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 | 9 to 5   
Critics = 3.0 Attendance = 77.0% sold last week
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." (more) |
|  | Avenue Q
Critics = 3.9Attendance = 84.3% sold last week
This spunky and cheerful Gen-X musical comedy for grown-ups features a cast of both puppets and live performers.
Winner of 3 2004 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
|  | Billy Elliot 
Critics = 4.8Attendance = 100.0% sold last week
Elton John’s new musical, set in Northern England’s coal fields, about a boy who wants to dance, not box.
Winner of 10 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
|  | Blithe Spirit 
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 67.8% sold last week
NYC critics were a bit mixed on this revival of Noel Coward's classic drawing-room comedy, but they were unanimous in their love for Angela Lansbury, who steals the show as the daffy spiritual medium at the center of the story.
Closes July 19th (more) |
|  | Burn the Floor
After years of successful tours around the world, the popular dance spectacular comes to Broadway for a limited engagement.
Begins July 25th (more) |
|  | Bye Bye Birdie
John Stamos, Gina Gershon, and Nolan Gerard Funk (from Nickelodeon's "Spectacular") star in the first Broadway revival of the classic musical, a spoof of the Elvis phenomenon that swept the country in the late 50's.
Begins September 11th (more) |
|  | Chicago
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 88.0% 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.
Winner of 6 1997 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |
|  | God of Carnage
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 102.0% sold last week
Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden star in a new play by Yasmina Reza (author of the hit play "Art"); directed by Matthew Warchus, who staged the Oliver Award-winning London production of the play last season.
Winner of 3 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Play. (more) |
|  | Hair
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 100.8% sold last week
Forty-one years after the revolutionary original production, the 'tribal love-rock musical' has returned to Broadway, and audiences (and critics) are dancing in the aisles.
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |
|  | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 91.0% 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) |
|  | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 101.2% sold last week
A bio-revue telling the story and singing the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Winner of 4 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
|  | Mamma Mia 
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 96.9% 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) |
|  | Mary Poppins
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 79.5% 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) |
|  | Mary Stuart
Critics = 4.4Attendance = 55.2% sold last week
Janet McTeer (as Mary Queen of Scots) and Harriet Walter (as Queen Elizabeth I) star in a production Newsday calls a "riveting showcase" for "two towering actresses." (more) |
|  | Memphis
A new musical about a black singer and a white radio DJ who come together in the segregated South during the early days of rock 'n' roll.
Begins September 23rd (more) |
|  | Next to Normal
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 97.8% sold last week
A bleak but powerful musical drama about a troubled suburban family....the New York Times calls it a "brave, breathtaking" show. (more) |
|  | Rock of Ages
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 98.8% sold last week
An Off-Broadway hit last season, this winking tribute to the 80's (with a score of arena-rock hits from Bon Jovi, Journey, Poison, and many more) recently made the difficult leap to Broadway, where it seems set for a successful run. (more) |
|  | Shrek the Musical
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 87.1% 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) |
|  | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 99.1% 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) |
| |  | Superior Donuts
From Chicago's esteemed Steppenwolf Theatre and Pulitzer-winner Tracy Letts, a small-scale play set in (you guessed it) a Windy City donut shop.
Begins September 16th (more) |
|  | The 39 Steps
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 80.0% sold last week
The popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre. (more) |
|  | The Lion King
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 95.6% 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.
Winner of 6 1998 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
|  | The Little Mermaid
Critics = 2.0Attendance = 90.9% sold last week
From Disney, an underwater fantasia adapted for the stage from their popular animated film.
Closes August 30th (more) |
|  | The Norman Conquests: Living Together
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 81.0% sold last week
The second of three interconnected comedies by Alan Ayckbourn....Variety calls the trilogy (which is performed in rotating rep) a "richly rewarding revival" that "delivers more laughs than ought to be legal."
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. (more) |
| | | The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 81.0% sold last week
The third of three interconnected comedies by Alan Ayckbourn....Variety calls the trilogy (which is performed in rotating rep) a "richly rewarding revival" that "delivers more laughs than ought to be legal."
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. (more) |
| | | The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 81.0% sold last week
The first of three interconnected comedies by Alan Ayckbourn....Variety calls the trilogy (which is performed in rotating rep) a "richly rewarding revival" that "delivers more laughs than ought to be legal."
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. (more) |
| | | The Norman Conquests: Trilogy
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 81.0% sold last week
Three interconnected comedies by Alan Ayckbourn, performed in rotating rep....Variety calls the trilogy a "richly rewarding revival" that "delivers more laughs than ought to be legal."
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. (more) |
|  | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 95.1% 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.
Winner of 7 1988 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
|  | Waiting for Godot
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 102.8% sold last week
Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman, and John Glover star in Samuel Beckett's classic existential play...Variety calls it a "transcendent production, showcasing four distinctive actors at the top of their game."
Closes July 12th (more) |
|  | West Side Story
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 101.2% sold last week
The great American musical returns to Broadway in a starkly dramatic production directed by Arthur Laurents, who collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins to transport Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan's violent Upper West Side more than 50 years ago. (more) |
|  | 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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