Broadway Revival of That Championship Season Books Jacobs Theatre for March 2011 Opening

The previously announced Broadway revival of Jason Miller’s That Championship Season starring Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Noth, Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan and Miller’s son Jason Patric has booked the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The play will begin previews on February 9, 2011, and open on March 6, directed by Gregory Mosher. The Jacobs is currently home to Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which has announced a closing date of January 2.

That Championship Season centers on a group of former high school basketball stars who return home for a reunion 20 years after they won the state championship. Cox will play the team’s coach; the four teammates will be played by Sutherland (James Daley), Gaffigan (George Sitkowski), Noth (Phil Romano) and Patric (Tom Daley).

The play began life at the Public Theater, where it opened on May 2, 1972. Transferring to Broadway’s Booth Theatre in September 1972, it ran for 700 performances and won both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize. The cast included Charles Durning as Sitkowski, Richard Dysart as Coach, Michael McGuire as James Daley, plus Walter McGinn as Tom Daley and Paul Sorvino in a Tony-nominated performance as Phil Romano. That Championship Season was revived at Second Stage in 1999.

The Broadway revival’s design team will include Michael Yeargan (sets), Jane Greenwood (costumes), Peter Kaczorowski (lights) and Scott Lehrer (sound).

That Championship Season is being produced by Robert Cole, Frederick Zollo, Shelter Island Enterprises, The Shubert Organization, James MacGilvray, Orin Wolf, The Weinstein Company, Redefined Entertainment and Brannon Wiles.