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HAIR (2011)

HAIR (2011)

This exuberant musical about a group of young Americans searching for peace and love in a turbulent time has struck a resonant chord with audiences young and old. Originally produced on Broadway in 1968 and was revived in 2009 to glowing ...read more

A Chorus Line (2011)

A Chorus Line (2011)

A Chorus Line is a musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin ...read more

Gypsy (2010)

Gypsy (2010)

Gypsy, “a musical fable” suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, opens at a Seattle vaudeville house where “Baby June” and “Baby Louise” audition for a kiddy show singing and dancing Let Me ...read more

The Producers (2009)

The Producers (2009)

It’s the opening of a new Max Bialystock play called “Funny Boy”, a musical version of Hamlet. Everyone ends up hating it and the show closes on opening night. Max, who was once the King of Old Broadway, sings to the ...read more

les Miserables (2008)

les Miserables (2008)

Sung through, Les Misérables opens in a prison in Toulon, France in 1815, where the prisoners work at hard labour (Work Song). After nineteen years of imprisonment (five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family, and the ...read more

42nd street (2007)

42nd street (2007)

42nd Street tells the story of a humble, naïve young actress named Peggy Sawyer who has come to audition for a new Broadway musical,. Unfortunately, due to her nervousness, Peggy arrives to the audition late and misses her chance to ...read more

CATS (2006)

CATS (2006)

Based on ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and other poems by T.S. Eliot, the musical takes place in a junkyard where the local cats are auditioning to be chosen by their leader, Old Deuteronomy, to journey to the ...read more

Oliver (2005)

Oliver (2005)

Oliver Twist is a young boy who lives in a workhouse with other orphaned boys. When Oliver disrupts a meal by asking for more, he is sold to a local undertaker and his family. They treat Oliver horribly and make him sleep under the ...read more

Cabaret (2005)

Cabaret (2005)

As the Nazis begin their rise to power in Germany in the late 1920s, American writer Clifford Bradshaw visits Berlin. After making a few friends and finding housing, Clifford visits the sleazy Kit Kat Club and meets an English singer, ...read more

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