SOME LIKE IT HOT
TUESDAY June 6th
The New York Times Review: An Invitation to Liberation
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RUNTIME: 2 hours, 30 minutes with one intermission
Score: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
Book: Matthew López & Amber Ruffin
Director & Choreographer: Casey Nicolaw
Starring: Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee & Adrianna Hicks
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Tony nominations: Best New Musical, Best Leading Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical
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Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, Some Like It Hot is the rollicking story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they’re on the run as the newest members of the swingingest big band ever to cross the country. Can they hide in plain sight without completely losing themselves? Or will the mob, the truth, and maybe even love itself finally catch up to them?
GUIDED TOUR: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
WEDNESDAY June 7th
Library for the Performing Arts Homepage
The New York Times: Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library is Listening.
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, one of the Library’s renowned research libraries, houses one of the world's most extensive research collections in the fields of theatre, film, dance, music, and recorded sound, as well as a wide array of circulating and reference materials.
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An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts—whether professional or amateur—the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters and photographs.
HADESTOWN
WEDNESDAY June 7th
Hadestown Soundtrack (Spotify)
The New York Times Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous
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RUNTIME: 2 hours, 30 minutes with one intermission
​Book, Music & Lyrics: Anaïs Mitchell
Co-Developer & Director: Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer: David Neumann
Starring: Jewelle Blackman, Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada & Tom Hewitt
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Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. This acclaimed musical by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin is winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it takes you on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and back. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, singers and dancers, Hadestown invites you to imagine how the world could be.
KIMBERLY AKIMBO
WEDNESDAY June 7th
The New York Times Review: ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ Both Great and Small, Seizes the Day
The Washington Post: How does a 63-year-old play a teen? In Victoria Clark's case, superbly.
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RUNTIME: 2 hours, 25 minutes with one intermission
​Book & Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Director: Jessica Stone
Choreographer: Danny Mefford
Starring: Victoria Clark, Justin Cooley
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Tony nominations: Best New Musical, Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations
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Kim is a bright and funny Jersey teen, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging condition may be the least of her problems. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities, and possible felony charges, Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side. Based on the play of the same name.
GUIDED TOUR: MoMA
THURSDAY June 8th
The New York Times: MoMA's Art Treasure, No Longer Buried
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Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with “the greatest museum of modern art in the world.” Today, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 welcome millions of visitors every year.
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The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children.
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We will have a 60-minute group tour of highlights from the permanent collection. You can then explore many special exhibitions, including "Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time" and "Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design."
LEOPOLDSTADT
THURSDAY June 8th
The New York Times Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World
The Spectator: 'I aspire to write for posterity': An interview with Tom Stoppard
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RUNTIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes with no intermission
Playwright: Tom Stoppard
Director: Patrick Marber
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Tony nominations: Best New Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Best Direction of a Play, Best Scenic Design of a Play, Best Costume Design of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play
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Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt.
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This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th Century. Full of his customary wit and beauty, Tom Stoppard’s late work spans fifty years of time over two hours.
GUIDED TOUR: Tenement Museum
FRIDAY June 9th
The New York Times: Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History
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​The Tenement Museum celebrates the enduring stories that define and strengthen what it means to be American. We will hear stories of the immigrant and migrant experience through a guided tour of a preserved tenement building on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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On our way to the museum, we will be joined by the fabulous Marta Sanders Cooper for a bus tour of the Lower East Side.
LA BOHÈME
FRIDAY June 9th
La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera
The Met Opera's La Bohème Educator Guide
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RUNTIME: 3 hours, 5 minutes with two intermissions
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Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: James Gaffigan
Production & Set Design: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Susanna Phillips, Latonia Moore, Charles Castronovo, Quinn Kelsey
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La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things—a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor—that make up our everyday lives.
FAT HAM
SATURDAY June 10th
The New York Times Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay, Black 'Hamlet'
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RUNTIME: 1 hour, 45 minutes with intermission
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Adapted from: William Shakespeare
Playwright: James Ijames
​Director: Saheem Ali
Choreographer: Darrell Grand Moultrie
Starring: Marcel Spears, Calvin Leon Smith, Adrianna Mitchell
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Tony nominations: Best New Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Direction of a Play, Best Costume Design of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play
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Fat Ham, the deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, comes to Broadway following a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at The Public Theater.
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Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. But here's the rub! Revenge doesn't come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
New York Philharmonic: FROM WATER TO DESERT
SATURDAY June 10th
RUNTIME: 1 hour, 45 minutes with intermission
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Conductor: Jaap van Zweden
Flute: Robert Langevin
New York Philharmonic Chorus
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The New York Phil's 2022–23 season marks a return to a newly reimagined David Geffen Hall. They explore together those things that unite us in our shared humanity: the triumphs of the human spirit, our quests for liberation, and the urgent fragility of our earth.
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Britten’s Four Sea Interludes depicts foreboding ocean moods and a vicious storm. Takemitsu’s I hear the water dreaming, featuring Principal Flute Robert Langevin as soloist, portrays the role of water in an Australian aboriginal myth. John Luther Adams’s Become Desert dramatizes one of the many consequences of human activity on our planet. The composer regards the work as “both a celebration of the deserts we are given, and a lamentation of the deserts we create.”
GUIDED TOUR: Museum of the Moving Image
SUNDAY June 11th
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The Museum’s mission is to advance the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. The Museum maintains the nation’s largest and most comprehensive collection of artifacts relating to the art, history, and technology of the moving image.
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After a special conversation with Alan Muraoka (Sesame Street), we will board the bus to MOMI for a guided tour of "The Jim Henson Exhibition," which includes puppets, character sketches, scripts, interactive experiences, and costumes from the worlds of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and more. This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson's groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
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