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 | Chicago   
Critics = 4.9 Attendance = 66.1% 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) |
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 | Billy Elliot 
Critics = 4.8Attendance = 99.1% 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) |
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 | Hair
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 65.6% 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) |
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 | The Lion King 
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 88.2% 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) |
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 | Finian's Rainbow
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 73.7% sold last week
A revival of the 1947 musical about Irish immigrants in the Deep South and a leprechaun searching for his stolen pot of gold....an odd but winning mix of whimsy, romance, satire, and well-loved songs. (more) |
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 | God of Carnage 
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 101.7% 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."
Winner of 3 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Play. (more) |
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 | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 73.9% 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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 | Next to Normal
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 75.2% 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) |
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 | Memphis
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 60.2% sold last week
Just opened, 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....critics' reviews mostly good, audience reaction excellent. (more) |
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 | The Royal Family
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 71.4% sold last week
A revival of the 1927 comedy, a parody of the first family of Broadway - the Barrymores - directed by Tony-winner Doug Hughes. (more) |
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 | Superior Donuts
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 59.8% sold last week
From Chicago's esteemed Steppenwolf Theatre and Pulitzer-winning author Tracy Letts, an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing play set in a Windy City donut shop. (more) |
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 | West Side Story
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 72.3% 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) |
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 | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 100.1% 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) |
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 | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 78.4% 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.
Winner of 7 1988 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Oleanna
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 52.9% sold last week
Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles play professor and student in the Broadway premiere of Pulitzer-winner David Mamet's play, written in response to the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings. (more) |
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 | A Steady Rain
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 101.2% sold last week
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman star as Chicago police officers struggling to reconcile their memories of a tragic event....this limited engagement has been Broadway's hottest ticket for the fall. (more) |
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 | Mary Poppins
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 60.9% 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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 | The 39 Steps
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 55.5% sold last week
The popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre. (more) |
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 | Rock of Ages
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 78.7% 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) |
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 | Hamlet
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 82.6% sold last week
Direct from London, Jude Law stars as Shakespeare's troubled Prince in a modern-dress production of the iconic tragedy....directed by Michael Grandage, director of the Tony Award-winning "Frost/Nixon." (more) |
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 | Shrek the Musical
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 55.6% 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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 | Wishful Drinking
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 69.0% sold last week
Carrie Fisher stars in her autobiographical play, a dark comedy about her life in Hollywood and her experiences with addiction and bipolar disorder. (more) |
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 | Mamma Mia
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 90.5% 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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 | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 59.2% 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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 | After Miss Julie
Critics = 2.9Attendance = 73.8% sold last week
Sienna Miller ("Factory Girl") and Jonny Lee Miller ("Trainspotting") make their Broadway debuts in this re-imaging of Strindberg’s classic drama created by Patrick Marber, the British playwright best known for the London and Broadway hit "Closer." (more) |
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 | Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Critics = 2.9
After several years of seasonal runs in the hinterlands, this musical based on the classic 1954 film (and featuring Irving Berlin's great score) made its way to Broadway last year, and now returns for a second holiday run.
Begins November 13th (more) |
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 | Wicked
Critics = 2.7Attendance = 98.8% 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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 | Bye Bye Birdie
Critics = 2.6Attendance = 91.9% sold last week
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. (more) |
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 | Burn the Floor
Critics = 2.5Attendance = 50.6% sold last week
After years of successful tours around the world, the popular dance spectacular has come to Broadway - now featuring Anya and Pasha from "So You Think You Can Dance." (more) |
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 | A Little Night Music
Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her Broadway debut in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1973 musical....also starring Angela Lansbury and directed by Trevor Nunn.
Begins November 24th (more) |
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 | Fela!
Critics = not yet ratedAttendance = 77.8% sold last week
The new musical based on the life of African composer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti comes to Broadway....an Off-Broadway hit in 2008, the show is directed and choreographed by downtown legend Bill T. Jones. (more) |
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 | In the Next Room
Critics = not yet ratedAttendance = 45.2% sold last week
From Berkeley Rep, the NYC premiere of Pulitzer-nominee Sarah Ruhl's comedy, the full title of which is "In the Next Room or the vibrator play." (more) |
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 | The Addams Family
A new musical based on the characters of Charles Addams comes to Broadway, with an impressive cast of Broadway vets headed by Tony winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth (as Gomez and Morticia, naturally).
Begins March 4th (more) |
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 | Race
Emmy-winner James Spader makes his Broadway debut in a new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Mamet.
Begins November 16th (more) |
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 | Ragtime
Critics = not yet ratedAttendance = 61.8% sold last week
The highly-acclaimed Kennedy Center production of the 1998 musical (based on E.L. Doctorow's epic novel) will return to Broadway in the fall. (more) |
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