LAST CHANCE: What's Closing This Week!

By Adam Hetrick
29 Dec 2009

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

Concluding Jan. 3, 2010

  • Ragtime (On Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre). Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' epic American musical made a Broadway return after a regional bow at the Kennedy Center under the direction of Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The 40-actor production, replete with a 28-piece orchestra, brings to life the early 1900s-set E.L. Doctorow novel that traces the lives of three disparate groups who intertwine with historical figures of the era. For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.

  • Shrek (On Broadway at the Broadway Theatre). The Dreamworks animated feature about a grumpy ogre on a quest for love came to life on stage with a score by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. The cast features Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, Ben Crawford, and Tony nominees Christopher Sieber and Daniel Breaker. For tickets, visit Telecharge.

  • Superior Donuts (On Broadway at the Music Box Theatre). Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts followed his family drama August: Osage County with the new tale about the stagnant life of a doughnut shop owner, and how it gets shaken up by a new employee. Michael McKean stars. For tickets, visit Telecharge.

  • Kelli O'Hara in South Pacific (On Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre). Three-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara plays her final performance as Ensign Nellie Forbush in the Tony Award-winning revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein wartime musical. Laura Osnes will succeed O'Hara. For tickets, visit LCT.org.

  • Aaron Tveit in Next to Normal (On Broadway at the Booth Theatre). After creating the role of mysterious son Gabriel in the Tom Kitt-Brian Yorkey musical about a family in crisis, Tveit departs the production. Will he appear in the Broadway-aimed musical Catch Me If You Can? Fans hope son. Kyle Dean Massey will succeed Tveit in Next to Normal. For tickets, visit Telecharge.

  • White Christmas (On Broadway at the Marquis Theatre). James Clow, Mara Davi, Melissa Errico and Tony Yazbeck lead the second annual Broadway return of Irving Berlin's classic holiday musical. For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.

  • Let Me Down Easy (Off-Broadway at Second Stage). Actress-writer Anna Deavere Smith's newest solo show explores the power of the body and the resilience of the human spirit through personal interviews. For tickets, visit 2ST.com.

  • This (Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons). Melissa James Gibson's unromantic comedy of the circle of friends in the complicated life of a grieving single mom stars Julianne Nicholson. For tickets, visit TicketCentral.

  • The Marvelous Wonderettes (Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre). The songs of the 1950s and 1960s propel Roger Bean's pop revue about a girl-group performing at its high school in the first act and at a reunion ten years later in the second. For tickets, visit Telecharge.

  • Groovaloo (Off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre). Dance, spoken-word poetry, hip-hop and free-style collide in the production that chronicles the struggles, hopes and triumphs of the 18-member cast. For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.

  • Sessions (Off-Broadway at the Algonquin Theater). Albert M. Tapper's musical about the everyday life of a New York therapist and his patients stars "Guiding Light" actor Robert Newman. For tickets, visit Smarttix.

  • Love Child (Off-Broadway at New World Stages). Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton's two-man comedy about an unruly cast, a restless audience and the night a classic play spoke so loudly to its audience that they felt compelled to talk back. For tickets, visit visit LoveChildThePlay.com.

  • Wonderland (World Premiere at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa). Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy penned the score to the new pop musical take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" (it's set in NYC) that will soon bow at the Alley Theatre in TX. For tickets, visit WonderlandtheMusical.