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 | Mamma Mia    
Critics = 3.1 Attendance = 79.0% 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.
Running since October 2001. (more) |
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 | Mary Poppins
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 78.0% 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.
Running since October 2006. (more) |
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 | The Lion King 
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 96.6% 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.
Running since October 1997. Winner of 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 76.8% 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.
Running since January 1988. Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (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.
Running since October 2003. (more) |
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 | A Life In The Theatre  Running since October 2003.
Patrick Stewart stars in Pulitzer-winner David Mamet's 1977 play about the relationship between two American actors working in a small repertory company.
New in 2010. Begins September 21st. (more) |
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 | A Little Night Music New in 2010.
Critics = 3.9Attendance = 94.6% sold last week
A revival of Stephen Sondheim's sophisticated 1973 musical, now starring Tony-winners Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch.
Running since November 2009. (more) |
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 | American Idiot Running since November 2009.
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 56.5% sold last week
A well-received new musical featuring the songs of the rock trio Green Day, directed by Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning director of "Spring Awakening."
Running since March 2010. (more) |
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 | Billy Elliot Running since March 2010.
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 93.0% sold last week
Elton John’s new musical, set in Northern England’s coal fields, about a boy who wants to dance, not box.
Running since October 2008. Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Running since October 2008.
Direct from Off-Broadway, a new rock musical the NY Times called "the most entertaining and most perceptive political theater of the season."
New in 2010. Begins September 21st. (more) |
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 | Brief Encounter New in 2010.
A hit at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last season after a successful London run, this stage version of the 1945 film moves to Broadway with most of the original British cast intact.
New in 2010. Begins September 10th. (more) |
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 | Chicago New in 2010.
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 73.2% 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.
Running since November 1996. Winner of 6 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |
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 | Come Fly Away Running since November 1996.
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 68.8% sold last week
From Twyla Tharp, the visionary choreographer responsible for the Broadway hit "Movin' Out," a new dance musical using the songs and voice of Frank Sinatra.
Running since March 2010. Closes September 5th. (more) |
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 | Driving Miss Daisy Running since March 2010.
Tony-winner James Earl Jones and Oscar-winner Vanessa Redgrave star in a revival of Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer-winning play.
New in 2010. Begins October 7th. (more) |
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 | Fela! New in 2010.
Critics = 4.4Attendance = 72.0% sold last week
A new musical based on the life of Nigerian composer and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (the father of the hypnotic, percussive style known as Afrobeat) comes to Broadway.
Running since October 2009. Winner of 3 Tony Awards, including Best Choreography. (more) |
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 | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 70.5% sold last week
A new musical about the vibrant cultural mix that is upper Manhattan.
Running since February 2008. Winner of 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Jersey Boys Running since February 2008.
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 98.7% sold last week
A bio-revue telling the story and singing the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Running since October 2005. Winner of 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | La Bete Running since October 2005.
A revival of David Hirson's largely-misunderstood Molière-inspired play...set in 17th century France and written in iambic pentameter, it was a Broadway flop in 1991 but a London hit thereafter.
New in 2010. Begins September 23rd. (more) |
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 | La Cage aux Folles New in 2010.
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 77.4% sold last week
The hit London production transfers to Broadway....starring Tony-winner Douglas Hodge as the drag diva Albin and five-time Emmy-winner Kelsey Grammer (from TV's "Frasier" and "Cheers") making his Broadway musical debut.
Running since April 2010. Winner of 3 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |
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 | Lombardi Running since April 2010.
A new play about Vince Lombardi, the inspirational and mercurial football coach who said "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing," and became a genuine American icon.
New in 2010. Begins September 23rd. (more) |
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 | Memphis New in 2010.
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 79.7% sold last week
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.
Running since September 2009. Winner of 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Million Dollar Quartet Running since September 2009.
Critics = 3.0Attendance = 55.5% sold last week
A new musical about a 1956 recording session that brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins for the first and only time.
Running since March 2010. (more) |
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 | Mrs. Warren's Profession Running since March 2010.
Tony-winner Cherry Jones stars in George Bernard Shaw's classic play about a mother who uses profits from her shady business operations to finance her prudish daughter's education.
New in 2010. Begins September 3rd. (more) |
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 | Next to Normal New in 2010.
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 78.2% sold last week
A bleak but powerful musical drama about a troubled suburban family....winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, the NY Times calls it a "brave, breathtaking" show.
Running since March 2009. (more) |
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 | Promises, Promises Running since March 2009.
Critics = 2.6Attendance = 79.8% sold last week
Sean Hayes (Emmy winner for "Will & Grace") and Kristin Chenoweth (Tony winner for "Wicked") star in a revival of Burt Bacharach's swingin' '60s musical.
New in 2010. (more) |
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 | Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles New in 2010.
For the first time since "Beatlemania" hit the Great White Way in the late '70s, a "tribute act" (like the ones that line the Vegas strip) is coming to Broadway for a limited engagement.
New in 2010. Begins October 19th. (more) |
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 | Rock of Ages New in 2010.
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 79.8% sold last week
An Off-Broadway hit in 2008, 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.
Running since March 2009. (more) |
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 | Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark Running since March 2009.
Julie Taymor (director of Disney's mega-hit "The Lion King") returns to Broadway with a new musical about Marvel's marvelous superhero....with songs by Bono and The Edge.
New in 2010. Begins November 14th (more) |
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 | The Addams Family New in 2010.
Critics = 3.0Attendance = 70.8% sold last week
A new musical based on the characters of New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams comes to Broadway, with an impressive cast headed by Tony winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth (as Gomez and Morticia, naturally).
Running since March 2010. (more) |
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 | The Merchant of Venice Running since March 2010.
The acclaimed summer production of Shakespeare's difficult and controversial play, starring Al Pacino as Shylock the moneylender, moves to Broadway for a limited run.
New in 2010. Begins October 19th. (more) |
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 | The Pee-wee Herman Show New in 2010.
For six weeks only, Paul Reubens and the rest of the Playhouse gang take over Broadway's newly-christened Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
New in 2010. Begins October 26th. (more) |
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 | The Pitmen Painters New in 2010.
From London, "Billy Elliot" creator Lee Hall's play based on the true story of a group of British miners who miraculously turn the art world on its ear.
New in 2010. Begins September 14th. (more) |
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 | The Scottsboro Boys New in 2010.
A new musical about a group of young Black men falsely accused of a heinous crime in pre-Civil Rights America, with music by the legendary songwriters Kander and Ebb and direction by Tony-winner Susan Stroman.
New in 2010. Begins October 7th. (more) |
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 | Time Stands Still New in 2010.
Returning to Broadway this fall, Pulitzer-winner Donald Margulies' well-received new play about a photographer injured in a Mideast war zone, starring Emmy-winner Laura Linney, reprising her Tony-nominated performance.
New in 2010. Begins September 23rd. (more) |
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 | West Side Story New in 2010.
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 70.2% sold last week
The great American musical returns to Broadway in a starkly dramatic production that Variety calls "a brilliant evocation of its period and a timeless tragedy."
Running since February 2009. (more) |
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