FLOYD COLLINS, Broadway 2025

[scenicdesign71]

At the Beaumont, once again directed by bookwriter/co-lyricist Tina Landau, with previews beginning March 27 and opening April 21.

NYT:  A Cave Explorer Died 99 Years Ago.  Now His Story Is Broadway Bound.
              Floyd Collins, a musical about a trapped spelunker and the media circus surrounding his failed rescue, had a brief Off Broadway run in 1996.


Needless to say, I can hardly wait!   

[Leighton]

Gorgeous score!

[DiveMilw]

I am very excited for this!!!
Somehow I never realized it had not played on Broadway before.  I knew it started off-Broadway but I always thought it transferred.  

[scenicdesign71]

Casting has been announced:

Deadline:  Broadway Floyd Collins Sets Jeremy Jordan to Lead Cast of Jason Gotay, Lizzy McAlpine, Others

Interestingly, Ms. Landau will be working with new scenic and costume designers — dots and Anita Yavich, respectively — while retaining her original lighting (Scott Zielinski) and sound (Dan Moses Schreier) designers from the show's 1996 Playwrights Horizons premiere.  Also new will be projections by Ray Sun and dance sequences by Jon Rua.

LCT's webpage for the show now lists the cast (though not yet any of the creatives, apart from Guettel and Landau) and includes a poster image:

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Tickets go on sale Thursday, December 12 at noon.

[scenicdesign71]

Floyd Collins is about to finish its second week of previews, and there are new production photos, videos and essays on its show page on the LCT website.  Here's a taste: 

I had tickets for the end of May, but they turned out to be the same night that Top Hat opens in NJ, so I will need to exchange or sell them and get new ones for a different date.  I might also start entering FC's ticket lottery: I have a feeling this will be one of those shows I'll really want to see more than once if possible.

[DiveMilw]

Dang it.  I had convinced myself that I did not want to see Jeremy Jordan in that role mostly because it is much more difficult for me to get to NYC now.  But I really must seriously think about going to see a Saturday matinee.   

[scenicdesign71]

Yesterday I got a single ticket on TDF for next Wednesday (April 23) afternoon.  I'll be sure to post about it here — and I'll try to focus on neutral description more than subjective opinion, so that you can make up your own mind about whether it sounds worth the trip.

I'm not gonna lie: when I heard Jordan had been cast, he struck me as unnecessarily — perhaps unhelpfully — young and pretty for the role.  My mistake: while his baby face may make him the DiCaprio of Broadway, Jordan is no longer a Newsie or a Jamie (TL5Y); currently 40, he has already outlived the real Floyd Collins by three years.  (Christopher Innvar actually seems to have been a year younger than Floyd when he created the role Off-Broadway in 1996).  Jordan's vocals weren't really in doubt: his rendition of "The Call" in that video sounds, unsurprisingly, lovely — and moving, even in what amounts to not much more than a snippet.

My new full-price seats, meanwhile, are for the evening of Wednesday, June 11 — about a week and a half before the run ends (unless it extends; for once they don't seem to be crying "limited run," so in theory there's no reason to assume they couldn't extend, especially during the summer when LCT doesn't have another show going into the Beaumont until presumably, September.  It's sort of hard to imagine Floyd Collins as a box-office sensation, even with a lead as appealing as Jordan; but I suppose stranger things have happened.  Last time I paid any attention, this year's Best Revival Tony was assumed to be a race between Gypsy and Sunset Blvd but, despite having enjoyed both productions, I wouldn't mind seeing Floyd take the prize if it's as good as I'm hoping).

[scenicdesign71]

BWW:  Floyd Collins Original Broadway Cast Album To Be Released This July

Friday, July 11, to be exact, on both physical and digital media.