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Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at NY City Center

NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players return to City Center with an exciting season of G&S favorites, including the three most popular titles — Pirates of Penzance, Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore — and a new production of the satirical Ruddigore with its Harry Potteresque ancestral ghosts, beautiful music, colorful fun, and witty word play for the whole family.

Shows run alternately as matinees and evening performances through Sunday, January 17.

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The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall

The Christmas Spectacular Show starring the NYC Rockettes is aptly named — the show is spectacular.  The performance features world class choreography, dancing sets and production. The show includes scenes from the Nutcracker, dances to your favorite holiday songs,  and a full nativity procession with camels, donkeys,  sheep and a joyful Santa.

Indulge in one of New York’s greatest holiday treats - an outing to Rockefeller Center to see the skating, the windows at Saks Fifth Avenue, and the Rockette’s Christmas Spectacular.

For a limited time My Urban Sherpa is delighted to offer our readers 40% off and non-peak performances through December 21.

Use code CHEER to take advantage of this offer. CLICK HERE to view dates available for discounted tickets.

Non Peak Orchestra / 1st Mezz Seats $45 (reg. $75)
Peak Orchestra / 1st Mezz Seats $65 (reg. $105)

This offer expires Monday, December 21.

Happy Holidays.

Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company at City Center October 29 - November 1.

Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company at City Center

October 29 through November 1

New York City Center presents the third annual season of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, celebrating the centenary of the Ballets Russes. Highlights include two U.S. premieres – a new ballet by Artistic Director Christopher Wheeldon, co-commissioned by New York City Center and Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, and a new work by Australian choreographer Tim Harbour, commissioned by Morphoses, as well as repertoire by Lightfoot León, Alexei Ratmansky and Mr. Wheeldon. The engagement will feature live music performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, with opening night conducted by the orchestra’s founder and music director, Alondra de la Parra.

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The Damnation of Faust at The MET

The Damnation of Faust at The MET,

tonight.

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Alegria ~ New Cirque du Soleil in New York

Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria” will be performed at the Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry Street from July 16 through July 19.

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Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera at the Morgan

Opening today at The Morgan, is a wonderful exhibition that explores the art and innovations of 20th Century stage design. The show includes drawings, watercolors, musical scores and material ranging from the Russian Avant-Garde to the American Theater of the 1960s.

The Morgan is located at 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, NYC, 212.685.0008.

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Wintuk at Madison Square Garden

Cirque du Soleil offers a magical evening or afternoon; full of acrobatics, aerobatics, music, dance, skateboarding, BMX tricks, and fun.

Through January 4 — see if you can secure seats online.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

The Radio City Rockettes are celebrating their 75th Anniversary – and there is good reason why this show continues to delight audiences year after year – the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is spectacular.

Tickets are available through December 30.

Pinkalicious at the Bleecker Street Theater

Pinkalicious the musical, from Pinkalicious the children’s book by sisters Elizabeth and Victoria Kann, is a delicious day at the theater for all pink lovers, ages 3 and up.

With a 1:00 performance Sunday, November 16.

Reserve tickets here.

Give my regards

The celebrated thoroughfare of Broadway has seen its share of firsts. Between Vesey and Murray Streets in the mid-1700s, Broadway featured New York’s first brick sidewalk. In 1793, it saw the first numbered houses. The first gas lighting debuted on Broadway in 1825 followed by the city’s first electric arc lights in 1882.

For an idea of what the storied street was like in the 1880s, it was claimed that you could “stand on the corner of Broadway and Houston Street and fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man.”

Today, you probably couldn’t do it without hitting a fashion model…or a tourist aiming a digital camera at the fashion model.