The Tony-Award®-winning Lullaby of Broadway is coming to Washington!

"Tap dance heaven!" Michael Kuchwara

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
2001 Tony Award® - Drama Desk Award - 2001 Outer Circle Critics Award

"AN ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT! 42ND STREET is back - from grand effect to minute detail, executed with savvy and sensitivity. Prodigious set, splendiferous costumes, caressing and coruscating lights, and intoxicating configurations of dancers that defy our minds and muscles not to join in. . . As I write this, the songs are buzzing in my head, and my feet have to be restrained from tapping." ~ John Simon, New York Magazine.

42ND STREET is a great big smiling, sparkling, tapping, back-flipping production. It tells the timeless, inspiring tale of adorable Peggy Sawyer's rise from chorine to Broadway star. And those songs! "Lullaby of Broadway," "We're in the Money," "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me, " "Dames," "I Only Have Eyes for You," and the spectacular title number, danced down a flight of steps that lights up as brightly as the faces of the cast. This stunning production will transport you to the Golden Age of Broadway. Washington, DC will find out what it's like to float up to Musical Comedy Heaven.

"Get ready to smile! The singing and dancing throb and glitter from dazzling start to joyous finish." ~ William Triplett, The Washington Post

"Exuberant, eye-popping... 42nd Street can't be beat!" ~ The Washington Times

"The perfect musical for troubled times!" ~ The Washingtonian

"This new 42nd Street flies like a magic bird from the overture on. It's a whiz of a show that could send the Venus de Milo out tapping her toes and even snapping her fingers. Pure exhilaration." ~ Clive Barnes, New York Post

Based on the classic 1933 movie musical of the same name, 42nd Street is the story of a naive young actress named Peggy Sawyer who arrives to audition for the new Julian Marsh extravaganza set to open on Broadway starring aging leading lady Dorothy Brock.  Get ready to experience the true magic of musicals as a big, beautiful cast--over 100 dancing feet--tap their way right into your heart in this landmark show for the ages.

Photographs of original Broadway cast by JOAN MARCUS (c) 2001