From: murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
Subject: Broadway shows...
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences, Evanston, IL
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:01:30 GMT

Saw this on clarinet this morning.  Thought others might be
interseted.

-tom 

From: clarinews@clarinet.com (FREDERICK M. WINSHIP, UPI Senior Editor)
Newsgroups: clari.news.arts
Subject: Broadway Box Score
Keywords: plays, stage
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 9:39:25 EDT
Location: new york city
ACategory: entertainment
Slugword: boxscore
Priority: advance
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 772; Id: u0620; Sel: ygn-e; Adate: 10-5-N/A; V: adv1011
Codes: yesprnx., //ygn-e/, ygn-e
Note: (775)
 adv weekend oct 10-11

 UPI Arts & Entertainment
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	NEW YORK (UPI) -- All you need to know about current Broadway
attractions, theaters, leading players and ticket situations (opening
dates in brackets):
	Credit card holders can order tickets by telephone as indicated.
Orchestra seats for musicals run $45 to $65 and for plays $35 to $50.
Tele-Charge adds a booking fee, and Ticketmaster adds a service charge.
There are no additional fees for theater charge phones. Tele-Charge:
212-239-6200; Ticketmaster: 212-307-7171.
	For 24-hour information on Broadway shows and other performing arts
events in New York call NYC/ON STAGE at 212-768-1818 and The Broadway
Line, 212-563-BWAY.
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	``Cats'' -- Winter Garden; one of the most fantastically staged shows
in Broadway history, a knockout musical based on a T.S. Eliot fable with
Andrew Lloyd Webber music; available (10-7-82) (Telecharge).
	``Catskills on Broadway'' -- A laugh-filled new revue conceived by
Freddie Roman recalls the golden years of the Borscht Belt comedy;
available (12-5-91) (Ticketmaster).
	``Conversations With My Father'' -- Royale; Judd Hirsch stars in a
heartfelt new play by Herb Gardner about the generation gap between
immigrant New Yorkers; available (3-29-92) (Telecharge).
	``Crazy for You'' -- Shubert; a flashy new 1930s musical with a
melange of tunes by the Gershwins and a dancing cast headed by Harry
Groener and Jodi Benson; near capacity (2-19-92) (Telecharge).
	``Dancing at Lughnasa'' -- Plymouth; the Abbey Theater's magnificently
acted production of Brian Friel's heartfelt but uneventful drama about
life in rural Ireland; available (10-24-91) (Telecharge).
	``Falsettos'' -- Golden; a most original musical about the gay life
and AIDS with a charming cast; available (4-29-92) (Telecharge).
	``Five Guys Named Moe'' -- Eugene O'Neill; Jazzman Louis Jordan's
music is used for this vivid, audience participation musical revue from
London; available (4-8-92) (Telecharge).
	``Guys and Dolls'' -- Martin Beck; a perfect revival of Frank
Loesser's colorful musical with a wonderful performance by Faith Prince
as Miss Adelaide; near capacity (4-14-92) (Telecharge).
	``Jake's Women'' -- Neil Simon; Alan Alda and a fine cast triumph in
Neil Simon's play about a self-indulgent writer and the women in his
life; available (3-24-92) (Ticketmaster).
	``Jelly's Last Jam'' -- Virginia; Gregory Hines stars in a
scintillating biographical musical about jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton;
available (4-26-92) (Telecharge).
	``Les Miserables'' -- Imperial; the spectacularly staged pop opera
from London based on Victor Hugo's novel, directed by Trevor Nunn;
available (3-12-87) (Telecharge).
	``Lost in Yonkers'' -- Rodgers; Neil Simon's heart-tugging Pulitzer
Prize play about a family matriarch and her victims; available (2-19-91)
(Ticketmaster).
	``Miss Saigon'' -- Broadway; Cameron Mackintosh's splashy helicopter
musical with a fine cast in a less-than compelling drama; available (4-
11-91) (Telecharge).
	``Oba Oba '93'' -- Marquis; from Brazil with love comes this colorful,
spectacular revue introducing the Samba Reg to Broadway; available (10-
1-92) (Ticketmaster).
	``Phantom of the Opera'' -- Majestic; Andrew Lloyd Webber's
enchanting, excitingly staged operatic treatment of the beauty and the
beast story set at the Paris Opera; near capacity (1-26-88)
(Telecharge).
	``The Secret Garden'' -- St. James; a musical based on Frances Hodgson
Burnett's beloved children's book; available (4-25-91) (Telecharge).
	``The Will Rogers Follies'' -- Palace; an entertaining biographical
musical revue with Mac Davis as America's favorite comic cowboy-
philosopher; available ( -1-91) (Ticketmaster).
                               
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	Opening: Nil.

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Closed: ``The Real Inspector Hound'' (10-4) (56 performances); ``Anna
             Karenina'' (10-4) (46 performances).  

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Recommended off-Broadway shows and their theaters:

``Ali,'' Houseman; 
``Beau Jest,'' Lamb's; 
``Blue Man Group in Tubes,'' Astor Place; 
``Cut the Ribbons,'' Westside; 
``The Destiny of Me,'' Lortel; 
``Distant Fires,'' Circle in the Square (Downtown); 
``The Fantasticks,'' Sullivan; 
``Forbidden Broadway,'' Theater East; 
``Forever Plaid,'' Steve McGraw's; 
``The Holy Terror,'' Promenade; 
``Lotto,'' Union Square; 
``Mad Forest,'' City Center; 
``Nunsense,'' Fairbanks; 
``Oleanna,'' Orpheum; 
``Perfect Crime,'' Theater Four; 
``Remembrance,'' Houseman; 
``The Road To Home,'' Lamb's Little; 
``Ruthless!'' Player's; 
``The Sisters Rosensweig,'' Newhouse; 
``Tony N' Tina's Wedding,'' St. John's Church and Vinnie's.
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