Posted: Tue., Sep. 29, 2009, 5:00pm PT

'Enron' set for Broadway bow in April

Casting has not yet been announced

By Gordon Cox



'Enron' chronicles the scandal that
rocked the titular energy company



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London hit "Enron" has nailed down its Broadway engagement, with the play set to kick off Gotham perfs in April. Directed by Rupert Goold and penned by Lucy Prebble ("Secret Diary of a Call Girl"), "Enron" chronicles the roots and aftermath of the 2001 financial scandal surrounding the titular energy company. Multimedia production incorporates music, dance and video.
Show has been tipped for Broadway since it won raves this summer in its preem at the U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theater. Its current stint at London's Royal Court will be followed by a West End engagement that starts in January.
Casting for the Broadway incarnation has not yet been announced. At the Court, Samuel West stars as shady Enron topper Jeffrey Skilling.
Credited as a production of Headlong Theater (the troupe of which Goold is a.d.), Chichester Fest and the Royal Court, the Broadway incarnation is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel (both also behind "Superior Donuts" and "Race" this season), Matthew Byam Shaw, Act Prods., Caro Newling for Neal Street Prods. ("Shrek the Musical") and the Shubert Org.
"Enron" will begin Broadway previews April 8 ahead of an April 27 opening at a Shubert theater still to be determined.
Goold's staging of "Macbeth," toplined by Patrick Stewart, played the Rialto in 2008.

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