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11 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This Summer
From Titanic (not the movie) to Cats (very much not the movie).
Encores!’s revival, pared down as usual, promises to showcase its strongest element, Maury Yeston’s sweeping Celtic score, borne on a collection of great Broadway voices that includes Judy Kuhn, Bonnie Milligan, and Ramin Karimloo. The Financial District’s new Perelman Arts Center is taking a big swing, ending its inaugural season with an unorthodox version of the musical, from directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, that sets it all within the world of New York’s ballroom culture. The indefatigable Sutton Foster, who went in quick succession from the City Center run of Mattress to Sweeney Todd, is back to lead this production, which is directed by deBessonet herself and comes with punch-up work by Gilmore Girls ’s Amy Sherman-Palladino.
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