
Tony Award winning actor Denzel Washington will be making a return to Broadway in “Othello”; and he will be joined by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will be sharing the stage in the new play “The Roommate”.
Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Jim Parsons will be starring in a revival of “Our Town”.
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher are appearing in the new play “Left on Tenth”.
Six time Tony Award winning performer Audra McDonald makes her return to the stage as Rose in the revival of “Gypsy”.
Academy Award winning performer Idina Menzel makes a return to Broadway this January in the new musical “Redwood”.
Actors Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler reunite for their Broadway debut in a revival of the classic “Romeo and Juliet”
Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams returns to Broadway this fall to join Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in the musical adaptation of “Death Becomes Her”.
After a run on the West End in London, Pussycat Doll and “The Masked Singer” judge Nicole Scherzinger returns to take on the leading role in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard”.
Darren Criss will be starring in the new musical “Maybe Happy Ending” later this year.
Sutton Foster joins Ana Gasteyer in “Once Upon a Mattress”.
And theatre goers are anticipating Jonas Brother Nick to appear in the musical “The Last Five Years”.