LAST CHANCE: Royal Family, Dreamgirls, Nightingale, Ordinary Days and More

By Adam Hetrick
08 Dec 2009

Here's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they close.

Concluding Dec. 12

  • Dreamgirls (At the Apollo Theatre). The sleek new production of the hit 1981 Motown musical stars Moya Angela, Syesha Mercado and Adrienne Warren as a girl group on the bumpy road to stardom. Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen penned the musical that has been staged by Robert Longbottom and Shane Sparks. A limited national tour follows. For tickets, visit DreamgirlsOnStage.

    Concluding Dec. 13

  • The Royal Family (On Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre). The Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's classic stars Tony Award winner Rosemary Harris as the actress-matriarch of a Barrymore-like American acting family in the 1920s comedy. For tickets, visit ManhattanTheatreClub.

  • Nightingale (Off-Broadway at New York City Center - Stage I). Actress-writer Lynn Redgrave performs a solo show inspired by the life of her maternal grandmother — a woman she barely knew. For tickets, visit ManhattanTheatreClub

  • Ordinary Days (Off-Broadway as part of Roundabout Underground). Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Jared Gertner, Lisa Brescia and Kate Wetherhead star in composer Adam Gwon's musical about four New Yorkers connected by circumstance. For tickets, visit RoundaboutTheatre.

  • Matt Cavenaugh in West Side Story (On Broadway at the Palace Theatre). Cavenaugh plays hits final performance as Tony in the 2009 Broadway revival of the classic New York musical. Understudy Matthew Hydzik will take over Dec. 15. For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.

  • The Last Cargo Cult (Off-Broadway at the Public Theater). Monologist Mike Daisey recounts the story of his journey to a remote South Pacific island whose people worship America and its cargo. For tickets visit PublicTheater.

  • Merrick, The Elephant Man (Off-Broadway at 59E59Theaters). Saul Jaffé stars in the American premiere of the highly physical, one-man tour-de-force version of this classic story recharged for the 21st century. For tickets, visit TicketCentral.

  • My Wonderful Day (Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters). Acclaimed British playwright Alan Ayckbourn returns to the U.S. with the premiere of his play in which a young school girl must write an essay about a day in her life. The frantic adults around her are too busy to notice that someone is tracking their every move. For tickets, visit TicketCentral.

  • How to Be a Good Italian Daughter (Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre). Antoinette LaVecchia's solo show offers a portrait of mothers and daughters, centering on the classic struggles between an immigrant Italian mother and her Americanized daughter. For tickets, visit Telecharge.

  • Or, (Off-Broadway at the Women's Project). "Mad Men" actress Maggie Siff stars in Liz Duffy Adams' play about 1660's female spy Aphra Behn. For tickets visit WomensProject.