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Fred Mason said: "Why wouldn’t they just transfer the same brilliant production? It makes no sense not too. I already am not the biggest Joe Mantello fan and I can’t imagine he’d do anythingbetter than Pam MacKinnons direction, which seems like an instant Tony Award win for her brilliantwork."

It’s been four years. They’re not transferring the he same production, Flash.

PipingHotPiccolo said: "Jordan Catalano said: "I would hope if this is true that Freeman is able to do it, he was brilliant. But I would personally be upset it Brian Hutchison didn’t get to reprise Andy on a bigger stage. He f*cking destroyed me with his performance."

Id hope they ALL reprise their roles, but i particularly hope that Francis Guinan is able to do this. I cant imagine ANYONE else I have seen on stage anywhere that would be able to combine the monstrosity with the childlike gentleness. A master class performance."

I wasn’t able to watch the play again with Brian Hutchison but Tim Hopper was devastating as well playing our Andy. And I definitely agree that Francis Guinan gave a master class performance as Fred. God that cast was truly sublime! I do hope and pray to see them once again on Broadway.

Fred Mason said: "Why wouldn’t they just transfer the same brilliant production? It makes no sense not too. I already am not the biggest Joe Mantello fan and I can’t imagine he’d do anythingbetter than Pam MacKinnons direction, which seems like an instant Tony Award win for her brilliantwork."

You heard it here first - BroadwayFlash doesn’t like Joe Mantello’s work.

Exile him from Broadway.

Even if it is a new star-studded production, Francis Guinan must reprise his role. And if there is indeed a new director, the one good thing is perhaps said director could do a better job in the disguising of a very obvious reveal in the second act.

More likely it's going to the Barrymore for a Limited Engagement. It should make the revival category interesting next year as it will be up against "Three Days of Rain" and "A Few Good Men". With Mantello directing, it should be an excellent production. But the Mackinnon version set a high standard.

Eddie Hirsch said: "More likely it's going to the Barrymore for a Limited Engagement. It should make the revival category interesting next year as it will be up against "Three Days of Rain" and "A Few Good Men". With Mantello directing, it should be an excellent production. But the Mackinnon version set a high standard."


Would this be considered a revival?

TotallyEffed said: "Eddie Hirsch said: "More likely it's going to the Barrymore for a Limited Engagement. It should make the revival category interesting next year as it will be up against "Three Days of Rain" and "A Few Good Men". With Mantello directing, it should be an excellent production. But the Mackinnon version set a high standard."


Would this be considered a revival?"

It’s really tricky. To be considered Revival by the Classic rule it should have been an established theatrical canon that have run for years. But the play only premiered in Chicago eight years ago and have played over on the West End a few years after and premiered in New York Off Broadway in 2022. All with the same director and most of the cast. Between Riverside and Crazy basically had the same number of years journey to Broadway with different directors, casts, and creatives in far more different cities around the country. But in their Broadway debut it was still considered Best (New) Play at the Tony awards.

Here’s where it gets tricky because just last year it was performed in Washington DC with a different cast and different director. But will that mounting in DC make it be considered an “established” theatrical canon? Even in Pam McKinnon would not be directing the Broadway debut and if some of the cast/crew at Steppenwolf returned for Broadway I think it should be considered a new play as they did with Riverside.


But if it would have a completely different cast, creative crew and director (which I highly doubt), it might be considered a revival.

Updated On: 7/16/26 at 02:19 AM

Eddie Hirsch said: "More likely it's going to the Barrymore for a Limited Engagement. It should make the revival category interesting next year as it will be up against "Three Days of Rain" and "A Few Good Men". With Mantello directing, it should be an excellent production. But the Mackinnon version set a high standard."

Wasn’t there was an early rumors that Come From Away would indeed transfer from Paper Mill stage to Barrymore for an extremely limited engagement this fall to coincide with 25th anniversary of 9/11? If so then it must had been cancelled or couldn’t find the Shubert house for them.

The "classics rule" isn't always clear when it comes to more modern works. How is Between Riverside and Crazy, which won a Pulitzer in 2014, had a run at the Atlantic, and had quite a number of subsequent unique productions around the country, a new play in 2022, but Eureka Day, a play from 2018, which only had a month-long off-off Broadway production in 2019 and had fewer subsequent productions, a revival in 2025? The rule is obvious when it comes to things like Shakespeare or very established canonical works like Little Shop, but it falls apart when it's dealing with more recent works. The Tony committee would do well to make a much clearer delineation here, rather than leaving it to the committee's "sole discretion" to decide.

It all depends on whether they actually submitted for the Pulitzer right? Like if they knew Broadway was in the plans they could've theoretically held off and said they were still working on it and then submit it in the year they go to Broadway. I don't think it's that likely since it's had a few major productions and a decent amount of buzz but there's not really that much transparency around when stuff gets submitted for the Pulitzer.

So I also heard Rudin is producing an adaptation of Billy Bud directed by Ivo Van Hove for Broadway as well, I think that's taking the Broadhurst