Modern Musicals
Max and Leo trying to make a flop musical so they can runaway with the money. But the worst show idea turns out to be a hit!
The Producers
This musical changed the way musicals were marketed forever! Featuring a memorable score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, it tells the stories of felines trying to make it to the Heavyside layer. In the end, Grizabella is chosen and that tonight is just a memory.
CATS
There is a bright golden haze on the meadow in this musical. This show ushered in the ‘Golden Age of Broadway” and changed the way we saw theatre. The opening number shows an lady churning butter and that’s it! But it reminds us that it is always a beautiful morning.
Oklahoma!
Ancient Roman slave Pseudolus schemes to win his freedom by helping his young master Hero win the beautiful courtesan Philia, who is betrothed to the egotistical soldier Miles Gloriosus, in this musical farce based on the plays of Plautus.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The play takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; although never officially named, it makes mention of several key locations in Pittsburgh. In his younger days, Troy was an excellent player in Negro league baseball and continued practicing baseball while serving time in prison for a murder he had committed during a robbery. Because the color barrier had not yet been broken in Major League Baseball, Troy was unable to get into the MLB to make good money or to save for the future
Fences
Mother, Father, and Younger Brother help tell this story of the first few years of the 1900s. Featuring real and fictitious characters come together in one epic store.
Ragtime
Chris and Kim fall in love during the last days of the Vietnam war, only to be torn apart by the fall of this city. It also features a huge helicopter landing on stage.
Miss Saigon
Anna travels to Siam to meet the King. She teaches him the ways of her world and he learns from her. She teaches how to dance but he eventually dies in the end.
The King and I
He shares his birthday with another famous broadway composer.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
When the family patriarch vanishes, the Weston’s return to rural Oklahoma to care for their afflicted, manipulative mother Violet. Armed with prescription drugs and paranoid mood swings, Violet reigns over the home as family secrets unfold.
August: Osage County
525,600 minutes make up a year. A group of friends learn to deal with death as the learn about the seasons of love in this groundbreaking musical based on an opera called “La Bohme”.
RENT
A rising and falling chandelier, a boat ride to an underground lair, a large grand staircase and a descending angel help define this show. The only show from the 1980ties that is still running on Broadway.
The Phantom of the Opera
Sid and Babe fight over a seven and half cent pay raise for the workers of a nighttime garment factory.
The Pajame Game
A man returns from exile to learn that his former barber shop has been taken over by Mrs. Lovett who makes ‘the worst pies in London’.
Sweeney Todd
About the journey Albus takes while growing up, and the roles he and his best friend, Scorpius (Draco Malfoy's son), play when dark forces, perhaps in league with Voldemort, once again threaten the fate of the planet
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
This show intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
Hadestown
Eva Marie Durate (Peron) rises from humble beginnings to become the first lady of Argentina and reminds them to not cry for her.
Evita
Maria and Tony fall in love in this musical retelling of “Romeo and Juliet”.
Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and the beanstalk), Cinderella and a few other fairytale characters come together to show that getting what you want may not be a good thing.
Into the Woods
Tells the story of the quintessential family reunion: a group of people who love each other but still wrestle with basic human fears: old age, abandonment, poverty, and death.
The Humans
Puppets and people come together in the adult version of “Sesame Street”. They learn that everything in life is only “For Now”.
Avenue Q
Norma Desmond has become a recluse after falling out of favor with modern Hollywood. She just couldn’t make the transition from silent film to ‘talkies’. She meets a writer, on accident, to help her plan her ‘return’. Eventually she kills the writer and is ready for her close-up.
Sunset Blvd
A con man comes to River City to sell them a boy’s band with 76 trombones. He plans to leave town with all their money but falls in love with a librarian instead.
The Music Man
The perfect musical about a famous burlesque star but the show mainly focuses on her overbearing stage mom who is waiting for her turn.
Gyspy
Two men bicker over modern art while his assistant assembles a canvas in real time.
RED