A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING

Theater Ten Ten

Musical Revue

music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

With a cast of two men and three women, this revue explores romance and relationships using more than thirty Rogers and Hammerstein songs.

(from 25 Apr 2008 to 25 May 2008)

ADDING MACHINE

Minetta Lane Theatre

Musical

Score by Joshua Schmidt and a collaborative libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt

Tells the story of Mr. Zero, a nameless cog in American business, as he journeys through life, death, and an afterlife romance in the Elysian Fields. After twenty-five years of exemplary work, Mr. Zero finds that his pencil and paper efforts have been replaced by a mechanical adding machine. In a rage, Mr. Zero decides to exact revenge by murdering his boss.

(from 07 Feb 2008 to 31 Aug 2008)

ALTAR BOYZ

New World Stages / Stage 4

Musical Comedy

Conceived by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport, with music by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker , and book by Kevin Del Aguila

About a struggling Christian boy-band riding the wave of America's latest fascination with religion. Armed with catchy melodies, divine moves and product in their hair, the self-anointed apostles of pop [Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan . . . and Abraham (He's Jewish)] bring their soul-saving tour to New York City, with their heavenly lyrics like 'Girl, You Make Me Wanna Wait' and 'Jesus Called Me On My Cell Phone.'

(from 15 Feb 2005 to 31 Aug 2008)

ATTORNEY FOR THE DAMNED

Kraine Theater

Rock Musical

Conceived and written by Denis Woychuk, composed by Rob McCulloch

A young lawyer wants to help the poor; her boss assigns her two destitute mental patients who frighten and disturb her. When she asks the judge to let her drop their cases, she is denied. Despite her struggle with her conscience, she gets them both released, only to have one of them kidnap the other characters, herself included, to judge them as God's avenging angel. Her other client emerges as a hero, sacrificing himself for others and answering the central question of the piece: 'What makes a hero?'

(from 13 Mar 2008 to 04 Jun 2008)

BASH'D! - gay rap opera

Zipper Factory Theater

Musical

Created by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow, with music by Aaron Macri

Chronicles the tale of Jack and Dillon; two star-crossed lovers who must cope with the reality of hatred when one is brutally beaten. It is told entirely through rap, spoken word and poetry.

(from 12 Jun 2008 to 01 Sep 2008)

CABARET GIRL

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Musical

Book by George Grossmith & P.G.Wodehouse, lyrics by P.G.Wodehouse with music by Jerome Kern.

Gravvins & Gripps act as cupids and try to bring together an ordinary working girl and her high-born 'intended' against the wishes of her family - and succeed

(from 03 Mar 2009 to 15 Mar 2009)

CELIA

New World Stages / Stage 2

Musical

by Carmen Rivera and Candido Tirado

Takes the audience on a musical journey through the life and music of singer Celia Cruz from her humble beginnings in Cuba to international stardom. Featuring most of Celia's greatest hits and told through the eyes of Pedro Knight, Celia's husband, audiences will experience the Celia that few people knew but millions loved.

(from 28 Aug 2007 to 25 May 2008)

CORALINE

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Musical

Music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt, book by David Greenspan amd based on the Novel by Neil Gaiman.

Poor bored Coraline. She's left to rattle round her perpetually distracted parents' house all by her lonesome. Then one day, her dreams of a better reality are answered as she steps through an old oak doorway and passes into a perfected replica of her own world. Greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and kindly Other Father, she's thrilled! But, as the saying goes: Be careful what you wish for.

(from 06 May 2009 to 20 Jun 2009)

DAMN YANKEES

NY City Center

Musical Comedy

Score and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop based on Wallop's novel 'The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.'

The story of Joe Boyd, the ultimate baseball fan, who sells his soul to the Devil (Sean Hayes) for the chance to help his team, the Washington Senators, win the pennant race against the Yankees. The Devil is aided by the sexy Lola (Jane Krakowski), who seduces Joe, but ultimately helps him outsmart the Devil and return to his beloved wife.

(from 05 Jul 2008 to 27 Jul 2008)

DON'T WORRY, BE JEWISH

Promise Theater

Musical

Concept & book by Mark Kleyner, music & lyrics by Alexander Butov & Brian Starr, translation by Julia Burke

We follow the lives of thirteen-year-old Chaim and twelve-year-old Sharianna and their encounters with the Good and the Evil of modern day reality. Through this exciting journey, Chaim and Sharianna discover what it means to be Jewish, and must decide which path in life they will take.

(from 10 May 2008 to 04 Jun 2008)

EARLY TO BED

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Musical

Book by George Marion, Jr.; lyrics by George Marion, Jr.; music by Thomas 'Fats' Waller.

This Fats Waller musical features an over-the-hill matador (El Magnifico) who falls in love with an old girl friend who now runs a brothel. Her current borders include an American track team who think they're at a finishing school where the girls wear very little clothing.

(from 17 Mar 2009 to 29 Mar 2009)

FORBIDDEN CITY WEST

Theater for the New City

Musical

by Ross Anthony Evans and Erin Austin

100 years of Chinese-American Experience through the life and times of legendary entertainer Jadin Wong.

(from 14 Jun 2008 to 02 Jul 2008)

GONDOLIERS, THE Part of G & S FEST 2008 (summer season)

NY City Center

Comic Operetta

Music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert

Two just-married Venetian gondoliers are informed by the Grand Inquisitor that one of them has just become the King of 'Barataria', but only their foster mother, presently at large, knows which one.

(from 12 Jun 2008 to 15 Jun 2008)

H.M.S. PINAFORE Part of G & S FEST 2008 (summer season)

NY City Center

Comic Operetta

Music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert

The gentlemanly Captain of the Pinafore, who claims that he would never swear at his crew (What, Never?), does not know that his daughter has fallen in love with a common sailor serving on her father's ship. Meanwhile, the Captain has arranged for her to marry the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph himself has risen from humble beginnings to gain his office by political acumen, despite having never gone to sea! And the Captain himself fancies a poor bumboat woman.

(from 06 Jun 2008 to 11 Jun 2008)

HAIR

Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater

Musical

with book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot

The year is 1967, and the Vietnam War is at its height. In New York City, a tribe of hippies rails against the establishment, protesting intolerance, brutality, and the dehumanization of society. When Claude, one of their own, gets drafted, he must make a decision about what values are worth fighting for.

(from 22 Jul 2008 to 17 Aug 2008)

HONOR

Hudson Guild Theatre

Musical

Music and lyrics by Peter Mills, based on Shakespeare's As You Like It, by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel

As You Like It is transplanted to feudal Japan in this tale of romance and the redemption of family honor, told through martial arts choreography.

(from 19 Apr 2008 to 18 May 2008)

I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

Westside Theatre (Upstairs)

Musical Comedy

Music by Jimmy Roberts, Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro

Joyride through the spectrum of male-female relationships: dating, friendship, love and marriage.

(from 15 Jul 1996 to 10 Aug 2008)

IRMA LA DOUCE

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Musical

music by Marguerite Monnot; original lyrics by Alexandre Breffort; original book by Alexandre Breffort; english lyrics by Julian More, David Heneker and Monty Norman; english book by Julian More, David Heneker and Monty Norman.

A Paris 'poule' works to support her impoverished lover against his wishes. He poses as a rich elderly rou‚ and becomes her exclusive client. The double life is too demanding so he 'eliminates' the old gent and is arrested.

(from 14 Oct 2008 to 26 Oct 2008)

JOLLYSHIP THE WHIZ-BANG

Ars Nova Theater

Musical Comedy

Created by writer Nick Jones with music by the band Jollyship the Whiz-Bang

The ship is sinking, the captain's a drunk and the band is on the verge of mutiny. Braving treacherous seas and murderous waves on a quest for the wonders of Party Island, Captain Clamp and crew undertake a ribald and rum-soaked nautical journey in this underground pirate-puppet-rock odyssey!

(from 14 May 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)

MIKADO, THE Part of G & S FEST 2008 (summer season)

NY City Center

Comic Operetta

Music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert

Beautiful school girl Yum-Yum loves the romantic minstrel Nanki-Poo but is engaged to Ko-Ko the executioner. This romantic triangle takes the usual course of thwarted romance, until the arrival first of the fearsome Katisha, claiming Nanki-Poo as her 'perjured lover,' and later of the emperor, or Mikado, himself - with his own list of punishments to fit the crime. In order to resolve the ensuing complications, Ko-Ko must use his wits to convince the most unattractive Katisha to marry him - in record time.

(from 07 Jun 2008 to 14 Jun 2008)

NO, NO, NANETTE Part of NY City Center's Encore series

NY City Center

Musical

Music by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, and book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel

Jimmy Smith, a millionaire due to his Bible publishing business, is married to the overly frugal Sue. Jimmy and Sue want to teach their ward Nanette to be a respectable young lady. Nanette has an untapped wild side and wants to have some fun in Atlantic City.

(from 08 May 2008 to 12 May 2008)

PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL

New World Stages / Stage 5

Children's Musical

book and lyrics by Elizabeth and Victoria Kann, music and lyrics by John Gregor

Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe - a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament.

(from 12 Jan 2008 to 25 May 2008)

PIRATES OF PENZANCE, THE Part of G & S FEST 2008 (summer season)

NY City Center

Comic Operetta

Music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert

Centers on a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrating the coming of age of their apprentice, Frederic. Although Frederic's apprenticing to pirates was the mistake of his nurse maid Ruth, he has dutifully served, but he now announces his plan to devote his life to the extermination of piracy. The na‹ve young man meets a group of beautiful girls, their father, the delightfully dotty Major General Stanley, and enlists the help of some bumbling and diffident policemen.

(from 07 Jun 2008 to 13 Jun 2008)

PRINCESS PHOOEY

TADA! Theater

Children's Musical

book & lyrics by Lisa Diana Shapiro, music by Eric Rockwell

Take a journey with a rebellious princess, a collection of chambermaids and stable boys, and of course, a handsome prince.

(from 24 Apr 2008 to 18 May 2008)

ROCKAE, THE

Hudson Guild Theatre

Musical

Music and lyrics by Peter Mills, adapted from Euripides' The Bacchae by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel

Rock musical adaptation of Euripides' classic, The Bacchae: Pent-up King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his frenzied female fans when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes.

(from 15 Sep 2008 to 14 Oct 2008)

ROMANTIC POETRY

NY City Center Stage 1

Musical Comedy

Book & lyrics by John Patrick Shanley, music by Henry Krieger

Connie of Woodmere has just married Fred of Newark, but her exes are back in the picture and not sure they approve of the union. Judy of Westchester is being wooed by Arthur, a dishwasher poet of no particular address, while her husband is out of town. And Lily of Soho is climbing Wally of Little Italy's fire escape with amorous erotic intent.

(from 01 Oct 2008 to )

SAVED

Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage

Musical

Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, book and lyrics by John Dempsey and Rinne Groff Based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Brian Dannelly and Michael Urban

'Are you down with G-O-D?' Good girl Mary (Celia Keenan-Bolger) and her domineering best friend Hilary Faye are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School - that is, until Mary's boyfriend tells her he thinks he's gay.

(from 10 May 2008 to 22 Jun 2008)

THE HIRED MAN Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival

59E59 Theaters

Musical

music and lyrics by Howard Goodall, book by Melvyn Bragg.

Set in rural Cumbria in the early part of the twentieth century, The musical tells the story of a young married couple and their struggle to carve a living from the land, just as the rhythms of English country life are being interrupted by the gathering storm of war in Europe.

(from 05 Jun 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)

TOVARICH

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Musical

Book by David Shaw; lyrics by Anne Croswell; music by Lee Pockriss, based on Tovarich by Jacques Deval.

Former members of the late Tsar's court work as servants to Americans in Paris in 1927 while avoiding the Communists sent to capture and return them to Moscow.

(from 28 Oct 2008 to 09 Nov 2008)

WHITE WIDOW, A Sicilian Musical Passion

Roy Arias Studio

Musical

Adaptation, music and lyrics by Paul Dick, based on the play, 'Mafia' by Mario Fratti.

Opens in a remote village in modern day Sicily. Villagers surround a man, kneeling, begging for his life. The villagers stone him to death. A reporter, Nesti, is sent by his newspaper up 'North' to investigate why this barbaric, biblical, custom can still take place in modern Sicily. The villagers, ruled by Don Rosario, are silent. The reason for the stoning is finally, and shockingly, uncovered.

(from 09 May 2008 to 25 May 2008)

YOU NEVER KNOW

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Musical

Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Rowland Leigh; based on the play 'By Candlelight' by Siegfried Geyer; adapted from the Viennese operetta 'Bei Kerzenleicht' by Robert Katscher and Karl Farkas.

Master and servant switch places and fall in love with mistress and maid, who have also switched places.

(from 14 Apr 2009 to 26 Apr 2009)