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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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