Before the Bash

Here are a few brass-tack, highly personal suggestions for NR readers brave enough to spend the weekend in New York before our twentieth anniversary bash on November 17. They assume you’re not going to hole up in your hotel room with the TV, that you’ve brought your Hush Puppies, and that you’re willing to be convinced that, crime and incipient bankruptcy notwithstanding, New York is a great place to visit even if . . . (Try to buy theater, music, ballet tickets in advance.)

Theater: This is the best On, Off, Off-Off Broadway season in years. Classic Revivals: Summer and Smoke, Roundabout Theater, 333 West 23rd; Ah, Wilderness! Circle in the Square, 50th west of B’way; Trelawny of the “Wells,” Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. New Plays: Equus (last year’s shocker, with Tony Perkins), Plymouth, 236 W. 45th. Musicals (a bumper crop): A Chorus Line, Shubert, 225 W. 44th; Chicago (Gwen Verdon), 46th Street Theatre, 46th west of B’way; The Wiz (black Wizard of Oz), Majestic, 245 W. 44th. In general, musicals range from $15 to $6; legits from $11 downward except Saturday nights $13.50.

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Here are a few brass-tack, highly personal suggestions for NR readers brave enough to spend the weekend in New York before our twentieth anniversary bash on November 17. They assume you’re not going to hole up in your hotel room with the TV, that you’ve brought your Hush Puppies, and that you’re willing to be convinced that, crime and incipient bankruptcy notwithstanding, New York is a great place to visit even if . . . (Try to buy theater, music, ballet tickets in advance.)

Theater: This is the best On, Off, Off-Off Broadway season in years. Classic Revivals: Summer and Smoke, Roundabout Theater, 333 West 23rd; Ah, Wilderness! Circle in the Square, 50th west of B’way; Trelawny of the “Wells,” Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center. New Plays: Equus (last year’s shocker, with Tony Perkins), Plymouth, 236 W. 45th. Musicals (a bumper crop): A Chorus Line, Shubert, 225 W. 44th; Chicago (Gwen Verdon), 46th Street Theatre, 46th west of B’way; The Wiz (black Wizard of Oz), Majestic, 245 W. 44th. In general, musicals range from $15 to $6; legits from $11 downward except Saturday nights $13.50.