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Is He Dead?

This funny, critically acclaimed, play staring Norbert Leo Butz was adapted from a Mark Twain play. Butz and colleagues provide delightful physical comedy that greatly enchances the entertainment value of the show.

The play is now available in print: Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts (Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain)

For Broadway play tickets and info see: http://www.ishedead.com/

Spring Awakening

Critics call it haunting and electrifying - the next RENT only possibly better.

Buy Spring Awakening Tickets for this hot seller

JERSEY BOYS Winner of 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical

Audiences love Jersey Boys as a moving story and delightful entertainment. Based on the story of The Four Seasons - this is a rare catalog musical that really works.

For a full review of Jersey Boys see our other website, Jersey Boys review at Musicalwriters.com

Monty Python's Spamalot

Spamalot CD (2005 Original Broadway Cast)

Spamalot is a most whacky musical and guaranteed laugh-inducer. It pokes fun at many musical styles. The dancing is sensational. Winner of Three Drama Desk Awards (outstanding musical, costumes, lyrics)

Get tickets to this mostly sold out show: Monty Python Spamalot Tickets at Shubert Theatre-NY

Read Jim Miller's review of Spamalot: "Looking at the Bright Side of the Season"

Official Site - montypythonsspamalot.com

The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast)

A new musical comedy by Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison about a musical from the 1920s.

Mini-review by Carol de Giere: This show offers guaranteed laughs for musical theatre fans. The narrator invites the audience into his apartment (as supported by the set showing a refrigerator, etc.) where he describes and plays his favorite old-time cast album for a 1928 show called "The Drowsy Chaperone." In the most camp style with joyous costumes, that show comes alive on stage in the apartment. The narrator's emotions and responses milk the audience for maximum comic value. A joy to watch, especially after the first twenty minutes.

Official site: http://www.drowsychaperone.com/ | For sold out performances: The Drowsy Chaperone Tickets at Marquee Theatre

Spelling Bee

Winner of 2005 Drama Desk Awards (Book, director). Read review: Spelling Bee review by Jim Miller

Cast Album: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast)

Official Site- Spelling Bee The Musical

For sold out performances or premium theatre tickets: Broadway Theatre Tickets

Avenue Q

Avenue Q and Wicked - Review and commentary by Jim Miller ".... I love Wicked, and I, personally, think it was the Best Musical as well as the Best Score for 2004. But, that should take nothing away from the considerable accomplishments and charms of Avenue Q,..."

Official Website Avenueq.com

For sold out performances or premium theatre tickets: Broadway Theatre Tickets

Mary Poppins

Visit our full page about Mary Poppins: Songlist, cast album, review, links

The Color Purple -

Hear cast album clips: The Color Purple (2005 Original Broadway Cast)

http://www.colorpurple.com/

Tarzan at the Richard Rodger's Theatre. Read all about Tarzan

Classics

RENT: Rent - The albums, etc. at Amazon.com [new browser window] Idina Menzell played Maureen on Rent on Broadway and can be heard on the cast album. While performing in the show, she met her husband-to-be, another performer Taye Diggs.

Read about original cast member Idina Menzel, also the first Elphaba in Wicked.

Official Site - Rent on Broadway

The Phantom of the Opera

Currently the second longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has played to over 100 million people in 22 countries in 113 cities around the world since its first performance. The New York production alone has enchanted over 10 million audience members in its nearly 17-year run.

The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Edition) - Special DVD with making-of the film featurettes, etc.

Official site for stage musical | Official Site - The Movie

Hairspray

Hairspray and Wicked - Review and commentary by Jim Miller "....on the surface, the two musicals [Wicked and Hairspray] strike me as quite different. But, when I thought more about it, several things did come to mind. First, both shows are highlighted by multiple showstoppers...."

For sold out performances or premium theatre tickets: Broadway Theatre Tickets

Official site

UNKNOWN DATE: Billy Elliott - read review of London production

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A Chorus Line - A revival of the famous musical about dancers auditioning to be in a Broadway show.

A Jew Grows in Brooklyn: A one-man musical written and performed by Jake Ehrenreich about growing up the child of two Holocaust survivors.

Beauty and the Beast: A stage version of the great Disney animated musical film, based on the classic fairy tale.

Chicago: A revival of the musical about a pair of murderesses and the razzle-dazzle lawyer who gets them off. Featuring terrific dancing in the style of Bob Fosse.

Company: A revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical about a man trying vainly to connect with others; staged by John Doyle (Sweeney Todd). In previews; opens on November 29, 2006.

Grey Gardens: A musical about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Christine Ebersole stars.

Les Miserables: A revival of the popular musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Alexander Gemignani and Norm Lewis head the cast.

Mamma Mia: A musical comedy about a woman who invites three men who may be her father to her wedding, with lots of songs by ABBA.

Mimi le Duck: A "nouveau" musical by Diana Hansen-Young and Brian Feinstein about a discontented Idaho housewife who one day decides to escape her life and move to Paris.

The Fantasticks: A revival of the musical by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt. At Snapple Theater Center.

The Lion King: The long-running Broadway musical, based on the animated film. Featuring a score by Elton John and others, with Julie Taymor's remarkable puppets and masks.

The Producers: The smash hit musical based on Mel Brooks's 1968 film about a pair of producers who deliberately mount a terrible show called "Springtime for Hitler." John Treacy Egan and Hunter Foster co-star.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - the Musical: A musical version of the classic Dr. Seuss story. Returning for holidays 2007.

For a complete list of Broadway and Off Broadway shows see Broadway - at Broadway.com

or ON THE BOARDS - TalkingBroadway.com

Next season

Stephanie J. Block is a star in The Pirate Queen, a new show By Les Miz Writers. It opens in Chicago in the fall of 2006. The Pirate Queen will open on Broadway in the 2006-2007 season.

Leap of Faith will premiere in the 2007-2008 season. Leap of Faith will showcase the latest score written for the Broadway stage by Alan Menken. The book is by Janus Cercone, author of the original screenplay for the 1992 Paramount Pictures' movie starring Steve Martin, Liam Neeson and Debra Winger. Lyrics are by Glenn Slater.

Leap of Faith is the story of Jonas Nightingale, a rock star in evangelist's clothing, who cons his way across the drought stricken farm belt. A consummate manipulator, Jonas meets his match in a beautiful young widow and her son who compel him to acknowledge forces beyond his control -- the power of love, human connection and hope. Through them, Jonas - the ultimate cynic -gets one last chance to believe in something.

Off-Broadway

Forbidden Broadway SVU: Special Victims Unit

This latest incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running revue pokes fun at such Broadway shows as Wicked, Avenue Q, Movin' Out, Assassins, I Am My Own Wife, The Boy From Oz, Dracula and Bombay Dreams.

Cast Album: Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit - check out track 13: "Wickeder (Popular/Defying Gravity)." Also Stephen Schwartz is mentioned in track 5. "It Sucks To Be Us"

Performance Schedule:
Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday at 8:15 p.m.
Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Saturday at 4 p.m.
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets:
Pricing: $49.50-$57
Box Office: Telecharge: (212) 239-6200
Outside NY: (800) 432-7250
Group Sales info: (212) 840-5564

Theatre Information:
Douglas Fairbanks Theater
432 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
US

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Off-Broadway)
A new musical based on the beloved book by Patricia MacLachlan. Theatreworks USA site for Sarah Plain and Tall

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Broadway: The American Musical

The DVD version of this landmark new PBS documentary about Broadway includes, among others, bonus features: "The Making of Wicked" (16 minutes) and rehearsal of "For Good." These were not part of the PBS broadcast. Enjoy interview clips and footage from the colorful production of Wicked. Includes several minutes with stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in rehearsal, on stage, and backstage. List price $59.99

Broadway - The American Musical - DVD $44.99 Amazon.com OR...

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Review from a fan: "a bonus feature on the DVD is a 16 minute making of Wicked! SO INCREDIBLE!!! Interviews with Stephen, Joe Mantello, Wayne Cilento, Idina, Kristin, Marc Platt...so cool! With great show and rehearsal footage. A must see for Wicked and Broadway lovers alike. It is such an interesting documentary."

Companion CD

Good news: "Defying Gravity" made it into the top 21 songs and is included in this CD companion to the PBS documentary Broadway: The American Musical. Best of Broadway CD with Defying Gravity and 20 other popular songs like "Oklahoma" and "Send in the Clowns."

"Defying Gravity" is sung by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth on Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Album

For the song's context in the show see the Wicked Songs Context page

Recommended Book

A 480-page companion to the PBS documentary BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL: Broadway - American Musical - Companion Book at Amazon.com - NOW SHIPPING

Along with jazz and abstract expressionism, the Broadway musical is one of the few uniquely American art forms. The book offers a comprehensive history of the musical, from its roots at the turn of the 20th century through the smashing successes of the new millennium. The compelling, in-depth text is lavishly illustrated with a treasure trove of photographs, sheet-music covers, posters, scenic renderings, production stills, rehearsal shots, and caricatures, many previously unpublished....