Broadway season features Sting, Jackman and Peter Pan.

• Author: Kennedy, Mark
• Position: Living

Byline: Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK -- The coming Broadway season has something for everyone -- a musical by Sting, a magician-filled SUV, the incomparable Hugh Jackman, the equally regal Helen Mirren, a musical set in a funeral parlor and not one, but two Gyllenhaals. Here's a look at some highlights of the 2014-15 season:

STARS, STARS, STARS

You want A-listers? Broadway listened. Bradley Cooper, Michael Cera, Hugh Jackman, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, Kristin Chenoweth, Helen Mirren, James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick, Tavi Gevinson, Nathan Lane, Rose Byrne, Alan Alda, Brian Dennehy, Mia Farrow, Candice Bergen, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Chenoweth, Carol Burnett, Anjelica Huston and Tony Danza.

REVIVE, REVIVE

It wouldn't be a new Broadway season without some revivals: "Side Show'' returns for a second time; Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing'' for a third time in October; Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance'' for a third time in the fall; "The Elephant Man'' for third time starting in November; and the screwball comedy "Noises Off'' for a third time next winter.

OLD SCHOOL

Producers have dug deep into America's past to pull out four classic tales: The play "You Can't Take It With You,'' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, which first debuted in 1936, comes back in September; the 1944 show "On the Town,'' with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, returns in October; "An American in Paris,'' an adaptation of the 1951 Gene Kelly film, comes in spring; and another Comden-Green comedy, "On the Twentieth Century,'' steams into town in February.

YOU HAD US AT HUGH

Hugh Jackman is coming back this fall in "The River'' by Jez Butterworth, but does it really matter what he's doing? For the record, the play, the first since Butterworth's "Jerusalem,'' is about a trout fisherman in a remote cabin who is visited by two of the women in his life. It's new and moody but Jackman is box-office catnip -- his one-man show in 2011 routinely sold out, as did "The Boy From Oz'' in 2003 and "A Steady Rain'' with Daniel Craig in 2009.

ROYALTY RULES

Helen Mirren will be playing British Queen Elizabeth II this spring in "The Audience,'' which imagines the private weekly meetings between the monarch and 12 prime ministers, while Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe will be romancing each other starting in March in the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II musical "The King and I.''

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