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Carly White - Broadway Ticket Expert

About Carly White - Broadway Ticket Expert

Sales is the last thing in the world that Carly ever thought she'd be doing, but here she is! A shy girl from Toronto (go Leafs!), Carly was all set to pursue a career in Finance until she took a part-time telemarketing job while in college and realized that she was actually pretty good at it. Next thing she knew, Carly was doing sales for the promising internet start-up eFirewood.com ("A pile of logs delivered right to your door in one hour, no more!"), which sadly went under due to the dot com bust and some feasibility issues. But happily Carly found a new home at nytix.com, where she gets to indulge her love of all things New York and especially Broadway!

Favorite Saying: "The enlightened are free from doubt, the virtuous from anxiety, and the brave from fear." 

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Newsies Offers Lottery For Free Tickets March 23-29

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Newsies Broadway MusicalIn the lead up to its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 29, Newsies is celebrating by offering the tickets distributed in its pre-show lottery for free for an entire week. Newsies is offering these free tickets as a thank you to the musical’s ardent fan base.

The lottery tickets, which will be for a limited number of orchestra seats, will be free of charge starting with the lotto for the evening performance on March 23 through the evening performance on March 29. The Newsies lottery begins accepting entries two and a half hours prior to each performance, with the actual drawing taking place two hours before the performance. One entry is accepted per person, and one person can have up to two tickets. A valid ID must be presented. The lottery is held at the show’s theater, the Nederlander Theatre, located at 208 W. 41st Street.

Newsies will also be celebrating its one-year Broadway anniversary on TV with an appearance on Good Morning America on April 1. The Newsies cast will do a special performance of “Carrying the Banner” in which they will perform the song as they walk from the Nederlander Theatre to GMA’s studio, located in Times Square.

Mary Poppins, Virginia Woolf, and The Other Place Close on Broadway

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Mary Poppins Broadway MusicalThree shows are closing on Broadway today. One is Disney’s long-running production of the stage musical version of Mary Poppins. This has been a mainstay for Broadway theatergoers with kids looking for family-friendly entertainment since it opened in 2006. But the show has been on discounts for most of its run, and presumably finally ran out of steam. Mary Poppins‘ exit will make room for Disney’s latest musical adaptation, Aladdin, which will come to the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2014.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the Broadway revival of the Edward Albee classic, is closing after more than five months on Broadway. Starring August: Osage County playwright Tracy Letts and Amy Morton (who actually starred in August on Broadway), the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production enjoyed critical acclaim and a positive audience reception.

The third show to close today is The Other Place, an intimate drama about a brilliant woman and her mental health challenges. The play’s previous Off-Broadway run garnered many accolades for leading lady Laurie Metcalf’s performance, prompting this limited Broadway engagement produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Broadway Performers Participate in Special Our Town Reading

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Blythe Danner

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Several Broadway singers and actors have signed on to perform in a one-night-only reading of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town as a fundraiser for The Actors Fund. The reading, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of Wilder’s beloved drama, will take place at John Jay College’s Gerald R. Lynch Theatre on March 4.

Blythe Danner, Rebecca Luker, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Adriane Lenox, B.D. Wong, Julia Murney, and Martin Moran are among the talented Broadway performers who will take part in the Our Town reading. Peter Flynn will serve as director.

Tickets to the Our Town benefit are priced at $75, $100, and $150. To buy tickets, call 212-221-7300 ext. 133 or go to www.actorsfund.org. The Actors Fund is dedicated to helping both performers and behind-the-scenes personnel who work in entertainment and the performing arts.

Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming To Perform at Town Hall

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Liza Minnelli and Alan CummingTwo Broadway favorites, Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming, will perform together in concert at The Town Hall next month. The concerts, to be held on March 13 and 14, will be in celebration of Liza Minnelli’s 67th birthday.

The pair are both well-known by Broadway fans for their turns in the musical Cabaret, though decades apart. Liza Minnelli starred in the 1972 film version of the Kander & Ebb classic, while Alan Cumming gave a memorable take on the Emcee in Sam Mendes’ acclaimed 1998 Broadway revival.

For their Town Hall concerts, which are based on an engagement they had on Fire Island this past summer, Minnelli and Cumming will sing both solo and together, sharing stories and jokes about show business and their personal lives.

For tickets and further information, click here.

Broadway and the Snow Storm

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snowflakeNew York City is getting slammed with a snow storm this weekend, and many Broadway ticket holders are wondering if their shows will be canceled.  Traditionally, Broadway has tended to stay open even during snow storms, as long as public transportation is still running.

To keep up to date with the latest on Broadway’s status during the storm, visit www.BroadwayLeague.com.  If Broadway shows are canceled, they will make a formal announcement on that website.  If your show is not canceled, but you still can’t make it to the theater, contact your point-of-purchase to see if they can exchange your tickets.

Carnegie Hall To Feature Broadway’s Favorite Divas

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Kristin ChenowethTwo of Broadway’s favorite leading ladies will be gracing New York City cultural institution Carnegie Hall in the 2013-2014 season.

Two-time Tony Award winning actress and singer Patti Lupone, who was recently on Broadway in a non-singing role in David Mamet’s The Anarchist, will perform there on November 7, 2013 in a concert entitled “Far Away Places”. The one-night-only event will be a sort of travelogue that presents songs in different styles that tell different stories, including numbers by composers ranging from Cole Porter to Kurt Weill.

Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth, best known for her role in Broadway’s mega-hit musical Wicked, will visit Carnegie Hall on May 3, 2014. The performance will be called “Evolution of a Soprano”.  Visit www.carnegiehall.org to find out more information, including ticket availability.

Evita Ends Its Broadway Run Tonight

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Evita Broadway MusicalThe hit Broadway revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice modern classic musical Evita ends its run at the Marquis Theater today, January 26. Closing on a Saturday is somewhat unusual, as Broadway shows typically conclude runs on Sundays. Evita will have two performances today, a matinee, and then the very last performance will be at 8pm.

Starring Ricky Martin, Evita was one of the most successful Broadway productions of 2012. The show had the advantage of a well-known name, due to both its first run on Broadway and the film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas. But Ricky Martin’s participation was also crucial to the musical’s excellent ticket sales, since he drew in many of his own fans who may not otherwise be interested in Broadway theater.

When it was initially announced that Evita‘s main stars, Ricky Martin, Elena Roger, and Michael Cerveris would be departing this month, the show’s producers hoped to locate suitable replacements. But ultimately they couldn’t find what they were looking for and decided to simply end the production’s Broadway run instead.

Broadway’s Best Concert at Second Stage on January 21

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A concert for anyone interested in seeing the future of America musical theatre, “Broadway’s Best” is a special event launching The Directory of Contempory Theatre Writers, an exhaustive new resource that gives musical theater fans direct access to 150 composers and lyricists and their mostly unpublished or self-published songs. The concert is being held at Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre (305 W. 43rd Street) on January 21 at 8pm.

“Broadway’s Best” will include the talents of many Broadway and Off-Broadway performers, including Mary Testa, Darius de Haas, Nick Blaemire, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Robin de Jesus, Kenita Miller, Randy Redd, Andrew Samonsky, Morgan Billings, Lucas Steele, and more.

The songwriters whose work will be featured include John Bucchino, Daniel Maté, Tom Gualtieri, David Sisco, Brad Alexander, Adam Mathias, Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, Peter Mills, Barry Wyner, Michael Wartofsky, Michael Kooman, Christopher Dimond, Jenny Giering, and many more.

The “Broadway’s Best” concert, which will be hosted by Seth Rudetsky, will benefit the Dramatists Guild Fund. Tickets are $45. Reserve by calling 212-246-4422 or click here.

Disney Reduces Lion King Tickets to $99 (Orchestra Seats) for four shows in 2013

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The Lion King Broadway MusicalIn a time of great change for Disney on Broadway, with eternal favorite Mary Poppins now set to close on March 3, 2013, Disney on Broadway announced a temporary price reduction on The Lion King tickets for just 4 performances in February and March 2013. The seats are located in the orchestra and front mezzanine and the normal price for these tickets is $139, so they are clearly a bit of a bargain.  As everyone knows, Disney very rarely discounts The Lion King given that it has maintained very strong sales over the years.

With Mary Poppins leaving Broadway, it is anticipated that ongoing demand for The Lion King tickets will rise even further, leading to overall price increases for The Lion King — both for face value tickets and for aftermarket pricing.  That means that this Disney offer may be the last time that The Lion King will be this affordable for quite some time.  More details about this limited time offer offer can be found at:
http://www.nytix.com/Links/Broadway/listofcurrentshows.html

Manilow on Broadway Adds Performances

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Barry Manilow

Grammy Award winning songwriter and performer Barry Manilow has had to add performances to his upcoming Broadway run at the St. James Theatre. The limited engagement originally set by the music icon for his show Manilow on Broadway apparently wasn’t enough for his fans, so two additional weeks have been added to the schedule and those tickets are now on sale through Telecharge.

A native of Brooklyn, Manilow attended New York College of Music and Juilliard. Today he has the distinction of being the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time, having had an incredible 25 consecutive Top 40 hits from 1975 to 1983. Among the songs that he is mosted noted for are “Looks Like We Made It,” “Even Now,” “Could It Be Magic,” “Copacabana (At the Copa),” and “Mandy”.

Manilow on Broadway begins on Broadway on January 18, with opening night on January 24. The Broadway concert event will play a limited engagement running through February 23. Tickets are $50-$350. Visit ManilowOnBroadway.com to find out more.