New Broadway production of PAL JOEY arrives in 2022-2023 season

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A brand new production of Rodgers & Hart and John O’Hara classic musical Pal Joey is heading to Broadway in the 2022-2023 season, it has been announced.

Richard LaGravenese writes the new book for the production, which will be co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover, choreographed by Glover, with set design by Derek McLane, costumes by Emilio Sosa, lighting by Natasha Katz and orchestrations/arrangements/music supervision by Daryl Waters.

O’Hara’s book has been adapted so that the primary setting of the plot is a South Side Chicago nightclub in the 1940’s and the character of Linda will be changed from a stenographer/clerk to an aspiring singer. This 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’ and more.

Watch this space, Besties!