Sondheim's Old Friends set to open on Broadway in Spring 2025
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will return to star in the composer/lyricist’s tribute concert at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre
The widely acclaimed Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends is set to transfer to Broadway after its successful West End run at the Gielgud Theatre.
Following a run from 8 February to 9 March at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Manhattan Theatre Club will present the Sondheim tribute concert at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre in New York on 25 March 2025
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will return to star in the American transfer with further casting to be announced.
After a popular one-night concert in 2022 (selling out both the Gielgud Theatre and the Prince Edward Theatre where it was live-streamed), Cameron Mackintosh, who devised the show, announced it would return to the Gielgud for a 16-week run in 2023/2024.
Sondheim's Old Friends is set to open at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre, Broadway on 25 March 2025.
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