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The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Circle in the
Square
1633 Broadway
New York -
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The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the offbeat musical
creation of Tony award-winning composer and lyricist
William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin, and Rebecca Feldman is
directed by Tony Award-winner James Lapine. This
hilarious tale of overachievers' angst -- tender and
sardonic -- chronicles the experience of six adolescent
outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a
lifetime.
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Avenue Q
Golden Theatre
252 West 45th
Street
New York -
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Avenue Q
is set in NYC on a street which is described as the only
place you can afford to live when you're just out of
college, out of a job, or just plain broke. The musical
features a cast of 20-something live actors and singing
puppets. Jason Moore directs this new musical for
grown-ups written by Jeff Whitty, with music and lyrics
by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.
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A
Catered Affair
Walter Kerr
Theater
225 W 48th
St
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A Catered Affair is set in The
Bronx, 1953. Funny, heartbreaking and oh so human, the
musical reveals relationships strained to their limits
when a couple must decide whether to spend their life
savings on a family business or to launch their only
daughter's marriage with a lavish catered affair. Harvey
Fierstein's book and John Bucchino's score seize the
opportunity to explore the meaning of family and the
need for love, both new and reawakened.
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Chicago
Ambassador Theatre
219 West 49th Street
New York -
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There's never been a better
time to experience Chicago, Broadway's razzle-dazzle
smash. A sensational tale of sin, corruption and all
that jazz, Chicago has everything you could want in a
musical: knockout dancing, an edge-of-your-seat story
and one showstopper after another. No wonder it's become
a runaway success in over 250 cities worldwide, earning
six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy and
thousands of standing ovations. And here's the best
part: You never know who you're going to see in Chicago.
From Melanie to Brooke, from Usher to Huey, there's
always someone fabulous center stage. So come on, babe!
Head to the one, the only Chicago!
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A
Chorus Line
Schoenfeld
Theatre
236 West 45th Street
New York -
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The new
production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning
musical A Chorus Line is directed by its original Tony
Award winning co-choreographer Bob Avian. Conceived and
originally choreographed and directed by Michael
Bennett, the show features a book by James Kirkwood and
Nicholas Dante, with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics
by Edward Kleban.
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The
Color Purple
Broadway
Theatre
1681 Broadway @ 53rd St
New York -
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Oprah Winfrey presents this
new musical based on Alice Walker's classic Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel and the landmark film by Steven
Spielberg. The Color Purple is an inspiring family saga
that tells the unforgettable story of a woman, who,
through love, finds the strength to triumph over
adversity and discover her unique voice in the world.
With a moving book and a score featuring gospel, jazz,
ragtime and the blues, The Color Purple is ultimately a
story of hope, a testament to the healing power of love,
and a celebration of life.
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Curtains
Al
Hirschfeld Theatre
302 West 45th Street
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Curtains
unfolds backstage at Boston's Colonial Theatre in 1959,
where a new musical could be a Broadway smash, were it
not for the presence of its talent-free leading lady.
When the hapless star dies on opening night during her
curtain call, Lieutenant Frank Cioffi (David Hyde
Pierce) arrives on the scene to conduct an
investigation. But the lure of the theatre proves
irresistible and after an unexpected romance blooms for
the stage-struck detective, he finds himself just as
drawn toward making the show a hit, as he is in solving
the murder.
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Cymbeline
Vivian
Beaumont Theatre
150 West 65th Street
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William Shakespeare's romance
Cymbeline, one of the final plays of the playwright's
career, is directed by Mark Lamos, who also directed
LCT's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
Imogen marries Posthumus against her father's wishes.
Posthumous is exiled and while there told that he has
lost his bet that his wife would be faithful. He plots a
jealous reunion and revenge. Unaware, Imogene travels to
meet him but after some strange occurrences she gets
into disguise as a man - in a drugged sleep in a cave
with a man and his two sons she awakes next to a
headless corpse. Cymbeline has been described variously
as Shakespeare's most surprising, anarchic and moving
play.
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Deuce
Theatre to be
announced
Angela Lansbury will star
opposite Marian Seldes in Deuce, a new play by Terrence
McNally about two retired women tennis players who once
made up a championship doubles team. Michael Blakemore
directs.
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Dr.
Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
St James
Theatre
246 West 44th Street
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The Grinch is a natural at
thieving, even lying to little Cindy-Lou Who about his
intentions as he stuffs the family tree, the "roast
beast" feast and every last present up the chimney. When
the Whos still insist on celebrating Christmas as if the
thievery had never occurred, they melt the old miser's
heart and, in the end, the Grinch learns that the
holidays are not about accumulating presents but about
love and togetherness.
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The
Drowsy Chaperone
Marquis
Theatre
1535 Broadway @ 46th Street
New York -
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To chase his blues away, a
modern day musical theatre addict known simply as "Man
in Chair" drops the needle on his favorite LP -- the
1928 musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. From the
crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny musical
magically bursts to life on stage, telling the tale of a
pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show
business to get married, her producer who sets out to
sabotage the nuptials, her chaperone, the debonair
groom, the dizzy chorine, the Latin lover and a pair of
gangsters who double as pastry chefs. Man in Chair's
infectious love of The Drowsy Chaperone speaks to anyone
who has ever been transported by the theater.
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The
Farnsworth Invention
Theatre to be announced
The
Farnsworth Invention centers around the bitter conflict
that pitted Philo T. Farnsworth (Simpson), a boy genius
who invented television as a high school student in
1927, against David Sarnoff (Azaria), the head of the
Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The legal battle
between Farnsworth and RCA would later become known as
one of the great, tragic examples of legal and
industrial force combining to crush a rightful patent
owner. In a race that would change humanity forever, two
men battle one another for honor, glory and a place in
the history books.
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The
Female of the Species
Theatre to Be
Announced
In this new play from one of
Australia's best known writers, Bening plays Margot
Mason, a feminist literary giant suffering an extreme
case of writer's block as deadline after deadline comes
and goes on her next book. When a young fan arrives
unexpectedly at her country home, Margot's world slowly
and comically begins to unravel as family and friends
show up and debate the virtues of her best-sellers, her
inconsistent world view, and her decidedly un-motherly
touch.
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Frost/Nixon
Bernard B.
Jacobs Theatre
David Frost's interviews with
Richard Nixon, following the Watergate scandal and the
President's humiliating resignation, drew the largest
audience ever for a news interview. Could this British
talk-show host, with no known political convictions and
a playboy reputation, be the one to elicit an apology
from the man who committed one of the biggest felonies
in American political history?
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Grease
Brooks
Atkinson Theatre
256 West 47th Street
New York -
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Grease was written by Jim
Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical tells the story of
Sandy and Danny; they have a summer romance and then end
up at the same high school, where Sandy's good girl ways
don't fit in with the attitude of Danny and his
too-cool-for-school friends.
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Hairspray
Neil
Simon Theatre
250 West 52nd Street
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It's
1962, and Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad wants to dance.
When she wins a spot on the local TV dance program The
Corny Collins Show, this big girl with big hair becomes
a teen celebrity overnight. Soon Tracy finds herself
pitted against the show's reigning princess for the
title Miss Teenage Hairspray 1962.
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The
Homecoming
Cort Theatre
Considered one of Pinter's
greatest plays, The Homecoming is undoubtedly his most
sexually provocative work. Set in North London, the play
concerns the ultimate dysfunctional family, presided
over by its patriarch Max (McShane). Living under his
dilapidated roof are his younger brother Sam (McKean),
and two of his sons: Lenny (Esparza), the town pimp, and
Joey, a boxer-in-training. Tensions begin to flair with
the arrival of Max's eldest son Teddy, who returns home
after six years with his new wife Ruth. Seduction,
betrayal, and divisiveness ensue, as the family welcomes
the homecoming of its estranged brother and vies for the
attention of his dangerously alluring wife.
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In
the Heights
Richard
Rodgers
226 West 46th Street
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In the
Heights is a quintessential New York musical about a
vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the
island of Manhattan. The music pulses with the hopes and
dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an
identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition.
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Jersey Boys
August
Wilson Theatre
245 West 52nd Street
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Jersey Boys is the new
Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie
Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio,
Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. The musical chronicles the
lives of a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side
of the tracks who became one of the biggest American pop
music sensations of all time. They wrote their own
songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million
records worldwide -- all before they were thirty. Jersey
Boys features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't
Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night," and "Can't Take My
Eyes Off of You," among others.
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Legally Blonde
Palace
Theatre
1564 Broadway
New York -
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Sorority star Elle Woods
doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend
dumps her for someone more "serious," Elle puts down the
credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no
Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way,
Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out
of style.
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Les
Misérables
Broadhurst Theatre
235 West 44th Street
New York -
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Based on the novel by Victor
Hugo, the musical is set in 19th-century France and
tells the epic story of Jean Valjean, a man in search of
personal redemption, who is pursued by Inspector Javert.
The two men are in a constant battle of wits and wills,
and soon both find themselves in the middle of a
revolution, the aftermath of which will determine all
their fates.
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The
Lion King
Minskoff
Theatre
200 West 45th Street
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With wildly inventive
life-size puppets, exotic masks, and costumes, Disney's
adaptation of its popular animated movie is a visual
stunner. The 1998 Tony Award-winning Best Musical is
directed by the visionary Julie Taymor and features
terrific music by Elton John and Tim Rice. The show
follows the adventures of the royal lion cub Simba, and
his quest to grow up and learn what it means to be a
king.
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The
Little Mermaid
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
205 West 46th Street
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The Little Mermaid is based on
the Academy Award-winning film and the classic fairy
tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In a magical kingdom
beneath the sea, a beautiful young mermaid named Ariel
longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world
above. But first, she'll have to defy her father, the
king of the sea, escape the clutches of an evil sea
witch, and convince a prince that she's the girl with
the perfect voice.
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Lone Star Love
Belasco
Theatre
111 West 44th Street
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Inspired by Shakespeare's The
Merry Wives of Windsor, the show transplants John
Falstaff to the Wild West shortly after the Civil War,
wher the Confederate Colonel works his charms on the
wives of two wealthy cattle ranchers, with an eye on
their husbands' land and money.
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Mamma Mia!
Winter
Garden Theatre
1634 Broadway
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The musical Mamma Mia!, based
on the songs of ABBA, follows the story of a
forty-something mother planning her daughter's wedding.
Incorporating 22 of the famous band's songs, the show
portrays the contrast of values between mother and
daughter. Set in the present day on a tiny, mythical
Greek island, it is a musical love story that crosses
continents and generations. "Knowing Me, Knowing You,"
"Take a Chance on Me" and, of course, "Dancing Queen"
are all included.
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Mary Poppins
New
Amsterdam Theatre
214 West 42nd Street
New York -
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Mary Poppins, the musical
based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the
Oscar-winning 1964 Walt Disney film, comes to Broadway!
Richard Eyre directs with co-direction and choreography
by Matthew Bourne and additional choreography by Stephen
Mear. The show features a book by Julian Fellows, and
uses both the original film score by Robert and Richard
Sherman and new songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.
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Mauritius
Biltmore
Theatre
261 West 47th Street
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Jackie
and Mary are half-sisters whose mother's death leaves
them in possession of a rare stamp collection. But which
sister actually owns the stamps? Which of three dealers
can be trusted with their sale? And where do we choose
to live: the present or the past?
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Monty Python's Spamalot
Shubert
Theatre
225 West 44th Street
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Harry Groener stars as King
Arthur in the Tony Award-winning musical Monty Python's
Spamalot. Directed by Mike Nichols, the winner of the
2005 Tony for Best Direction of a Musical, the show
features a book by Eric Idle, winner of the 2005 Drama
Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, based on the
screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty
Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry
Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with
an entirely new score featuring music and lyrics by Eric
Idle and John Du Prez, along with three songs from the
1975 film. Spamalot is produced by Ostar Boyett
Productions.
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November
Theatre to be
announced
Nathan Lane stars as President
Charles Smith in David Mamet's new play November. Tony
Award winner Joe Mantello directs.
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Old
Acquaintance
American Airlines
Theatre
This drawing-room comedy is
about two childhood friends who have grown into very
different adults. Though they are both successful
authors, independent Katharine "Kit" Markham carries on
an affair with a younger man while divorcee Mildred
"Millie" Drake refuses to loosen the apron-strings on
her teenage daughter, Deidre. But when Deidre's
struggles to become more like her idol Kit have
far-reaching consequences, the two women who thought
they were growing apart may have much more in common
than they'd like to admit.
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The
Phantom of the Opera
Majestic
Theatre
247 West 44 Street
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Based on the Gaston Leroux
novel, this story of seduction and despair is told
through a lush and romantic score by Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Charles Hart. Gorgeously directed by theater veteran
Harold Prince, The Phantom of the Opera is a haunting
show that has enchanted audiences across the globe and
has been responsible for igniting a lifelong passion for
the musical theater in many of them.
Children ages 4 and under are not permitted in the
theater.
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Pygmalion
American Airlines
Theatre
The play focuses on a British
professor who takes a poor Cockney girl named Eliza
Doolittle off the streets and tutors her in diction in
order to pass her off as a society lady. The play was
the basis for the musical My Fair Lady.
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Rent
Nederlander Theatre
208 West 41st Street
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Set in the East Village of New
York City, Rent is about being young and learning to
survive in NYC. It's about falling in love, finding your
voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award®
for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize, Rent has made a
lasting mark on Broadway with songs that rock and a
story that really resonates. Whether it's your 1st time
or your 100th time, the time is now for Rent!
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The
Ritz
Studio
54
254 West 54th Street
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The Ritz is a set in a
Manhattan gay bathhouse, where Gaetano Proclo goes to
hide from a mobster with unexpected results.
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Rock 'n' Roll
Bernard
B Jacobs Theatre
242 West 45th Street
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Rock 'n' Roll spans the years
from 1968 -1990 from the double perspective of Prague,
Czechoslovakia, where a rock 'n' roll band comes to
symbolize resistance to the Communist regime -and of
Cambridge, England, where the verities of love and death
are shaping the lives of three generations in the family
of a Marxist philosopher.
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The
Seafarer
Booth Theatre
Conor McPherson's The Seafarer
is a chilling new play about the sea, Ireland, and the
power of myth. It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has
returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging
brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies
Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to
play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from
the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In
fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul.
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Spring Awakening
Eugene
ONeill Theatre
230 West 49th Street
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Based on Frank Wedekind's
masterpiece The Awakening of Spring, Spring Awakening is
the contemporary musical adaptation of one of
literature's most controversial plays. Spring Awakening
boldly depicts a dozen young people and how they make
their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing,
and mysterious time of their sexual awakening. Duncan
Sheik and Steven Sater's score feature songs that
illuminate the urgency of adolescent self-discovery, the
burning intensity of teen friendships and the innate
suspicion of the uncomprehending adult world. The story
centers around a brilliant young student named Melchior,
his troubled friend Moritz, and Wendla, a beautiful
young girl on the verge of womanhood.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Studio
54
254 West 54th Street
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The Georges Seurat painting,
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette,"
is the inspiration for this compelling musical fantasy
which celebrates the art of creation and the creation of
art. The first half of Sunday in the Park with George,
set in 1884, sees the painting and its rich comic
tapestry come to life in a world where, for Georges, art
comes before love, before everything. In the second
half, set in 1980s New York, we see the great grandson
of Georges and his search for inspiration amongst the
unfolding world of contemporary art.
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Girls
Biltmore
Theatre
261 West 47th Street
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Manhattan Theatre Club
presents the Broadway debut of Caryl Churchill's Top
Girls. Set at the Top Girls Employment Agency in London
in the early 1980s, this groundbreaking, theatrical play
tells the story of Marlene, an ambitious career woman
who has just been appointed head of the firm. But as she
celebrates her achievements, can we applaud her values?
James Macdonald directs.
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Wicked
Gershwin
Theatre
222 West 51 Street
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Stephen Schwartz's new musical
Wicked tells the story of two girls in the Land of Oz.
One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery, and
misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and
very popular. Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, the
spellbinding musical takes a look at how these unlikely
friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and
Glinda the Good Witch. Joe Mantello directs. Winner of
2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.
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Xanadu
Helen
Hayes Theatre
240 West 44th Street
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Kerry Butler stars as Kira in
the new production of the musical Xanadu. Douglas Carter
Beane has written the book with all of the music coming
from the film version including the hit songs "Magic", "Xanadu",
"Party All Over the World" and "I'm Alive" -- all top 20
Billboard hits. The score was written by John Farrar and
Jeff Lynne. Christopher Ashley directs.
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The
Year of Magical Thinking
Booth Theatre
Vanessa Redgrave stars in Joan
Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a one-woman play
based on her autobiographical book of the same name.
David Hare directs.
In the play, Redgrave relives the unforgettable night in
Joan Didion's life when, even as her only child lay in a
coma, her husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory
Dunne, died suddenly of a massive coronary as they sat
down to dinner in their New York apartment. Capturing
the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely
intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the
ordinary to the unimaginable, The Year of Magical
Thinking is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an
extraordinary, unconventional marriage told with raw
candor and a storyteller's gift for the absurd.
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Young Frankenstein
Hilton
Theatre
214 West 43rd Street
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Young
Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of
the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel
Brooks. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New
York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and
laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather,
deranged genius Victor Von Frankenstein, he faces a
dilemma. Does he continue to run from his family's
tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry
on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the
dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab
assistant Inga?
Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the
foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous
score includes "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My
Boyfriend" and the unforgettable treatment of Irving
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South Pacific
Vivian
Beaumont Theatre
150 West 65th Street
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Kelli O'Hara stars in the first Broadway revival of
this classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's
South Pacific is set on a tropical island in the Pacific
during World War II, where US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush
falls in love with local plantation owner Emile De
Becque. Meanwhile, Lt. Joe Cable has fallen in love with
young Liat, daughter of the irrepressible Bloody Mary.
Both couples' happiness is threatened by the realities
of the war and by their own prejudices. Also on the
island are dozens of locals and Navy, all of whom seem
to break into glorious song and dance at just the right
moments.
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Gypsy
St James Theatre
246 West 44th Street
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Stage legend Patti LuPone stars in a flashy new
production of this classic musical.
Set during the vaudeville era, Gypsy is about a
relentless stage mother, Rose, traveling the country
with her two daughters, June and Louise, and their
manager, Herbie. While June and Louise wish their mother
would settle down and marry Herbie, Rose continues to
pursue dreams of stardom for her girls. When June
deserts the act, Rose turns her attention to the shy
Louise, whom she hopes to fashion into a star. When the
act is booked into a burlesque house by mistake, Louise
is forced into the spotlight and Gypsy Rose Lee is born.
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