Theatre News Roundup: 6/29-6/30

Sorry about skipping last night's TNR and being late with this one. I have a recap to write for another site on Monday's and I was out on a date tonight.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

•  Patti LuPone stars in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's play Shows for Days, which also features Michael Urie. The production officially opens June 29 at Lincoln Center Theater.

The Party’s Over (CLOSINGS)

• It Shoulda Been You will end its Broadway run Aug. 

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• (Keep an eye on this one!) Producers have announced initial casting and creative team for Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name, which will make its pre-Broadway world premiere beginning Dec. 13 at Broadway In Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre. The cast will include Lillias White, Andre De Shields, Georgia Engel, Haven Burton, Lori Tan Chinn and Stefanie Powers. Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, the production will continue through Jan. 17, 2016, before heading to Broadway in spring 2016. Gotta Dance features a book by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, original music by Matthew Sklar and the late Tony and Oscar winner Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde).
• My Paris, a new musical about artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, will star Bobby Steggert, Mara Davi, Donna English and John Glover. One of three new musicals being produced this summer by Goodspeed Musicals at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, My Paris begins performances July 23 and runs through Aug. 16. It will feature a score by Charles Aznavour with lyrics translated by Jason Robert Brown (also music arranger). The libretto is by Alfred Uhry, who collaborated with Brown on Parade.
• Amy Spanger will appear in No One's Sonata by Seven Sater, librettist and lyricist of Spring Awakening. His collaborator on the show, Duncan Sheik, has joined the No One's Sonata creative team.
• A musical based on Ian Fleming's suave super spy James Bond is being prepared for Broadway. Executive producer Merry Saltzman (daughter of legendary Bond film producer and impresario Harry Saltzman) told Playbill.com that her company, Placeholder Productions, had secured the rights to mount a stage show. She said the show, concisely titled James Bond: The Musical, will have a book by novelist Dave Clarke and music and lyrics by country composer Jay Henry Weisz.

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

•  Jessica Hecht and Adam Kantor have joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, which will begin previews Nov. 12 prior to an official opening Dec. 17 at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). Hecht will play the role of Golde with Kantor as Motel. 
• Joaquina Kalukango and Talene Monahon have replaced Ciara Renée and Kimiko Glenn, respectively, in the Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party, which will feature Sutton Foster as Queenie. Kalukango will play Kate, and Monahon will play Mae.
• Casting has been announced for the eight new plays being developed this summer at the annual National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. 
• Judy Blazer joins the cast of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder June 30 in the role of the mysterious Miss Shingle.
• Casting has been announced for the Lexington Theatre Company's inaugural production, the Tony-winning musical 42nd Street, which will play the Kentucky venue July 23-26 at the Lexington Opera House. Karen Ziemba will head the cast as Dorothy Brock with Matthew Shepard as Julian Marsh, Nicolas Dromard as Billy Lawlor and Darien Crago as Peggy Sawyer.