I cannot believe it’s been a year since the last time I brought news of Off-Broadway’s great 20@20 discount.  But hey, that’s how it is with seasonal things. Anywhoo … here we are again, at TWENTY @ TWENTY season which is possibly the best time of year to go see a great Off-Broadway show.  As far as truth in advertising goes, there’s no deal that’s better, for this one is exactly what it says it is.  For the next week or so head on down to any one of these great theatres (click on the links for theatre information) and twenty minutes before the show starts say “twenty at twenty” at the box office and get a ticket for twenty bucks.  Happy Now? You Betcha!  My Dear Edwina, it’s not only The Perfect Crime, it’s Fantastick(s). You’ll feel like Cinderella sipping a MazelTov Cocktail at her Awesome 80s Prom.  And just wait till the Naked Boys (start) Singing! Don’t wait till it’s Zero Hour … get yourself to one of these great shows (or one of the ones I wasn’t able to slyly work into the conversation – I’m talking to YOU Circumcise Me) NOW.  Keep reading for more information:

Ages of the Moon Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street www.atlantictheater.org Happy Now? 59E59 Theaters59 East 59th Street www.primarystages.org Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Actors Temple Theatre 339 West 47th Street www.stlukestheatre.com Love, Loss, and What I Wore Westside Theater 407 West 43rd Street www.lovelossonstage.com Awesome 80s Prom Webster Hall 125 East 11th Street www.awesome80sprom.com MazelTov Cocktail McGinn-Cazale Theatre 2162 Broadway www.mazeltovcocktailtheplay.com Black Angels Over Tuskegee St. Luke’s Theatre 308 West 46th Street www.stlukestheatre.com Naked Boys Singing! New World Stages 340 West 50th Street www.nakedboyssinging.com Cinderella Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street www.theplayerstheater.com NEWSical the Musical 47th Street Theatre 304 West 47th Street www.newsicalthemusical.net Circumcise Me Bleecker Street Theater 45 Bleecker Street www.circumcisemetheplay.com Perfect Crime Snapple Theater Center 210 West 50th Street www.perfect-crime.com Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical St. Luke’s Theatre 308 West 46th Street www.dannyandsylvia.com Smudge Julia Miles Theater 424 West 55th Street www.womensproject.org Dear Edwina Daryl Roth Theatre 15th Street and Union Square East www.dearedwina.com The Emperor Jones SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street www.irishrep.org Ernest in Love Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street www.irishrep.org The Fantasticks Snapple Theater Center 210 West 50th Street www.fantasticksonbroadway.com Fuerza Bruta Daryl Roth Theater 15th Street and Union Square East www.lookupnyc.com Venus in Fur Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street www.classicstage.org Gazillion Bubble Show New World Stages 340 West 50th Street www.gazillionbubbleshow.com Zero Hour Theatre at St. Clement’s 423 West 46th Street www.zerohourshow.com

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• I Can Get It for You Wholesale

For those who know their Broadway Show history, I Can Get It for You Wholesale is the 1962 musical responsible for bringing a teen-aged Barbra Streisand to the New York stage; she not only debuted to critical acclaim, but she sang her way into a Tony Nomination as well for her role as Miss Marmelstein.  (For those who know their Karen Tortora [sans Lee] history, the Miss Marmelstein song was in very heavy rotation during the Spring/Summer season of Karen’s Basement Follies of 1982.  If I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m an only child who, alas, garnered no such critical acclaim).

In any case, today “I can get if for you wholesale” is more than just a link you can click while you’re reading your way through my column.  Today it’s also a very clever pun because I, I … can help get you a ticket to a Broadway (okay, off-Broadway) show for what will feel like wholesale.  And these days, that’s saying a lot.

To be truthful I had no hand in this … I’m simply the messenger.  But here I go … messengering away:  I bring you news of 20at20: Off-Broadway show all yours for the low, low price of only $20 bucks!  That’s twenty one-dollar bills!  When was the last time you could pay for anything with that kinda dough?

For just a little while longer – till February 8th, get your butt out of your chair, DVR that episode of LOST (come on, that’s why you HAVE the thing!) and go see some great shows. Here’s what you do (and watch for the pattern here):

1. TWENTY minutes before one of these shows starts go to the box office.Say “20 at 20“.
2. You can also say “Twenty @ Twenty” or “20 at Twenty“.  It works any of those ways because (Pay attention! The wand never leaves my hand) it all sounds the same when you say it out loud.
3. They give you a ticket to the show of your choice for twenty bucks.

Seriously.  No gimmick.  (Well, just this 20 @ 20 gimmick.)  No hidden fees.  No tricks.  Just lots of great theatre at NOT lots of money.  And not lousy shows that no one’s heard of either.  No – big, great wonderful shows that EVERYONE’S heard of like (in case you haven’t clicked the link I just inserted into this post twenty … no, make that twenty at twenty times) Fuerza Bruta (any one catch the episode of Next Top Model?)  and The Fantasticks and Naked Boys Singing! (I did not add that exclamation point, but if the marketing folks hadn’t I sure would have.  I mean, I sure would have!!)

So go.  Now.  Because the next show starts in twenty minutes!

See you Off-Broadway!

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