Wendy
R. Williams'
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March 31, 2009
March 31, 2009
March has been a
month full of Broadway theater openings: Blithe
Spirit; 33 Variations; Exit the
King; God of Carnage; Guys and Dolls;
Impressionism; and West Side Story
all opened in March in star-studded opening nights.
Opening Night of Guys
and Dolls
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
March 1, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Kevin Bacon and Kyra
Sedgwick attended the opening night of Guys
and Dolls at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre
at 208 West 41st Street on March 1, 2009.
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos.
Two-time Tony Award
winner Des McAnuff directs this brand new production
of Guys And Dolls, featuring choreography
by Sergio Trujillo. The musical stars Tony Award
nominee Oliver Platt as Nathan Detroit, Gilmore
Girls star Lauren Graham, Tony nominee Craig Bierko
as Sky Masterson, and Kate Jennings Grant as Sarah
Brown.
Ticket Price:
$50.00-$125.00 Tickets by Phone: 212-307-4100; 800-755-4000
For more information on Guys And Dolls: www.guysanddollsbroadway.com
theatermania.com
Nederlander Theatre
| 208 West 41st Street
Jane Fonda in 33 Variations
Samantha Mathis, Jane Fonda
and Moises Kaufman
Opening Night of 33
Variations
Janet Mayer / PR Photos
33
Variations, (starring Jane Fonda, Samantha
Mathis and Moises Kaufman) opened on Broadway on
March 9, 2009 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Jane Fonda
heads a cast of eight in 33 Variations,
a new American play written and directed by Moisés
Kaufman, about Katherine Brandt (Jane Fonda) trying
to solve a centuries-old mystery about the world's
greatest composer. Katherine's obsession takes her
from present-day New York to 19th century Austria.
As the music that consumes Katherine comes to life
on stage, she races against time to find common
ground with her daughter and to embrace the legacy
of her own life.
Tickets $111.50; $176.50
- $226.50 Premium 212-239-6200; 800-432-7250 telecharge.com
Eugene O'Neill
Theatre | 230 West 49th Street
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Daryl Roth
Blithe Spirit
Opening Night
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
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Cheyenne Jackson
and Rachel Dratch
Blithe
Spirit Opening Night
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Blithe Spirit
Opening Night of Blithe
Spirit
Jayne Atkinson,
Rupert Everett, Angela Lansbury and Christine Ebersole
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Blithe
Spirit: An Improbable Farce
opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre at
255 West 44th Street on March 15, 2009.
What happens
when his once-beloved won't take "til death
do us part" for an answer? What happens when
his new wife finds out they're not alone anymore?
Can anyone conjure up a solution?
Angela Lansbury returns to Broadway in the revival
of Noel Coward's classic 1941 farce Blithe Spirit,
about a successful novelist haunted by his biggest
fan -- his deceased first wife.
The production also
stars Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, and Jayne
Atkinson. Michael Blakemore directs.
Ticket Price:
$31.50-$116.50; $151.50 - $301.50 Premium 212-239-6200;
800-432-7250 www.telecharge.com
Shubert Theatre |
225 West 44th Street
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John Lithgow
Opening Night of Impressionism
March 22, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
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Elaine Stritch
Opening Night of Impressionism
March 22, 2009
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Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons
Opening Night of Impressionism
March 22, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Impressionism,
starring Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons, opened at
Broadway's
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre at 236 West 45th Street
on March 24, 2009.
Tony Award winners
Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons star in the world premiere
of Michael Jacobs' Impressionism, directed by Tony
Award winner Jack O'Brien.
Impressionism is the story of a world traveling
photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who
discover each other and also that there might be
an art to repairing broken lives.
Tickets $66.50-$116.50 - 212-239-6200, 800-432-7250
& telecharge.com
impressionismtheplay.com
Schoenfeld Theatre |236
West 45th Street
Hugh Jackman
God of Carnage
Opening Night
March 22, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Bobby Cannavale and Sarah
Paulson
God of Carnage
Opening Night
March 22, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Marcia Gay Harden, Hope
Davis, James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels
God of Carnage Opening Night
March 22, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
God
of Carnage
opened at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
at 242 West 45th on March 22, 2009.
Matthew Warchus directs
Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, in a translation
by Christopher Hampton. The play is about a schoolyard
dispute and its aftermath. The cast includes Jeff
Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia
Gay Harden.
Ticket Price: $66.50 - $116.50 telecharge.com
Tickets by Phone: 212-239-6200; 800-432-7250
For more information on God
of Carnage: www.godofcarnage.com
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
|242 West 45th Street
Christie Brinkley and Son
Jack Paris
West Side Story Opening
Night
March 19, 2009
Anthony G. Moore / PR Photos
Spike Lee and Family
West Side Story Opening Night
March 19, 2009
Anthony G. Moore / PR Photos
West
Side Story opened at Broadway's Palace
Theatre on March 19, 2009.
The landmark musical West
Side Story returns to Broadway, directed by
two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents.
The show transports Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
to the turbulent streets of the Upper West Side
in 1950's New York City. Two star-crossed lovers,
Tony and Maria, find themselves caught between the
rival street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds,
the "Jets" and the "Sharks."
Tickets $46.50-$121.50 212-307-4100
ticketmaster.com
broadwaywestsidestory.com
Palace Theatre
|1554 Broadway
Susan Sarandon
Exit the King Broadway
Opening Night
March 26, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Geoffrey Rush and Susan
Sarandon
Exit the King Broadway
Opening Night
March 26, 2009
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Exit
the King opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore
Theatre at 243 West 47th Street on March 26, 2009.
Academy Award-winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon
star in Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King,
translated by Rush and director Neil Armfield.
The play is about
a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose
incompetence has left his country in near ruin.
Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon)
and the other members of the court to convince the
King he has only 90 minutes left to live, he refuses
to relinquish any control.
Tickets $66.50
- $116.50 at 212-239-6200; 800-432-7250 & telecharge.com
www.exitthekingonbroadway.com
Barrymore
Theatre |243 W. 47th Street
Janet McTeer and Harriet
Walter
Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter were on hand
for Broadway's Tea with the Queens at the
Bernard B. Jacobs Room at Sardi's at 234 West 44th
Street in New York City on March 16, 2009.
Mary
Stuart opens on Broadway on March 30, 2009.
Tony Award winner Janet McTeer and Olivier Award
winner Harriet Walter -- who both starred in the
critically acclaimed London production of Mary
Stuart -- reprise their roles on Broadway!
Mary Stuart is
a Friedrich Schiller's thrilling account of the
extraordinary relationship between England's Elizabeth
I (Harriet Walter) and her cousin, Mary Queen of
Scots (Janet McTeer), Elizabeth's rival to the throne.
With its behind the scenes intrigue, scheming and
betrayal, the play has the feel of a modern-day
political thriller. The play builds to one of the
most electrifying dramatic confrontations in world
theatre, in which Schiller imagines a meeting between
the two monarchs on the grounds at Fotheringay Castle.
Ticket Price: $64.00
- $116.50 Tickets by Phone: 212-239-6200 800-432-7250
telecharge.com
For more information on Mary
Stuart: www.marystuartonbroadway.com
Broadhurst Theatre|
235 West 44th Street
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