2. Great Broadway Shows in New York Tours
Billy Elliot on Broadway
Reuniting the award-winning team behind the moving 2000 film and featuring the musical
mastery of Sir Elton John, Billy Elliot shares the inspiring story of a poor, working-class boy
who discovers his passion for dance as his family grapples with adversity.
Theatre: Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue
Passion, power, and freedom explode from the boy at the center of the musical Billy Elliot
whenever he's allowed - or whenever he allows himself - to take to his feet and express his pain
in movement. Billy has never known the powers of creation and its importance, but once he
tastes it he cannot return to the artless world of his birth. It may be a cliché, but for Billy it's true:
He comes alive only when he dances. Dancing is what this show empowers of its audience. To
dance is to live and to live. There is no true song like the song like The Stars Look Down. This
show mesmerizes its audience through control in a non-transformative rumination with more like
songs We'd Go Dancing.
The Lion King on Broadway
Opening night: November 13, 1997
Taymor's clever choices as adaptor/creator/director extend to what she's done with the plot and
music which have already won millions of fans. Young Simba, the main character of the show,
whose evil uncle Scar John Vickery convinces him that he caused the death of his father, the
king, Samuel E. Wright and that he should run away to avoid the consequences. In his worry he
befriends a sharp-tongued meerkat Tom Alan Robbins and a kindly warthog Jason Raine who
lives by a no worries Hakuna Matata philosophy and not incidentally, adds some terrific touches
of stand-up comic humor and underscores the director's ability to stir in some culture.
3. Later in the show, the grown Simba, meets up with his childhood playmate, Nala Heather
Hadley, and together they return to the pride lands to defeat Scar and reclaim Simba's rightful
place as lion king. This show is not a carbon copy of anything, even as the director has stuck
with the basic story, she has expanded it emotionally by concentrating not just on Simba's guilt
about his father's death but his inclination to sidestep responsibility Hakuna Matata. Fortunately,
in Scott Irby-Ranniar she has found an actor who gives Simba just the right touch of loving
prince charming and mind-of-his-own pre-teenager.
Mamma Mia on Broadway
ABBA's greatest hits are woven into a sunny tale set on a Greek island. On the eve of the main
characters wedding, a bride's quest to discover her father's identity brings three men from her
mother's past back to the place they last visited 20 years ago. The songs of ABBA is the
primarily what most people who go to see Mamma Mia! And will be interested in. They want to
see and hear ABBA's songs performed live. In this way, the show does not disappoint. The songs
and storyline, written by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus with some help from Stig
Anderson, are almost all so familiar Dancing Queen, Chiquitita, Money, Money, Money, the title
song, etc. that you probably know most if not all of them already. That's a good thing, too, since
the sound design, by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, is so poor that most of the lyrics -
especially in the group numbers - are rendered unintelligible.
Radio City Christmas Spectacular on Broadway
The world-famous Rockettes and the entire cast including Santa! light up Radio City Music Hall
once again for their annual Christmas show that is always good for a dazzling time with
breathtaking stage effects. With perennial favorites like Parade of the Wooden Soldiers and the
majestic Living Nativity, this is the holiday treat your family won't want to miss.
Theatre: Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is the main attraction of this show. Radio City is one of the characters of
the show, which has truly never been seen before where the theatre is the message. It's a must see
every year. The show generally starts at the beginning of November and ends December 31st
(New Years Eve!)
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