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 | A Behanding in Spokane    
From Martin McDonagh, the master of dark comedy, a play about a con-man (Oscar-winner Christopher Walken) searching for a missing hand.
Begins February 15th (more) |
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 | A Little Night Music 
Critics = 2.9 Attendance = 96.1% sold last week
Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her Broadway debut in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1973 musical....also starring five-time Tony-winner Angela Lansbury and directed by Tony-winner Trevor Nunn. (more) |
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 | A View from the Bridge
Critics = 4.1Attendance = 99.9% sold last week
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. (more) |
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 | All About Me
The one-and-only Dame Edna Everage (aka Australian comedian Barry Humphries) and singer Michael Feinstein return to Broadway for an evening of laughs and music.
Begins February 23rd (more) |
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 | American Idiot
From Berkeley Rep, an acclaimed new musical featuring the music of the rock trio Green Day, directed by Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning director of "Spring Awakening."
Begins March 24th (more) |
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 | Billy Elliot
Critics = 4.8Attendance = 89.7% 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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 | Chicago
Critics = 4.9Attendance = 54.9% 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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 | Collected Stories
Tony-winner Linda Lavin and Golden Globe-nominee Sarah Paulson star in Donald Margulies' play about the relationship between two female writers.
Begins April 6th (more) |
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 | Come Fly Away
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.
Begins March 1st (more) |
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 | Enron
From London, a new play with music based on the outrageous financial scandal of 2001.
Begins April 8th (more) |
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 | Fela!
Critics = 4.4Attendance = 72.0% 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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 | Fences
For 13 weeks only, Denzel Washington stars in the first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Begins April 15th (more) |
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 | God of Carnage
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 53.3% 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 = 58.6% 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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 | In The Heights
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 60.5% 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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 | Jersey Boys
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 88.5% 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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 | La Cage aux Folles
The hit London production transfers to Broadway....starring Douglas Hodge in his Olivier-winning role as Albin, and Kelsey Grammer (of TV's "Cheers" and "Fraser") making his Broadway musical debut in the role of Georges.
Begins April 6th (more) |
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 | Lend Me a Tenor
Tony Shaloub (TV's "Monk") returns to Broadway in a revival of Ken Ludwig's Tony-nominated farce.
Begins March 11th (more) |
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 | Looped
Valerie Harper returns to Broadway in this bio-play about the outrageous celeb bad-girl of '50s and '60s, Tallulah Bankhead.
Begins February 19th (more) |
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 | Mamma Mia 
Critics = 3.1Attendance = 65.7% 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 = 64.4% 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 = 67.4% 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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 | Million Dollar Quartet
A new musical about a 1956 recording session at Sun Records in Memphis that brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins for the first and only time.
Begins March 13th (more) |
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 | Next Fall
From Off-Broadway's Naked Angels company, a new play the NY Times called "artful, thoughtful and very moving."
Begins February 16th (more) |
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 | Next to Normal
Critics = 4.0Attendance = 78.6% 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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 | Present Laughter
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 79.3% sold last week
A revival of Noel Coward's classic showbiz comedy, starring Victor Garber and directed by Nicholas Martin. (more) |
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 | Promises, Promises
Tony and Emmy winner Rob Ashford directs Kristin Chenoweth (Tony winner for "Wicked") and Sean Hayes (Emmy winner for "Will & Grace") in a new revival of the musical that spawned Dionne Warwick's pop classic "I'll Never Fall in Love Again."
Begins March 27th (more) |
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 | Race
Critics = 3.4Attendance = 59.2% 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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 | Rock of Ages
Critics = 3.3Attendance = 70.8% 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) |
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 | Sondheim on Sondheim
Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, and Tom Wopat star in "an intimate portrait of the famed composer in his own words...and music."
Begins March 19th (more) |
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 | South Pacific
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 58.7% 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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 | 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 = 83.6% 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) |
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 | The Miracle Worker
Abigail Breslin (Oscar-nominee for "Little Miss Sunshine") will play Helen Keller and Alison Pill (Tony-nominee for "The Lieutenant of Inishmore") will play Annie Sullivan in the first Broadway revival of William Gibson's classic play.
Begins February 12th (more) |
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 | The Phantom of the Opera
Critics = 3.5Attendance = 55.6% 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.
Winner of 7 1988 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |
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 | Time Stands Still
Critics = 4.3Attendance = 93.5% sold last week
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney stars in a new play by Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies, directed by Tony-winner Daniel Sullivan. (more) |
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 | West Side Story
Critics = 3.6Attendance = 77.6% 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 = 93.3% 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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