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New York City Center - Mainstage
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131 West 55th Street
New York, NY 10019
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Box Office Phone:
(212) 581-1212
Box Office Hours:
Mon-Sat: 12pm-8pm; Sun: 12pm-7:30p
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I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
Open:
Jul-24 2013
Close:
Jul-27 2013
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road revolves around a 39-year-old singer who is attempting a comeback as a pop star by performing personal songs that reflect women’s changing roles and attitudes. It opened on June 14, 1978, produced by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival, and ran for 1,165 performances. |
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Violet
Open:
Jul-17 2013
Close:
Jul-17 2013
Based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts, Violet is set in 1964 in the Deep South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. It follows a young woman, accidentally scarred by her father, who travels to Oklahoma in hopes that a TV evangelist can cure her. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider. Violet opened Off-Broadway for a limited run at Playwrights Horizons on March 11, 1997.... |
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The Cradle Will Rock
Open:
Jul-10 2013
Close:
Jul-13 2013
The Cradle Will Rock is a Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed that pits exploited workers against greedy, union-busting businessmen. When the original production, directed by Orson Welles, opened Off-Broadway at the Venice Theatre in 1937, financial and union issues precluded an orchestra, so Blitzstein himself played the piano at the first preview. When the show moved to Broadway in 1938, union rules dictated a 10-person orchestra, but Blitzstein insisted on keeping the solo piano... |
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On Your Toes
Open:
May-08 2013
Close:
May-12 2013
Rodgers & Hart's On Your Toes, an improbable mix of gangsters, vaudeville and classical ballet, was the first musical to successfully integrate classical dance into the Broadway musical format. The original production was choreographed by George Balanchine and starred Ray Bolger, Tamara Geva and Monty Woolley. It opened on April 11, 1936, at the Imperial Theatre and ran for 315 performances. Songs include “Glad to be Unhappy,” “There’s A Small Hotel” and the legendary ballet “Slaughter... |
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It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman
Open:
Mar-20 2013
Close:
Mar-24 2013
It’s a Bird... It's a Plane... It’s Superman, a pop art–flavored sendup of the comic book world, tells the story of the caped hero’s efforts to protect Metropolis from an array of villains, including a mad scientist, a megalomaniacal gossip columnist and a mysterious clan of under-employed acrobats. The original 1966 production, directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ernest Flatt, starred Jack Cassidy, Bob Holiday and Linda Lavin. Superman features the songs “You’ve Got Possibilities,”... |
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Fiorello!
Open:
Jan-30 2013
Close:
Feb-03 2013
The 20th Anniversary season of New York City Center Encores! opens with Fiorello!, the show that launched the series in 1994. Fiorello! tells the story of New York’s Mayor LaGuardia’s rise from an immigrant’s son to the feisty congressman who brought down the crooked Tammany Hall political machine. (He’s also the man singularly responsible for saving City Center from the wrecking ball and transforming it into Manhattan’s first performing arts center.) Songs from the 1959 show include “Little... |
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Cotton Club Parade
Open:
Nov-14 2012
Close:
Nov-18 2012
Cotton Club Parade is a celebration of Duke Ellington's years at the famed Harlem nightclub in the 1920s and '30s, when the joint was jumping with revues featuring big band swing and blues, dancers, singers, and novelty acts. Packed with hits from some of the greatest jazz composers of the time—including Harold Arlen, Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, and Ellington himself—this production re-imagines a Cotton Club floor show right here on the City Center stage. |
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Uncle Vanya
Open:
Jul-19 2012
Close:
Jul-28 2012
On a dilapidated, remote farm, Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked slavishly to sustain an estate in decline. And so it has been for years, until Sonya’s father and his new wife turn this bucolic scene into a hotbed of disillusionment and consuming unrequited love. |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Open:
May-09 2012
Close:
May-13 2012
Set in the Roaring Twenties, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows the madcap adventures of the original “dumb blonde,” Lorelei Lee, as she sets sail for Europe with her best friend Dorothy Shaw. As Dorothy puts it, the gold-digging Lorelei is “the only girl in the world who can stand on a stage with a spotlight in her eye and still see a diamond inside a man’s pocket.” Based on Anita Loos’ bestselling novel of the same name, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes made a star of Carol Channing on Broadway... |
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Pipe Dream
Open:
Mar-28 2012
Close:
Apr-01 2012
Outcasts yearning for a better life populate the bordellos and flophouses of a 1950s California seaside town in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream. At the heart of the story is the unlikely romance between Doc, a marine biologist, and Suzy, a vagrant who has recently taken up residence at a local brothel. This rare Rodgers and Hammerstein gem, not seen on the American stage in more than two decades, includes “All at Once You Love Her,” “The Next Time It Happens” and the wistful ballad... |
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Merrily We Roll Along
Open:
Feb-08 2012
Close:
Feb-19 2012
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary musical, which runs backwards in time from 1980 to 1955, examines the lives of three friends whose friendship is tested by time, events, ambition and fate. It charts the rise of a songwriting team during the years of Sondheim’s own young career, and includes some of his most brilliant and bruising songs, including “Not a Day Goes By,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time” and “Opening Doors.” Although unsuccessful in its original 1981 Broadway... |
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Where's Charley?
Open:
Mar-17 2011
Close:
Mar-20 2011
Where’s Charley?, Frank Loesser’s first Broadway score, immediately demonstrated the master's easy command of wit and romance, sophistication and high jinks. George Abbott’s adaptation of Brandon Thomas’ classic college farce Charley's Aunt delivered “Once in Love With Amy,” “My Darling, My Darling” and “The New Ashmolean Marching Song” to the hit parade, and launched Loesser into the songwriting stratosphere. The musical opened at the St. James Theater on October 11, 1948, and... |
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Lost in the Stars
Open:
Feb-03 2011
Close:
Feb-06 2011
Weill and Anderson set to work fashioning Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country into a musical tragedy within weeks of its momentous publication. This story of life in South Africa under apartheid stirred generations to action, and was the basis for a beautiful, brooding, dramatic musical that produced not only the immortal title song, but an entire score that pulses with the life of a people. Lost in the Stars opened at the Music Box Theater on October 30, 1949, and played 281 performances.... |
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Bells are Ringing
Open:
Nov-18 2010
Close:
Nov-21 2010
In Bells Are Ringing, a lonely girl who runs an answering service falls for a client she has met only by voice, and typical 1950s mayhem ensues. The score, by turns brassy, sweet and romantic, includes “Just in Time,” “The Party’s Over,” “I Met a Girl,” “Long Before I Knew You” and a fistful of other great tunes from one of Broadway’s greatest tunesmiths. The original production opened at the Shubert Theater on November 29, 1956, and played a total of 924 performances. Directed... |
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Career Transition for Dancers 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee
Open:
Nov-08 2010
Close:
Nov-08 2010
Presented by Rolex and hosted by ANGELA LANSBURY, 5-time Tony Award-winning musical actress and legendary star of film and television, this spectacular evening will highlight magical moments from past glittering galas. Prominent artists from America’s greatest dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, MOMIX, National Dance Institute and Parsons Dance, will perform. Broadway superstars Charlotte d’Amboise, Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking,... |
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