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Here's a Taste of What Comedies are Playing in NYC Theaters this Winter…

• SATIRE • MUSICAL • COMEDY • BROADWAY • SATIRE MUSICAL COMEDY

NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Dinner At Eight
Peer into the lives of a group of high-society New Yorkers during the 1930s,
at a dinner party in honor of visiting English nobility. Dinner At Eight goes skipping around the city to reveal the background of each of the invited guests, as well as the business intrigues and clandestine romantic entanglements that link them all together. A new production of the 1932 comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Theater: Vivian Beaumont Theatre … 150 West 65th Street, New York,NY

General Web Site: http://www.lct.org



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Frankie & Johnny In The Clair De Lune
Terrence McNally's play Frankie & Johnny In The Clair De Lune is a romance about two unlikely lovers searching for hope and connection in a small New York apartment. As unlikly as they seem are they on verge of something that ought to last? Their search is touching and intimate, dramatic and comic. Rosie Perez and Joe Pantoliano star beginning January 2003.
Theater: Belasco Theatre… 111 West 44th Street, New York,NY

General Web Site: https://www.telecharge.com



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: The Graduate
First a cult novel, then a classic filmThe Graduate is now brought to life in this critically acclaimed stage production. It's California in the 1960's and Benjamin has a thing for the Robinson's daughter the problem is it's Mrs. Robinson who has a thing for Benjamin. Benjamin's disastrously humorous sexual odyssey is brought to life on the stages of New York.
Theater: Plymouth Theatre… 236 West 45th Street, New York,NY

General Web Site: http://www.thegraduate.info



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Hairspray
Can a big girl with big dreams--and even bigger hair--turn the whole
town around and still have time to win the boy she loves? That's the question the musical comedy Hairspray tries to answer. The year's '62--and Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad is going to do whatever it takes to dance her way onto TV's most popular
show. Based on the John Waters 1988 film classic of the same title.
Theater: Neil Simon Theatre … 250 West 52nd Street, New York,NY

General Web Site: http://www.hairspraythemusical.com



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Metamorphoses
This show about the power of love is a little bit of everything with a touch of comedy thrown in as well. A unique mix of dance, music, comedy, and tragedy breathes new life into the ancient world of mythology … King Midas and the tales of Cupid, Psyche, Aphrodite, and Orpheus. Based on the epic works of Ovid. The stage is turned into a 27-foot-wide pool of water for this play.
Theater: Circle in the Square … 1633 Broadway at 50th St, New York,NY
General Web Site: https://www.telecharge.com



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: ‘The Producers’ on Broadway
The story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and mousy accountant Leo Bloom. Together, they hatch the ultimate scam… Raise more money than you need for a sure-fire Broadway fiasco than pocket the difference. Their Broadway brainchild Springtime for Hitler puts an end to their dreams when this ‘sure-fire Broadway fiasco’ turns out to be a BIG hit! Based on Mel Brooks' Academy Award-winning film, The Producers has earned more Tony Awards® than any other show in the history of the Great White Way.
Theater: St. James Theatre … 246 West 44th Street, New York,NY
Official Web Site: http://www.producersonbroadway.com



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Say Goodnight Gracie
Say Goodnight Gracie is a one man show staring Frank Gorshin as comedy legend George Burns. The play follows Burns' life from his impoverished youth on the lower East Side, to his career in Vaudeville, his marriage to Gracie Allen, their rise to success on the stage, screen, radio and television, her tragically untimely death, and Burns second time around as an Academy Award-winning actor.
Theater: Helen Hayes Theatre … 240 West 44th Street, New York,NY

General Web Site: http://www.saygoodnightgracie.net



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Thoroughly Modern Millie
The musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie takes audiences back to New York City during the height of the Jazz Age when "moderns," like a flapper named Millie Dillmount, were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, entering the workforce, and rewriting the rules of love. Based on the 1967 Oscar-nominated film. Winner of six Tony Awards® including Best Musical.
Theater: Marquis Theatre … 1535 Broadway at 45th St, New York,NY
Official Web Site:
http://www.modernmillie.com



NYC Theater

Theater Spotlight On: Urinetown
A terrible water shortage has crippled a Gotham-like town. The government has outlawed the use of private toilets in a mad attempt to regulate water consumption. The citizenry must use public, pay-for-use amenities. Anyone who refuses to pay to pee is immediately and without question hauled off to Urinetown. Those who are sent there are never heard from again! But it's really a love story and there's a revolution ALL before the end of Act I. Urinetown won Tony Awards® for Best Score, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Direction of a Musical.
Theater: Henry Miller's Theatre … 124 West 43rd Street,New York,NY
Official Web Site:
http://www.urinetown.com



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