NEW YORK (WABC) — Whether you like a good drama or an upbeat musical, there I something for everyone this spring on Broadway.
And this season, there are so many familiar faces moving from your TV and movie screens to the theater stage.
What do two strangers carrying a cake across New York, a traveling salesman, a longtime death-row inmate fighting his conviction and a family living in a town overrun with vampires all have in common?
They are just some of the stories to see on Broadway this season.
In all, there are more than a dozen new productions that include some incredible star power, like Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in “Death of a Salesman.”
“You can find all these socioeconomic theories about the play, but it’s ultimately gonna be about a family that is struggling and loves each other but is dealing with a father who is falling apart,” Lane said.
Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody is making his Broadway debut in “The Fear of 13.” It’s based on a true story and Brody plays Nick Yaris, a man who spent 22 years on death row for a murder he says he did not commit.
“He’s had an amazing journey and it’s just such a beautifully written play,” Brody said. “So I was motivated from both the perspective of speaking to a greater injustice representing a man’s story that should be heard.”
Then there’s Rachel Dratch in “The Rocky Horror Show,” Taraji B. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri in “Proof,” Jim Parsons in “Titanique,” and Rose Byrne and Mark Consuelos in “Fallen Angels.”
Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe is also back on Broadway in “Every Brilliant Thing” and when his run ends in May, Mariska Hargitay will take over and make her Broadway debut.
And she’s not the only one going from screen to stage.
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach make their Broadway debuts in “Dog Day Afternoon” which is based on real events that inspired the 1975 film.
“And I remember the energy when I was a little kid and my grandparents would take me to see Broadway shows, it was so exciting,” Moss-Bachrach said.
Two other movies are getting the stage treatment – “Beaches” and “The Lost Boys.”
Then there’s “Schmigadoon,” an adaptation of Apple TV’s musical parody series.
And dancing back into Broadway is “Cats,” however, this time it’s “CATS: The Jellicle Ball” starring Andre De Shields.
“Whether you see a matinee or an evening performance, come to be rehabilitated,” De Shields said.
The reimagined revival has the same original story in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic score, but now the cats are human characters competing in the underground ballroom scene.
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