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The Vanity

First Preview: Aug 31, 2016
Opening Date: Sep 3, 2016
Closing Date: Sep 25, 2016
Running Time: 01:30
The Vanity

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Playing @
Theatre Row - Theatre Five
410 West 42nd Street, New York City, NY 10036
The Vanity is a stylized, darkly humorous, period melodrama, which plays like a marriage of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sunset Boulevard and Valley of the Dolls full of high drama and dirty secrets. 

It's 1947 and Julian Gray, a beautiful but sheltered young Plantation heir decides to start a new life in Hollywood. He finds himself the object of all sorts of hungry attention and the great director Hilton Wheeler casts him as the lead in a major motion picture. In spite of a promising future as a movie star, Julian falls in love with Stella, a makeup girl on the set of his first film. All hell breaks loose, when Julian inherits a mysterious Victorian vanity table from a distant, unknown relative and the vanity is possessed by a powerful demon. 

Julian is offered the chance to maintain his infamous good looks indefinitely, as long as he agrees to forsake love in favor of hedonistic pleasure. Mr. Gray is faced with an impossible choice, and is tempted in all directions by an array of technicolor characters.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Off-Off BroadwayMusical
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 16

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Full-price tickets:

$27.50 - $27.50

Accessibility

  • Box Office

    The box office is street level and wheelchair accessible.
  • Curb Ramps

    There are curb ramps on 9th Ave. or Dyer Ave.
  • Restroom

    Wheelchair accessible. On second floor lounge and on C level – (lower level)
  • Elevator/Escalator

    Elevator to all floors
  • Telephone

    None on premises
  • Entrance

    Theatre is located on the botttom floor of the Theatre Row complex, and is accessible by elevator. The building entrance is street level.
  • Visual Assistance

    None available
  • Folding Armrests

    None available
  • Water Fountain

    The fountain is wheelchair accessible.
  • Assisted Listening System

    Available at the bar on the second floor. A photo ID is required to hold as a deposit.
  • Wheelchair Info

    There is a designated area where there are removable seats
  • Parking

    Theatre Five uses ParkWhiz - https://www.parkwhiz.com/theatre-row-parking/

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