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LITTLE WHITE WAY
Coming soon to a theater near us
BY CAROLYN CLAY

You couldn’t say there wasn’t something for everyone as Broadway in Boston this week announced its 2002-’03 season, which runs the gamut from The Music Man to the Abbey Theatre of Ireland’s award-winning production of Medea, with Fiona Shaw as a less-fawning mom than her Petunia Dursley in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Broadway in Boston president Bill Connor presided over a lavish media presentation of the eclectic, 14-show projected season that culminates in a great big something for everyone: the biggest Tony winner in Broadway history, Mel Brooks’s The Producers, which will play the Colonial Theatre in June of 2003.

The season kicks off this June, when the chameleonic John Leguizamo, of Mambo Mouth and Moulin Rouge fame, brings his latest one-Latino-male whirlwind, Sexaholix ... a Love Story, to the Colonial June 4 through 9. After a summer hiatus, Medea arrives at the Wilbur Theatre, to be followed there by Charles Busch’s Broadway-hit comedy about a culture-obsessed New Yorker flirting with a breakdown, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. Co-presented by Broadway in Boston and the Huntington Theatre Company, the show will star Valerie Harper. Also on the docket are return engagements of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, as well as Mandy Patinkin: In Concert; the recent hit revival of The Music Man; and a long-overdue reappearance, co-presented by FleetBoston Celebrity Series, of the inventive Swiss troupe Mummenschanz.

In addition, Broadway in Boston and the competing Wang Center Productions appear to have buried the hatchet deep enough to present a series of co-productions at the Wang Theatre. These include the new musical Some Like It Hot, which is based on the film, features music by Jule Styne, and stars Tony Curtis (though not in his film role). There will also be return visits by Contact, Cinderella, and Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as the 2001 Tony-winning revival of the musical 42nd Street.

Issue Date: April 11 - 18, 2002
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