BROADWAY: STARRY REVIVALS AND FRACTURED FAIRY TALES

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical “Bad Cinderella” joins the hits “Six” “Into the Woods,” and “& Juliet” as the latest revisionist take on history and fractured fairytales. In Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell’s (“Promising Young Woman”) book, set in the “perfect” kingdom of Belleville, this rebellious Cinderella (Linedy Genao) rethinks the meaning of happily ever after.

Tony-winner David Zippel wrote the lyrics, and Carolee Carmello, Grace McLean and Jordan Dobson co-star under Laurence Connor’s direction. Previews begin February 17. (Imperial Theatre) www.badcinderellabroadway.com

Josh Groban’s fans are thrilled at his return to Broadway in a revival of the 1980 Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler Grand Guignol masterpiece “Sweeney Todd,” while Sondheim’s fans are concerned that the superstar may not have the acting chops to convey the underlying humanity of the avenging “demon barber of Fleet Street.” The starry cast includes Tony-winner Annaleigh Ashford as his pie-making accomplice, Jordan Fisher, Gaten Matarazzo and Ruthie Ann Miles, directed by Tony-winner Thomas Kail (“Hamilton”). Previews begin February 26. (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre). https://sweeneytoddbroadway.com

Tony-winner Ben Platt (“Dear Evan Hansen”) and Micaela Diamond won raves -- as Leo Frank, an innocent Jewish factory supervisor in Georgia accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl, and his supportive wife Lucille Frank, who fights for his acquittal -- in the City Center’s production of “Parade.” Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Urhy’s downbeat, short-lived Tony-

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winning 1998 musical tragedy dramatizes Frank’s 1913 trial, imprisonment and 1915 lynching while it also explores anti-Semitism and rediscovered love. Previews begin February 21. (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre) https://paradebroadway.com

With the catchy catch-line: “The moves he invented. Reinvented,” the revival of Bob Fosse’s 1978 hit “Dancin’” proclaims its intentions: Wayne Cilento, from the original 1978 Broadway production, revisits and reinterprets Bob Fosse’s celebration of the art of dance. The wall-to-wall dance revue features an eclectic mix of songs – from pop to Americana, from jazz to swing. Previews begin March 2. (Music Box Theatre) www.dancinbroadway.com

Master tweakers writer Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) put a new spin on Lerner and Loewe’s sweepingly romantic “Camelot,” a musical that certainly does not need reimagining. Tony-winner Andrew Burnap (“The Inheritance”) plays the idealistic medieval King Arthur; Phillipa Soo (“Hamilton”), his wife Guenevere; and Jordan Donica, Lancelot in this heartbreaking romantic triangle. Previews begin March 9. (Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center) https://www.lct.org/shows/ camelot/

Oscar Isaac and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s” Rachel Brosnahan star as a 1960s Bohemian Greenwich Village couple – a Jewish intellectual and an aspiring actress – in a troubled marriage in Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.” Her second Broadway play (which closed two days before her death at 34 in 1965) concerns “idealism, liberalism and not selling out.” Harvey Theatre at the Brooklyn Academy of Music www.barm.org/sign

Last month, the Mets announced the 2023 inductees for their Hall of Fame Museum located in the rotunda of Citi Field. Former third baseman Howard Johnson, southpaw starting pitcher Al Leiter, and team broadcasters Gary Cohen and Howie Rose will be the newest members. Jay Horwitz will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place prior to the Mets game with the Toronto Blue Jays on June 3.

The inductions of Howard Johnson and Al Leiter, both fan favorites and key contributors to winning Mets teams in the late 1980s and 1990s respectively, exhibit the reasons why most baseball teams have their own hall of fame museums. While both Johnson and Leiter enjoyed finer careers, they would be the first to admit they do not qualify for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Nonetheless, they deserve recognition for their terrific tenures wearing a Mets uniform.

Gary Cohen, the longtime Mets television play-by-play voice, and his radio counterpart, Howie Rose, grew up in Flushing and Bayside, respectively. Both cited how living in Queens and therefore being close to Shea Stadium were why they became huge Mets fans at young ages during a Zoom press conference. They spoke about how today’s fans see them with the same fondness their parents had for the triumvirate of Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, and Bob Murphy who were the team’s radio and TV voices for many years.

HBO has launched its second season of “Game Theory.” It airs Friday night at 11 p.m. following “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “Game Theory,” is a half-hour vehicle for witty host Bomani Jones to riff on sports, news, and pop culture. You