“The Lehman Trilogy” plans to return to Broadway this fall, a source told The Post.
Playwright Stefano Massini’s drama (adapted by Ben Power), which won the Tony Award for Best Play last year, would begin performances at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in September.
The three-hander — a sprawling history of the Lehman Brothers firm leading up to the 2008 financial crash — would slide in to fill the void left by the revival of Lerner & Loewe’s 1960 musical “Camelot,” which opened in the spring and is closing early on July 23 due to poor ticket sales.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, the revival had been extended through Sept. 3, but it did not garner the same level of acclaim or demand that the director’s stagings of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” and “The King and I” did.
Both of those shows ran for more than a year on Broadway.
No word yet on “Lehman” casting. The original Broadway production, directed by Sam Mendes at the Nederlander Theatre, starred British actors Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester. While all three were nominated for the Best Actor in a Play Tony, Beale ultimately took home the trophy.
Godley currently plays the narrator in the Britney Spears musical “Once Upon a One More Time” at the Marriott Marquis Theatre.
And Beale has been cast in Season 2 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “House of the Dragon,” which is now filming in the UK and Europe.
A recent London “Lehman” return engagement that ended in May starred Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser (“The Pirate Queen”) and Nigel Lindsay (“The Real Thing”).
“Lehman,” which has become a popular show around the world, would be a commercial booking for nonprofit Lincoln Center, which has struggled to put butts in seats with its self-produced shows such as “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Tom Kitt and Michael Korie’s musical “Flying Over Sunset” and “Camelot.”
“André Bishop needs it,” an industry source said of Lincoln Center’s artistic director.
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