With the deadline for Tony Award nominations fast approaching, ambitious new Broadway musicals are springing up like mushrooms. This month’s crop would appear to have a feminist slant, as represented by the recent and imminent openings of “Lempicka” and the Public Theater-bred transfers “Suffs” and “Hell’s Kitchen.”

There will likely be less competition for best revival of a musical this year: Maria Friedman’s extraordinary take on “Merrily We Roll Along” has pretty much had that trophy wrapped up since arriving last fall, also after a downtown run. So there’s rather less pressure on a charming new production of an old classic that, not unlike the first trio of shows mentioned here, follows a female protagonist with a dream, and the resilience to see it through repeated obstacles.