2005 in Music - Musical Theater

Musical Theater

  • Acorn Antiques: The Musical! opens at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February.
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Broadway production opens at the Circle in the Square Theatre on May 2.
  • All Shook Up (Joe DiPietro) – The Broadway production opens at the Palace Theatre on March 24 and runs for 213 performances.
  • Billy Elliot the Musical (Elton John & Lee Hall) opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, in March.
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – The Broadway production opens at the Foxwoods Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre) on April 28 and runs for 285 performances.
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Broadway production opens at the Imperial Theatre on March 3 and runs for 627 performances
  • Good Vibrations opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on February 2 and runs for 94 performances
  • Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar opens at the Rialto Theatre, Madrid.
  • Lennon (John Lennon, Don Scardino) opens in San Francisco in April. The Broadway production opens at the Broadhurst Theatre on August 14 and runs for 49 performances
  • The Light in the Piazza (Craig Lucas & Adam Guettel) – The Broadway production opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on April 18 and runs for 504 performances.
  • Little Women (Allan Knee, Mindi Dickstein & Jason Howland) – The Broadway production opens at the Virginia Theatre on January 23 and runs for 137 performances
  • Monty Python's Spamalot opens at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago on January 9.
  • One Life: A Musical Story of the Life of Joseph Smith – Written by Kari Skousen & Rebecca Thompson-Duvall; Directed by Skousen
  • The Woman in White Broadway production opens at the Marquis Theatre on November 17 and runs for 109 performances.

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