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 | 9 to 5  
A new musical based on the film of the same name directed by Joe Mantello (director of Wicked); with music by Dolly Parton and a cast headed by Allison Janney of TV's "The West Wing."
Begins 4/7/2009 (more) |
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 | All My Sons  
Critics = 3.3 Attendance = 92.0% sold last week
Arthur Miller's classic about the dark side of the American Dream returns to Broadway with a star-studded cast that includes Katie Holmes.
Closes 1/11/2009 (more) |
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 | August: Osage County 
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 61.2% sold last week
From Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, the Pulitzer-winning drama about the disintegration of an American family.
Winner of 5 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Play. (more) |
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 | Avenue Q
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 90.2% sold last week
This spunky and cheerful Gen-X musical comedy for grown-ups features a cast of both puppets and live performers. (more) |
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 | Billy Elliot
Critics = 4.8Attendance = 99.9% sold last week
Just opened to superlative reviews, Elton John's new musical about a young boy who wants to dance, not box. (more) |
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 | Blithe Spirit
In Noel Coward's classic comedy, Rupert Everett heads a star-studded cast as a writer who finds himself torn between his jealous second wife and the mischievous spirit of his dead first wife.
Begins 2/26/2009 (more) |
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 | Chicago
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 101.2% sold last week
An elegant, minimally-staged revival of Kander & Ebb's gritty, satirical musical - lust, treachery, and murder among chorus girls and backstage types in old Chicago. (more) |
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 | Equus
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 79.2% sold last week
Peter Shaffer's psychological drama returns to Broadway, starring Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") and Richard Griffiths. (more) |
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 | Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyan's colorful New Yawkers return to their rightful home in this revival of the classic musical, directed and choreographed by the team responsible for the hit musical Jersey Boys.
Begins 2/3/2009 (more) |
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 | Gypsy
Critics = 4.2Attendance = 90.6% sold last week
The classic showbiz musical, directed by writer Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, returns to rave reviews.
Closes 1/11/2009 (more) |
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 | Hair
Forty years after the revolutionary original production, the 'tribal love-rock musical' will return to Broadway in the highly-acclaimed production mounted last summer at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.
Begins 3/6/2009 (more) |
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 | Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen's psychological drama, with Mary-Louise Parker (Tony winner for Proof and star of Showtime's Weeds) in the role sometimes called "the female Hamlet." (more) |
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 | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 92.4% sold last week
A new musical about the vibrant cultural mix that is upper Manhattan.
Winner of 4 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 101.0% sold last week
A bio-revue telling the story and singing the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (more) |
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 | Mamma Mia 
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 99.5% sold last week
A surprisingly popular choice among the suburban set, this lively pop musical features the songs of the 70’s europop group ABBA, played to enthusiastic nightly standing ovations. (more) |
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 | Mary Poppins
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 97.6% sold last week
The classic songs of the Disney movie are used in this family-friendly Broadway megamusical, telling the tale of that charming nanny of Edwardian London in a perfectly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious manner. (more) |
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 | Pal Joey
Critics = 3.0Attendance = 91.3% sold last week
The first revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical to reach Broadway in 30 years, directed by Joe Mantello (director of Wicked) and starring Stockard Channing, Matthew Risch, and Martha Plimpton. (more) |
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 | Shrek the Musical
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 99.2% sold last week
A new musical based on William Steig's classic book and the mega-hit film it spawned comes to Broadway, and, like its title character, proves to be highly imperfect and totally irresistible. (more) |
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 | Soul of Shaolin
A Chinese martial arts spectacle (Broadway's first such attraction as far as we can determine) will play 24 performances at the Marquis Theatre in January, sandwiched between the closing of White Christmas and the opening of 9 to 5.
Begins 1/13/2009 (more) |
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 | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 99.9% sold last week
A revival of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical plays the main hall at Lincoln Center Theater.
Winner of 7 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |
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 | Spamalot
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 101.3% sold last week
The unmistakable humor of the erudite idiots of Monty Python comes to Broadway, disguised as musical comedy - now with Clay Aiken as Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Closes 1/11/2009 (more) |
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 | Speed-the-Plow
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 52.7% sold last week
The first Broadway revival of David Mamet's high-octane black comedy, starring Tony nominee Raul Esparza, Elisabeth Moss of AMC's "Mad Men," Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz, and Oscar-nominee William H. Macy (please see casting update below). (more) |
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 | Spring Awakening
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 104.0% sold last week
An alt-rock adaptation of Wedekind's controversial drama of youthful desire, the show received the best set of reviews in recent seasons. Now featuring Hunter Parrish (from TV's "Weeds") in the heartthrob role.
Closes 1/18/2009 (more) |
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 | The 39 Steps
Critics = 3.4
The popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21st. (more) |
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 | The American Plan
Critics = not yet ratedAttendance = 58.6% sold last week
An early play from the Tony Award-winning author of Take Me Out and Three Days of Rain, a mother/daughter drama directed by David Grindley, starring Tony and Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl. (more) |
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 | The Lion King
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 100.0% sold last week
Julie Taymor's inventive retelling of Disney's animated hit took Broadway by storm in 1997, and is still running strong. Puppets and live actors weave a dreamscape of jungle characters as we follow the rise of young Simba to the throne. (more) |
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 | The Little Mermaid
Critics = 2.0Attendance = 96.7% sold last week
New from Disney, an adaptation of the popular underwater fantasia. (more) |
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 | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 100.4% sold last week
A hideously deformed man lives in the cellars of the Paris Opera and takes a stunningly beautiful soprano as a student in this classic show - the longest running production in Broadway history. (more) |
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 | Thirty-Three Variations
Jane Fonda makes her first Broadway appearance in nearly 45 years, in a new play by the author of I Am My Own Wife.
Begins 2/9/2009 (more) |
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 | West Side Story
Adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and widely considered one of the great American musicals, the show returns to Broadway under the direction Arthur Laurents, the writer who collaborated with Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim to create it.
Begins 2/23/2009 (more) |
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 | Wicked
Critics = 2.7Attendance = 100.0% sold last week
Ever wondered what happened in Oz before Dorothy dropped in? This musical about the teenage years of the Good Witch and the Green Witch is a family-friendly spectacle housed in one of Broadway’s largest and most comfortable theatres. (more) |
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 | Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America
Will Ferrell makes his Broadway debut in a limited-engagement solo show...expect SNL anecdotes, impersonations (of 'W' and others), and miscellaneous Ferrell-specific bits of hilarity.
Begins 1/20/2009 (more) |
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Critics' rating is our interpretation of major newspaper and broadcast reviews.
"% Sold" data is provided by the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. for the last full week of performances.
The 39 venues designated as Broadway theatres are located in a relatively small geographic region. With only a couple of exceptions, Broadway theaters are located in the area between 41st Street and 52nd Street, and between Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Eighth Avenue.
Broadway productions are often enormous in scale, costing millions to produce, and sometimes feature some of the most popular and entertaining actors in the world. The sets and costumes are usually quite extravagant, and the musicals usually feature orchestras of ten to thirty musicians.
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