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Washington DC's Kennedy Center announced that its production of “Spamalot” (which played in May 2023) will transfer to Broadway Preview performances start at the St. James Theatre on 31 October 2023, with opening night on 16 November. Josh Rhodes returns to direct and choreograph. Casting has yet to be announced.

The transfer is a crowning achievement for the Broadway Center Stage series, which began in 2018 at the Kennedy Center as semi-staged concert performances and has evolved in recent years into more fully produced musicals, including acclaimed runs of “The Music Man,” “Next to Normal” and “Guys and Dolls.” But no Kennedy Center show has made its way to Broadway since 2011, when a production of “Follies” starring Bernadette Peters ran for four months two years after a revival of “Ragtime” followed the same path.

A return of cast members from the Kennedy Center run, which included James Monroe Iglehart as King Arthur, Alex Brightman as Sir Lancelot, Michael Urie as Sir Robin, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer as the Lady of the Lake and Rob McClure as the Historian/Prince Herbert, would certainly generate buzz. Coyly addressing his to-be-announced actors, Rhodes said: “I love that cast from D.C., and I would be so happy to do the show with them again.”

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