Please note: Quotes in the show listings below are excerpts from the Reviews of Virginia Eden.
Hair
Al Hirschfeld / 302 West 45th Street
Rock Musical—The Age of Aquarius. About a group of free spirits confronting the realities of the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
In The Heights
Richard Rodgers / 226 West 46th Street
Musical—A corner of Washington Heights bounded by the 181st Street A-train stop and the George Washington Bridge. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a 27-year old Dominican/Cuban composer and actor, who wrote the score and plays one of the leads. Exuberant musical about the lives and loves of a variety of Latino characters over a long, hot July Fourth weekend. Excellent music, lively lyrics, exceptional singers and dancers.
Irena’s Vow
Walter Kerr / 219 West 48th Street
Play—starring Tovah Feldshuh as real-life heroine Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic woman who uses her position as housekeeper to a Nazi official to save the lives of 12 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.
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 30.
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!”
Mary Stuart
Broadhurst / 235 West 44th Street
Play—Donmar Warehouse production of Freidrich Schiller's drama about those battling cousins, England’s Elizabeth and her rival Mary Queen of Scots.
