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(The lists are in reverse chronological order by opening date.
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Legend Won a Tony for Best Musical or Play (incl.
(Joy Woods, in the tough title role, makes a softer impression.)
Thus Audras wracked and regal Madame Rose steps out of decidedly mixed surroundings.
But she also acts the pants off the role.
Its chilling and invigorating in equal measure.
Review:Is It Swell?
Either way the worship and the blood sport go hand in hand.
But the show doesnt dig deep into those questions and feelings.
The result is virtuosically impressive, if not emotionally gripping.
at a Gen-Z valet.
Thats the genreMaybe Happy Endingis going for, and its got the formula pegged.
Soon enough he has a meet-cute with Claire, a Helperbot 5 who lives across the hall.
Its sweet, its got jokes and wit, and, at times, its beautiful.
James Theatre (246 W. 44th St)Opened October 20, 2024.
The director and his team have crafted a spare, echoing dungeon, girded by towers of LEDs.
Inside this charged-up, sweat-slicked cage, Scherzinger prowls.
Shes not dignified shessobig that she seems to be ripping her own seams.
Review:A Madly ShowySunset Blvd.
It would make a good fit if Epcots pavilions expanded to include time periods as well as countries.
Poor James Gatz, victim of his own disguise.
So much bling to disguise the fundamentally static, silly picture in which they were trapped.
Why does Ali love this concretebunghole?
Why is an Obama-era-recession banger closing a musical set in the 1990s?
Why is this all happening in front of a montage of New York landmarks that looks like aReal Housewivessegue?
Hinton was, in Tulsa.
Since Ponyboy holds the literal pen and paper, its doubly his story.
ButThe Outsidersis best on the inside of its narrators frame, when it embraces the community of its title.
The tragedy lies in never being able to find out.
We all know Juliet dies at the end ofRomeo & Juliet, but what if she didnt?
Youll have that ephemeral thrill of being alive on a dance floor and end up with a hangover.
Review:In& Juliet, Verona Goes Pop!
Is it possible to make a show about a man whose memory dwells under deep shadow?
Its important to include the dark sides of a mans character when you tell his story?
The irony is so ripe here it hasrotted.
In the process, they attempt to claw back their history from that of their shared rotten husband.
Even if your reality is the headsmans block!
but nobodys going to this show to ponder the complexity of history.
The point ofSixis its escapism, and even its sheer brightness is cheering.
This is one liberation in which you dont have to lift a finger.
Queens are doing it for themselves.
Review:Pop Renaissance!Six: The MusicalFans Lose Their Heads Over Broadway Opening
Moulin Rouge!
Running time: 2:45 with intermissionAl Hirschfeld Theatre (302 W. 45th St.)Opened July 25, 2019.
For all its splashy, glittery, high-kicking, butt-cheek-baring, sword-swallowing maximalism, Moulin Rouge!
is something more unsettling than not good.
Theres a shapelessness about it, a weird enervation underneath the flash and bang.
The show veers broadly away from its beloved-by-millennials-everywhere source material, which in itself is no crime.
Everywhere it should be filthy, its scrubbed aggressively clean, yet somehow its still a hot mess.
AndAladdin, for all its desert emptiness, plays by the rules.
(Come for the hummus, stay for the floor show!)
Heres Michael C. Hall!
How about … Pamela Anderson?).
Last year,Drag RacesJinkx Monsoon stepped in as Mama Morton, to big applause.
Later this summer, Ariana Madix will return to rule the stage.
Through March 3, 2025.
Sometimes I think you’re able to only speak one language, says a character in Sanaz ToossisEnglish.
Their teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), is buoyant and elegant, a true believer.
Speaking English, she tells her students, is one of the greatest things two people can do together.
Review:Freedom in Speech: Sanaz ToossisEnglish
Oh, Mary!
Running time: 80 minutes without intermissionLyceum Theatre (149 W. 45th St.)Opened July 11, 2024.
When Mary announces her lifes great passion (Cabaret!
After all, what good is sitting alone in your room?
Through March 30, 2025.
Why arent we all talking more about Bess Wohl?
and with the feeling that everything that incredible generation of women did is now slipping away.
It takes courage to attempt a play likeLiberation the courage of sincerity and imperfection.
In our age of self-kneecapping carefulness, Wohl both takes risks and dramatizes the moral dilemma of taking them.
Through March 23, 2025.
Being trapped in a classic stage musical is surely someones idea of hell and another persons idea of heaven.
Review:Queen of the World!
