Musical Theater
- Atgof o'r Sêr – first performed by Bryn Terfel and Cor Rhuthun in north Wales. Commissioned for the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Denbigh.
- A Class Act Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 11 and ran for 105 performances
- 42nd Street Broadway revival opened at the Ford Center on May 2
- Mamma Mia! Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18
- The Producers Broadway production opened at St. James Theatre on April 19
- Urinetown Broadway production opened at the Hudson Theatre on September 20 and ran for 965 performances
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“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”
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