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|A Catered Affair [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.5[pic]Attendance = 74.2% sold last week |

|A rather subtle musical from Harvey Fierstein about a 1950's 'dream wedding' in the Bronx. (more) |

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|A Chorus Line [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.7[pic]Attendance = 64.9% sold last week |

|Long before American Idol, this hit Broadway musical told the tale of tryouts for the chorus of a new Broadway show. (more) |

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|A Tale of Two Cities [pic][pic][pic] |

|A new musical based on Dickens' classic novel comes to Broadway in August. |

|Begins 8/19/2008 (more) |

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|August: Osage County [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.6[pic]Attendance = 83.9% sold last week |

|From Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, the Pulitzer-winning drama about the disintegration of an American family. |

|Winner of 5 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Play. (more) |

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|Avenue Q [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.6[pic]Attendance = 66.9% sold last week |

|This spunky and cheerful Gen-X musical comedy for grown-ups features a cast of both puppets and live performers. (more) |

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|Billy Elliot [pic][pic][pic] |

|Elton John's new musical about a young boy who wants to dance, not box. |

|Begins 10/1/2008 (more) |

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|Boeing-Boeing [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.3[pic]Attendance = 84.0% sold last week |

|Christine Baranski stars in the popular stewardess-themed farce at the Longacre. |

|Winner of 2 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play. (more) |

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|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.1[pic]Attendance = 95.8% sold last week |

|James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard, and Anika Noni Rose are in this revival of Tennessee Williams' drama. |

|Closes 6/22/2008 (more) |

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|Chicago [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.9[pic]Attendance = 72.3% sold last week |

|An elegant, minimally staged revival of Kander & Ebb's gritty musical - lust, treachery, and murder among chorus girls and backstage types in old Chicago. (more) |

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|Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|A postmodern acrobatic troupe (no, not that one, another one) plays the Broadway Theatre with a new family-friendly spectacular. (more) |

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|Cry-Baby [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.3[pic]Attendance = 64.4% sold last week |

|A second stage adaptation of a John Waters' cult film classic (the first was "Hairspray") comes to the Main Stem. (more) |

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|Curtains [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.5[pic]Attendance = 56.0% sold last week |

|David Hyde Pierce headlines a new musical comedy from the legendary team of Kander & Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), a backstage romance set in 1959. |

|Closes 6/29/2008 (more) |

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|Peter Shaffer's psychological drama returns to Broadway, starring Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") and Richard Griffiths. |

|Begins 9/5/2008 (more) |

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|Grease [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.1[pic]Attendance = 87.1% sold last week |

|The pop bebop high school musical of 1950's Americana returns to The Street on the heels of a massive television talent search for the leads. (more) |

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|Gypsy [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.2[pic]Attendance = 68.2% sold last week |

|The classic showbiz musical, directed by writer Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, returns to rave reviews. |

|Winner of 3 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Actress for Ms. LuPone. (more) |

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|Hairspray [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.2[pic]Attendance = 82.1% sold last week |

|A sugary candied-apple of a musical in which a plus-sized teen in 1962 Baltimore discovers that she lives in the best of all possible worlds. (more) |

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|In The Heights [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.1[pic]Attendance = 94.8% sold last week |

|A new musical about the vibrant cultural mix that is upper Manhattan. |

|Winner of 4 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (more) |

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|Jersey Boys [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.6[pic]Attendance = 100.6% sold last week |

|A bio-revue telling the story and singing the songs of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (more) |

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|Legally Blonde [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.4[pic]Attendance = 73.8% sold last week |

|A musical comedy based on the popular movie about a ditzy Harvard Law student plays the Palace. (more) |

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|Les Liaisons Dangereuses [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.2[pic]Attendance = 91.8% sold last week |

|Laura Linney stars in a revival of the popular costume drama at the Roundabout. |

|Closes 7/6/2008 (more) |

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|Mamma Mia [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.1[pic]Attendance = 94.6% sold last week |

|A surprisingly popular choice among the suburban set, this lively pop musical features the songs of the 70’s europop group ABBA, played to enthusiastic nightly standing ovations. (more) |

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|Mary Poppins [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.4[pic]Attendance = 89.8% sold last week |

|The classic songs of the Disney movie make for the latest family-friendly Broadway megamusical, telling the tale of that charming nanny of Edwardian London in a perfectly |

|supercalifragilisticexpialidocious manner. (more) |

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|November [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.3[pic]Attendance = 53.2% sold last week |

|A new light comedy by David Mamet. |

|Closes 7/13/2008 (more) |

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|Passing Strange [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.8[pic]Attendance = 62.6% sold last week |

|Storyteller "Stew" moves his possibly-autobiographical blues show uptown from the Public Theatre. (more) |

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|Rent [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.6[pic]Attendance = 62.6% sold last week |

|The Pulitzer Prize winning rock adaptation of Puccini's La Boheme set in the grungy corners of New York City. |

|Closes 9/7/2008 (more) |

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|Shrek the Musical [pic][pic][pic] |

|A new stage musical based on William Steig's classic book and the mega-hit film it spawned comes to Broadway in November. |

|Begins 11/8/2008 (more) |

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|South Pacific [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.3[pic]Attendance = 98.8% sold last week |

|A revival of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical plays the main hall at Lincoln Center Theater. |

|Winner of 7 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. (more) |

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|Spamalot [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.7[pic]Attendance = 66.3% sold last week |

|The unmistakable humor of the erudite idiots of Monty Python comes to Broadway, disguised as musical comedy. (more) |

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|Spring Awakening [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.7[pic]Attendance = 60.0% sold last week |

|An alt-rock adaptation of Wedekind's drama of youthful desire, from the well-regarded Atlantic Theatre. Some of the best reviews of last season. (more) |

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|Sunday in the Park With George [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.0[pic]Attendance = 84.5% sold last week |

|A restaging of a recent London revival of Sondheim's classic musical plays Studio 54. |

|Closes 6/29/2008. (more) |

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|The 39 Steps [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.4[pic]Attendance = 75.9% sold last week |

|Popular slapstick Hitchcock spy spoof from London moves to the Cort Theatre. (more) |

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|The Country Girl [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.6[pic]Attendance = 46.5% sold last week |

|Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand star in Clifford Odets' drama about a fading actor's big Broadway comeback. Mike Nichols directs. |

|Closes 7/20/2008 (more) |

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|The Lion King [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 4.6[pic]Attendance = 99.3% sold last week |

|Julie Taymor's inventive retelling of Disney's animated hit took Broadway by storm in 1997, and is still running strong. Puppets and live actors weave a dreamscape of jungle characters |

|as we follow the rise of young Simba to the throne. (more) |

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|The Little Mermaid [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.0[pic]Attendance = 97.8% sold last week |

|New from Disney, an adaptation of the popular underwater fantasia. (more) |

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|The Phantom of the Opera [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.5[pic]Attendance = 97.8% sold last week |

|A hideously deformed man lives in the cellars of the Paris Opera and takes a stunningly beautiful soprano as a student in this classic show - the longest running production in Broadway |

|history. (more) |

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|Thurgood [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.5[pic]Attendance = 72.3% sold last week |

|Laurence Fishburne comes to Broadway in a one-man-show about the Supreme Court Justice mentioned in the title. (more) |

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|This is the listing for a show at the Lyceum Theatre about a show at the Lyceum Theatre which is listed here. |

|Begins 7/5/2008 (more) |

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|Top Girls [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 3.7[pic]Attendance = 79.0% sold last week |

|From Manhattan Theatre Club, Caryl Churchill's drama about the historic struggle of a businesswoman to succeed - Marisa Tomei is in the cast. |

|Closes 6/29/2008 (more) |

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|Wicked [pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.7[pic]Attendance = 100.0% sold last week |

|Ever wondered what happened in Oz before Dorothy dropped in? This musical about the teenage years of the Good Witch and the Green Witch is a family-friendly spectacle housed in one of |

|Broadway’s largest and most comfortable theatres. (more) |

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|Xanadu [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.5[pic]Attendance = 72.3% sold last week |

|A spoof of the Olivia Newton-John movie/musical plays the Hayes. You'd have to go to Nepal to find higher camp. (more) |

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|Young Frankenstein [pic][pic][pic] |

|Critics = 2.0[pic]Attendance = no performances last week |

|The new musical comedy from Mel Brooks based on his popular film. (more) |

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|Upcoming Broadway Shows | Past Broadway Shows |

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|Critics' rating is our interpretation of major NYC newspaper reviews. |

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|"% Sold" data is provided by the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. for the last full week of performances. |

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|The 39 venues designated as Broadway theatres are located in a relatively small geographic region. With only a couple of exceptions, Broadway theaters are located in the area between |

|41st Street and 52nd Street, and between Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Eighth Avenue. |

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|Broadway productions are often enormous in scale, costing millions to produce, and sometimes feature some of the most popular and entertaining actors in the world. The sets and costumes |

|are usually quite extravagant, and the musicals usually feature orchestras of ten to thirty musicians. |

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|6/20/08 - 5/31/09 |

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|August: Osage County |

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|Young Frankenstein |

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|The Lion King |

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|Chicago |

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|The Phantom of the Opera |

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|South Pacific |

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