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Can an intimate little musical with no stars and virtually no plot — but lots of charm and laughs — survive on big, spectacle-loving Broadway?
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| Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
Cirque Dreams is suited to the light entertainment requirements of gambling casinos, with its colorful costumes and sets, impressive acts of skill and balance, and lack of story line.
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| The 39 Steps
As Broadway becomes more reliant on huge spectacle, this inventive adaptation of a classic film demonstrates that two planks and a passion for fun beat a soulless multimillion-dollar blockbuster any day.
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| Top Girls
In James MacDonald's first-rate revival the amazing first-act meal becomes a soaring symphony of ideas and cultures.
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| Glory Days
Glory Days has two stories. The first is contained within this poorly written excuse for a musical. The second is how Glory Days ever got to Broadway to begin with.
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| Boeing-Boeing
Who would have thought a sex comedy from the early 1960s would become the laugh-riot hit of the 2008 Broadway season?
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Stain
Oh, melodrama. You're obvious and inane — and when you work, I'm all yours.
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Broadway Rising Stars
The Town Hall stage groaned under the weight of talent last week when Scott Siegel unleashed the second annual Broadway Rising Stars show as part of his three-week summer salute to the Great White Way.
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| Dog Day Afternoon
Given the cramped Theatre Row venue in which it's being performed, one can't but admire how resourcefully this 16-person ensemble dramatizes the events of the famous 1975 film.
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| Gate/Beckett: I'll Go On
I'm fairly convinced that Samuel Beckett would have made an excellent standup comedian — at least in the George Carlin mold.
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| Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days matches form and content brilliantly as five actors playing 39 roles perform Mark Brown's adaptation of Jules Verne's adventure story of a race against time around the globe.
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Exit Cuckoo
Viewed through the lens of her play, Lisa Ramirez hasn't met any women who are satisfied with their lives.
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| The Ghost Dancers
The Ghost Dancers is a dull, amateurishly rendered production of Adam Hunault's 90-minute play about the unfair treatment of the Lakota Sioux by the U.S. government.
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| Mythellaneous
In Mythellaneous, Emily Davis needs a clown nose to feel secure. Thrust on stage by an usher, she prefers to fill her time there by miming and singing unintelligible syllables in a baby voice.
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| Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants
Subtitled "A Big Epic Naked Ridiculous Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play for Adults," Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants contains a mélange of styles that reveals a profound identity crisis.
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| Ain't Misbehavin'
This beloved revue of Fats Waller's immensely appealing songbook was performed originally in 1978 on Broadway by a company of three women and two men.
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