Schmigadoon! is free to deliver real pleasures of old-school American musical comedy: catchy melodies with clever lyrics, laughs on the regular, a little romance and a large cast of seasoned pros in big, joyous production numbers.
Fallen Angels, a sort of proto-Godot, features two society women drinking themselves into a stupor while waiting for an old lover, showcasing Coward's sexual frankness and humor.
Set during the Roaring Twenties, the show takes place at the Manhattan apartment of Queenie (Jasmine Amy Rogers), a vaudeville bombshell, and her man of the moment, the comedian Burrs (Jordan Donica). Guests include a former prizefighter, a pair of piano-playing twins, an "ambisextrous" playboy, a stage diva past her prime, and someone's kid sister from Poughkeepsie.
If City Center Encores! was originally founded as a kind of musical-theater seance devoted to raising the dead, or at least the long-forgotten then High Spirits is about as literal a mission statement as you could ask for. The rarely revived 1964 musical opens with a seance and arrives at City Center like a theatrical ghost itself: long unseen, mostly forgotten, and faintly glowing with the promise of pleasures from another era. That alone makes High Spirits worth summoning.
After seven years, thousands of rhinestones, and one very resilient windmill, Moulin Rouge! The Musical will close on Broadway on Sunday, July 26, 2026. The Tony Awardwinning musical will end its run at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre after 2,265 regular performances and 24 previews. Based on the 2001 film of the same name, the stage adaptation opened on July 25, 2019just months before the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020resumed performances in the fall of 2021, and went on to win 10 Tony Awards,
As Broadway heads into the busy spring theater season, a wave of new productions and high-profile revivals is arriving across Midtown. This year's lineup leans heavily on recognizable titles including revivals of classics and stage adaptations of familiar screen properties as well as star casting.
