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A coming-of-age story about three Texas girls who reach adulthood in the turbulent ’60s, it has music to match the period and a epilogue that brings their lives full circle.
The lives, loves, disappointments and dreams of best friends caught up in times that are a-changin’. Follow three Texas teenagers from sorority houses to motherhood to women’s lib and beyond.
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In what director/librettist Arthur Laurents says will convey authenticity, this version of the landmark musical will have Spanish interwoven in the dialogue and songs and gang members who are more thug life than thug lite.
West Side Story transposes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of Manhattan in the 1950s. Instead of the Capulets and Montagues, we have the Puerto Rican Sharks versus the Anglo Jets. In place of Romeo and Juliet are Tony and Maria, two teens torn between ethnic loyalty and their intense, abrupt love for one another. The Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim score includes “Tonight,” “Somewhere,” “Maria,” “I Have a Love” and “Something’s Coming.”
White Christmas (see also Irving Berlin’s White Christmas)
After circling Broadway for some time, this lavish musical finally lands at the Marquis in time to bring an abundance of holiday cheer.
The story of Second World War veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who become partners in a song-and-dance act after the war. Looking for love, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters who have a Christmas gig at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by their former army commander, General Waverley. The 1954 film, was directed by Michael Curtiz and starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney. The score includes the Academy Award-winning title song first featured in Berlin’s 1942 film, “Holiday Inn,” which also starred Crosby as well as Fred Astaire.
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.
Wonderland: Alice’s New Musical Adventure
Wonderland is set in present-day Manhattan and a timeless Wonderland. The new musical tells the story of author Alice Cornwinkle (a descendent of Lewis Carroll’s muse Alice Liddell), who is struggling with her career and her daughter, Chloe.
Alice is a children’s book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life’s balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all – if we know how to look. Wildhorn’s score taps into numerous pop styles, and Murphy’s lyrics provide both wit and wisdom.
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Oh, sweet mystery of life — at last I’ve found you! The Frankensteins (both young and undead) are putting on the Ritz (actually the Hilton Theatre), brought to you by the folks behind The Producers.
Esteemed brain surgeon and professor Frederick Frankenstein faces a dilemma: Does he continue to run from his family’s dark past in Transylvania, or follow in his grandfather’s footsteps by reanimating the dead? And how about that sexy lab assistant, Inga?
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