May 9, 2008

Home
Playbill Club
Discounts
Benefits
Join Club
Member Services
News
U.S./Canada
International
Tony Awards
Obituaries
Awards Roundup
All
Listings/Tickets
Broadway
Off-Broadway
Regional/Tours
London
Features
Week in Review
Broadway Grosses
On the Record
Stage to Screens
On Opening Night
Playbill Archives
Ask Playbill.com
Special Features
All
Playbill Store
Enter Store
Casting & Jobs
Job Listings
Post a Job
Celebrity Buzz
Diva Talk
Brief Encounter
The Leading Men
Cue and A
Onstage & Backstage
Who's Who
Insider Info
Playbill Digital
Multimedia
Interactive
Polls
Quizzes
Contests
Theatre Central
Sites
Connections
Reference
Awards Database
Seating Charts
Restaurants
Hotels
FAQs

RSS News Feed


Features: On Opening Night

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Top Girls — Tony Girls?
08 May 2008
Certainly — and suddenly! — Tony nominators have a super-arduous weekend of deliberation ahead of them, thanks to the 11th hour arrival of Top Girls May 7 at the Biltmore, serving up a mother lode of prime actress contenders for consideration.

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Boeing-Boeing—The Host with the Mostest Hostesses
05 May 2008
Boeing-Boeing was the ding-dong that opened the doors of the landmark Longacre Theatre to $12 million of renovations May 4. Inside, over the next two hours, a lot of doors on stage opened and closed, the show being an aggressively old-fashioned, door-slamming sex-farce in two acts and three holding patterns.



PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Les Liaisons Dangereuses — Kiss Kiss Tell Tell
02 May 2008 -- Sex and love in the shadow of the guillotine is the subject of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, an 18th-century La Ronde which the Roundabout set twirling May 1 at the American Airlines Theatre.

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Thurgood — Accent on the Good
01 May 2008 -- Thurgood, which bowed April 30 at the Booth, is the feel-good play of the season — primarily because of the lasting good works of the man it so eloquently lionizes.

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: The Country Girl — Welcome to the (Same) Theatre (28 Apr 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Cry-Baby — Hairspraying Pompadours and Ponytails (25 Apr 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: A Catered Affair — Altar Egos (18 Apr 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Macbeth — Indeed, Is He Dead? (11 Apr 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: South Pacific — Bali Ha'i Ballyhoo (04 Apr 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Gypsy: Momma Rose, Rock Star (28 Mar 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: In the Heights — Street Scene, Spanish-Style (10 Mar 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—New Magnolias (07 Mar 2008)

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Passing Strange — Home Cooking with a Hearty Stew (29 Feb 2008)

More Stories >>>




Keyword:

Features/Location:

Writer:

 


advanced search

Free Membership
Exclusive Ticket Discounts
Join

Cadillac invites you to enter-to-win the Ultimate Broadway Experience

NEWEST DISCOUNTS
Cry-Baby
Mandy Patinkin on Broadway
Rent
In the Heights
Almost an Evening
Gazillion Bubble Show
Mamma Mia
Fuerzabruta
The Castle
Altar Boyz

ALSO SAVE ON BROADWAY'S BEST
A Catered Affair
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gypsy
Macbeth
Passing Strange
Spring Awakening
Xanadu
Young Frankenstein

and more!



Newest features from PlaybillArts.com:

Metropolitan Opera Season Preview: Now Hear This

Carnegie Hall Presents: Bernard Haitink- Who’s Keeping Score?

Click here for more classical music, opera, and dance features.


· Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Shows
· Schedule of Upcoming Off-Broadway Shows
· Broadway Rush and Standing Room Only Policies
· Long Runs on Broadway
· Weekly Schedule of Current Broadway Shows
· Upcoming Cast Recordings
· Hit Show Ticket Tips


There are currently four Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals playing on Broadway. Which is your favorite show?
A Chorus Line
Rent
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George

View Results
(without voting)

Email this page to a friend!