The cast of Lennon. Photo by Joan Marcus

May 1, 2005 – This spring a number of new productions are bringing new life to Broadway!

Glengarry Glenn Ross, which opens today at the Royale Theatre, focuses on a group of real estate salespeople in competition to hold on to their jobs.

There’s also some competition going on at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens tomorrow. It tells the story of kids coming of age as they face off in the spelling contest.

Also pursuing their dreams are two brothers moving from Havana to Manhattan’s 1950’s nightclub scene in The Mambo Kings, opening this August at the Broadway theatre.

Across the street at the American Airlines theatre, The Constant Wife brings audiences across the pond and back three more decades to 1920’s London, where a woman learns her husband is having an affair with her best friend.

Also coming to terms with love and betrayal is Charity in Sweet Charity, a woman who keeps on falling for the wrong men, opening May 4 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

After Sweet Charity comes the June 1 opening of After the Night and the Music, a tale of love, sex and rhythm playing at the Biltmore theatre.

And speaking of music, Lennon is coming alive on Broadway! Opening at the Broadhurst on July 28, the production focuses on the life of Beatles legend John Lennon.

These shows join a prolific lineup of Broadway’s spring openings, which also includes Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Glass Menagerie, Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed, All Shook Up, Doubt, Julius Caesar, Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond, The Pillowman, The Light in the Piazza, Streetcar Named Desire and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.