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Shuffle Along

First Preview: Mar 1, 2016
Opening Date: Mar 1, 2016
Closing Date: Jul 24, 2016
Running Time: 02:40
Shuffle Along
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Music Box Theatre
239 W 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
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In May 1921, the new musical Shuffle Along became the unlikeliest of hits, significantly altering the face of the Broadway musical, as well as that of New York City.

By the time Shuffle Along stumbled into town after a back-breaking pre-Broadway tour, it was deeply in debt and set to open at a remote Broadway house on West 63rd Street. But with an infectious jazz score and exuberant dancing, Shuffle Along ignited not just Broadway, but all of New York City. Because of Shuffle Along, Uptown and Downtown met -- and became one.

The 2016 Shuffle Along, created anew by a remarkable constellation of artists, brings the original show back to glorious life, while simultaneously telling the heretofore unknown backstage saga of its creation -- and how it changed the world it left behind.

Director: George C. Wolfe 
Choreographer: Savion Glover 
Music & Lyrics: Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake 
Book: George C. Wolfe 
Shuffle Along Cast Members include:
Audra McDonald*, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon, Joshua Henry, Brooks Ashmanskas

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY & THURSDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY &  SATURDAY @ 8 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @ 2 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
BroadwayMusical
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Audience Advisory: ****Audra McDonald Is scheduled to perform for the length of the engagement*****

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  • The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang, from Lin-Manuel Miranda; thirty-three shows later, it ends with a theatrical explosion from George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover called Shuffle Along. They use the standard theatrical elements—music, story, staging, dancing and design—to propel the show in a novel and exciting manner. Add in a half-dozen stellar performances, a sterling production, and an astoundingly talented ensemble and you have a musical that moves in a manner we haven’t seen since Michael Bennett’s Dreamgirls. 

    ------Huffington Post
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  • It is no mean feat to revive an archaic but seminal Broadway musical — in this case, the all-black musical comedy "Shuffle Along" of 1921 — and create an entertainment that not only celebrates the classic song-and-dance material but ennobles it further by showcasing the royal talents of Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon and Joshua Henry, thus vaulting it to new heights.

    But it is a yet-greater achievement to simultaneously offer what is essentially a lesson in theatrical and racial history. And to contextualize said show through the struggles of its courageous creators to get the darn thing up in the first place without greedy white producers stealing their cash or famous white creatives showing up to watch and then rip off the material, or endless internal arguments over the self-destructive dangers of minstrelsy catapulting the entire enterprise.

    ------Chicago Tribune
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  • The Broadway musical season that began with a Hamiltonian bang in August has now ended with another historical explosion, this one detonated by the playwright and director George C. Wolfe. His Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed is explosive not simply in the auditory sense, though the shattering artillery onslaught of Savion Glover’s choreography may ring in your ears (and change the way you think about the expressive potential of tap) forever. Shuffle Along is also explosive in the way a nuclear reaction is: Wolfe bombards a core of ideas about race and culture with a billion showbiz protons to produce both a gorgeous spectacle and a big, smoking crater where your former ideas of Broadway once stood.

    -------Vulture
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  • The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang, from Lin-Manuel Miranda; thirty-three shows later, it ends with a theatrical explosion from George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover called Shuffle Along. They use the standard theatrical elements—music, story, staging, dancing and design—to propel the show in a novel and exciting manner. Add in a half-dozen stellar performances, a sterling production, and an astoundingly talented ensemble and you have a musical that moves in a manner we haven’t seen since Michael Bennett’s Dreamgirls. 

    ------Huffington Post
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Accessibility

  • Box Office

    No stairs into lobby, box office assistance available. Ticket lobby counter is 47" high. Accessible pass-through with writing shelf at 32".

  • Curb Ramps

    (2.5" lip) SW corner of 45th St. & Broadway; NW corner 45th St. & Broadway.

  • Restroom

    Unisex ADA compliant restroom available in the ticket lobby. Door 33". Stall 90" x 66". Commode 18". Grab bars

  • Elevator/Escalator

    None

  • Entrance

    Double doors in series: 1st set (each 29") has one pair of automatic doors from 45th Street to ticket lobby with push-button control; 2nd set (each 32", attended by ushers) to rear orchestra.

  • Visual Assistance

    Vision seats in the front of the orchestra available for purchase online, in person, or over the phone.

  • Water Fountain

    Ticket lobby. Spout 36" and 43".

  • Assisted Listening System

    Reservations are not necessary. Drivers license or ID with printed address required as a deposit. Please call: (212) 582-7678 to reserve in advance.

  • Wheelchair Info

    Wheelchair seating available in the orchestra section only. Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.

  • Folding Armrests

    Mobility seats with folding armrests plus companion seat available for purchase online, in person, or over the phone.

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