This Week’s Picks: Get Jeremy Jordan Alone, Step on Up to Side Show & Take a Swim in The River

Hey, you, trying to decide between the Sexy Stephen Sondheim and the Slutty Edward Albee Halloween costume! Stop it. Both of those ideas are terrible. Besides, there’s too much fun stuff to do this week, including a series of Jeremy Jordan concerts, a musical gala celebrating Rodgers, Hammerstein and Hart, and Hugh Jackman’s return to Broadway. Here comes the Datebook!


Celebrate B'way's Past with B'way's Best
October 27 at the New York City Center’s Mainstage
It’s annual gala time, y’all! So put on some pants with buttons and your least stained shirt and head over to the New York City Center. This year it’s Encores! Celebrates Rodgers and Hammerstein and Hart, which features Stephen Pasquale, Laura Osnes, and more talents tackling tunes from these three titans of the American songbook. Oh, and there’s dancing! Proceeds help fund the center’s education and artistic programs. Click for tickets!


Spend Alone Time with Jeremy Jordan
Begins October 27 at 54 Below
We’re pretty sure the only people who have two-week runs at 54 Below are bartenders, waiters and Patti LuPone. And now Jeremy Jordan! The hunky Broadway songbird makes his solo concert debut in Breaking Character, which features personal stories as well as songs from resume-makers Smash and Newsies. It should be loads of fun—we just hope we can hear him sing over all the swooning. Click for tickets!


Get Attached to Side Show
Begins October 28 at the St. James Theatre
The revised revival of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell’s musical stars Erin Davie (A Little Night Music) and Emily Padgett (Rock of Ages) as the Hilton Twins, the conjoined pair who went from side show attractions to legitimate stars in the 1920s and ‘30s. This dark, revamped revival version is directed by Bill Condon, who also helmed the Dreamgirls movie. Now you’re interested, huh? Click for tickets!


See The River Twist & Turn
Begins October 31 at Circle in the Square Theatre
Hugh Jackman’s return to Broadway is a universe away from song and dance—and still riveting. Jez Butterworth’s three-person drama covers (in the playwright’s words) “fly fishing and the affairs of the human heart” over the course of one night in an isolated cabin. Jackman and emotional intensity aren’t the only reasons to watch. Jackman is also over the moon about his co-stars, Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly, who are both making their Broadway debuts. Click for tickets!


Hail the New Pippin
Begins October 31 at the Music Box Theatre
This year, Pippin has been like your hometown bar the night before Thanksgiving. Welcome back, Andrea Martin! Good to see you, John Rubinstein! So it’s a fun surprise to see a newbie—Josh Kaufman, who won season six of The Voice—take over the title role. After surviving the whims of couch-bound voters and the whiff of Adam Levine’s man perfume, we’re sure Pippin will be no sweat for the Broadway newcomer. Click for tickets!