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  • Newsies Extends On Broadway

    Newsies Extends On Broadway

    It was originally set to close on August 19th. But after receiving eight Tony Award nominations this year, the producers of Disney’s Newsies have announced that the show will now play an open-ended engagement at the Nederlander Theatre. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of [...]

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  • One Man, Two Guvnors Wins Critics Award

    One Man, Two Guvnors Wins Critics Award

    They’ve been recognizing theater excellence for 62 years. And this year the Outer Critics Circle Awards handed over three prizes to the Broadway hit, One Man, Two Guvnors. The show got the nods for Outstanding New Broadway Play, Outstanding Direction of a Play for Nicholas Hytner and Outstanding Actor in a Play for James Corden. [...]

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  • The Best Man Extends Its Broadway Run

    The Best Man Extends Its Broadway Run

    After being nominated for two Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has announced that it will extend its run at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Originally scheduled to close on July 8th, the show will now go on through July 22nd. The Best Man is about the race to the [...]

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  • Recent Shows Burning Up The Box Office

    Recent Shows Burning Up The Box Office

    Some of the newer shows to The Great White Way are blazing a path to box office success lately. It seems that theater fans are really warming up to some of our latest additions to PeterPanShowBus.com. While perennial leaders The Lion King and Wicked still top the charts for box office dollars, Evita has made [...]

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  • 2012 Tony Award Nominations Announced

    2012 Tony Award Nominations Announced

    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center was the site of this morning’s announcements of the 2012 Tony Award nominations. Kristin Chenoweth and  Jim Parsons revealed this year’s nominees. The most nominations went to Once, which garnered 11. Close behind with 10 each were [...]

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  • Leap Of Faith Opens On Broadway

    Leap Of Faith Opens On Broadway

    The St. James Theatre was the site of the Broadway opening of Leap Of Faith last night. The show, starring Raúl Esparza, Jessica Phillips and Kendra Kassebaum, began previews at that venue on April 3rd. The show tells the story of Jonas Nightingale. With his troupe of singers, he’s journeyed far and wide, rattling the rafters, conning the [...]

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  • Four New Broadway Hits!

    Four New Broadway Hits!

    It’s been a busy day here at Peter Pan ShowBus as we’ve added four new shows to our roster of Broadway hits. Take a look at what’s new on The Great White Way! CLYBOURNE PARK Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community [...]

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  • Video Extra: Newsies

    Video Extra: Newsies

    It just opened on March 29th and last week Newsies topped the one-million dollar mark at the box office for the week, putting it in some pretty elite company. What’s more, it’s been packing the house to capacity,  playing to standing room only crowds at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre. Set in New York City at the [...]

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  • It’s Performance #6000 For The Lion King!

    It’s Performance #6000 For The Lion King!

    No show in Broadway history has ever grossed as much at the box office as Disney’s The Lion King. Now with today’s matinee, the show celebrates a major milestone – its 6000th performance! The Lion King originally opened in November of 1997 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. In 1998 it won six Tony Awards, among [...]

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  • Tom Hanks Broadway Bound?

    Tom Hanks Broadway Bound?

    He’s been nominated for five Oscars and won two. But now comes word that actor Tom Hanks may be considering his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s Stories About McAlary. Stories About McAlary focuses on the life of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who wrote for the New York Daily News and the New York Post. [...]

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