What reviews for Nice Work If You Can Get It? The show just opened for previews last week, so there haven't been any reviews. And, the only thing I've read on Fodor's was a favorable comment by a poster who saw it.
Other musicals? Start with Anything Goes.

Thanks HowardR!
Just did a Google Search on it and read some reviews about rehearsals, previews, etc.

Agree about Anything Goes. What else have you see so we don't reco repeats?

Don't put too much stock in those sites with "reviews" of shows before they open. They are often notoriously prejudiced--sometimes favorably and sometimes negatively.

Clybourne Park has its funny moments and I thought it was excellent.


http://clybournepark.com/index.php?aid=ADV000000800

There are a bunch of things due to open this month. Look at the right column here and reviews for others on the left.
http://www.didhelikeit.com/shows/magic-bird.html

The Lyons
Peter and the Starcatcher

I don't recommend Don't Dress for Dinner

Thanks Everyone!!!!
This will be our first time to visit New York!!! Very Excited!
Just wondering....are there any mid-week afternoon shows?

All shows have Wednesday matinees.

Great!!!! Would love to see Chicago!!!!!

Think we need to buy tickets in advance Chicago Wednesday matinee?

What you can do is go to broadwaybox.com and print out a copy of the discount offer for the showand then take it to the theater box office when you get to the city. Chances are you'll still be able to get decent seats as the show is not selling out.
Of course, you can always run off a copy of the discount offer and then call in advance prior to your arrival in the city for tickets, but then you are paying a $7-7.50 per ticket service charge. I, personally would wait until I get to the city and get the discount tickets.

Definitely see Anything Goes. It is the quintessential Broadway dance musical, and it is very very well done. You will leave happy and humming.

There are also discount tickets available for Anything Goes on the broadwaybox.com website.
You can't go wrong with either Chicago or Anything Goes.

We are going in late June. Can you give me an idea as to the timing on when I should buy tickets if I really want a discount?

We are a family of 5 so my guess is that I should buy them ahead of time, correct? (We don't all 5 absolutely need to sit next to each other, but at least 2 and 3 together.)

Also, won't the new releases likely NOT be on the discounted list? Or does it all depend on how well the initial reviews go?

If your goal is to get a discount but you don't care what show you get, then arrive at TKTS around 5:15 in the afternoon for an evening performance; even during the heart of the tourist season you are likely to have your tickets in hand within 30 minutes or less. If you want a matinee ticket, go down to the South Street Seaport on Tuesday or Saturday morning (ideally as soon as they open).

A handful of newer shows (including Once) are already showing up at TKTS with a 30% discount. But the really popular shows never show up at TKTS. Newer plays---even very popular plays---still often show up at TKTS near the opening. War Horse has been there since a month or two after it first opened. Just realize that a LOT of new shows will open between how and the Tony cut-off in late May, so those shows are much less likely to show up discounted. But last week, both Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar both appeared at TKTS (I don't know which day). But the availability of some of the big shows changes during the summer season, when there are more tourists in town. Still, I read in the NYTimes today that the average ticket price paid for the top 5 shows (including Book of Mormon) is well above the top regular ticket price since most of the best seats are being sold at premium prices (i.e., about $30 to $70 above the highest regular priced seat). If you want to see a very popular show, buy tickets now and resign yourself to paying more than full price.

While you are unlikely to get 5 tickets together for any show, you can almost always get 2 tickets together (and I suspect 3 would also work). But for most shows that are discounting as a rule, there is never a need to wait in the TKTS line. Just use a Broadwaybox.com discount offer and buy them in advance. You can find the codes by joining Playbill.com.

Doug has answered most of 5alive's concerns and questions. As for when to buy the tickets, it obviously depends on what shows you want to see and how easy or difficult it is to get tickets for them. So, if you let us know what shows interest you, we might be able to guide you better.
As a general comment, if you're looking for discounted tickets, then obviously check the disoount offers to see if they are still usable for your dates. If a current offer expires before your planned visit, you have two options:
1. Keep checking the website for an update on the offer.
2. Try using the information given for the expired offer. It sometimes still works.

Memphis...it is GREAT!!

Thanks to both of you!

It appears to me from the websites that 30-35 percent off is the more frequent offer, and some that have been around a while might be 50 percent off. Is that a valid assessment?

I have studied the websites and I do have some preferences, but definitely not hooked to any one show. I would like something more traditional with sets and costumes (not the no-set minimalist black approach) and lean toward a musical. I ranked them in tiers.

Any of these would be my first preference: Anything Goes, Nice Work if You Can Get it, How to succeed in Business, Ghost the Musical, Newsies, End of the Rainbow, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

Would still be quite happy to see: Mary Poppins, Lion King, Peter and the Star Catcher, Memphis, Death of a Salesman (just husband and me), War Horse (big maybe, less enthused about this one)

Based on your key criteria of "more traditional sets and costumes," I put Anything Goes atop the list, followed gy How to Succeed in Business and Nice Work If You Can Get It next.

At TKTS, 50% is more likely, but it does matter how long the show has been out and how popular it is. Most of the recent shows do indeed discount only 30%. You'll will probably not find Newsies or Ghost at TKTS. Nice Work If You Can Get It is selling discounted tickets now; if you want to see that, book them in advance. The rest of the shows appear at TKTS regularly but perhaps not every single day. Go on a Tuesday or Wednesday for the best availability of shows or for the Wednesday or Sunday matinees.

Saw Nice Work If You Can Get It last night. Can't say enough Positives about it!!!!! Absolutely Awesome!!!!! Acting, Dancing Singing, Music, Story Line, Costumes, Sets - just Fantastic!!!!! Every single performer was Great!
Saw Chicago at Sunday matinee. It was good, but nothing as compared to NWIYCGI. Tho did think Amra-Faye Wright, Tony Yazbeck, and R. Lowe were great in it.

Nice Work If You Can Get It has my vote too. Fun show!

Add me to list of those raving about Nice Work If You Can Get It. It's a sheer delight! I can't remember the last time we laughed and enjoyed a show so much. No, it's not Shakespeare, but it is great fun! And, of course, there's that wonderful Gershwin music.

That sounds tempting. The newest broadway box offer goes up to my trip dates.
Is about $80/ticket a reasonable amount? It seems like I should grab them if we want it, correct?

Salive, the discount offer will not get any cheaper, The only chance of getting less expensive seats will be the possibility of them showing up at TKTS. But, of course, that's not a guarantee for the performance you want...and, of course, it might mean spending time in a line.

I also saw Nice Work and loved it. I'd jump on those tickets now. If it wins any Tonys, those offers will go away. And it might. Some great performances.

Saw Nice Work on last day of previews and loved it. Checked reviews online the next night and saw that nearly every one panned it, especially Ben Bradley in the Times. it was unfavorably compared to Anything Goes, which we saw a couple of days later and liked less. (Maybe we would have liked it more if Sutton Foster hadn't left for a TV show, but I doubt it.) We saw 6 shows the last week in April and Nice Work was definitely our favorite. One of the same half a dozen or so basic plots typical of the '30s but so what? Great music (can't beat George and ira, Cole, and Irving) and choreography, eye-catching costumes, nice sets, a few laughs. Doesn't matter if the critics find more artistic merit in another show if the subject, the music, etc., don't appeal to you. And if you like older music with all those great singing and dancing boys and girls, you'll probably love Nice Work too. BTW, we got our tickets either 40% or 50% off at TKTS, as we did every other show we saw. Not the best seats in the house but even the worse seats (which ours weren't) in most B'way theaters aren't all that bad. Every show mentioned above except Lion King and Book of Mormon (and Wicked, which wasn't previously mentioned) was available for most performances (even Fri. night - we left Sat.) and a number of others not mentioned. We also got Mary Poppins, Porgy and Bess, Priscilla, and, surprisingly, a Newsies matinee at TKTS. (Okay, we did have the worst seats in the house for Newsies but compared to most seats at the theater with the touring companies where we live, they were pretty good.) If we'd been looking for plays we could have gotten just about anything, too. My previous TKTS experience made me think Wicked and Lion King would be available since they've been running for quite awhile, but it was actually most of the newer things that were discounted. Assume we hit a low demand period - way better than the last time we were there - at Thanksgiving!

The critics didn't much pan the show as much as making "wishing it was better" comments. I agree with polly 229. We, too, enjoyed Nice Work more than Anything Goes. Don't get me wrong. We enjoyed Anything Goes, but thought that Nice Work was better.

I got my tickets! We ended up springing for orchestra at $99. It seemed worth doing...I love Gershwin, played some of his music, and it sounded like a good show.

Especially liked the seating chart on the broadway box website. It highlights which seats have partial views.

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