Watch for Familiar Muny Faces on Broadway This Spring!

The Muny season gets underway in June, but if you're craving Broadway theatre right now, there are plenty of exciting new shows to choose from. All it takes is a little NYC getaway!

Here are some Muny alumni you may recognize as part of new Broadway shows this spring. We will update this list as more shows open.

In this classic play by Anton Chekhov, Sonia and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and the family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives. Opens April 24 at Lincoln Center Theater

• Jonathan Hadary, actor
• Spencer Donovan Jones, actor
• Tommy Kurzman, hair, wigs and makeup

Set in 1987 and packed with Huey Lewis hits, The Heart of Rock and Roll centers on a couple of 20-somethings at a crossroads: Bobby, a rocker who trades his guitar for the corporate ladder, and his boss, Cassandra, who always puts the family business first. When each gets a second chance at their dreams, they must choose what kind of life they really want. Opens April 23 at the James Earl Jones Theatre

• Tommy Bracco, ensemble
• Taylor Marie Daniel, ensemble
• Gordon Greenberg, director
• Kevin Kennedy, associate sound designer
• McKenzie Kurtz, actor
• Lorin Latarro, choreographer
• Raymond J. Lee, actor
• Ross Lekites, ensemble
• Robin Masella, ensemble
• Orville Mendoza, actor
• Heather Neil, assistant costume designer
• Michael Olaribigbe, ensemble
• John Shivers, sound designer
• Michaeljon Slinger, associate choreographer
• Billy Harrigan Tighe, actor

The life and music of Grammy winner Alicia Keys inspire this coming-of-age story set in Manhattan's gritty Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Despite the warnings of her protective mother, the symphony of the street calls to 17-year-old Ali, promising freedom, excitement and the possibility of love. When a piano teacher helps her find her voice, Ali learns she can make the city her own. Opens April 20 at the Shubert Theatre

• Camille A. Brown, choreographer
• Chloe O. Davis, ensemble, dance captain
• Timothy L. Edwards, ensemble
• Tom Kitt, music consulting and orchestrations
• Donna Vivino, standby

It’s 1931 Berlin, and inside the Kit Kat Club, British nightclub singer Sally Bowles keeps the party raging. But no amount of booze, music and dancing can slow the ominous march of a changing Germany. Kander and Ebb's groundbreaking musical gets an intimate, electrifying new production that immerses theatregoers in a decadent world. Opens April 18 at the August Wilson Theatre

• Matthew Buttrey, associate scenic designer
• Gabi Campo, actor
• Natascia Diaz, actor
• Hannah Florence, swing
• Pedro Garza, swing
• Elyssa Kohen, A2
• Thomas Recktenwald, production stage manager
• Anita Shastri, assistant stage manager
• Savannah Wetzel, assistant costume designer

It’s 1913, and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — "sufs," as they call themselves. Reaching across and against generational, racial and class divides, these women entertain and inspire with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. Opens April 18 at the Music Box Theatre

• Anastaćia McCleskey, actor
• Emily Skinner, actor
• Kristin Yancy, associate choreographer

The Wiz, the groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz, changed the face of Broadway — from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock and '70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world. Now the beloved story returns to Broadway with a fresh adaptation that has roots at The Muny. Opens April 17 at the Marquis Theatre

• Liz Armstrong, producer
• Maya Bowles, ensemble
• Mike Isaacson, producer
• Tavia Rivée Jefferson, associate director
• Ralph Stan Lee, production stage manager
• Phillip Johnson Richardson, actor
• Amber Ruffin, writer
• Avilon Trust Tate, ensemble

This sweeping musical portrait is inspired by the life of the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. Spanning decades of political and personal turmoil and told through a pop-infused score, Lempicka boldly explores the contradictions of a world in crisis, a woman ahead of her era and an artist whose time has finally come. Opens April 14 at the Longacre Theatre

• George Abud, actor
• Stephen Brower, ensemble
• Kyle Brown, ensemble
• Veronica Fiaoni, ensemble
• Beth Leavel, actor
• Leah J. Loukas, hair and wig designer
• Michael Milkanin, ensemble
• Khori Michelle Petinaud, ensemble
• Cody Renard Richard, production stage manager
• Andrew Samonsky, actor
• Nathaniel Stampley, ensemble
• Nicholas Ward, ensemble
• Richard Riaz Yoder, associate choreographer

In 1967 in Tulsa, Okla., the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of "outsiders" are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them. This new musical reinvigorates the timeless tale of "haves and have-nots," of protecting what’s yours and fighting for what could be. Opens April 11 at the Jacobs Theatre

• Henry Julian Gendron, swing
• RJ Higton, ensemble
• Wonza Johnson, understudy
• Sean Harrison Jones, ensemble
• Maggie Kuntz, understudy
• Renni Anthony Magee, ensemble
• Daryl Tofa, actor

After witnessing his father shoot his rival, the young Tommy Walker is lost in the universe. An innate knack for pinball catapults him from reticent adolescent to celebrity savior. The Who’s legendary 1969 rock opera is reimagined for contemporary audiences and includes songs such as “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me” and “I’m Free.” Opens March 28 at the Nederlander Theatre

• Bobby Conte, actor
• Tracy Cowit, sound programmer & assistant sound designer
• Tyle James Eisenriech, ensemble
• David Paul Kidder, ensemble
• Lorin Latarro, choreographer
• Daniel Quadrino, ensemble

The bestselling novel comes to life in a spectacle-filled new musical. After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train and finds a new home with the crew of a traveling circus, and a life — and love — beyond his wildest dreams. Opened March 21 at the Imperial Theatre

• Liz Armstrong, producer
• Brandon Block, dance captain
• Samantha Gershman, swing
• Isabelle McCalla, actor
• Jesse Robb, co-choreographer

In this revival of Henrik Ibsen’s masterwork, a small-town doctor discovers a catastrophe that risks the lives of everyone in town. But he is shaken to his core when those in power, including his own brother, not only try to silence him — they try to destroy him. Opened March 18 at Circle in the Square Theatre

• Bill Buell, actor

The Notebook is a musical based on the bestselling novel that inspired the iconic film. Allie and Noah, both from different worlds, share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart. Opened March 14 at the Schoenfeld Theatre

• Andréa Burns, actor
• Matthew Buttrey, set design
• Dorcas Leung, actor
• Kevin McCollum, producer
• Ryan Vasquez, actor