Archive for November, 2011

  • Thanksgiving Week Breaks Broadway Records

    Thanksgiving Week Breaks Broadway Records

    While the economy is on everyone’s mind these days, you wouldn’t know it from looking at Thanksgiving week on the Great White Way. Three shows topped two million dollars last week, while five others topped the one million dollar mark. Not bad for a recession! Leading the pack for last week’s Broadway box office were [...]

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  • Broadway Shines In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Broadway Shines In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

    It’s an annual Big Apple tradition that celebrated 85 years yesterday. And in television coverage of this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Great White Way was well represented. NBC’s coverage of the festivities featured the cast of Newsies performing “King of New York” live in Herald Square in their first hour of coverage. Shortly [...]

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  • Rockettes Kick Off Their 79th Christmas Spectacular

    Rockettes Kick Off Their 79th Christmas Spectacular

    It’s been a family holiday tradition since 1933! And on Wednesday night of this week, the Radio City Music Hall “kicked off” its 79th season of the Christmas Spectacular! This year the show has been updated to include a new 3DLive video game adventure and dazzling new musical numbers. Still present of course are beloved [...]

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  • Matthew Broderick Coming Back To Broadway

    Matthew Broderick Coming Back To Broadway

    There’s no doubt that Matthew Broderick is a Broadway audience favorite. Now after a couple of years away from The Great White Way, the actor is heading back for a leading role in Nice Work If You Can Get It. Broderick will star opposite Kelli O’Hara when the show opens at the Imperial Theatre in [...]

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  • Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway Opens

    Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway Opens

    It was a big night at the Broadhurst Theatre last night as Emmy and Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman’s Back On Broadway celebrated opening night. Accompanied by an 18-piece orchestra and 6 female dancers, Jackman performed a personal selection of his favorite musical numbers that reflect on the stage and film star’s remarkable life and [...]

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  • Godspell Celebrates Opening Night

    Godspell Celebrates Opening Night

    It’s been 40 years since Godspell first debuted off-Broadway in 1971, but on Monday, November 7th, everything old was new again as the show celebrated opening night at Circle In The Square Theatre. After beginning previews on October 13th, the musical’s opening was a star-studded event attended by the likes of Martin Short, Angela Bassett, [...]

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  • Beau Bridges Coming To Broadway

    Beau Bridges Coming To Broadway

    Big screen star Beau Bridges is coming to Broadway early next year, replacing John Larroquette as J.B. Biggley in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. His first performance will be on January 3rd at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Bridges has been on the Great White Way before, though not in recent years. He [...]

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