Tony Yazbeck, Emily Skinner & Josh Grisetti Circling The Prince of Broadway in Japan, Starring Ramin Karimloo

We're finding out how many air miles we have. Looks like On the Town’s Tony Yazbeck, Emily Skinner and It Shoulda Been You’s Josh Grisetti have been tapped for the long-in-the-works musical The Prince of Broadway in Japan. Although the New York spokesperson for the production could not confirm further casting, the trio are included in Japanese promotional materials. Starring Ramin Karimloo and Shuler Hensley, the show celebrates the career of the 21-time Tony-winning director and producer Hal Prince. The tuner will play October 23 through November 22 at Tokyu Theatre Orb in Tokyo and November 28 through December 10 at Umeda Arts Theatre in Osaka.

Tony nominated for his current role in On the Town, Yazbeck is set to headline the production's tour; a spokesperson for the show said that he will play Gabey on Broadway until mid-September and replacement casting will be announced in a few weeks. Yazbeck's multiple additional Great White Way credits include Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Gypsy, A Chorus Line and Oklahoma!. Skinner was Tony nominated for Side Show; she has also been seen on Broadway in Billy Elliot, Dinner at Eight, The Full Monty, James Joyce's The Dead and Jekyll & Hyde. Grisetti is making his Main Stem debut in It Shoulda Been You, which will shutter on August 9.

Bryonha Marie Parham, David Pittu and Mariand Torres have also boarded the cast. As previously reported, the production will additionally star Nancy Opel, Kaley Ann Voorhees and Reon Yuzuki.

The Prince of Broadway will be helmed by Prince himself with co-direction and choreography by Susan Stroman. The show pays tribute to Prince’s 60-year career and examines the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to him creating some of the most beloved theater of all time, including West Side Story, The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Company.

The production will feature a book by David Thompson, set design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by William Ivey Long, wig design by Paul Huntley, musical supervision and arrangements by Jason Robert Brown and musical direction by Fred Lassen.

The show was originally slated to open on the Great White Way in 2012 starring Sierra Boggess, Richard Kind and Skinner. No word yet on whether the production is still Broadway-bound.