'Goat' in B'way pen
Albee's latest eyed for a spring opening
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McCann produced the playwright's most recent Gotham offerings, "Three Tall Women" and "The Play About the Baby," Off Broadway. She confirmed speculation that Albee's latest will land on the Great White Way.
"Hopefully, we will open 'The Goat' on Broadway in spring 2002," she said. She mentioned no casting, but said David Esbjornson would direct.
'Baby' steps
Esbjornson won acclaim for his production of "The Play About the Baby," which opened at the Century Center in the winter and has had a successful run. That play will close on Sept. 1, McCann said.
The new Broadway season is heavy with major revivals -- "Hedda Gabler," "The Dance of Death," "The Crucible" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night," among others -- but new plays are few.
"The Goat" would join a very short list of Neil Simon's "45 Seconds from Broadway," to open in November, and possibly Jon Robin Baitz's "Ten Unknowns," which recently lost its leading man, Donald Sutherland. Lincoln Center Theater produced the world premiere of the Baitz play last season at its Mitzi Newhouse Theater and had announced a fall opening on Broadway.
'Balance' beam
LCT gave Albee his last Broadway production, with its 1996 staging of "A Delicate Balance," which went on to win the Tony for best revival.
Over the years, Albee has won three Pulitzer Prizes, for "A Delicate Balance," "Three Tall Women" and "Seascape," which will be produced Off Broadway next season by Second Stage.
