Winter Entertainment Schedule

[joolz]

Now that the Broadway stage hands strike is over there are all these special offers to get people back into the theaters.  Thus (along with other skillful shopping), I have quite a nice show schedule lined up:

Dec. 16th:  Spamalot
Dec. 20th:  Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular (is there an emoticon for little kicking Rockette legs?)
Dec. 22nd:  *check for standing room tickets for Iphigenie at the Metropolitan Opera*  (crosses fingers) ETA:  YES!  I saw Placido Domingo!
Dec. 30th:  August:   Osage County
Jan 6th:  The Homecoming
Jan. 20th:  Avenue Q
Feb. 17th:  Sunday in the Park with George
Feb. 28th:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Terrance Howard, James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad)
March 9th:  Spring Awakening
March 28th:  Tristane & Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera

Do I win at life, or what!  Yes, I do.  Will this get me through the dark of winter?  Yes, it will.  :)

10-06 Madama Butterfly (Met Opera)
11-06 Wicked (Ana Gasteyer, David Garrison, Kate Reinders, Derrick Williams)
4-07 Company (Raul Esparza)
5-07 Pirates of Penzance (City Opera)
6-07 Spaulding Grey:  Stories Left to Tell
6-07 Curtains (David Hyde Pierce)
7-07 In the Heights (then Off-Broadway)
7-07 110 in the Shade (Audra McDonald)
7-07 Gypsy at City Center (Patti Lupone)
8-07 Pilobolus Dance
9-07 Altar Boyz
10-07 NYC Musical Theater Festival (Die Hard: The Puppet Musical; The Boy in the Bathroom; Little Egypt (Sara Rue, Raphael Sbarge, Jenny O'Hara, Gregg Henry); Petit Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood; Sherlock Holmes: The Early Years; The Brain from Planet X)
12-07 Spamalot
12-07 Radio City Christmas Spectacular
12-07 Iphigenie (Placido Domingo) Met Opera
12-07 August:  Osage County (Deanna Dunagan)
1-08 The Homecoming (Ian McShane, Raul Esparza, Micheal McKean, Eve Best)
1-08 Avenue Q
1-08 Hansel and Gretel (Christine Shafer, Alice Coote) Met Opera
2-08 Sunday in the Park with George (Daniel Evans, Jenna Russel)
2-08 Diana Vishneva:  Beauty in Motion
2-08:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Terrance Howard, James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad)
2-08:  King Arthur (City Opera)
3-08:  Spring Awakening (Jonathan Groff)
3-08:  La Traviata (Met Opera) (Ruth Ann Swenson)
3-08:  Tristane & Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera (Deborah Voight, Ben Heppner)
4-08:  Passing Strange (Stew)
4-08:  Satyagraha at the Met Opera (Richard Croft) OMG SO GOOD!
5-08:  Liaison Dangereuses (Laura Linney, Ben Daniels)
5-08:  In the Heights
5-08:  Movado Music Hour, Baryshnikov Art Center
6-08:  Boeing, Boeing (Mark Rylance, Bradley Witford, Christine Baranski)
6-08:  Stomp and Shout
6-08:  The Mikado (NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players)
6-08:  Sergio Mendez and Zap Mama (Carnegie Hall)
6-08:  Movado Music Hour, Baryshnikov Art Center - Brooklyn Ryders
6-08:  Somerstage Concert -
7-08:  The Merry Widow, American Ballet Theater (Met)
7-08:  The Jersey Boys (original cast)
7-08:  Damn Yankees (Sean Hays, Cheyenne Jackson)
7-08:  Pilobolus (Joyce Theater)
7-08:  Gypsy (Patti Lupone, Laura Benanti, Boyd Gains)
7-08:  Political Idol (Robert Yarnell)
7-08:  Yankees vs. Minnesota
7-08:  Metrostar Challenge, prelims and quarter finals (Metropolitan Room)
8-08:  Mets vs. San Diego
8-08:  Phantom of the Opera
10-08: [title of show] Hunter, Jeff
10-08:  La Giocanda, (Met Opera) Deborah Voigt, Ewa Podles
10-08: Young Frankenstein (Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Beth Leavel, Christopher Fitzgerald)
11-08: Hairspray (Harvey Firestien)
11-08:  Doctor Atomic (Met Opera)
12-08:  Thais (Rene Flemming, Met Opera)
12-08:  Equus (Daniel Radcliff, Richard Griffin, Kate Mulgrew
1-09:  All My Sons (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holms)
1-09:  Speed the Plow (William H. Macy, Raul Esparza, )
1-09:  Pal Joey (Stockard Channing, Martha Plimpton)
2-09:  Alan Cummings cabaret at the Lincoln Center Allen Room
2-09:  Eugene Onegin (Met Opera)
3-09:  Finian's Rainbow (Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Kate Baldwin, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jeremy Bobb)
4-09:  Waiting for Godot (Nathan Lane, Bill Erwin, John Goodman, John Glover)

4-09:  L'Elisir d'Amore (Met Opera)