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Avenue Q
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm, 7:30pm
The puppet parody that ran for so many years on Broadway has returned to its Off-Broadway roots, although presumably the production of foul-mouthed muppets will retain those high production values in its latest incarnation. $66.50-$86.50
Billy Elliot the Musical
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm
Set during the miners' strikes in Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s, the musical based on the movie based on the book about a boy who becomes a ballet dancer took an armful of Tonys. $81.50 - $351.50
Chicago
Theater: BroadwayTue 7pm; Wed-Sat 8pm; Sun 6:30pm; Wed, Sat 2pm
After a decade on Broadway, this bare-bones revival of Kander and Ebb's dark musical comedy is still way better than the movie, and continues to pack 'em in. $58.75-$111.25
Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
Theater: Off BroadwayWed, Sat, Sun at 2pm, Sat at 8pm
After runs in London and D.C., this backstage musical about the creative and romantic relationship between Danny Faye and Sylvia Fine comes to New York. From their first meeting at an audition through their often tumultuous relationship to Faye's film stardom, this showbiz story is retold with many favorite Faye tunes. $56.50/$31.50
The Fantasticks
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Thu, Fri 8pm; Wed 2pm; Sat 2pm, 8pm; Sun 3pm, 7:15pm
212-307-4100
Tells the story of a young boy and girl who fall in love because of their meddling fathers, but become restless and stray from each other. $51-$76
The Greenwich Village Follies
Theater: Off-Off BroadwaySun at 7pm
Covering 400 years with 18 songs, this musical revue revisits milestones of Village history with raunchy music and dance. $35
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Theater: BroadwayTue-Sat at 8pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm
212-239-6200
This revival of the 1961 Pulitzer-winning musical stars Harry Potter as a fast-ascending window washer who quickly becomes an exec at the World-Wide Wicket Company shortly after starting in the mail room. $52-$132
Jersey Boys
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed - Sat at 8pm; Wed, Sat at 2pm; Sun at 3pm
212-239-6200
This behind-the-scenes musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is surprisingly compelling and deservedly won the 2006 Tony Award. $26.25 - $121.50
245 W 52nd St., between Broadway and Eighth Ave (map)
Midtown East
212-239-6200
The Lion King
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm
212-307-4100
Take a little Hamlet, mix with some Elton John music, some crazy costumes and Julie Taymor over-seeing it all, and you've got Disney's Lion King, one of the longest-running and most successful Broadway musicals ever. $51.25 - $121.25
Love, Loss and What I Wore
Theater: Off BroadwayWed-Sat at 8pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm, 7pm
A rotating all-star cast (including Samantha Bee, Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Lynch and Rita Wilson) performs this set of vignettes inspired by the titular book by Ilene Beckerman and the stories adapted and organized by Nora and Delia Ephron. $75
Mamma Mia
Theater: BroadwayWed-Sat 8pm; Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm; Sun 7pm
212-239-6200
A whimsical musical weaving 22 ABBA songs into the modern-day tale of a single mom and her soon-to-be-married daughter. $56.25 - $100
Memphis: A New Musical
Theater: BroadwayTue-Sat at 8pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm
Set in the segregated South in the 1950s, this new musical with an original score by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan recounts the musical and romantic loves of a white DJ who fell for black music long before it was socially acceptable. $41.50-$126.50
Rent
Theater: Off BroadwayMon, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat, Sun at 2pm, Sun at 7:30pm
212-239-6200
Three years after its hugely successful Broadway run ended, the AIDS musical's producers and creative team have remounted it (with a new, younger cast, of course) Off Broadway. $65-$89.50
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Theater: BroadwayTue at 7:30pm, Wed at 1:30pm, 7:30pm, Thu at 7:30pm, Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2pm, 8pm Sun at 3pm
212-307-4100
You know all about this already, presumably, but just in case: a $75 million musical spectacle with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, originally directed by Broadway auteur Julie Taymor but deemed too confusing and ambitious, dumbed and dulled down, now with more flying! Oh, it's also about a nerdy boy from Queens who gets bitten by a spider and becomes a Spider-Man who can fight evil, but risks losing those he loves. $67.50-$140
Stomp
Theater: Off BroadwayTue-Fri 8pm; Sat 7pm, 10:30pm; Sun 3pm, 7pm
212-307-4100
Both household and industrial objects find new life as musical instruments in the hands of an idiosyncratic band of body percussionists. $65 and $37
