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Hilarious comedy The Nap premiered on Broadway on 5 September and the reviews are, in a word, fantastic.

If you are up to for a big laugh, don’t miss this amazing new, authentic show by Olivier nominee, Richard Bean, in a production from MTC and buy your tickets here.

The Broadway previews started on 5 September at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and after it officially opens on 27 September, the show is on the repertoire almost every night until 11 November. This is a new play by Richard Bean, the author of rollicking, award-winning Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. The Nap represents a very comedic look at the world of snooker.

Dylan is a fast-rising star in this British version of pool. He enters a championship tournament but is very quickly warned about the math fixing. Ex-convict dad, saucy mum, quick-tongued manager and a renowned gangster quickly pool him into their own dealings of match-fixing and the play is more about the characters than the game itself.

The cast is magnificent and will make you laugh so hard until you burst to tears.

The cast of The Nap is made up of Alexandra Billings, best known for Transparent and Goliath, Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee, two-time Tony Award nominee Johanna Day, four-time and 2018 United States National Snooker Champion Ahmed Aly Elsayed, Ben Schnetzer, Heather Lind, Max Gordon Moore, Bhavesh Patel and Thomas Jay Ryan.

The creative team for the production includes David Rockwell (scenic design), Kaye Voyce (costume design), Justin Townsend (lighting design), Lindsay Jones (original music and sound design), Anne Ford-Coates (hair and make-up design), Ben Furey (dialect coach), and Thomas Schall (fight director).

Once it was out, The Guardian raved, “Ingenious,” The Observer cheered, “Outrageously funny,” and The Daily Mail called The Nap “brilliant and terrifically inventive.” What more do you need from a play? Enjoy this smart and witted play with eccentric characters and comments. Tickets for all dates can be found here.

The Nap

Show Date and Time: Saturday, 15 September, 8pm

Show Location: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York City, New York

Show Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission

Age Restriction: all ages

September is here so this means the summer is coming to an end soon.

It’s time to set the records straight and see which show was the most popular and lucrative on Broadway this summer season.

The new tuner that has been packing in crowds since it premiered in July at Nederlander Theatre and broke some records on its way remaining the biggest summer hit. If you still hadn’t seen it, you can buy your tickets here to enjoy the musical based on 1990 smash hit film with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.

Last week, Pretty Woman: The Musical broke the record for the third time since its opening and filled the theatre to 98.33% capacity with the gross of $1,219,728. This proved to be the best week for Nederlander Theatre in its 97-year history.

The musical premiered at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago on 13 March and run for five weeks until 15 April. The show moved to Nederlander Theatre staring previews on 20 July and officially opened on 13 August. During previews, a seat in the theatre was dedicated to the late Garry Marshall, who wrote the original book.

This amazing show features an original score by Brian Adams and Jim Vallance and the lead roles belong to three-time Tony nominee Andy Karl and screen star Samantha Barks. Based on one of the most popular romantic comedies of all time, the musical follows Vivian, a prostitute but in fact a spirited diamond in the rough, who dreams of a better life and melts the frozen heart of corporate raider Edward Lewis.

This amazing musical produced by Paula Wagner features scenic design by David Rockwell, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and Philip S. Rosenberg. Sound design is provided by John Shivers, hair design by Josh Marquette, and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Will Van Dyke.

The show promises to give us back faith in the power of “happily ever after” and will definitely continue to fill theatres in 2019 so don’t miss it and buy your tickets right now.

Current Broadway frontrunners by gross is once again Hamilton which made $3.25 million. Behind it were The Lion King, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hello, Dolly! and Frozen which all surpassed $2 million.

Pretty Woman: The Musical

Show Date and Time: Tuesday, 12 March, 2019, 7pm

Show Location:Nederlander Theatre, New York City, New York

Show Duration: 2 hours and 25 minutes, 1 intermission

Producers of a very fun and imaginative musical SpongeBob SquarePants have announced that the play will close on Broadway with its final performance on 15 September 2018.

Don’t miss your chance to see this amazing show before closing and find your tickets here.

SpongeBob will have played 327 official performances and 29 previews when it takes its final Broadway bow. Producers explained that closing is happening due to “previously planned theatre renovations” but rumor has it that the main reason for the closing is financial underperformance.

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the production cost $18.35 million but the play failed to recoup its costs. It is believed that the play will move on from Broadway because is consistently played to less than 70% of its gross potential. This does not mark the end for the musical by all means, but the Broadway run has come to an end. North American tour is planned to kick off in fall 2019 and amateur licensing rights will be available early next year.

The play is based on the animated Nickelodeon television series that has scored an enormous success since its premiere in 1999. Nickelodeon entered this project with high hopes at a time all record labels and film studies tried to adapt their catalogs for the stage pretty carefully taking in consideration Broadway’s rising grosses.

Directed by Tina Landau and based on the hit Nickelodeon animated series of the same name, SpongeBob featured a book by Kyle Jarrow and a score from a deep roster of music stars like Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, and T.I.

While many expected a theme park-style brand extension, the show surprised the audience with its wild Dadaist comic sensibility, ingenious design and winning performances, notably from gifted 26-year-old newcomer Ethan Slater, making a terrific Broadway debut in the title role.

Critics gave really positive reviews for the show and it won 12 Tony nominations at 2018 Tony Awards, including ones for best musical and best actor. It won one prize, for David Zinn’s scenic design.

Tickets for all dates can be found here, so don’t miss your last chance to witness this spectacle.

SpongeBob SquarePants Musical

Show Date and Time: Sunday, 29 July, 2018, 3pm

Show Location: Palace Theatre New York City, New York

Age Restriction: all ages

Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who brought the greatest wizard boy Harry Potter to life, is suiting up and returning to Broadway this fall to star in a world premiere play “The Lifespan of a Fact”.

The play will begin performances at the Studio 54 on Broadway theatre on September 20, with an opening night on October 18. The limited engagement will run for 16 weeksso purchase your tickets in time here.

Daniel Radcliffe will return to Broadway with co-stars Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in “The Lifespan of a Fact”, based on the critically acclaimed, bestselling 2012 book about fact, fiction and blurred lines, Lifespan will be directed by Leigh Silverman, a 2014 Tony nominee for her direction of “Violet”.

Written by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, the play is based on the 2012 book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal that detailed their own real-life journalistic investigation into the suicide of a Las Vegas teen Levi Presley.The book had quite a history. In 2003, D’Agata submitted the essay “What Happens There” to Harper Magazine but was pulled from the print after Fingal’s research found factual errors. After seven years of discussion and correspondence between Fingal and D’Agata, the essay was published in The Believer magazine and the two co-wrote the book The Lifespan of a Fact about the experience. The book includes in full Fingal’s red-line comments and complete correspondence between them. It was named The Best Book of the Year by the Huffington Post and a Top 10 Most Crucial Book of the Year by Slate.

Radcliffe will play Fingal, Bobby Cannavale will play D’Agata and Cherry Jones will play Fingal’s boss.In the play, Radcliffe has a small job, fact-checking articles for the best magazine in the country and his boss assigned him the biggest job so far. He found out that the majority of the article is made up by the author John D’Agata and he starts the debate on the blurred lines of what passes for truth in literary nonfiction.

Radcliffe is not a stranger to the stage so we expect an excellent performance. He starred in 2016 “Privacy” at the Public Theatre in New York, 2013 West End production of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and 2011 “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying” on Broadway.

Tickets for all dates can be bought here.

The Lifespan of a Fact

Show Date and Time: Thursday, 20 September 2018, 8pm

Show Location: Studio 54-NY, New York

Show Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes, no intermission

Ladies, we have some pretty awesome news so you better prep up for the most exciting show you’ve seen so far!

Magic Mike Live is coming to London this November and you better hurry up and grab your tickets on time because they are selling fast.

After a group of Magic Mike Live dancers performed a routine at the Britain’s Got Talent final on 3 June, Channing Tatum announced the show is coming to London and the crowd just lost their minds.

“These guys that you just saw perform here are from my show Magic Mike Live. But, the thing is, they’re not from the Vegas production. They are from the London production,” the 38-year-old actor told the audience. “That’s right! Magic Mike Live is coming to London at the Hippodrome Casino in November. So get your seats before they’re gone.”

Magic Mike Live will kick off at the Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square in November and it will be a smash hit. In the first hour of the box office, the show sold $1.8 million worth of tickets so you better hurry up.

Tatum is co-directing the show that offers an updated take on male stripper performances. Full of dance routines and acrobatics, Magic Mike Live is a refreshing show you just can’t miss. The production team new that the show is a good idea considering the success movies made but they didn’t expect such huge reaction at all.

Although Channing Tatum worked on the show, it’s not clear yet whether he will make an official appearance during any of the performances. He shot some promotional photos in Piccadilly Circus and joked about him getting into shape.

“If I ever get in shape again then I’ll definitely do it,” he said. “I got to do a movie that’ll make me get in shape again and then I’ll do it. I would love to come to London. If I dance in Vegas, I’m definitely going to dance here.”

Magic Mike Live Las Vegas production was an instant success ever since it debuted in March 2017 and we expect the same from the London production. So, you need to get as many stacks of dollar bills as possible and book a trip to Las Vegas or London to enjoy this awesome show?!

Tickets for all dates can be found here.

Magic Mike Live

Show Date and Time: Sunday, 17 June, 2018, 10:30pm

Show Location: Club Domina At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Show Duration: ninety minutes