Broadway Blogs - Review Roundup: MARY STUART and More...

It's where I'll be tonight too - New York Musical Theater Festival will kick of its sixth season with a Gala Celebration of its first five years, called BEST OF THE FEST, on Monday, April 20th at 7 PM at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

A limited number of show-only tickets are available for $26.50 with code NFGENA309 at www.BroadwayOffers.com or by phone at 212/239-6200; VIP tickets, including a post-show reception with the performers, are $136.50.

"As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
-- Dorothy Parker

The grosses are out for the week ending 4/19/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: IRENA'S VOW (16.3%), EXIT THE KING (5.1%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (4.3%), WAITING FOR GODOT (2.6%), SOUTH PACIFIC (2.4%), MARY STUART (1.1%), HAIR (0.2%), WEST SIDE STORY (0.2%), JERSEY BOYS (0.1%),

Down for the week was: SHREK THE MUSICAL (-11.1%), CHICAGO (-10.8%), 33 VARIATIONS (-8.9%), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (-8.8%), THE 39 STEPS (-7.5%), REASONS TO BE PRETTY (-6.9%), MARY POPPINS (-6.2%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (-5.3%), BLITHE SPIRIT (-4.4%), IMPRESSIONISM (-3.9%), GUYS AND DOLLS (-3.7%), AVENUE Q (-3.7%), IN THE HEIGHTS (-3.5%), GOD OF CARNAGE (-1.8%), ROCK OF AGES (-1.5%), MAMMA MIA! (-1.0%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (-0.4%), NEXT TO NORMAL (-0.3%), THE LION KING (-0.2%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.1%),