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A Catered Affair   
Critics = 2.5 Attendance = 82.8% sold last week
A rather subtle musical from Harvey Fierstein about a 1950's 'dream wedding' in the Bronx. (more) | A Chorus Line 
Critics = 2.7Attendance = 62.1% sold last week
Long before American Idol, this hit Broadway musical told the tale of tryouts for the chorus of a new Broadway show. (more) | August: Osage County 
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 75.7% sold last week
The Steppenwolf drama about a disintegrating family transfers to the Music Box Theatre. (more) | Avenue Q
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 66.1% sold last week
This spunky and cheerful Gen-X musical comedy for grown-ups features a cast of both puppets and live performers. (more) | Boeing Boeing
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 54.7% sold last week
Christine Baranski stars in the popular stewardess-themed farce at the Longacre. (more) | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 79.0% sold last week
James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard, and Anika Noni Rose are in this revival of Tennessee Williams' drama. (more) | Chicago
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 79.6% sold last week
An elegant, minimally staged revival of Kander & Ebb's gritty musical - lust, treachery, and murder among chorus girls and backstage types in old Chicago. (more) | Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy 
A postmodern acrobatic troupe (no, not that one, another one) plays the Broadway Theatre with a new family-friendly spectacular.
Begins 6/16/2008 (more) | Cry-Baby
Critics = 2.3Attendance = 54.6% sold last week
John Waters' second cult film classic (the first was "Hairspray") comes to the Main Stem. (more) | Curtains
Critics = 2.5Attendance = 61.6% sold last week
David Hyde Pierce headlines a new musical comedy from the legendary team of Kander & Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), a backstage romance set in 1959.
Closes 6/29/2008 (more) | Grease
Critics = 2.1Attendance = 92.1% sold last week
The pop bebop high school musical of 1950's Americana returns to The Street on the heels of a massive television talent search for the leads. (more) | Gypsy
Critics = 4.2Attendance = 68.6% sold last week
The classic showbiz musical returns to rave reviews, directed by original book writer Arthur Laurents - Patti LuPone stars. (more) | Hairspray
Critics = 4.2Attendance = 90.1% sold last week
A sugary candied-apple of a musical in which a plus-sized teen in 1962 Baltimore discovers that she lives in the best of all possible worlds. (more) | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 67.3% sold last week
A new musical about the vibrant cultural mix that is upper Manhattan. (more) | Legally Blonde
Critics = 2.4Attendance = 62.3% sold last week
A musical comedy based on the popular movie about a ditzy Harvard Law student plays the Palace. (more) | Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Critics = 3.2Attendance = 69.7% sold last week
Laura Linney stars in a revival of the popular costume drama at the Roundabout. (more) | Mamma Mia
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 97.1% 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 = 91.0% sold last week
The classic songs of the Disney movie make for the latest family-friendly Broadway megamusical, telling the tale of that charming nanny of Edwardian London in a perfectly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious manner. (more) | November
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 49.5% sold last week
A new light comedy by David Mamet hits the Main Stem just in time for Primary season. (more) | Passing Strange
Critics = 3.8Attendance = 44.8% sold last week
Storyteller "Stew" moves his possibly-autobiographical blues show uptown from the Public Theatre. (more) | Rent
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 78.7% sold last week
The Pulitzer Prize winning rock adaptation of Puccini's La Boheme set in the grungy corners of New York City.
Closes 9/7/2008 (more) | Spamalot
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 84.2% sold last week
The unmistakable humor of the erudite idiots of Monty Python comes to Broadway, disguised as musical comedy. (more) | Spring Awakening
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 65.9% sold last week
An alt-rock adaptation of Wedekind's drama of youthful desire, from the well-regarded Atlantic Theatre. Some of the best reviews of last season. (more) | Sunday in the Park With George
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 65.2% sold last week
A restaging of a recent London revival of Sondheim's classic musical plays Studio 54. (more) | The 39 Steps
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 73.6% sold last week
Popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Cort Theatre. (more) | The Country Girl
Critics = 2.6Attendance = 64.0% sold last week
Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand star in Clifford Odets' drama about a fading actor's big Broadway comeback. Mike Nichols directs. (more) | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 98.6% 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) | Thurgood
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 66.6% sold last week
Laurence Fishburne comes to Broadway in a one-man-show about the Supreme Court Justice mentioned in the title. (more) | Top Girls
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 66.1% sold last week
From Manhattan Theatre Club, Caryl Churchill's drama about the historic struggle of a businesswoman to succeed - Marisa Tomei is in the cast. (more) | Xanadu
Critics = 2.5Attendance = 65.8% sold last week
A spoof of the Olivia Newton-John movie/musical plays the Hayes. You'd have to go to Nepal to find higher camp. (more) | Young Frankenstein
Critics = 2.0Attendance = no performances last week
The new musical comedy from Mel Brooks based on his popular film. (more) |
Other Events | Billy Elliot
Elton John's new musical about a young boy who wants to dance, not box.
Begins 10/1/2008 (more) | Equus
Peter Shaffer's psychological drama returns to Broadway, starring Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") and Richard Griffiths.
Begins 9/5/2008 (more) | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 100.2% sold last week
A bio-revue telling the story and singing the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (more) | Macbeth
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 89.2% sold last week
Patrick Stewart stars in a production from across the pond - very limited run. (more) | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 98.9% sold last week
A revival of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical plays the main hall at Lincoln Center Theater. (more) | The Lion King
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 99.2% 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. (more) | The Little Mermaid
Critics = 2.0Attendance = 83.8% sold last week
New from Disney, an adaptation of the popular underwater fantasia. (more) | title of show
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Begins 7/5/2008 (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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Critics' rating is our interpretation of major NYC newspaper 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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