25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Any way you spell it, this new musical, which debuted at Second Stage Theatre, is such a phenomanon (er, phenomenon) that it moved up to Broadway. |
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A Moon For The Misbegotten
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a play by Eugene O'Neill. |
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Altar Boyz
An award-winning musical comedy spoof of a fictional Christian pop group (with one nice Jewish boy). |
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Apollo Theatre
With its rich history and continued significance, the Apollo Theater, considered the bastion of African-American culture and achievement, is one of the most fascinating chronicles in American history. |
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Avenue Q
Sesame Street meets South Park: They may look familiar, but these puppets (and their human counterparts) have an irreverent take on the joys and travails of making it on your own. Winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical. |
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Avery Fisher Hall
Box Office Information:
Monday-Saturday 10-6,
Sunday Noon-6. Also open
until 30 minutes after the
start of any performance. |
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Blue Man Group
The three-man new-vaudeville Blue Man Group pounds on just about anything it can get its azure little hands on. |
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Chicago
The razzle-dazzle musical where a sensational murder trial is acted out in vaudeville specialties. |
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Chorus Line, A
Broadway gypsies bare their souls and put their lives "on the line" as they audition for an unnamed Broadway musical. |
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Color Purple
The Color Purple is a saga of hope, inspiration and triumph. Based on the novel by Alice Walker and the Warner Brothers/Amblin Entertainment motion picture. |
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Company
In a series of vignettes, New York bachelor Bobby learns about the perils and pleasures of love, marriage, dating and divorce from his married friends. |
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Curtains
In the golden age of musicals a new show is in Boston for some pre- Broadway polish. But the leading lady is dead & everyone in the company is a suspect. Can Frank Cioffi, homicide detective/musical theatre fan, solve the murder & save the show? |
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Drowsy Chaperone
A pampered Broadway starlet wants to marry and give up the stage. It's curtains for her producer unless he can prevent the nuptials. Enter the chaperone, the debonair groom, a dizzy chorine, a Latin lover and a couple of gangsters.
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Fantasticks
This chamber musical tells the deceptively simple story of a boy, a girl, and their fathers -- who plot to get them together by keeping them apart. Score includes "Soon It's Gonna Rain" and "Try To Remember." |
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Grease
In telling the story of a high school romance between greaser Danny Zuko and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski, this musical captures the rock 'n' roll spirit of the 1950s. |
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Hairspray
Set in Baltimore in 1962, Hairspray is the story of plain-jane Tracy Turnblad, who is going to do whatever it takes to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams - and even bigger hair - turn the whole town around? |
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I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change
A musical comedy with everything you ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit. |
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Inherit the Wind
A fictionalized retelling of the famous 1925 ''€œMonkey Trial'', in which science teacher John Scopes was tried and convicted for teaching Darwin'€s theory of evolution, violating a Tennessee law that forbade teaching any theory that conflicted with the Biblical conception of Divine Creation. *No Longer Running* |
Lyceum Theatre
149 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036 |
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Jersey Boys
Sixties sensations The Four Seasons come to life in a musical tale about guys from the 'hood who make good. |
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Journey's End
Based on R.C. Sherriff's own experiences in the Great War, Journey's End is set in a trench in St. Quentin, France, as a group of British officers await their day of reckoning. *No Longer Running* |
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Legally Blonde
A sorority-sister valley girl goes to Harvard Law to get her boyfriend back, and ends up defying expectations while staying true to herself. Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon. |
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Les Miserables
Based on Victor Hugo's epic novel. Relentless policeman Javert pursues escaped convict Jean Valjean over decades through the tumult of revolutionary France while we see the lives affected around them. |
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Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia collects a group of hit songs by the Swedish supergroup ABBA and shapes them around the story of a single mother coping with her young daughter's marriage on a picturesque Greek isle. |
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Mary Poppins
Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film, this is the story of the Banks family and how their lives change after the arrival of nanny Mary Poppins at their home at 17 Cherry Tree Lane in London. |
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Monty Python's Spamalot
Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot features a chorus line of legless knights, men in tights (with killer legs), killer rabbits and sexy dancing divas. |
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My Mothers Italian, My Fathers Jewish & I'm in Therapy!
One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts prozac! |
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New York City Ballet
Solely responsible for training its own artists and creating its own works, the New York City Ballet was the first ballet institution in the world with two permanent homes, the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
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Perfect Crime
Murder mystery about a psychiatrist who is accused of killing her husband by a detective who can't quite pin the murder on her. The complication is that the psychiatrist and the detective are in love. |
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Phantom of the Opera, The
A disfigured musical genius haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera and exerts strange control over a lovely young soprano. Based on "Le Fantome de L'Opera" by Gaston Leroux. |
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Quantum Eye, The: Magic Deceptions
In the tradition of Harry Houdini, Sam Eaton demonstrates a remarkable evening of old-world parlor mentalism brought into the 21st century as he performs a succession of impossibilities. |
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Rent
Jonathan Larson's riveting rock musical is based on the La Boheme story, but set in the gritty underbelly of NYC's East Village. |
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Spring Awakening
Based on Frank Wedekind's play of the same name, Spring Awakening boldly depicts how a dozen young people make their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing and mysterious time of their sexual awakening. |
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Stomp
Stomp is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance, played entirely on non-traditional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms and sticks. |
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Tarzan
Tarzan, a shipwrecked baby who was raised in an African jungle by apes, has his first encounter with humans (including the beautiful Jane) and must choose where he belongs - the "civilized" human world or the "wild" one that nurtured him. |
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The Lion King
The Lion King tells the story of the epic adventures of a young lion cub named Simba as he struggles to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his destined role as king. |
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Upright Citizens Brigade
Home to the best improv and sketch comedy in New York City. The UCB Theatre boasts 7 nights of non-stop comedy a week. |
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Wicked
Wicked takes a revisionist look at an American icon of evil and discovers how the young Elphaba, a passionate, committed young woman from Oz, becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. |
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Xanadu
Based on the film of the same name, Xanadu centers on a Greek muse who is sent to earth to inspire Californians during the 1980s. While on earth, she meets and falls in love with an artist and helps him realize his dreams. |
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