Please note: Quotes in the show listings below are excerpts from the Reviews of Virginia Eden.
JERSEY BOYS
August Wilson / 245 West 52nd Street
Musical— about the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, a group of boys from the wrong side of the tracks who became one of the biggest pop-music sensations. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold over 175 million records, all before they were thirty.
LEGALLY BLONDE
Palace / 1564 Broadway at 47th Street
Musical— When her boyfriend dumps her for someone more “serious,” Elle Woods doesn't take “no” for an answer. She hits the books and goes to Harvard Law. Along the way, she proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style. Directed and choregraphed by Jerry Mitchell.
MARY POPPINS
New Amsterdam / 214 West 42nd Street
Musical— Co-produced by Disney Theatricals and Cameron Mackintosh, the show is based on the classic 1964 Walt Disney film about the Banks family and their magical Nanny. It has been playing in London since December 2004 and the London critics have hailed it as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
SOUTH PACIFIC
Vivian Beaumont / Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street
Musical— featuring Kelli O’Hara as Ensign Nellie Forbush and baritone Paulo Szot as Emile de Becque. Based on James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. Music by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
SPAMALOT
Shubert / 225 West 44th Street
Musical— King Arthur, Sir Robin and Sir Lancelot and the Knights of the Roundtable in their quest for the Holy Grail. Director: Mike Nichols.
SPRING AWAKENING
Eugene O'Neill / 230 West 49th Street
Musical— Based on Frank Wedekind’s play about teenagers coming of age in Germany in 1891. Although the play is set in a dour German village the characters’ innermost thoughts are expresed in contemporary music. The play deals with the sexual awakening of a large group of adolescents who are met with rigid rules, deliberate lies and total evasion of the responsibility adults have toward their young. The rock music is a marvelous counterpoint to the deadly affect in this morbid town.
