Forget Boston and New Haven. Broadway's favorite tryout town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross did.
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