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42ND STREET: The hit revival of the classic backstage musical, in which an inexperienced chorus girl goes on for the ailing leading lady and comes back a star.
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A STOOP ON ORCHARD STREET: A new musical by Jay Kholos inspired by a visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
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ABOVE AND BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA SHOWGIRLS: A comic musical parody of Russ Meyer movies and the like; this show ran for more than a year in San Francisco.
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AIDA: A new musical, based on the same legend that inspired Verdi's opera, with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice. Deborah Cox has the title role at the moment.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND: A so-called "adult" musical comedy from the people who gave us Flesh Gordon.
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AVENUE Q: An irreverent new musical, which features an integrated puppet-and-human cast, about life on a fictitious New York street inhabited by young people looking for love and happiness.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: The stage version of Disney's fine animated musical, with Christy Carlson Romano and Jeff McCarthy in the title roles.
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BLUE MAN GROUP: TUBES: Supremely silly, long-running performance featuring music, gags, video, and a gigantic spider web. Now in its thirteenth year.
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CHICAGO: A superb revival of the musical about a pair of murderesses and the razzle-dazzle lawyer who gets them off. Featuring terrific dancing in the style of Bob Fosse. Charlotte
d'Amboise, Norm Lewis, Brenda Braxton, and Debbie Gravitte head the cast at the moment.
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CHICAGO CITY LIMITS: The long-running comedy troupe presents a new show, Chicago City Limits Gets
AmBUSHed. In previews; opens on March 11.
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COOKIN': The hit Korean musical comedy about four goofy chefs who have to make an elaborate wedding feast in one hour.
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DE LA GUARDA: Carnival meets performance art in this airborne spectacle from Argentina. The audience stands while antic, occasionally beautiful, things happen overhead.
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DOMINIC CHIANESE & THE CEMENT
SIDEWALKERS: A cabaret show starring Dominic Chianese, who plays Uncle Junior on The Sopranos, performing folk, country, and Italian songs. Monday nights only.
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FAME ON 42ND STREET: A stage musical based on the movie about New York City's High School for Performing Arts.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: Alfred Molina stars in the 40th anniversary revival of the musical based on stories by Sholom
Aleichem.
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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: The long-running musical revue, which parodies Broadway shows of the present and past.
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GET UP AND JIVE: EVEN MORE SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL: A new performance by John Kelly, at Fez.
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GOLF: A new musical revue by Michael Roberts about the sport that Mark Twain called "a good walk spoiled."
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GYPSY: Bernadette Peters stars as Mama Rose in a new production of the musical about the early life of Gypsy Rose Lee.
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HAIRSPRAY: A terrific new Broadway musical based on the John Waters film about a Baltimore, Maryland teenager who becomes a star on a TV dance show. Exuberant, infectious fun.
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I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: Off-Broadway's longest running musical (it just celebrated its seventh birthday!) is about dating and marriage: entertaining and occasionally quite touching.
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JOHNNY GUITAR: A new musical by Joel Higgins, Martin
Silvestri, and Nicholas van Hoogstraten, based on the cult movie starring Mercedes McCambridge and Joan Crawford. In previews; opens on March 23.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: A revival of the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical comedy about a man, a woman, and a flesh-eating plant.
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MAMMA MIA: A musical comedy about a woman who invites three men who may be her father to her wedding, with lots of songs by ABBA.
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MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL: The musical parody about four women with nothing in common but hot flashes. Popular songs from the '60s and '70s get
"re-lyriced" (by Jeanie Linders) in the show.
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MINISTRY OF PROGRESS: A new musical created by Kim Hughes about an ordinary man who does an extraordinary thing.
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MOVIN' OUT: Two dozen songs by Billy Joel comprise the score and are the inspiration for this extraordinary musical, which is conceived, directed, and choreographed by modern dance great Twyla Tharp.
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NAKED BOYS SINGING: The title pretty much says it all: eight attractive and unclothed young men perform a variety of sketches and songs in this amusing but tame revue.
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OPEN HEART: A new musical by Robby Benson about how 60 seconds can change a life forever. Benson also stars. In previews; opens on March 17.
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PORTRAITS: A new cabaret show with Betty Buckley, featuring an eclectic mix of songs by Billy Joel, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paul Simon, Adam
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RENT: Stirring, joyous contemporary musical about young people living in New York's East Village and building community and family in the face of devastation.
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STOMP: Eight incredible young performers make rhythm with found objects like garbage cans and pots and pans. Now in its eleventh year off-Broadway.
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THE BOY FROM OZ: Hugh Jackman stars as Peter Allen in an Australian musical biography of the entertainer.
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THE DONKEY SHOW: Disco musical very loosely based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night Dream, where the audience mixes with the players (including several scantily-clad fairies), right on the dance floor.
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THE DUPLEX: Theatre-related shows are frequently featured at this West Village cabaret venue. This week: The Match Game and No Reservations.
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THE KARAOKE SHOW: A new performance/party show, loosely based on The Comedy of Errors, created by the folks who gave us The Donkey Show. There is plenty of audience participation, including what the title suggests. At China Club.
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THE LION KING: The Tony-winning smash hit musical based on Disney's popular animated film.
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: The long-running romantic musical about the strange relationship between a hideously deformed musician and his young, beautiful protégée is as lush and gorgeous as ever.
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THE PRODUCERS: The smash hit musical based on Mel Brooks's 1968 film about a pair of producers who deliberately mount a terrible show called "Springtime for Hitler." Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick co-star.
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: A new musical comedy set in New York City in 1922 about a young woman in search of love and marriage. Susan Egan, Dixie Carter, and Leslie Uggams head the cast.
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TODD ROBBINS' CARNIVAL KNOWLEDGE: A new show hosted by Todd Robbins, featuring a rogue's gallery of classic carnival icons including glass-eating, sword-swallowing, and more.
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WHAT IN THE WORLD: THE NEWSICAL REVUE: A revue by Rick Crom that skewers the latest headlines, famous (or infamous) people, and current trends.
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WICKED: Idina
Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and Joel Grey star in a new musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie
Holzman, based on Gregory Maguire's prequel to The Wizard of Oz.
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WONDERFUL TOWN: Donna Murphy stars in a revival of the
Bernstein-Comden-Green musical based on My Sister Eileen.