Your Ideal Broadway

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/17/20 at 12:06pm

Needed something to pass the time amidst the chaos. Think of your ideal Broadway, where you would place each production (real, fake, regardless of time). If you asked me a few months ago, I would have had different answers. Right now, I wanted things that made me smile mixed in with a few of my favorites. 

Al Hirschfeld Theatre: The Wiz (restaged production)

Ambassador Theatre: August Osage County

American Airlines Theatre: The Humans

August Wilson Theatre: Groundhog Day

Belasco Theatre: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre: Once

Booth Theatre: Doubt

Broadhurst Theatre: Spring Awakening (Deaf West)

Broadway Theatre: Wicked

Brooks Atkinson Theatre: Falsettos (2016 Revival)

Circle in the Square Theatre: Fun Home

Cort Theatre: Side Show (2009 Revival)

Ethel Barrymore Theatre: Blackbird

Eugene O'Neill Theatre: Head Over Heals

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre: Jagged Little Pill

Gershwin Theatre: Cats (original)

Hayes Theater: What the Constitution Means to Me

Hudson Theatre: A View From the Bridge and The Crucible revivals in rep

Imperial Theatre: Chess (a production that works)

John Golden Theatre: Torch Song (2018 Revival)

Longacre Theatre: Hedwig (Revival)

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: Phantom

Lyceum Theatre: Hair (2009 Revival)

Lyric Theatre: Harry Potter

Majestic Theatre: Evita (restaged orignal)

Marquis Theatre: The Cher Show

Minskoff Theatre: Moulin Rouge

Music Box Theatre: Pippin (Revival)

Nederlander Theatre: Angels in America (2018 Revival)

Neil Simon Theatre: Hairspray

New Amsterdam Theatre: Mary Poppins

Palace Theatre: Hamilton

Richard Rodgers Theatre: Matilda

St. James Theatre: Kinky Boots

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors

Shubert Theatre: Hello Dolly (alternating casts)

Stephen Sondheim Theatre: American Psycho

Studio 54: Cabaret (Revival)

Vivian Beaumont Theater: War Horse

Walter Kerr Theatre: Hadestown

Winter Garden Theatre: Mamma Mia

[stoptheworld38]

Posted: 3/17/20 at 6:07pm

(These are in completely random order)

August Wilson - Groundhog Day
Brooks Atkinson - Waitress
Broadhurst - Jagged Little Pill
Broadway - Miss Saigon (revival)
Circle in the Square - Once On This Island (revival)
Ethel Barrymore - The Band’s Visit
Gerald Schoenfeld - Come From Away
Gershwin - Wicked
Helen Hayes - What the Constitution Means to Me
Hudson - Head Over Heals
Imperial - The Great Comet of 1812
Lincoln Center - Sunday in the Park With George (revival)
Longacre - The Prom
Lunt-Fontanne - Falsettos (revival)
Lyric - Matilda (our community theatre group is called Lyric and we’re doing Matilda - I’m on costume team)
Magestic - Phantom
Minskoff - Lion King
Music Box - Dear Evan Hansen
New Amsterdam - Ragtime (revival cause we desperately need another one)
Richard Rogers - Hamilton
Shubert - Anastasia
Walter Kerr - Hadestown
Winter Garden - Beetlejuice

I’d also do off-broadway productions of:

-Fun Home
-Octet
-Alice By Heart
-Choir Boy

I probably forgot some...

[Andres_Zayas]

Posted: 3/17/20 at 8:41pm

For the shows, I picked past and current shows that ran or are planned to do so in the theatres mentioned:

Al Hirschfeld - Kinky Boots
Ambassador - Dreamgirls
American Airlines - 1776
August Wilson - Groundhog Day
Belasco - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bernard B. Jacobs - Company
Booth - Next to Normal
Broadhurst - Mamma Mia!
Broadway - Miss Saigon
Brooks Atkinson - Waitress
Circle in the Square - Once on This Island or Fun Home
Cort - Indecent
Ethel Barrymore - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Eugene O’Neill - The Book of Mormon
Gerald Schoenfeld - Come From Away
Gershwin - Wicked
Hayes - The Humans
Hudson - Sunday in the Park with George
Imperial - Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Golden - Avenue Q or Slave Play
Longacre - The Prom
Lunt-Fontanne - Beauty and the Beast
Lyceum - The Scottsboro Boys
Lyric - Ragtime
Majestic - Phantom of the Opera
Marquis - The Drowsy Chaperone
Minskoff - The Lion King
Music Box - Dear Evan Hansen
Nederlander - Rent
Neil Simon - Angels in America
New Amsterdam - Mary Poppins or Aladdin
Palace - SpongeBob SquarePants
Richard Rogers - Hamilton or In the Heights
St. James - The Producers
Samuel J. Friedman - Choir Boy
Shubert - Hello Dolly or To Kill a Mockingbird
Stephen Sondheim - Anything Goes
Studio 54 - Cabaret or Caroline or Change
Vivian Beaumont - South Pacific, My Fair Lady or War Horse
Walter Kerr - Hadestown
Winter Garden - The Music Man