Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of Real Women Have Curves, now in previews at the James Earl Jones ...

"It's very meta," said Brooks Ashmanskas, who — advance word has it — steals this show based on the cult 2012 NBC series ...

(All of them are from the original production ... became an international sensation. The show, which premiered off Broadway ...

"Othello" with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, and a new musical based on Betty Boop are among the shows opening on Broadway this spring.

Of course, not all sequels are guaranteed to become box ... But that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is one of the biggest hits in film history.