Broadway’s revival of Bye Bye Birdie, starring John Stamos and Gina Gershon, played its final performance at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Jan. 24, after 40 previews and 117 performances. The show began preview performances on Sept. 10 and officially opened on Oct. 15.

The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production received a two-week extension from an original closing date of Jan. 10.

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Happy Thanksgiving to our readers in the USA!
Don’t forget to tune in to Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day parades to get your fill of Broadway performances on this holiday!
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will air on CBS, from 9AM until Noon (should be the same for all time zones, but check your local listings for any discrepancies).
The following shows and songs will be featured on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade:

Bye Bye Birdie – “Put on a Happy Face”
Hair – “Aquarius”
Billy Elliot – “Shine”
Shrek – “I’m a Believer”

Other performers include:

The …

9 to 5, the musical based on the 1980 movie comedy that starred Dolly Parton, closed at the Marquis Theatre on September 6, after 24 previews and 148 performances.
The show, which starred Megan Hilty, Allison Janney, and Stephanie J. Block in the roles originally played in the film by Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda, followed the story of secretaries working in an oppressive office.
In case you missed it, you can still hear these lovely ladies singing the songs from the show on the 9 to 5 original Broadway …

Disney’s Broadway musical The Little Mermaid played its last performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on August 30.
Since it began previews November 3, 2007, and opened on January 10, 2008 at the Lunt-Fontanne, it played 50 previews and 685 regular performances.
You can still hear the cast as their voices were preserved on The Little Mermaid original Broadway cast recording.
Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney Theatrical Productions, said this about the show’s close:
We are tremendously proud of the show and are confident we’ll have an excellent summer but it would be …

Disney’s The Little Mermaid is closing on August 30, and, according to an official press statement, all tickets were sold out as of August 18.
The Little Mermaid, which began previews November 3, 2007, and opened on January 10, 2008, had a 20-month run, though it never quite achieved the popularity of its predecessors, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
If you want to see the show before it closes on August 30, you have two options:

wait in line at the Lunt-Fontanne box office for cancellations
wait in line …

I know this is being covered a bit late, but I’m catching up with the news, and I can’t NOT discuss this.
In what is probably one of the shortest openings-closings on Broadway, The Story of My Life stands out. The show opened to previews on Feb. 3, opened to audiences on Feb. 19, and closed on Feb. 22.
How sad is that? And it sounded good, too. Sure, it didn’t have the flashy sets and whatnot, but it sounded like it had a decent storyline and music. Kind of like Jason …

Belated congratulations to the cast of In the Heights for taking home the 51st Annual Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album!
Congratulations to the other nominees for this prestigious nomination: The Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein and the revivals of Gypsy and South Pacific.
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 8, 2009 on CBS.
Here are the details of the nominees:
Gypsy
Robert Sher, producer; Jule Styne, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist (2008 Broadway Cast with Patti LuPone & others)
[Time Life]
In the Heights
Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andrés Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss & …

Rentheads’ (a.k.a. diehard Rent fans)  voices have been heard: the hit Broadway musical has been granted an extension, and will close September 7, 2008. This is an extension of approximately 3 months. (Previously a closing date of June 1 had been reported.) No doubt ticket demand had some influence in this case.
If you’ve already bought tickets for up to the June 1 date, you now have the option of attending a later performance. The final performance is now 6:30 PM on September 7, and, according to Ticketmaster.com, tickets are on …

Beauty and the Beast will be closing on Sunday, July 29. Today we’re looking back at a performance from the 1994 Tony Awards
(Note: Thank you to the folks that alerted me to the typo. In my rush to pre-post before leaving for vacation, I had fat-fingered and written the performance year as 2004. It is obvious that it wasn’t 2004, but instead 1994. Sorry for the error.)
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3C6NYM3lI
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In light of the closing (7/29) of the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade, here is a clip of Audra McDonald, performing the song “Raunchy.”
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-C2k5Tfq38
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