Shows on Broadway
Broadway is filled with amazingly written, well-acted and beautifully delivered shows. Billy Elliot is among the best of the best for good reason, and others strive to reach the top just as Billy Elliot the musical has done. With a wide array of brilliant Broadways to choose from, we have chosen to focus on five upcoming shows that we think will impact the Broadway world like Billy Elliot has. Between wit, drama, creativity, and excellent production, these five have got it all.
Time Stands Still is a heart-wrenching Broadway play about the lives of two couples coping with major changes and post-war struggles. With big names like Laura Linney and Alicia Silverstone, and very talented writer, Donald Margulies, this compelling drama is sure to sell fast. One couple, Sarah (Laura Linney) and James (Brian D’Arcy James), share a love for documenting war scenes through photography and journalism and injuries have forced them to return to their New York City apartment from the wars in the Middle East. Sarah and James find adjusting to a conventional lifestyle to be extremely difficult, and their nine year relationship is put to the test as secrets between them surface through their own realizations. The other couple, Richard (Eric Bogosian), a mutual friend and photo editor of their magazine, and Mandy (Alicia Silverstone), his much younger and very dependent girlfriend are entering a new stage of their lives. When Mandy and Sarah’s views collide on big issues, arguments break out and the tables take a turn. With Time Stands Still tickets, you are buying an experience that captures emotions that everyday people go through on a regular basis. Viewers find themselves swept up in the story as it unfolds through talented acting and direction. The Time Stands Still schedule is short and sweet, running from January 5, 2010 until March 14, 2010 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. View the Time Stands Still detailed schedule here to find a date and time that work best for you so that you can enjoy this incredible drama for yourself!
Lend Me a Tenor combines chaos, adventure, and fame into one hilarious Broadway written by successful playwriter, Ken Ludwig. The show premiered on Broadway in 1989 and has since received seven Tony Award nominations, winning two, and four Drama Desk Awards. Lend Me a Tenor tickets will provide you with a night full of laughter as Tito Merelli, the world-famous Italian superstar with a bad temper, goes missing just before his local opera debut in Cleveland, Ohio. The opera’s organizer, Saunders, desperately finds ways for the show to go on, even if that means stooping to the level of finding an impersonator to fill in. As you can imagine, this plan is not a smooth-sailing success, and several side stories and ridiculous encounters add to the brilliance of this outrageous comedy. Anthony LaPaglia plays Tito Merelli and is quite the perfect candidate, having won Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe awards for his acting. Tony Shalhoub, playing the role of Saunders, is also highly experienced and successful with his winnings of one Golden Globe and three Emmy Awards. Other cast members include two-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell, Brook Adams, Mary Catherine Garrison, and more. With a cast this skilled and a Broadway this funny, you’ll want to check out the Lend Me a Tenor schedule so you can reserve your own seats right away. Lend Me a Tenor will be playing at Music Box Theatre in New York City from March 11, 2010 until August 15, 2010. Don’t miss out on an unforgettable, fun-filled experience on Broadway!
Million Dollar Quartet is a top-of-the-line musical that brings one of the greatest jam sessions of all time to life right before your eyes. The December 4, 1956 recording session at Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee between rock icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley was the one and only time those four jammed together, making it one legendary night. With a highly experienced cast of Eddie Clendening (Elvis Presley), Lance Guest (Johnny Cash), Levi Kreis (Jerry Lee Lewis), Rob Lyons (Carl Perkins), Elizabeth Stanley (Dyanne), and Hunter Foster (Sam Phillips), Million Dollar Quartet tickets are going to be hot items. Who wouldn’t want to be part of a knockout musical that captures amazing music, a famous story, an impressive cast, and one brilliant production? To find a date and time that works for you, check out the Million Dollar Quartet schedule here. In general, the play runs on Broadway at Nederlander Theatre from March 13, 2010 until September 5, 2010. The same musical with different cast members also runs in Chicago at Apollo Theatre from February 4, 2010 until May 30, 2010. Million Dollar Quartet is one musical that is definitely worth your visit. It’s not often that you’ll get to experience four of history’s greatest rockers in one room making music that together blows fans away.
Looped hilarously depicts the 1965 sound studio session when party girl Tallulah Bankhead needed to re-record (or ‘loop’) one line of dialogue for her last film, “Die, Die My Darling.” When the two clashing personalities collide between drunken Tallulah Bankhead, played by Valerie Harper, and Danny Miller, the uptight and highly conservative sound editor, Looped enters a world of outrageous scenes, making it one unforgettable production. Looped tickets will bring you a fly-on-the-wall view of Hollywood’s wild woman during her prime. Valerie Harper does an incredible job at capturing every aspect of Tallulah’s shameless ways. Her success as an actress is highlighted by her four-time Emmy Award winnings and her most well known role as Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” You’ll have a blast watching this story unfold, so take a look at the Looped schedule here. Looped will be showing at Lyceum Theatre in New York City from February 19, 2010 until September 5, 2010. Grab a seat this spring/summer and take a wild and crazy ride with the party animal herself in full force!
The Miracle Worker is a touching story about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, two of history’s most iconic women who together made communication and discipline possible for young Helen Keller. Helen Keller, played by Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin, was struck with an illness as an infant that left her deaf and blind. By the age of six, having been spoiled all her life by her parents, Keller was an out of control child that was stuck in a world that couldn’t communicate with her. The parents’ desperate attempt to reverse this downward spiral was to hire Anne Sullivan, played by Tony nominee Alison Pill. Anne relentlessly worked with Keller for two weeks, and the change made in such a young girl in that two week period goes down in history as one of the greatest miracles of all time. The Miracle Worker tickets will bring you an experience unlike any other, with wonderful acting and one of time’s most beautiful stories. Other talented cast members include Broadway first-timer and Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Matthew Modine, Broadway first-timer Jennifer Morrison, and Tony Award winner Elizabeth Franz. Check out The Miracle Worker schedule so you can reserve great seats to a show you won’t ever forget. The Miracle Worker will be playing at New York City’s Circle In The Square from February 12, 2010 until August 1, 2010. With a Broadway this heart-warming that’s based on such a life-changing story, you’ll leave as a whole new person. It’s just that good.
