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ALTAR BOYZ
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 8 pm
Saturday at 2 pm and 8 pm
Sunday at 3pm and 7 pm
Dodger Stages

See Frank J. Avella's Review

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket, proudly announce that ALTAR BOYZ, the acclaimed musical comedy at Dodger Stages, winner of the coveted Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, will welcome ack its original MARK on Monday, January 9th (8 PM) when TYLER MAYNARD returns to the role that garnered him Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical!

Tickets will be $69.99 for all performances. ($1 Restoration charge included). Tickets may be ordered online at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212/239-6200 or 1-877-ABOYZ-411. For more information, please visit www.altarboyz.com.

Dodger Stages| Stage 4 |340 West 50th Street
(Just west of Eighth Avenue)


 

THE AWESOME 80S PROM
Friday and Saturday Nights @ 8PM
Open Run
Webster Hall



All of your favorite characters from your favorite '80s movies are at THE PROM, from the Captain of the Football Team to the Asian Exchange Student, from the Geek to the hottie Head Cheerleader, and they're all competing for Prom King and Queen.

Tickets : $49.99 www.theatermania.com or phone: 212-352-0255

Webster Hall |125 East 11th Street

 


 

The Fantasticks
Tuesday at 7:00pm
Wednesday at 2:00pm
Thursday and Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Snapple Theater Center

A new production of The Fantasticks, the world's longest running musical, comes to New York! This beloved musical love story features music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones. Jones also directs.

Tickets are $75, with a special $35 ticket price for selected seating on Sunday evening performances, and can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com at (212) 307-4100. www.ticketmaster.com

Snapple Theater Center |210 West 50th Street


 

Forbidden Broadway: Dances With Stars
Monday 8:15pm
Monday 8:00pm
Tuesday 8:00pm
Wednesday 2:00pm
Friday 8:00pm
Saturday 4:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday 3:00pm & 7:30pm
47th Street Theater

Forbidden Broadway returns from its annual spring hiatus with a summer edition entitled Forbidden Broadway: Dances with the Stars!. The show features past favorites in addition to new spoofs including South Pacific, Patti LuPone in Gypsy and Grease - You're the One That I Hate!

Tickets $60-$65 www.telecharge.com


47th Street Theater |304 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036


Fuerzabruta
Tuesday 8:00pm
Wednesday 8:00pm
Thursday 8:00pm
Friday 8:00pm & 10:30pm
Saturday 7:00pm & 10:00pm
Sunday 7:00pm
Daryl Roth

The creators of the international hit De La Guarda present their latest original production, Fuerzabruta ("Brute Force").

The show focuses on movement; it includes a man running full throttle through a series of moving walls, individuals racing to connect from opposite sides of a whirling sail, and performers frolicking and interacting in a watery world suspended just above the audience.

Ticket Price: $72.00; $25.00 rush - 212-239-6200; 800-432-7250 For more information: http://www.fuerzabruta.net/

Daryl Roth Theatre| 20 Union Square East
New York, NY 10003


Girls Night: The Musical
Performances Begin June 2nd
Opening Night June 4th
Tuesday at 7 PM
Wednesday through Friday evenings at 8PM
Saturday at 5 PM
Sunday at 3 PM
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre at Sofia’s

Entertainment Event Productions will present the Off-Broadway premiere of the smash UK hit GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL, written by Louise Roche and directed by Jack Randle. Performances will begin June 2nd, for an Opening Night on June 4th at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre at Sofia’s (227 West 46th Street, next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre). Featured in the cast are Sonya Carter, Renee Colvert, Laurie Gardner, Justine Hall, and Carly Sakalove. This limited engagement runs through July 26th.

Girls Night: The Musical has earned rave reviews playing packed houses throughout the United Kingdom since 2003. It premiered in the US in May 2007 and has toured across the country since then. It has been described as “’Desperate Housewives’ meets Mamma Mia!” (Applause Magazine), “a boisterous, bust-out, bawdy musical revue” (Wisconsin State Journal), “An infectious, exhilarating sense of intoxication!” (Hollywood Reporter) and “As funny and outrageous as Sex and the City!” (The Advocate).

Hilarious and touching, Girls Night: The Musical follows five friends in their 30s and 40s during a wild and outrageous girls night out at a karaoke bar. Friends since their teens, they have all had their fair share of heartache and tragedy, joy and success. Among the characters are Carol the party girl, blunt Anita who tells it like it is, Liza with her marital (and eating) issues, boring Kate the designated driver and Sharon, the not-so-angelic angel who just couldn’t resist tagging along. Together, they reminisce about their younger days, celebrate their current lives and look to the future, all the while belting out an array of classic anthems such as “I Will Survive,” “Lady Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man I Feel Like a Woman,” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

Tickets for all performances will be $55 and may be purchased online at www.girlsnightthemusical.com or by phone at 212/947-9300.

Sofia’s | 227 West 46th Street
Next to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

 


FOR LOVERS ONLY
(Love Songs… Nothing but Love Songs
Friday at 7:30 PM
Saturday at 9 PM
Sunday at 7 PM
Monday at 8 PM.
In Previews Now
Opening Night Is Set For May 11th
New World Stages

FOR LOVERS ONLY (Love Songs… Nothing but Love Songs), a new musical revue celebrating romance, will begin performances on Friday April 24th at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). Opening Night is set for Monday May 11th (8 PM).

FOR LOVERS ONLY (Love Songs…Nothing but Love Songs) features nearly 100 of the 20th Century’s most beloved love songs, from the American Popular Songbook, Broadway, and beyond, interspersed through a fast-paced evening, directed and choreographed by Christopher Scott, with musical direction by Ken Lundie. The five-member cast features Glenn Allen, Monica L. Patton, Dominique Plaisant, Trisha Rapier, and Kevin Vortmann.

Tickets range from $20 to $60 and are available through Telecharge.com or at 212-239-6200. For group sales call 212/354-4722.

New World Stages|340 West 50th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).


 

Michael Laurence’s
KRAPP, 39
New playing schedule (beginning June 3):
Friday at 8PM
Saturday 5 & 8PM
Sunday at 5PM
Through August 2nd
SoHo Playhouse

New York: Recent Drama Desk nominee, Michael Laurence’s Krapp, 39, inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, and directed by George Demas, will be extended again now through June 28, 2009 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street). A highlight of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, Krapp, 39 was invited to be part of the Fringe Encores Series; it was then offered a legit Off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse presented by Darren Lee Cole. Krapp, 39’s Off-Broadway run began performances on January 13th, and officially opened on January 20, 2009 and has been extended several times since.

Tickets are $29-$39. To purchase tickets, call the SoHo Playhouse at 212-691-1555
ALL 39-YEAR-OLDS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND FREE OF CHARGE (I.D. required at Box Office.)
or visit www.sohoplayhouse.com. or www.krapp39.com;
Running time is 80 Minutes No Intermission

The Soho Playhouse |15 Vandam Street


 

Musical of Musicals
Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30pm
The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Church

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), the acclaimed off Broadway hit by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart that has played to sold-out houses across the United Stages, in Canada and on London’s West End, will return to New York for a one-night-only performance, on Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30pm. The evening will benefit the York Theatre Company, the award-winning off-Broadway company that first produced the show, in 2004, in honor of the theatre’s 40th Anniversary. It will be presented at The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Church, (54th Street and Lexington Avenue).

Melanie Herman, the show’s New York producer, has reunited the show’s original artistic team (Pamela Hunt, director; Jim Morgan, sets; John Carver Sullivan, costumes and Mary Jo Dondlinger, lights), along with actors who have performed the show in New York and around the country: Joanne Bogart, Matt Castle, Brent Schindele and Kristin Maloney. Musical of Musicals (the Musical) has music by Eric Rockwell, lyrics by Joanne Bogart, and book by Rockwell and Bogart.

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) first opened at the York on December 16, 2003, garnering rave reviews and was nominated for five Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. It moved to the Dodgers Stages, playing for a total of 583 performances in New York. The New York Times wrote, "The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) has real wit, real charm. It’s great fun!” The musical has since played all across the United States, Canada and London. The latest production will play at the Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod, June 22 – July 4; it is this cast that is coming to New York for the one-night-only benefit.


The July 8 benefit begins at 7:30 pm at The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter’s Church, (54th and Lexington Avenues). Tickets are $40 (show only; limited availability) and $100 (includes post-show reception) and are available online at www.yorktheatre.org or by phone at 212-935-5820.

The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Church |54th Street and Lexington Avenue


KEN DAVENPORT'S
MY FIRST TIME,
Starts July 12th - Open Run
NEW WORLD STAGES

Ken Davenport, producer of the Off-Broadway hits Altar Boyz and The Awesome 80s Prom, will present MY FIRST TIME (www.MyFirstTimeThePlay.com,) a new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues featuring four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you.

For tickets from as low as $25, call Telecharge.com at 212/239-6200. For more information and group tickets call 1-888-MY1-TIME or visit www.MyFirstTimeThePlay.com.

New World Stages|Stage 5 |340 West 50th Street
Between 8th and 9th Avenues).


 

NAKED BOYS SINGING!
Friday evenings at 10:30 pm
Saturday evenings at 6 pm and 10:30 pm.
New World Stages

NAKED BOYS SINGING!, the fifteen-song celebration of the male form, now in its seventh year, is hanging its clothes up backstage at New World Stages. They are appearing on Stage 4, graciously shared by the other (clothed) Boyz of New World Stages: ALTAR BOYZ!

Ticket prices will be $69.00 VIP Seating in the first three rows, $59.00 for the remaining Orchestra rows, which includes $1.00 facility fee. Tickets for Naked Boys Singing! are available through www.telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at the New Wold Stages Box Office. For Group Sales, call 212-302-4848, ext. 20. The show runs at a lean 70 minutes, without an intermission.

New World Stages (Formerly Dodger Stages) |340 West 50th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenues

 


 

Perfect Crime
Monday at 8:00pm
Wednesday at 2:00pm
Thursday and Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday at 3:00pm and 7:00pm
Snapple Theater Center

Perfect Crime goes well beyond traditional mystery play. It is a sexy, compelling thriller, with well-timed surprises and laughs that relieve a growing dramatic tension. The main character is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist accused of bumping off her wealthy British husband.

Tickets are $41-- $51, and can be purchased through Ticketmaster (212) 307-4100, www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Snapple Theater Center box office (212) 921-7862. For more information, visit www.perfect-crime.com on the web.

Snapple Theater Center| 4th Floor | 210 West 50th Street (betw Bway & 8th Ave)


 

The Snapple Theater Center:
The Quantum Eye - Magic Deceptions
Every Saturday at 5PM
The Snapple Theater Center

"Sam Eaton’s Off-Broadway spectacle The Quantum Eye -- Magic Deceptions is a A tour de force of intimate magic and mind-reading exploits brought into the 21st century by mentalist Sam Eaton. THE QUANTUM EYE continues its two year run every Saturday at 5PM in The Snapple Theater Center, the only Off-Broadway theater right on Broadway.

Join Sam in a unique, sophisticated and family friendly tour through the limits of our mind's potential. This one-of-a-kind New York event will be an experience you never forget.

Using the tools of a professional deceiver and lessons learned in his studies of the human mind, Sam demonstrates a series of seeming mental
miracles: manipulating the actions of audience members, predicting their behavior, reading their minds, and performing impossible calculations, memorizations and predictions. The show is fascinating for both adults and children over eight years old. The producers are happy to answer any questions about the show and may be contacted at 212-842-9717."

Box Office Phone: 212-921-7862
<www.thequantumeye.com>

The Snapple Theater Center|1627 Broadway (50th Street)



Scott Hudson’s
“SWEET STORM”
Previews Begin June 11
Opening Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 7PM
Tuesday – Saturday at 8pmz
Sunday at 2 & 7pm.
Special performances are: 2pm Saturday 6/13 & Wednesday 7/1 & at 8pm
Monday 6/15
No performances 7/3 & 7/4 through July 5.
The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row)


The Alchemy Theatre, in association with LAByrinth Theater, presents “Sweet Storm” by Scott Hudson, Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC. Padraic Lillis will direct the new play that features Jamie Dunn and Eric T. Miller. Previews begin on June 11 and the opening will be Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm. The Scenic & Costume Designer is Lea Umberger; the Lighting Designer is Sarah Sidman and the Sound Designer is Elizabeth Rhodes. The Casting Director is Judy Bowman Casting and Production Supervisor: La Vie Productions.
In 1960 Florida during a ferociously approaching storm, Ruthie and Bo, two newlyweds, enter their honeymoon suite in the sky, a treehouse which is a romantic gesture from the young groom to his bride. Yet Bo’s expectations of living happily ever after in the sky are soon grounded by Ruthie's realization that marriage comes with many unforeseen – and frightening - challenges. The two lovers struggle to fortify themselves against forces both inside and outside. This is a funny, powerful, and intimate love story to challenge our perceptions of marriage, faith, and love.

Previews are $20; from opening $25 with students/seniors & rush $15. They are available through Ticket Central: (212) 279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com.
LABtheater.org

The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row)| 410 West 42nd Street


 

 


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