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The off-Broadway hit Avenue Q comes to Broadway! The show is set in NYC on Avenue Q which is described as the only place you can afford to live when you're just out of college, out of a job, or just plain broke. The musical features a cast of 20-something live actors and singing puppets. Jason Moore directs this new musical for grown-ups written by Jeff Whitty, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.

Golden Theatre  - 252 West 45th Street

Velma Kelly is the most famous murderess in the town of Chicago. Roxie Hart is a chorus girl who becomes famous for killing her lover. Roxie's savvy lawyer creates a "Razzle Dazzle" trial that manipulates the media and makes Roxie a star. She then teams up with Velma to become singing sensations on the Vaudeville stage. Chicago is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

Ambassador Theatre - 219 West 49th Street

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Baltimore, 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism, and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in town. He's a bad boy with a good cause - truth, justice, and the pursuit of rock 'n roll - and when he falls for a good girl who wants to be bad, her charm school world of bobby sox and barbershop quartets will never be the same. Wayward youth, juvenile delinquents, sexual repression, cool music, dirty lyrics, bizarre rejects...Finally, the 50's come to life! For real this time!

Marquis Theatre - 1535 Broadway

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GLORY DAYS is the story of four best friends who reunite a year after high school graduation, only to find how much they have grown apart. As they attempt to understand each other?s differences, they soon realize that nothing can compare to the glory days of high school when life was simpler. Set to a vibrant score, GLORY DAYS is a witty, unflinching look at four guys who refuse to be defined by generational stereotypes as they struggle to find their place in the world.

Circle in the Square Theatre - 235 West 50th St.

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LuPone will lead the cast in the role of "Rose," the quintessential stage mother, joined by Gaines as "Herbie" and Benanti as "Louise," the daughter who transforms into the title character of "Gypsy" in this musical fable suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

St. James Theatre:  246 West 44th Street

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It's 1962, and Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad wants to dance. When she wins a spot on the local TV dance program The Corny Collins Show, this big girl with big hair becomes a teen celebrity overnight. Soon Tracy finds herself pitted against the show's reigning princess for the title Miss Teenage Hairspray 1962. Based on the John Waters film, Hairspray is the winner of the 2003 Tony Award for Best Musical, the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical, and the 2003 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical!

Neil Simon Theatre - 250 West 52nd Street

IN THE HEIGHTS "is a quintessential New York 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," state press notes.
The show played the final performance of its successful Off-Broadway run at 37 Arts on Sunday, July 15, 2007, having played 33 preview and 182 regular performances.

Richard Rodgers Theatre - 226 West 46th Street

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Jersey Boys is the new Broadway musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty. Jersey Boys features their hit songs Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Rag Doll, Oh What a Night and Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, among others.

August Wilson Theatre - 245 West 52nd Street

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Blonde ambition is singing and dancing its way to Broadway in the new musical Legally Blonde. Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style. Legally Blonde will take you from the sorority house to the halls of justice with Broadway's brightest new heroine (and of course, her chihuahua, Bruiser). The verdict? This much fun shouldn't be legal!

Palace Theatre - 1554 Broadway

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Now celebrating it's fourth smash year in New York, the world-wide hit Mamma Mia! welcomes three of Broadway's favorite stars - Carolee Carmello, Liz McCartney, and Judy McLane - to the show. Mamma Mia!'s sunny, funny tale unfolds on a tiny Greek island. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings 3 men from her mother's past back 20 years later. You don't have to be a fan of the super group ABBA, who provide the 23 hit songs for Mamma Mia!, to fall in love with this unforgettable show. Here's what the critics say about Mamma Mia!: "This show is terrific fun!" (Ben Brantley - New York Times), "Mamma Mia! brings happiness wherever it goes" (Time Magazine), "A mega hit that has audiences dancing in the aisles!" (Associated Press), "Just sit back and let the joy sweep over you" (Clive Barnes - New York Post).

Winter Garden Theatre - 1634 Broadway

Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight who create unforgettable musical production numbers that Python-alum/book writer Eric Idle promises will be "as good as or quite likely better than any other show with killer rabbits and a legless knight opening on Broadway this season."

Shubert Theatre - 225 West 44th Street

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With a score that has some of the most tuneful, soulful rock songs, and witty, thought-provoking lyrics in recent memory, Passing Strange is the moving and hilarious tale of a young black bohemian on a journey of escape and exploration: leaving the confines of his middle-class, church-reared youth in south central L.A., the further he travels the more he discovers the journey within is the one that counts.

Belasco Theatre - 111 West 44th Street

Capturing both the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and that year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Jonathan Larson's ground-breaking rock musical is the story of a group of friends attempting to protect a squatters camp and maintain residency in an East Village building. With powerful performances and a score blending rock, ballads, R&B, and salsa, Rent has reinvented musical theater.

Nederlander Theatre - 208 West 41st Street

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Based on Frank Wedekind's masterpiece The Awakening of Spring, Spring Awakening is the contemporary musical adaptation of one of literature's most controversial plays. Spring Awakening boldly depicts a dozen young people and how they make their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing, and mysterious time of their sexual awakening. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's score feature songs that illuminate the urgency of adolescent self-discovery, the burning intensity of teen friendships and the innate suspicion of the uncomprehending adult world. The story centers around a brilliant young student named Melchior, his troubled friend Moritz, and Wendla, a beautiful young girl on the verge of womanhood.

Eugene O'Neill Theatre - 230 West 49th Street

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The Lion King is the story of a young lion cub named Simba who struggles to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his destined role as king. To bring the classic 1994 film to life, Disney turned to the story's roots, its rich mythology, powerful human drama and primal African rhythms to create a fantastic new musical unlike anything Broadway has ever seen. Winner of 6 1998 Tony Awards, including Best New Musical, The Lion King is an adventure into another world.

Minskoff Theatre - 200 West 45th Street

Based on the classic novel Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. He falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her extraordinary talents and by employing all of the devious methods at his command.

Majestic Theatre - 247 West 44th Street

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If you think you know the two iconic witches from Oz, the Wicked Witch (Elphaba) and the Good Witch (Glinda), think again. 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. Her character is contrasted with that of her school roommate Glinda, who grows up to be the Good Witch.

Gershwin Theatre - 222 West 51st Street

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Kerry Butler stars as Kira in the new production of the musical Xanadu. Douglas Carter Beene has written the book with all of the music coming from the film version including the hit songs "Magic", "Xanadu", "Party All Over the World" and "I'm Alive" -- all top 20 Billboard hits.

It's a rollerskating musical comedy that could save your life! (Keep reading...)

Question: What do you get when you take Broadway's leading satirist Douglas Carter Beane, Pop-musical masterminds John Farrar and Jeff Lynne, and Broadway's most exciting new Tony-Award winning creative team led by Director Christopher Ashley...

Answer: A life-altering new musical comedy and you're invited -

...Boyfriends, girlfriends, Moms, Dads, Grandmas, co-workers! Bring 'em all to this musical comedy dream come true. Offering endless laughs, inspiring ideas and hit music you'll be singing for years, Xanadu delivers upon the legacy of the American musical comedy in perfect pitch, as audiences travel back to 1980 California with Kira, a young muse from Mt. Olympus, whose quest to inspire a struggling artist to achieve his dream of building the world's first roller disco is complicated by the prospect of forbidden love with a mortal. A romantic reimagining of the 1980 Olivia Newton John Universal movie-musical that became a cult classic, this magically hilarious, musical love story about the adventures we take to create heaven on earth will blow your mind. Relive great memories. Create new ones. Lace up your skates... and come to a place where Broadway never dared to go.

Helen Hayes Theatre - 240 West 44th Street

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Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor Von Frankenstein, he faces a dilemma. Does he continue to run from his family's tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga?," state press notes. "Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous score includes 'The Transylvania Mania,' 'He Vas My Boyfriend' and the unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin's 'Puttin' On the Ritz.'

Hilton Theatre - 213 West 42nd Street

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