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Best Musicals in May 2025

Hells Kitchen at Shubert Theatre

Hells Kitchen

Nominated for an astounding 13 Tony Awards! This all-new inspirational musical is now showing on Broadway, beginning performances at Broadway's Shubert Theatre in March. Created by playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz and scored by Alicia Keys. Largely drawn from the award-winning singer's own story, the Hells Kitchen is based on Keys' own life growing up in the Bronx

May 1 - 25, 2025

Shubert Theatre

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The Outsiders at Bernard B Jacobs Theater

The Outsiders

Winner of the 2024 Tony Award for Best new Musical! Based on S.E Hilton's 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's era-defining motion picture The Outsiders follows a gang of young greasers as they cling to survival. With music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival and a book by the award-winning Adam Rapp, The Outsiders is directed by Danya Taymor.

Gypsy at Majestic Theater

Gypsy

It's happening! The incredible multi-Tony winner Audra McDonald is finally stepping back on stage in this brand-new production of Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurent's fable of show business. Directed by George C Wolfe and choreographed by Camille A Brown, Audra's Gypsy will reopen the Majestic Theatre in November 2024, offering Broadway audiences a chance to be bowled over by McDonald - it's really coming up Audra!

May 1 - 31, 2025

Majestic Theater

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Maybe Happy Ending at Belasco Theater

Maybe Happy Ending

Starring Darren Criss (Glee) and Helen J Shen (Man of God), this Korean - English musical comedy is taking over the Belasco Theatre this October with its whirlwind romance and musical numbers. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden, best known for his hit show Parade, this will surely be a night to remember!

May 1 - 25, 2025

Belasco Theater

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Death Becomes Her at Lunt Fontanne Theater

Death Becomes Her

A show truly to die for, the eagerly anticipated musical adaptation of the 1992 Universal Pictures movie is currently receiving standing ovations during its world premiere Chicago run, and is now set to make a spooky Broadway debut just in time for Halloween at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre starting October 23, with the curtains rising for its official opening night on November 21. Get ready for some afterlife antics with Death Becomes Her The Musical!

Moulin Rouge! The Musical at Al Hirschfeld Theater

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

With Derek Klena and Courtney Reed! One of the most beloved movies of the 21st century, Moulin Rouge captured the hearts of audiences across the world with its tragic love story and monumental score. Now, following a delightful world premiere in Boston in 2018, this spellbinding and captivating stage musical has landed on Broadway!

Hamilton at Richard Rodgers Theater

Hamilton

Where do you start with Hamilton? The hit hip-hop-infused musical drama about the 10 Dollar Founding Father Without A Father from Lin-Manuel Miranda has all but taken over the world since its first sold-out run at the Off-Broadway Public Theatre in 2015. Housed at the Richard Rodgers Theatre for the foreseeable future, the rollicking historical epic is a true arbiter of our times, with its message of inclusivity, passion, diversity, and resistance from oppression gaining relevance with every passing day.

Little Shop of Horrors at Westside Theater Upstairs

Little Shop of Horrors

It's time to head back to Skid Row as Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's musical hit Little Shop of Horrors is here. An out-of-this-world tale of Seymour, a plant shop assistant, and a strange new seedling he names Audrey II after his crush; 'Little Shop is a cult-classic that mixes a hilarious script with '50s-style tunes. This is one B-Movie you won't want to miss.

Titanique at Daryl Roth Theater

Titanique

Finally, a musical parody based on the infamous sinking of the Titanic ship comes in the form of Titanique. This world-premiere takes the music of Celine Dion and merges it with the Oscar-winning love story of Titanic to bring you the joyful and hysterical Titanique. It's a one of a kind voyage that you're invited on.

May 1 - 4, 2025

Daryl Roth Theater

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A Wonderful World at Studio 54

A Wonderful World

A Wonderful World, a musical about the life, times, and music of jazz legend Louis Armstrong will make its Broadway debut this fall, starring Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart as the lauded trumpeteer. Featuring some of Armstrong's most iconic songs, the production has an original book by This Is Us screenwriter Aurin Squire and direction from Tony nominee Christopher Renshaw.

May 1 - 4, 2025

Studio 54

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Chicago - The Musical at Ambassador Theater

Chicago - The Musical

One of the longest-running musicals on Broadway, Kander and Ebb's sensual Chicago conjures up a heady mix of sex, death, and the insatiable lust for fame, all set to one of the musical theatre's most iconic scores. An ever-relevant satire of celebrity culture, it's the tale of two beautiful criminals in the Roaring Twenties who plan to get away with murder by putting on one hell of a show.

May 1 - 31, 2025

Ambassador Theater

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Mean Girls at Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre

Mean Girls

Tina Fey's Drama Desk award-winning Broadway musical, based on the 2004 Lindsay Lohan film, Mean Girls is out on tour! With a book by Fey, direction by Book of Mormon's Casey Nicholaw, music and lyrics by Jeff Richmond, and Legally Blonde's Nell Benjamin - which includes tracks "Apex Predator" and "I'd Rather Be Me"- it's no surprise that the musical is a Broadway smash hit, earning 12 Tony nominations along the way.

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