A revival of "Brigadoon," the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical about a Scottish village that reawakens once every 100 years, has postponed its Broadway opening.
The reason? Lack of an appropriate theater, Ostar Productions and co-producer Liza Lerner announced Wednesday.
The production, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford, was to have opened in New York next spring, after a tryout engagement this fall in Boston. The run at Boston's Colonial Theatre, scheduled for Oct. 14-Nov. 9, has now been canceled, said Drew Murphy, president of Broadway Across America-Boston, which operates the Colonial.
A revised schedule for "Brigadoon" will be announced later, the producers said.
It was the second disappointment this summer for patrons of the Colonial, one of the American theater's legendary tryout houses. Also set this season for the theater was the world premiere of "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a new musical using old Gershwin songs and starring Harry Connick Jr.
That, too, has been become a question mark after director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall withdrew from the project and its Dec. 16-Jan. 11 Boston engagement canceled. But don't count the show out yet.
"Once they get the new director-choreographer in place and they can work out everybody's schedules, then they will reschedule that," Murphy said of the Gershwin musical. "When it happens, I think there is a commitment both on (the part of) Mr. Connick and the producers that it will still play Boston."
Murphy said he was still working on replacements for "Brigadoon" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It," which were part of the 2008-09 subscription series for Broadway Across America-Boston.
"Nothing's definite yet," Murphy said, but the possibilities could include another prior-to-Broadway tryout.
Broadway currently has three musical revivals _ "Gypsy," "Grease" and "South Pacific." More are planned for the upcoming season, including "Pal Joey," "West Side Story," "Guys and Dolls" and "Dancin'."
