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ME, MYSELF & I
by Edward Albee

TheatrePlaywrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
Address416 West 42nd Street
(between 8th and Ninth Avenues)
New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreComedy
Previews from24 Aug 2010
Opens12 Sep 2010
Booking to10 Oct 2010
Closes10 Oct 2010
TimeTue - Sat 8pm, Sun 7:30pm, Mat: Sat & Sun 2:30pm
Price $$75
For tickets call: 212-279-4200
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PerformersElizabeth Ashley (Mother), Brian Murray (Dr), Zachary Booth (OTTO), Natalia Payne (Maureen), Stephen Payne (The Charioteer) and Preston Sadleir (otto)
DirectorEmily Mann
DesignThomas Lynch
LightingKenneth Posner
Choreography
CostumeJennifer von Mayrhauser
SoundDarron L West
ProducerPlaywrights Horizons
SynopsisMother can't tell her identical twins apart. But when Otto announces his brotherdoesn't exist, the household descends into chaos.
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NEW AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS FESTIVAL
Series A
The Expenses of Rain
An Actor Prepares
Play with the Penquin
Romance

The Expenses of Rain by Deb Margolin
An Actor Prepares by Timothy Mason
Play with the Penquin by Roger Hedden
Romance by Neil LaBute

Theatre59E59's Theater B
Address59 East 59th Street (between Madison & Park) New York, NY 10022
LocationOff Broadway
GenreShort play festival
Previews from30 Jul 2010
Opens30 Jul 2010
Booking to31 Aug 2010
Closes31 Aug 2010
TimeTue 7:15pm
Price $$18
For tickets call: 212-279-4200
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PerformersThe Expenses of Rain: Iyaba Ibo Mandingo and Jo Yang
An Actor Prepares: James Leighton and Mark Elliot Wilson
Play with the Penquin: Allison Daugherty, Josh Helman and Alex Manette
Romance: Jeffery M. Binder and Demond Green
DirectorThe Expenses of Rain by Laura Barnett
An Actor Prepares by Maxwell Williams
Play with the Penquin by Billy Hopkins
Romance by Dolores Rice
DesignRob Gould
LightingGreg MacPherson
Choreography
CostumeMichael Bevins
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ProducerThroughLine Artists with J.J. Kandel and John McCormack
SynopsisThe Expenses of Rain: What kind of world renders kindness and madness indistinguishable? A man, driven mad by a peculiar kind of tenderness, stands before a Chinese grocery store on a beautiful, dry morning, umbrella open, awaiting his own kind of rain!
An Actor Prepares: A former lion of the British stage is in a crisis of his own creation. Now his actor son must let him know that the ship has sailed without him.
Play with the Penquin: Street thugs snatch a cello as an Upper West Side couple contemplates the future.
Romance: A genderless love story that re-blooms during a tale of anger, deception, and retribution. Character B tracks down Character A to a seaside residence. While they broke up years ago, B only now realizes the level of betrayal that A had brought to their relationship through a series of meaningless trysts.
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NEW AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS FESTIVAL
Series B
The Graduation Of Grace
Happy
Fit
Jonathan's Blaze

The Graduation Of Grace by Wendy Kesselman
Happy by Alan Zweibel
Fit by Neil Koenigsberg
Jonathan's Blaze by Christopher Stetson Boal

Theatre59E59's Theater B
Address59 East 59th Street (between Madison & Park) New York, NY 10022
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama/interactive theatre
Previews from06 Aug 2010
Opens06 Aug 2010
Booking to02 Sep 2010
Closes02 Sep 2010
TimeWed 7:15pm & Thu 8:15pm
Price $$18
For tickets call: 212-279-4200
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PerformersThe Graduation Of Grace: Clara Hopkins Daniels
Happy: Scott Adsit and Arthur French
Fit: Jose Joaquin Perez, Kate Cullen Roberts and Liam Torres
Jonathan's Blaze: J.J. Kandel and P.J. Sosko
DirectorThe Graduation Of Grace by Stephanie Berry
Happy by Fred Berner
Fit by Merri Milwe
Jonathan's Blaze by Alexander Dinelaris
DesignRob Gould
LightingGreg MacPherson
Choreography
CostumeMichael Bevins
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ProducerThroughLine Artists with J.J. Kandel and John McCormack
SynopsisThe Graduation Of Grace: An adolescent girl at the top of her class, leaving her treasured school and friends, struggles to find her place in the world that now confronts her.
Happy: A middle-aged baseball fan goes to a Boca Raton apartment building seeking out its superintendent, Happy Halliday, an elderly man who once played second base for the 1962 New York Mets. The fan has brought a baseball signed by members of the team that Happy played for, which will become much more valuable once his old hero signs it.
Fit: A super-fit, wildly attractive young couple from Southern California - Billy Butch and Kimmy Rose - become involved in an unorthodox liaison with a middle-aged man from London
Jonathan's Blaze: Angels, fire, death, a gun, a Zippo lighter, and a large container of gasoline all come together in a play about redemption, the horror of inaction, and the hidden consequences of war.
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PERFECT CRIME
by Warren Manzi

TheatreThe Snapple Theater Center
Address1627 Broadway
(near Broadway and 50th Street)
New York, NY 10019
LocationOff Broadway
GenreThriller
Previews from18 Apr 1987
Opens18 Apr 1987
Booking to21 Nov 2010
Closes
TimeMon & Tue 8pm, Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 7:15pm, Mat: Wed & Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm
Performance times can vary
Price $$50
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PerformersCatherine Russell (Margaret Thorne Brent), John Hillner,Richard Shoberg (Inspector Ascher), Rob Sedgwick (Lionel McAuley) and Patrick Robustelli (David Breuer - video recording).
DirectorJeffrey Hyatt
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SynopsisA secluded mansion. A would-be murderess. The perfect crime. Margaret Brent is an accomplished Connecticut psychiatrist-and potential cold-blooded killler. When her wealthy husband turns up dead, she gets caught in the middle of a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a deranged patient and the handsome but duplicitous investigator assigned to the case.
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS
by Rick Elice
Based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

TheatreNew York Theatre Workshop
Address79 East 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) New York, NY 10003
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews fromexpected Feb 2011
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DirectorRoger Rees and Alex Timbers
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ProducerNew York Theatre Workshop in association with La Jolla Playhouse
SynopsisA company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters - all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?
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POWER BALLADZ
created by Mike Todaro, Dan Nycklemoe and Peter Rothstein

TheatreMidtown Theater
Address163 West 46th Street New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
Genrerock cabaret musical
Previews from12 Aug 2010
Opens19 Aug 2010
Booking to31 Oct 2010
Closes31 Oct 2010
TimeMon & Thu 9pm, Fri 7pm & 10pm; Sat: 6pm & 10pm
Price $$69.99
For tickets call: 212-352-3101
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PerformersDieter Bierbrauer, Scott Richard Foster, and Mary Mossberg.
DirectorMike Todaro
DesignHilary Noxon
LightingBradley Clements
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CostumeAbbi Stern
SoundAlex Ritter
ProducerBruce Johnson, Mike Todaro and Dan Nycklemoe
SynopsisCelebrates the rock music of what has been affectionately dubbed the 'hair bands' of the 70's 80's and 90's. Three actors, a band, and bells and whistles reminiscent of arena rock shows relive the music of the late 20th century. The show takes an unexpected turn when the high school sweetheart of one of the musicians stumbles into the show after 10 years apart, raising the question - will he be man enough to finally score the girl of his dreams?
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REVIVAL
by Samuel Brett Williams

TheatreTheatre Row's Lion Theatre
Address410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues) New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews from09 Sep 2010
Opens14 Sep 2010
Booking to25 Sep 2010
Closes25 Sep 2010
TimeTue 7pm, Thu - Sat 8pm, Mat: Sat 2pm & Sun 3pm
Performance times may vary
Price $$18 For tickets call: 212-279-4200
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PerformersTrent Dawson, David Darrow, Raymond McAnally and Aidan Sullivan
DirectorMichole Biancosino
DesignKevin Judge
LightingBen Hagen
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CostumeEmily Pepper
SoundAmit Prakash
ProducerProject Y Theatre
SynopsisA Harvard educated son of a Southern Baptist preacher returns to his Arkansas hometown to rebuild his father's congregation. Under pressure to grow the congregation to compete with neighboring mega-Churches, the young Pastor seizes an opportunity to cleanse a mysterious stranger of his homosexuality, becoming an overnight evangelical superstar. But at what cost?
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SCHOOL FOR LIES
by David Ives

TheatreClassic Stage Company
Address9136 East 13th Street
(between 3rd and 4th Avenues, just southeast of Union Square)
New York, NY 10003
LocationOff Broadway
GenreComedy
Previews fromExpected Apr 2011
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DirectorWalter Bobbie
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ProducerClassic Stage Company (CSC).
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SECRETS OF THE TRADE
by Jonathan Tolins

Theatre59E59's Theater A
Address59 East 59th Street
between Park and Madison Avenues
New York, NY 10025
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews from27 Jul 2010
Opens10 Aug 2010
Booking to04 Sep 2010
Closes04 Sep 2010
TimeTue 7pm, Wed - Sat 8pm, Mat: Sat 2pm & Sun 3pm
Schedule may vary
Price $$60
For tickets call: 212-279-4200
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PerformersAmy Aquino (Joanne Lipman), Bill Brochtrup (Bradley), John Glover (Martin Kerner), Mark Nelson (Peter Lipman) and Noah Robbins (Andrew Lipman).
DirectorMatt Shakman
DesignMark Worthington
LightingMike Durst
Choreography
CostumeAlejo Vietti
SoundJohn Gromada
ProducerPrimary Stages
SynopsisIn show business, it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman, a smart, ambitious kid from Long Island, dreams of a career on Broadway and hopes that his idol, theater legend Martin Kerner, can give it to him. Will Kerner open Andy's door to success, or will their complicated relationship force him to question a life in the theater?
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SIDE EFFECTS
by Michael Weller

TheatreLucille Lortel Theatre
Address121 Christopher Street
(Between Hudson and Bleecker Streets)
New York NY 10014
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
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SynopsisHugh and Lindy's marriage seems picture-perfect, a beacon in their microcosmic Midwestern world of dinner parties and fundraisers. Behind closed doors they're falling apart - doors they can barely keep shut. Lindy's grappling with bipolar swings, their teenage sons are acting out, and Hugh's rising political star is suddenly imperiled.
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Stomp
Created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas

TheatreOrpheum
Address126 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003 (between 2nd Avenue & 9th Street)
LocationOff Broadway
GenreEntertainment
Previews from18 Feb 1996
Opens27 Feb 1996
Booking to30 Jan 2011
Closes
TimeTue - Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, Mat: Sat & Sun 3pm
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Price $$72.50, $40, $40
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SynopsisStomp is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance, played entirely on non-traditional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms and sticks.
Length1hr 45min
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THE GREAT GAME: AFGHANISTAN
by Richard Bean, Lee Blessing, David Edgar, David Greig, Amit Gupta, Ron Hutchinson, Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Ben Ockrent, Simon Stephens, Colin Teevan, and Joy Wilkinson

TheatreNYU Skirball Center
Address566 Laguardia Place New York, NY 10012
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews from30 Nov 2011
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Booking to19 Dec 2011
Closes19 Dec 2011
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DirectorNicolas Kent and Indhu Rubasingham
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ProducerThe Tricycle Theatre Company
SynopsisThrough the eyes of 12 leading British and American playwrights and the voices of those actively involved in the war and on U.S. & NATO policy in Afghanistan, The Tricycle Theatre Company's The Great Game: Afghanistan explores, in three separate evenings, the culture and history of Afghanistan since Western involvement in 1842 to the present day.
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THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD
book by Joy Gregory, music by Gunnar Madse, with lyrics by Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madse

TheatrePlaywrights Horizons / Mainstage Theater
Address416 West 42nd Street
(between 8th and Ninth Avenues)
New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreMusical
Previews fromexpected in Spring 2011
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DirectorJohn Langs
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ProducerPlaywrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop
SynopsisSet in Fremont, New Hampshire in the early '70s, the musical is based on the true story of a working class dad who has a vision of rock n' roll destiny for his three talentless daughters, convinced they're his family's one-way ticket out of hardship and obscurity. But the girls have ideas of their own - and as their father's ambition turns to obsession, the price of familial obligation becomes all too clear.
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THE WHIPPING MAN
by Matthew Lopez

TheatreNY City Center Stage I
Address130 West 55 Street
(between 7 & 6 Ave)
New York, NY 10019
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews from13 Jan 2011
Opens01 Feb 2011
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DirectorDoug Hughes
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ProducerManhattan Theatre Club
SynopsisApril, 1865: The Civil War has ended. Caleb DeLeon, a Jewish Confederate soldier, returns wounded from the battlefield to find his family home in ruins, abandoned by everyone except Simon and John--two former slaves, who were raised as Jews in the DeLeon home. As the three men reunite to celebrate Passover, and recall the exodus from Egypt in light of their own new liberties, they uncover a tangle of secrets... ties that bind them together and that, ultimately, might cost each man his freedom.
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THREE PIANOS
Written and arranged by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy

TheatreNew York Theatre Workshop
Address79 East 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) New York, NY 10003
LocationOff Broadway
GenreExperimental theatre / Musical
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DirectorRachel Chavkin
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ProducerNew York Theatre Workshop in association with La Jolla Playhouse
SynopsisSet in a rustic cabin on a blustery winter night where three friends - each manning a piano - lead the audience through their respective passions for Winterreise, Schubert's famous song cycle on winter heartbreak - performing the songs, grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music, slipping into the skins of Schubert and friends during one of their famous 'Schubertiads,' and drinking way too much.
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THREE SISTERS
by Anton Chekhov

TheatreClassic Stage Company
Address9136 East 13th Street
(between 3rd and 4th Avenues, just southeast of Union Square)
New York, NY 10003
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews fromExpected Jan 2011
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PerformersMaggie Gyllenhaal, Mamie Gummer, Josh Hamilton, Roberta Maxwell, George Morfogen, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Peter Sarsgaard and Louis Zorich. Further casting to be announced.
DirectorAustin Pendleton
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ProducerClassic Stage Company (CSC).
SynopsisA year after the death of their father, an army officer, the Moscow-bred sisters Prosorov--Olga, Masha and Irina--are finding life drab and increasingly hopeless in a Russian provincial town.
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TRUST
by Paul Weitz

TheatreSecond Stage Theatre
Address307 West 43rd Street
(between 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue)
New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDark Comedy
Previews from23 Jul 2010
Opens12 Aug 2010
Booking to12 Sep 2010
Closes12 Sep 2010
TimeTue 7pm, Wed - Sat 8pm, Mat: Wed & Sat 2pm & Sun 3pm
Schedule may vary
Price $$70
For tickets call: 212-246-4422
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PerformersZach Braff, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, and Ari Graynor
DirectorPeter DuBois
DesignAlexander Dodge
LightingDavid Weiner
Choreography
CostumeEmilio Sosa
Sound M.L. Dogg
ProducerSecond Stage Theatre
SynopsisHarry is rich. Harry is married. But when Harry doesn't trust any of it is enough, he looks to find something real in the most unlikely of places.
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UNNATURAL ACTS
Conceived by Tony Speciale

TheatreClassic Stage Company
Address9136 East 13th Street
(between 3rd and 4th Avenues, just southeast of Union Square)
New York, NY 10003
LocationOff Broadway
GenreComedy
Previews fromExpected Jun 2011
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DirectorTony Speciale
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ProducerClassic Stage Company (CSC).
SynopsisHarvard University's administration has set up a secret court to determine what is taking place in Perkins Hall, Room 28. Behind those doors, eleven young men will discover themselves, their sexuality and an implacable intolerance that will forever alter their lives.
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VIAGARA FALLS
by Lou Cutell and Joao Machado

TheatreLittle Shubert Theatre
Address422 West 42nd Street
Between 9th Avenue and Dwyer Street
New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreComedy
Previews from05 Jul 2010
Opens21 Jul 2010
Booking to29 Aug 2010
Closes29 Aug 2010
TimeMon 8pm, Tue 7pm, Wed, Fri & Sat 8pm, Mat: Wed & Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm
Performance times can vary
Price $$69
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PerformersBernie Kopell, Lou Cutell and Teresa Ganzel.
DirectorDon Crichton
DesignSydney Litwack
LightingJoshua Scherr
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CostumeBob Mackie
SoundPeter Fitzgerald
ProducerSJ Productions, Inc c/o Nederlander WW Productions
SynopsisCharley and Moe are widowers, war buddies and life-long pals. For his 77th birthday, rather than sitting around listening to old records, Charley decides that he and Moe need one more crack at sowing some wild oats. Moe is wary, but with the help of one loopy lady of the evening and some black market blue pills, Charley and Moe are in for the birthday party of their lives.
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WINGS
by Arthur Kopit

TheatreSecond Stage Theatre
Address307 West 43rd Street
(between 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue)
New York, NY 10036
LocationOff Broadway
GenreDrama
Previews from05 Oct 2010
Opens24 Oct 2010
Booking to21 Nov 2010
Closes21 Nov 2010
TimeTue 7pm, Wed - Sat 8pm, Mat: Wed & Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm
Schedule can vary
Price $$75
For tickets call: 212-246-4422
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PerformersJan Maxwell, Teagle F. Bougere, Beth Dixon, January LaVoy, Anne L. Nathan and Michael Warner.
DirectorJohn Doyle
DesignScott Pask
LightingJane Cox
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CostumeAnn Hould-Ward
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ProducerSecond Stage Theatre
SynopsisA journey through the eye of Emily Stilson, a 1920's wingwalker who discovers her life's journey is a series of courageous adventures, proving that even when her mental self fails her, her daredevil spirit proves unflappable.
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WINTUK
by Richard Blackburn

TheatreWaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
Address4 Pennsylvania Plaza
New York, NY 10001
LocationOff Broadway
GenreEntertainment
Previews from17 Nov 2010
Opens17 Nov 2010
Booking to02 Jan 2011
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PerformersInternational cast of 50 performers from Cirque du Soleil
DirectorFernand Rainville
DesignPatricia Ruel
LightingYves Aucoin and Matthieu Larivee
ChoreographyCatherine Archambault
CostumeFrancois Barbeau
SoundJonathan Deans and Leon Rothenberg
ProducerCirque du Soleil
SynopsisJamie lives in an imaginary city where the arrival of winter has brought intense cold, but no snow! He interacts with a cast of high-energy urban street characters, including acrobats, dancers and talking lampposts. Jamie embarks on a journey to an imaginary North called Wintuk. He is joined by three companions-a female Shaman with magical powers, the girl he has fallen head over heels for and a timid young man called Wimpy, destined to discover his own courage. Jamie's goal: bring the snow back to where it belongs.
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