Broadway Opening: PAL JOEY (directed by Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn for the 2022-2023 season)

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by Gregory Bernard on December 24, 2021

in Theater-New York

Pal Joey, the  Rodgers and Hart-John O’Hara  classic musical, has been revised in a brand-new production that will be heading to Broadway in the 2022-2023 season.  The creative team for this reimagined  Pal Joey  includes  Richard LaGravenese  (new book), co-directors  Tony Goldwyn  and  Savion Glover, choreographer  Savion Glover, set designer  Derek McLane, costume designer  Emilio Sosa, lighting designer  Natasha Katz  and orchestrator/arranger/music supervisor  Daryl Waters.Adapting O’Hara’s book so that the primary setting of the plot is a South Side Chicago nightclub in the 1940s and changing the character of Linda from a stenographer/clerk to an aspiring singer, has enabled the creative team, with the permission of the Rodgers and Hart estate, to interpolate some of that team’s greatest songs into an already memorable score.  Additions to the score already highlighted by “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered” and “I Could Write A Book” include “Where or When”, “The Lady Is a Tramp”, “It Never Entered My Mind”, “My Heart Stood Still”, “Falling in Love with Love” and “There’s A Small Hotel” among others.The producing team is led by  Jeffrey Richards  and co-produced by  Funny World Productions,  Willette Klausner  and  Irene Gandy.

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