Broadway fall preview: Keanu Reeves, Kristin Chenoweth, the Muppets, much more

A baker's dozen of new productions, including one appropriately involving a wedding cake, are arriving on Broadway this fall.

Whether the number 13 will be lucky for theatergoers remains to be seen, but there will certainly be some big names to entice audiences, especially if you like names that begin with the letter K, specifically Keanu, Kermit and Kristin.

Revivals ("Art," "Chess," "Ragtime") and London imports ("Punch," "Oedipus") will be in abundance, but there will still be plenty of fresh Broadway fare to savor including the new musical "The Queen of Versailles" with the aforementioned Kristin Chenoweth and Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham.

And someone must have said "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice," because everyone's favorite demon is going back to haunt Broadway again.

With that said check out the 13 shows waiting for you on Broadway this season.

ART (Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St., opens Sept. 16, runs through Dec. 21, artonbroadway.com) What is art? That's the big question in this revival of Yasmina Reza's comedy framed around a painting that causes a rift among three friends. Two-time Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale and two Tony winners — James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris — star as the trio arguing about art.

WAITING FOR GODOT (Hudson Theatre, 141 W. 44th St., begins previews Sept. 13, opens Sept. 28, runs through Jan. 4, godotbroadway.com) If you've been waiting for Reeves, as in Keanu, to make his Broadway debut, your patient has been rewarded. Joining him is longtime friend and occasional screen partner Alex Winter in Samuel Beckett's drama about the meaning of life that could easily have been retiled "Bill & Ted's Absurdist Adventure."

PUNCH (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St., begins previews Sept. 9, opens Sept. 29, runs through Nov. 2, manhattantheatreclub.com) James Graham's dark drama based on Jacob Dunne's memoir "Right or Wrong" packed a wallop when it played in London earlier this year. The play recounts the time troubled teenager Dunne was incarcerated after delivering a fatal blow to a paramedic and then developed a relationship with the victims' parents that changed his life.

BEETLEJUICE (Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway, opens Oct. 8, runs through Jan. 3, beetlejuicebroadway.com)

Apparently, you just can't kill Beetlejuice. The ghostly musical based on the 1988 movie hit opened to less than spirited reviews in April 2019, got shut down by COVID in March 2020, returned in April 2022, closed again the following January and comes back for a third time for a three-month engagement.

RAGTIME (Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 W. 65th St., begins previews Sept. 26, opens Oct. 16, runs through Jan. 4, lct.org) The 1998 musical based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 bestselling novel heads back to Broadway for a third time. It chronicles three fictional families — a Black pianist and his wife; a Jewish immigrant from Latvia and his young daughter; and an aristocratic white family — all pursuing their idea of the American dream in the early 1900s.

LIBERATION (James Earl Jones Theatre, 138 W. 48h St., previews begin Oct. 8, opens Oct. 28, runs through Jan. 11, liberationbway.com) Bess Wohl, who took on the rise of Nazism in the 1930s in her Yaphank-set play, "Camp Siegfried," this time tackles the Women's Liberation movement in her latest dramedy set in 1970s Ohio. Spoiler alert: When the show ran Off-Broadway earlier this year, attendees had to drop their cellphones into a lockbag upon entering the theater to prevent leaked shots of the actors appearing nude onstage in the second act.

LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St., begins previews Oct. 7, opens Oct. 30, runs through Feb. 8, littlebearridgeroad.com)

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock star as an estranged aunt and nephew who reunite when his father dies and they have to deal with selling his home in Idaho. It doesn't help that the COVID lockdown is about to happen.

ROB LAKE MAGIC WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE MUPPETS (Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th St., previews begin Oct. 28, opens Nov. 6, runs through Jan. 18, roblake.com/broadway) Kermit the Frog may be green to Broadway, but you can expect that he and the rest of the Muppet gang will have a few tricks up their sleeves as they assist illusionist and 2018 "America's Got Talent" quarterfinalist Lake in his magical tour de force.

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th St., begins preview Oct. 8, opens Nov. 9, queenofversaillesmusical.com)

Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth and Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham star in this musical featuring songs by Roslyn Heights-raised Stephen Schwartz. It's based on the 2012 documentary about Florida entrepreneur David Siegel and his pampered wife, Jackie, who seemed to have it all as they began construction on a mansion inspired by the palace at Versailles, France. When the economic downturn of 2008 hits, it's au revoir to Versailles and the rest of their extravagant lifestyle.

OEDIPUS (Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St., begins previews Oct. 30, opens Nov. 13, runs through Feb. 8, oedipustheplay.com) This modern retelling of Sophocles' Greek tragedy was a triumph in London when it opened last fall. Making the trip across the pond are Mark Strong as a politician who has killed his dad, and Lesley Manville as the wife who he discovers is also his mother.

CHESS (Imperial Theatre, 249 W. 45th St., begins previews Oct. 15, opens Nov. 16, runs through March 15, chessbroadway.com)

The two B's of ABBA — Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus — along with Tim Rice penned the songs of this musical about a Cold War-era chess match between American and Russian grandmasters. The show, which produced the hit song "One Night in Bangkok," had a brief run on Broadway in 1988. The revival stars Nicholas Christopher, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit.

TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) (Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., previews begin Nov. 1, opens Nov. 20, twostrangersmusical.com) 

Brits fell in love with this romcom/musical when it played in London last year. A chipper chap from England comes to New York for the wedding of a dad he never met, but the icing on the cake is when he meets the bride's no-nonsense sister who's been sent to the airport to pick him up.

MARJORIE PRIME (Hayes Theatre, 240 W. 44th St., previews begin Nov. 20, opens Dec. 8, runs through Feb. 15, 2st.com) June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell are the heavy hitters in this sci-fi-ish drama about a woman with Alzheimer's disease who gets to spend her last days with a computerized version of her late husband thanks to a service called Prime (and no, Amazon has nothing to do with it).