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Off Broadway Musicals that are now open or due to open!
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702 PUNCHLINES AND PREGNANT: The Jackie Mason Musical
Book by Sheba Mason and Ginger Reiter, with score and lyrics by Ginger Reiter
Musical Comedy
at Broadway Comedy Club
Jackie Mason Lovechild Sheba Mason's Musical-Comedy on Jackie's Love Affair with her Starry-Eyed mother. Sheba states that according to her mother, they had a ten year romance filled with passion and laughter; according to her father, they once played spin the bottle.
(from 07 Jul 2010 - Booking to 29 Apr 2012)
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AVENUE Q
Music and Lyrics are by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, with book by Jeff Whitty.
Musical Comedy
at New World Stages / Stage 3
The musical is about a rundown outer-borough neighbourhood, where the residents - both puppets and humans - deal with everyday New York challenges like getting a job, falling in love and discovering their purpose in life.
(from 09 Oct 2009 - Booking to 27 May 2012)
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CARRIE
Book by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the novel by Stephen King, with usic by Michael Gore and lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Musical
at Lucille Lortel Theatre
Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she's an outcast who's bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it...
(from 31 Jan 2012 - Closing on 25 Mar 2012)
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DANNY AND SYLVIA: THE DANNY KAYE MUSICAL
Book and lyrics by Robert McElwaine and additional music by Bob Bain
Musical Comedy
at St. Luke's Theatre
Follows the rise of Danny Kaye from an undisciplined improvisational comic to an international film star under the guidance of Sylvia Fine, who served as mentor, wife, and manager. Many of Danny's hit songs are featured including 'Tchaikovsky', 'Anatole of Paris', 'Minnie the Moocher' and 'Deena.'
(from 06 May 2009 - Booking to 15 Feb 2012)
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FANTASTICKS, THE
Book and lyrics by Tom Jones. Music by Harvey Schmidt
Romantic Musical Comedy
at The Snapple Theater Center's Jerry Orbach Theater
A romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall. The audience uses its imagination to follow the narrator, El Gallo, as he creates a world of moonlight and magic, and then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to one other.
(from 16 Jun 2008 - Booking to 01 Apr 2012)
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FEBRUARY HOUSE
Music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, book by Seth Bockley
Musical
at Public Theater
Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a dilapidated Brooklyn boarding house into a bohemian commune for the leading lights of 1940s New York. Residents include novelist Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, poet W.H. Auden, and the infamous Gypsy Rose Lee.
(from Expected May 2012 - Closing on expected to close Jun 2012)
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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Part of the NY City Center 2012 Encores! season
Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Leo Robin, book by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields
Adapted from the novel by Anita Loos
Musical Comedy
at NY City Center Stage
Follows the madcap adventures of the original 'dumb blonde,' 'Lorelei Lee,' as she sets sail for Europe with her best friend 'Dorothy Shaw.'
(from 09 May 2012 - Closing on 13 May 2012)
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IONESCOPADE
Taken from the works of Eugene Ionesco, with music and lyrics by Mildred Kayden. Originally conceived by Robert Allan Ackerman
Musical
at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's
Plays, playlets, and poetry by absurdist playwright Eugene Ionescoturned into a musical vaudeville, where humor is the antidote to the world's realities.
(from 23 Jan 2012 - Booking to 26 Feb 2012)
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Part of the NY City Center 2012 Encores! season
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth
Based on the original play Merrily We Roll Along by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Musical
at NY City Center Stage
Begins in 1980 and moves backward in time, from 1980 - 1955, telling the story of three friends whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate.
(from 08 Feb 2012 - Closing on 19 Feb 2012)
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MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Musical
at New World Stages / Stage 4
On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley together. The place was Sun Records' storefront studio in Memphis.
(from 28 Jul 2011 - Booking to 02 Sep 2012)
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NEWSICAL THE MUSICAL
by Rick Crom
Musical Revue / Comedy
at Theatre Row's Kirk Theater
Newsical is back lampooning current events, headlines, newsmakers, celebrities and politicians of the day, including the Tea Party, immigration in Arizona, Don't Ask Don't Tell, the Crazy Jet Blue Flight Attendant, bed bugs, Lindsay Lohan, Oprah's Final Season and more!
(from 13 Dec 2010 - Booking to 03 Jun 2012)
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NOW.HERE.THIS.
Book by Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell, with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen, based on collaboration by Hunter Bell, Michael Berresse, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen and Larry Pressgrove.
Musical / Concert
at Vineyard Theatre
Investigates and celebrates living in the present, featuring autobiographical stories, songs, and a multi-piece band. The show explores birds, bees, reptiles, early man, ancient civilizations, and outer space. Also, loneliness, friendship, hoarding, hiding, laughing, living and dying. And middle school. And dinosaurs.
(from 07 Mar 2012 - tba)
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PIPE DREAM
Part of the NY City Center 2012 Encores! season
Music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the novel Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
Musical
at NY City Center Stage
Outcasts yearning for a better life populate the bordellos and flophouses of a 1950s California seaside town.
(from 28 Mar 2012 - Closing on 01 Apr 2012)
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RATED P FOR PARENTHOOD
Book and lyrics by Sandy Rustin, music and lyrics by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer
Musical Comedy
at Westside Theatre Upstairs
Chronicles every stage of modern-day parenting, from conception to college, with giant doses of heart and humor. Takes the audience through the ups and downs of childrearing - from the sublime to the ridiculous - in a series of comic and musical vignettes.
(from 08 Feb 2012 - Booking to 27 May 2012)
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RENT
Book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Musical
at New World Stages / Stage 1
Tells the story of a group of young artists struggling in New York's East Village in the early 1990's and the obstacles they face, including AIDS, homelessness, poverty, lack of healthcare, and homophobia.
(from 14 Jul 2011 - Booking to 27 May 2012)
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THE TOTAL BENT
by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Musical
at Public's Anspacher Theater
About a black gospel prodigy from down South and a white music producer from South London who meet in a recording studio just south of the Twilight Zone, as they both desperately seek their own versions of transcendence, salvation, and a hit record.
(from 14 Feb 2012 - Closing on 04 Mar 2012)
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