(Photo courtesy of Boneau/Bryan-Brown)
The 2019-20 New York theater season is in full force with an array of new musicals, plays and revivals slated for production. Not sure what to see first? Here are three shows that we’ve got our eyes on.
TINA
While it doesn’t officially open until November 7, we’ll be first in line to see this epic bio-musical about the legendary Tina Turner. Adrienne Warren reprises her critically acclaimed performance from the West End production.
Tina
Lunt-Fontane Theatre
205 West 46th Street
Previews begin October 12
(l to r) Jenny Lee Stern and Chris Collins-Pisano in ‘Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation.’ (Photo: Carol Rosegg)
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION
The award-winning Forbidden Broadway, Gerard Alessandrini’s hilarious musical spoof of all things theatre, returns to New York! After a five-year absence, this all-new edition gears up for a 10-week limited engagement. Feeling “completely inspired” by the latest crop of Broadway musicals, Alessandrini will lampoon The Great White Way’s biggest shows and stars in this edition, which he is directing, with choreography by Gerry McIntyre.
Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation
The Triad Theatre
158 West 72nd Street
Opening night, October 16
BELLA BELLA
Four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina) returns to the stage in his new solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New York State’s first female Senator, Bella Bella finds this larger-than-life, truth-slinging, groundbreaking, hat-wearing icon squirreled away in the bathroom of a midtown hotel awaiting that night’s election results while a coterie of family and celebs await her entrance. Kimberly Senior directs.
Bella Bella
City Center Stage I
131 West 55th Street
Opening night, October 22
