Tixx.com gift certificates are available for Broadway shows 2009

Tixx.com gift certificates are available for Broadway shows


NEW YORK — Thinking about giving theater tickets as gifts this recession-plagued holiday season? And shudder at the full ticket price for Broadway and even off-Broadway shows?
Have we got a bargain for you, courtesy of the folks who brought you the discount Tixx.com tickets booth in Times Square.

Tixx.com gift certificates — available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations
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Certificates can be purchased:

• at each of the Tixx.com booths during normal hours of operation — cash or traveler's checks only.

• on the TDF website www.tdf.org— all major credit cards.

• by phone, 212-912-9770, ext. 374 — all major credit cards.

The certificates can be used to buy tickets for any of the nearly 50 productions (Broadway, off-Broadway, music, dance) usually available each day.

Broadway ticket availability

13. A young man tries to fit in. A new musical with a score by Jason Robert Brown. Bernard B. Jacobs.

A Man for All Seasons. Frank Langella stars as Sir Thomas More in this Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Robert Bolt's play about the battle between More and King Henry VIII. American Airlines. 212-719-1300. Closes Dec. 14.

All My Sons. John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes star in a revival of Arthur Miller's morality play. Gerald Schoenfeld.

August: Osage County. Tracy Letts' drama, a hit for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, concerns a venomous mother and her dealings with three daughters. Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for best play. Music Box.

Avenue Q. Love blossoms among the 20-something set — a group that includes puppets — in this very funny, adult musical comedy. Golden.

Billy Elliot. A young man in Britain's bleak coal country yearns to dance. A musical based on the hit film. Imperial.

Chicago. This Kander and Ebb-Bob Fosse creation is Broadway's longest running musical revival and deservedly so. Ambassador.

Dividing the Estate. Horton Foote's domestic comedy about a Texas family squabbling over an inheritance. A Lincoln Center Theater production. Now in previews. Opens Nov. 20. Booth.

Equus. Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe star in a revival of Peter Shaffer's play about a young man who blinds six horses — and why he did it. Broadhurst.

Grease. A revival of the venerable musical celebrating 1950s high school and featuring stars chosen during the recent NBC television reality series. Brooks Atkinson.

Gypsy. A powerhouse Patti LuPone stars as the mother of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee in a revival of one of the greatest of all Broadway musicals. St. James.

Hairspray. The cult John Waters movie set in 1960s Baltimore has been turned into a hilarious, tuneful musical. Neil Simon. Closes Jan. 4.

In the Heights. The lively off-Broadway musical about Latino residents in an area of upper Manhattan called Washington Heights moves to Broadway. Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. Richard Rodgers.

Jersey Boys. The musical story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Winner of four 2006 Tonys including best musical. August Wilson. Difficult.

Mamma Mia! The London musical sensation featuring the pop songs of ABBA makes it to Broadway. Die-hard ABBA fans will like it best. Winter Garden.

Mary Poppins. The world's most famous nanny comes to the stage after her great success as a P.L. Travers book and a Disney movie. New Amsterdam. http://www.tixx.com, a special Disney hot line, 212-307-4747.

Monty Python's Spamalot. A musical inspired by that demented film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Shubert. Closes Jan. 18.

Pal Joey. Young Chicago hustler meets older female socialite. A Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical. The cast includes Stockard Channing, Martha Plimpton and, in the title role, Christian Hoff. Now in previews. Opens Dec. 11. Studio 54. 212-719-1300.

Shrek The Musical. DreamWorks cinematic green ogre makes it to the stage in this show based on the movie and the William Steig book. Now in previews. Opens Dec. 14. Broadway.

South Pacific. Kelli O'Hara is nurse Nellie Forbush and Paulo Szot is French plantation owner Emile de Becque in a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on one of the short stories in James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. Vivian Beaumont. Difficult.

Speed-The-Plow. A revival of David Mamet's darkly comic play about the Hollywood film industry. Jeremy Piven, Elisabeth Moss and Raul Esparza star. Ethel Barrymore.

Spring Awakening. A striking rock musical based on Frank Wedekind's classic drama about a dozen young people discovering their sexual identities. Music by Duncan Sheik. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Eugene O'Neill. Closes Jan. 18.

To Be or Not to Be. Nick Whitby's stage adaptation of the 1942 film comedy about the tribulations of a theater troupe in Warsaw trying to open a play as the Nazis invade Poland. A Manhattan Theatre Club production. Samuel J. Friedman. Closes Nov. 16.

The 39 Steps. A stage adaptation by Patrick Barlow of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 movie thriller about a man on the run. Four actors portray more than 150 roles. Cort.

The Lion King. Director Julie Taymor is a modern-day Merlin, creating a stage version of the Disney animated hit that makes you truly believe in the magic of theater. Minskoff. http://www.tixx.com, a special Disney hot line, 212-307-4747. Difficult on weekends.

The Little Mermaid. Disney's stage version of its popular animated film about a sea maiden who longs to live on land. Lunt-Fontanne. http://www.tixx.com, a special Disney hot line, 212-307-4747.

The Phantom of the Opera. The one with the chandelier. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House is the prime, Grade A example of big Brit musical excess. But all the lavishness does have a purpose in Harold Prince's intelligent production, now the longest-running show in Broadway history. Majestic.

The Seagull. Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard star in Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Chekhov's classic tale of unfulfilled lives. Walter Kerr. Closes Dec. 21.

White Christmas. A stage version of the classic Irving Berlin movie musical. Now in previews. Opens Nov. 23. Marquis.

Wicked. An ambitious, wildly popular musical about the witches in The Wizard of Oz as young women. Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. Gershwin. Difficult.

Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks transfers his comedic monster mash of a movie from screen to stage — only with more song and dance. Hilton.