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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - now with Nick Jonas and Beau Bridges

Anything Goes - Sutton Foster & Joel Grey; Tony-winner for Best Actress in a Musical, Best Revival of a Musical, Best Choreography; Cole Porter lives!

Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark - version 2.0; directed by Julie Taymor et al., songs by Bono and The Edge; when it gets off the ground, it really gets off the ground

War Horse - Devonshire accents, World War I, and life-sized horse puppets (beat that, Spielberg!) in the Tony-winner for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play; still in Lincoln Center, but the producers are looking to move to a bigger theater

The Book of Mormon - from the South Park team: bigger, longer, and religious

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - drag divas, a bus, and most of Australia; "campier than a tent full of boy scouts" - Entertainment Weekly

Sister Act - singing (and dancing!) nuns; from the Whoopi Goldberg movie

Venus in Fur - no longer born yesterday, Nina Arianda reprises her Off Broadway hit; David Ives does Leopold von Sacher-Masoch with more jokes

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - opens Oct 13; from Steppenwolf, via the Kennedy Center, with writer/actor Tracy "August: Osage County" Letts as George

Porgy & Bess - Audra McDonald might be headed for another Tony in this intimate production; with Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier; extended through Sept 30

The Columnist - playwright David "Proof" Auburn's tale of closeted Washington newsman Joseph Alsop; with John Lithgow

Other Desert Cities - Stockard Channing, Judith Light, and Stacy Keach come to Broadway after a hit run downstairs at Lincoln Center

Seminar - sex and violence (the verbal kind) among novelist wannabes in a  private class, with Jeff Goldblum and Justin Long

Godspell - downstairs from Wicked; that building is all Stephen Schwartz, all the time

Death of a Salesman - with Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and (onscreen Spiderman) Andrew Garfield; director Mike Nichols; 16 weeks only

Magic/Bird - rivalry and friendship between basketball players Larry Bird and Magic Johnson; from the people who brought you Lombardi last season

Once - if you liked the folky Irish pop musical onscreen, you'll love it onstage

Jesus Christ, Superstar - the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival production gets resurrected on Broadway

The Best Man - presidential politics (NOT a wedding!) with James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette (fresh from How to Succeed ...), Michael McKean, Eric McCormack, and Donna Hanover (the former Mrs. Giuliani)

Ghost the Musical - high-tech London pop musical based on the 1990 movie

Newsies - musical adapted from the 1992 Disney film about the NYC newsboy strike of 1899; music by eight-time Oscar-winner Alan Menken, book by four-time Tony-winner Harvey Fierstein

End of the Rainbow - the last months of Judy Garland, from London; much buzz surrounds leading lady Tracie Bennett

Evita - Elena Roger is coming in with this imported London revival; Ricky Martin and Michael Cerveris are added for Broadway

One Man, Two Guvnors - the riotous London adaptation of Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters, with James Corden (the fat kid from The History Boys)

A Streetcar Named Desire - multiracial production with movie and TV stalwarts Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Wood Harris

Nice Work If You Can Get It - new musical carved from the Gershwin catalog, with Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Judy Kaye, Estelle Parsons

Harvey - previews May 18, opens June 14; the Pulitzer-winning comedy, with Emmy-winner Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and the eponymous six-foot white rabbit; through Aug 5

Leap of Faith - musical based on the 1992 movie, with Raul Esparza as the phony faith healer

Clybourne Park - the Pulitzer- and Olivier Award- winner imagines the house that the Younger family moves to at the end of A Raisin in the Sun, and what would happen 50 years later

Peter and the Starcatcher - the prequel to Peter Pan, from the New York Theater Workshop

Don't Dress for Dinner - the wildly funny further adventures of Robert and Bernard from Boeing Boeing

The Lyons - a funny, stirring Off Broadway hit about a family and its dying patriarch; with Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Michael Esper

Flashdance - previews August, opens Sept 20; the pop-rock London musical, based on the 1983 movie, landing on Broadway after a Toronto run