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 17 Jan 2010)

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE NY City Center Encore's 17th season production

NY City Center

Musical

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents

Satire of any and every target on the American cultural scene of the moment - conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion, politics

(from 08 Apr 2010 to 11 Apr 2010)

BLIND LEMON BLUES

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical

created by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde, musical arrangements by Akin Babatunde, Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples

Set in New York City in 1948 at the last recording session of the legendary Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, and combines elements of traditional blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, doo-wop, and rap to evoke the enduring legacy of Blind Lemon and his contemporaries

(from 08 Sep 2009 to ?? ?? ??)

BULLY, THE

Bleecker Street - Downstairs

Children's Musical

Score and lyrics by John Gregor with book by David L. Williams

When a bus mix-up strands Lenny, the nerd, and Steve, the bully, at the wrong school, they both get picked on for being 'the new kids.' The boys have to work together to get back to their school and begin to learn that they might not be so different after all.

(from 11 Jul 2009 to 02 Aug 2009)

BURNT PART BOYS, THE

Playwrights Horizons

Musical

music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and book by Mariana Elder

Set in West Virginia in 1962. The musical follows a group of teenagers whose fathers were killed ten years earlier in a tragic coal mining accident. When they learn that the mine will be reopened, they set out secretly in the hopes of seeing the site, and keeping it closed.

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CLICK, CLACK, MOO

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Children's Musical

book by Billy Aronson, lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila and music by Brad Alexander

All day long Farmer Brown hears 'click clack moo, clickety clackety moo...' The cows are typing and protesting their working conditions!

(from 21 Jul 2009 to 28 Aug 2009)

CORALINE

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Musical

Music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt, book by David Greenspan and 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 07 May 2009 to 05 Jul 2009)

DANNY AND SYLVIA: THE DANNY KAYE MUSICAL

St. Luke's Theatre

Musical Comedy

Book and lyrics by Robert McElwaine and additional music by Bob Bain

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 to 30 Aug 2009)

DEPARTURE LOUNGE Part of the 2009 Summer Play Festival

Public's Anspacher Theater

Musical

by Dougal Irvine

It's the end of vacation as four guys wait for their flight home in this testosterone-driven new musical. With time to kill they recount the hilarious antics of the week, and as secrets tumble out we learn more about the lads than they know about themselves.

(from 28 Jul 2009 to 02 Aug 2009)

DON'T LEAVE IT ALL TO YOUR CHILDREN!

Actors Temple Theatre

Comic Musical Revue

by Saul Ilson

Celebrates the occasionally bumpy but always amusing journey as baby boomers become 'seniors.'

(from 06 May 2009 to 30 Aug 2009)

DREAM GIRLS

The Apollo Theater

Musical

Score by Henry Krieger, with lyrics and book by Tom Eyen

Tells the rags-to-riches story of an up-and-coming 1960's girl group from Chicago, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune.

(from 07 Nov 2009 to 06 Dec 2009)

EXIT MUSIC Developmental Reading Series

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical

Music by James Merillat, with lyrics by Dick Pasqual and book by Dick Pasqual & James Merillat. Based on the short story, 'Me and the Girls' by Noel Coward

In the years before World War II, a fictional song-and-dance troupe, 'George Banks and the Bombshells,' toured throughout Western Europe. George reflects upon his time with the group and with his one long-term lover while staying at a hospice in the Alps. Based on one of the only Coward stories to feature an openly gay protagonist, Exit Music examines the complicated life of a performer.

(from 23 Jul 2009 to 23 Jul 2009)

FANNY NY City Center Encore's 17th season production

NY City Center

Musical

music and lyrics by Harold Rome and book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan

A tale of a young girl's passion for a young man so in love with the sea that he leaves her, little realizing that she is pregnant with his child. Her marriage of convenience to a wealthy older man desperate to have an heir is complicated by the sailor's return years later.

(from 04 Feb 2010 to 07 Feb 2010)

GIRL CRAZY NY City Center Encore's 17th season production

NY City Center

Musical

music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan

The tale of a sophisticated New Yorker marooned in a dusty Western cowtown with no one who understands him but the Yiddish-speaking cabbie who brought him there and no one to love but the only woman within 50 miles.

(from 19 Nov 2009 to 22 Nov 2009)

IMELDA, A New Musical

Julia Miles Theatre

Musical

book by Sachi Oyama, music by Nathan Wang and lyrics by Aaron Coleman

A portrait of Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, an ambitious woman who wanted to make her country an equal player on the world stage. Spanning the pivotal years after Philippine Independence from 1940's to 1980's, this is the story of a powerful and controversial figure and her fall from grace.

(from 22 Sep 2010 to 18 Oct 2010)

LUCK Developmental Reading Series

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical Comedy

Based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Book and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, music by Bradford Ross

In this fractured folktale, Mazil and Shlimazel, the spirits of Good Luck and Bad Luck, make a bet to determine who is the most powerful. Along the way, matters become complicated by a hapless young man, the princess he loves, a crafty prime minister, a superstitious nurse and a lion on the loose.

(from 09 Jul 2009 to 09 Jul 2009)

ONE OF US Developmental Reading Series

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical

A musical based on the Life of Post-impressionist Artist, Suzanne Valadon. book by C.F. Balducci, with music and lyrics by Carmel Owen

Tempered by the melancholy of a young woman's heartbreak and her struggle to achieve recognition in a highly competitive man's world. The story explores how Marie-Clementine Valadon beat all odds and transformed herself into the internationally acclaimed artist now known as Suzanne Valadon.

(from 27 Jul 2009 to 27 Jul 2009)

PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL

Bleecker Street Theatre

Children's Musical

book and lyrics by Elizabeth Kann 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 01 Nov 2008 to 30 Aug 2008)

SPIRITS Developmental Reading Series

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical

Book by Reyn Guyer and Jeff Harrington, with music by Jeff Harrington and lyrics by Reyn Guyer

A violent crime affects more than just the victim. Six people are drawn together one night to try and break a cycle of violence and revenge.

(from 14 Jul 2009 to 14 Jul 2009)

TANGUERA: The Tango Music

NY City Center Main Stage

Dance / Musical

Book by Diego Romay & Dolores Espeja; and lyrics by Eladia Blazques, musical arrangements Gerardo Gardelin and the tango arrangements are by Lisandro Adrover.

Tells a story of unrequited love in turn-of-the-20th-century Buenos Aires through a combination of song, music, and dance. A young French girl, deceived by a prostitution ring arrives in Argentina at the Port of Buenos Aires, and meets the dockworker Lorenzo, an idealist and dreamer. Life transforms them. She becomes a cabaret star and he must decide to face destiny and conquer his love.

(from 07 Oct 2009 to 18 Oct 2009)

THE FANTASTICKS

The Snapple Theater Center

Romantic Musical Comedy

Book and lyrics by Tom Jones. Music by Harvey Schmidt

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 to 30 Nov 2009)

THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES

Westside Theatre (Upstairs)

Musical Revue

by Roger Bean

A journey back to the 1958 Springfield High School prom wherethe Wonderettes - Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy - are four young girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts.

(from 29 Aug 2008 to 25 Oct 2009)

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) Benefit Performance

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical Comedy

Music by Eric Rockwell, lyrics by Joanne Bogart, and book by Rockwell and Bogart.

In a comic satire of musical theatre genres, one story becomes five musicals, each in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim.

(from 08 Jul 2009 to 08 Jul 2009)

THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG

Laura Pels Theatre

Musical

book by Mark Saltzman, with music & lyrics by Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin

Tells the story of an imagined meeting of two of America's greatest musicians, composer Scott Joplin and songwriter Irving Berlin.

(from 12 Jun 2009 to 06 Sep 2009)

THE TOXIC AVENGER

New World Stages / Stage 1

Musical

Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro & Music & Lyrics by David Bryan

Set in the mythical town of Tromaville, Exit 13B off the New Jersey Turnpike. An aspiring earth scientist, Melvin Ferd the Third, is determined to clean up the town's burgeoning toxic waste, until he is tossed into a vat of radioactive goo and emerges as a seven-foot mutant freak and New Jersey's first superhero.

(from 18 Mar 2009 to 21 Feb 2010)

THE WIZ

NY City Center

Musical

book by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Small

The Wiz is an all-black adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, told from the African-American perspective.

(from 12 Jun 2009 to 05 Jul 2009)

VANITIES

Second Stage Theatre

Musical Comedy

book by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum

A look at the journey of three All-American girls as they mature from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to independent women.

(from 02 Jul 2009 to 09 Aug 2009)

YANK!

Theatre at Saint Peter's

Musical

Music by Joseph Zellnik with book and lyrics by David Zellnik

Tells the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted for World War II in 1943, and becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal 'for and by the servicemen.'

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