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POPULAR BROADWAY & OFF BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS

MUSICALS

9 TO 5 (TBA) (opens April, 09)
Pushed to their boiling point by their boss, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot – a plan that spins wildly out of control.

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A new musical that documents its own journey from inception to opening night

A TALE OF TWO CITIES (2 hours 45 minutes)
The musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece.

AVENUE Q – (2 hours 15 minutes)
The singing puppets on Avenue Q and their human neighbors tackle life’s most vexing issues – including love, sex, money, race and the many uses of the internet.  A smart and captivating new musical  - FOR GROWN-UPS! (not suitable for children)

BILLY ELLIOTT – (TBA)
Based on the film about a working-class British boy with dreams that run contrary to family expectations.

CHICAGO – (2 hours 30 minutes)
The story of Roxie Hart - a down and out chorus girl who grabs fame and fortune by murdering her gangster lover.

GODSPELL - (TBA)
Stephen Schwartz's much-loved musical celebrating the life and teachings of Jesus returns to Broadway

GREASE – (2 hours 15 minutes)
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.  The score includes the songs “Summer Nights,” “Beauty School Dropout,” “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” and “We Go Together.”

GYPSY- (2 hours 15 minutes)
Patti LuPone stars in this new Broadway mounting of this show biz musical

HAIRSPRAY – (2 hours 45 minutes)
A musical comedy smash with big girls, big hair, and even bigger laughs.

IN THE HEIGHTS (2 hours 30 minues)
A quintessential NY musical about a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan.  The music pulses with the hopes and dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition.

JERSEY BOYS – (2 hours 30 minutes)
The musical about the rise and fall of Jersey natives, The Four Seasons.  The story follows a group of blue collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who become the biggest do-wop sensation of all time, writing their own songs, inventing their own sounds and selling 175 million records worldwide – all before they were thirty.

LEGALLY BLONDE – (2 hours 30 minutes)
Elle Woods is not used to taking “no” for an answer.  So when her ambitious Harvard-bound  boyfriend dumps her because he doesn’t think a California blonde fits in with his plans to become an
East Coast senator, she puts down the credit card, hits the books, and takes on the biggest challenge
of her charmed life:  to get into Harvard, win back her man, and provee to the world – and herself –
that there’s much more to her than meets the eye. 

MAMMA MIA! – (2 hours 30 minutes)
A musical with a disco beat, Mamma Mia! features the music of Swedish singing group ABBA.  The setting is a Greek Island where 20 year old Sophie is due to be married.  Her mom, Donna (who happens to be a former singing star) is there.  But Sophie’s father is not present because she is not sure who he is.  So, Sophie researches mom’s diary and sees them.  Donna is a bit non-plussed to be visited by the gathering of old flames.                                    

MARY POPPINS – (2 hours 40 minutes)
Based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins - currently one of London's biggest sensations - features the Sherman brothers' original Academy Award-winning songs, and Oliver Award-winning director Richard Eyre leads a dream team of vision and stagecraft, bringing to life the story of the Banks family and their magical nanny.
Mary Poppins marks the first collaboration between Disney, producer of the acclaimed The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Tarzan®, and Cameron Mackintosh, legendary producer of the record-breaking The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Miserables. The result is a new musical so extraordinarily enchanting that you'll have just one word for it: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
SHREK THE MUSICAL (TBA)
A benign green ogre and his sidekick Donkey save the land from an evil lord and rescue a lovely princess from a terrible fate.  Based on the blockbuster movie and the book by William Steig.

SOUTH PACIFIC (3 hours)
Lincoln Center theatre presents the iconic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

SPAMALOT – (2 hours)
The musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

THE LION KING - (2 hours 45 minutes)
Music and lyrics by Elton John and Tim Rice.  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.

THE LITTLE MERMAID – (2 hours 30 minutes)
In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, a beautiful young mermaid named Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above.  But first, she’ll have to defy her father – the king of the sea, escape the clutches of an evil sea witch and convince a prince that she’s the girl with the perfect voice.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA – (2 hours 30 minutes)
Take an unforgettable trip to the Paris Opera House, circa 1881.  Based on the classic novel, the musical tells the story of the hideously deformed Phantom who lurks beneath the stage. With the compelling music of Andrew Lloyd Weber, the Phantom will lure you to his secret world.  Magnificent stage sets, costumes and a romantic story will keep you spellbound.

WICKED – (2 hours 45 minutes)
Tells the story of two girls in the Land of Oz.  One, born with emerald skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood.  The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular.  How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – (2 hours 40minutes)
Esteemed brain surgeon and Professor Frederick Frankenstein faces a dilemma:   Does he continue to run from his family’s dark past in Transylvania, or follow in his grandfather’s footsteps by reanimating the dead?  And how about that sexy lab assistant, Inga?

DRAMAS AND COMEDIES

ALL MY SONS – (TBA)
An electrifying drama of family conflict, patriotic duty and personal greed, set in the aftermath of World War II.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY – (3 hours 20 minutes)
When the patriarch vanishes,all of the Westons must return to the family home in rural Oklahoma to care for their afflicted (and mistress of manipulation) mother.

THE 39 STEPS – (1 hour, 47 minutes)
An innocent man becomes enmeshed in espionage, mystery and a Hitchcock thriller, to boot, in the clever staging of an “unstageable” classic.

ALTER BOYZ

An award winning musical comedy spoof of a fictional Christian pop group (with one nice Jewish boy).

An adventure in performance art – Time Magazine describes it as “a potpourri of physical stunts, visual gags, art commentary, audience participation and all-out sensory assault.”

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY – (1 hour 50 minutes) Musical
The latest rendition of this musical parody of Broadway shows once again lampoons the Great White Way in a hilarious fashion…skits that skewer every show from AVENUE Q to WICKED. 

FUERZABRUTA (1 hour 5 minutes)                      
Featuring mind-blowing visual effects that simply need to be seen to be believed – a man running full-throttle through a series of moving walls, young women frolicking in a watery world just inches above the audience.  Fuerzabruta is a theatrical experience that floods the senses.  From the creators of De la Guards.
                       
I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE  - (2 hours 10 minutes) Musical
A musical about coupledom and all of its trials and tribulations.

STOMP -  (1 hour 30 minutes)
Eight percussionists use everyday items – garbage cans, hubcaps, brooms, match boxes and more – to create a world of pulsating sound.

THE 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.

Show listings are current at the time of printing and subject to change without notice.