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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. (more) |
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 | A Steady Rain 
Critics = 3.4 Attendance = 100.9% 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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 | A View from the Bridge
Tony-winner Liev Schreiber and film star Scarlett Johansson (in her Broadway debut) star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s classic about immigrant dockworkers pursuing the American Dream.
Begins December 29th (more) |
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 | After Miss Julie 
Critics = 2.9Attendance = 73.7% 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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 | Billy Elliot
Critics = 4.8Attendance = 94.7% 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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 | Burn the Floor
Critics = 2.5Attendance = 67.8% 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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 | Bye Bye Birdie
Critics = 2.6Attendance = 94.6% 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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 | Chicago
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 61.6% 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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 | Fela!
Critics = 4.4Attendance = 95.5% 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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 | Finian's Rainbow
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 62.8% 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 = 62.5% 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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 | Hair
Critics = 4.7Attendance = 62.8% 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) |
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 | Hamlet
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 96.6% 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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 | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 60.6% 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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 | In the Next Room
Critics = 3.9Attendance = 61.6% 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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 | Irving Berlin's White Christmas 
Critics = 2.9Attendance = 57.3% sold last week
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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 | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 100.5% 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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 | Mamma Mia
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 74.7% 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 = 67.6% 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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 | Memphis
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 79.0% 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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 | Next to Normal
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 74.8% 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) |
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 | Oleanna
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 43.1% 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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 | Present Laughter
A revival of Noel Coward's classic showbiz comedy, starring Victor Garber and directed by Nicholas Martin.
Begins January 2nd (more) |
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 | Race
Critics = not yet ratedAttendance = 85.1% sold last week
Emmy-winner James Spader makes his Broadway debut in a new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Mamet. (more) |
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 | Ragtime
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 59.3% sold last week
The 1998 musical based on E.L. Doctorow's epic novel is back on Broadway, in a well-received revival originally produced at the Kennedy Center. (more) |
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 | Rock of Ages
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 80.1% 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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 | Shrek the Musical
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 57.9% 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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 | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 78.2% 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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 | Superior Donuts
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 43.9% 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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 | The 39 Steps
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 55.2% sold last week
The popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre. (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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 | The Lion King
Critics = 4.6Attendance = 87.9% 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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 | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 65.1% 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) |
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 | The Royal Family
Critics = 3.7Attendance = 64.5% 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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 | Time Stands Still
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney stars in a new play by Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies, directed by Tony-winner Daniel Sullivan.
Begins January 5th (more) |
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 | West Side Story
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 74.9% 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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 | Wicked
Critics = 2.7Attendance = 92.2% 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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 | Wishful Drinking
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 79.5% 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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