Industry NewsMuseum of Broadway Offering Discounted Tickets for Seniors and Students
A portion of every ticket sold is donated to Broadway Cares.
By
Andrew Gans
December 07, 2022
The Museum of Broadway, the interactive, multi-floor museum located at 145 West 45th Street that opened its doors November 15, is now offering discounted tickets for students and seniors. The new venue highlights more than 500 individual productions from the 1700s to the present.
Senior
tickets, for visitors 65 and older, are available for all timed entry slots from Monday through
Thursday for $32 with ID for proof of age. Student
tickets are available for all timed entry slots from Monday through
Thursday for $29 with a valid, current student ID. All timed tickets, including those for seniors and students, can be purchased by clicking here. A portion of every ticket sold is donated to Broadway Cares.
Founded by Tony-winning producer Julie Boardman and Rubik Marketing's
Diane Nicoletti, the team of curators is headed by Ben West and also
includes Jennifer Ashley Tepper, John Kenrick, Faye Armon-Troncoso, Lisa
Zinni, and Michael McDonald. Elie Landau serves as the general manager.
Theatre caricaturist Al Hirschfeld is the focus of the first special
exhibit at the Museum. The exhibition, curated by Al
Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold, takes visitors
through nine decades of Hirschfeld's landmark images capturing the
American theatre from 1928-2002.
Among the shows represented are the original productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, Sunday in the Park With George, Funny Girl, Ragtime, Beauty and the Beast, and Hairspray,
along with portraits of such figures as Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim,
Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, and John Leguizamo. Also on display are
show posters, album covers, and Playbill covers designed by Hirschfeld; a
replica of the barber chair Hirschfeld worked in; and sketchbooks the
artist used to plan some of his most iconic artworks.
Artists who have designed rooms and exhibits within the museum
include Ulli Böhmelmann, Tony-winning scenic designer Bunny Christie,
multimedia artist Paul Clay, painter Ann Marie Coolick, calligrapher
Ryoko Goldston, muralist Harley and J, installation artist HotxTea, Neka
King, magician and crossword constructor David Kwong, neon artist
Jianhe Li, Tony-nominated scenic designer Anna Louizos, Tony-winning
scenic designer Derek McLane, fine artist Rachel Marks, visual artist
and author Debbie Millman, interactive street artist Kelsey Montague,
creative director Ryan Ratelle, designer Sam Ratelle, Tony-winning
scenic designer and architect David Rockwell, visual artist Liz West,
and illustrator Ty Wilson.
The Museum also features work from Emmy-winning illustrator I. Javier Ameijeiras (Rent Live!), neon artist Dani B, Tony nominee Robert Fairchild(An American in Paris), Drama Desk-winning scenic designer David Korins(Hamilton), choreographer Julio Monge (West Side Story), and dancer Tanairi Vazquez (West Side Story).
The museum is founded in collaboration with Playbill, Broadway
Cares, The Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The Al Hirschfeld
Foundation, Goodspeed Musicals, Creative Goods, and Concord Theatricals.
The new trailer showcases the scale of the production design, as well as a first listen to the power ballad "Waiting on a Wish," one of the new original songs by Pasek and Paul.