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(Charles Isherwood) 'THE DROWSY CHAPERONE' (Tony Awards, best book of a musical and best original score, 2006) This small and ingratiating spoof of 1920s stage frolics, as imagined by an obsessive show queen, may not be a masterpiece. Bloated at 90 minutes, but the kids didn't seem to mind (1:30). Seuss songs from the television special are included). SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: THE MUSICAL' The beloved holiday classic in a new musical version that honors the spirit and the letter of the original. This beat-the-clock musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their inner warriors never slows down long enough for you to embrace it(2:40). (Brantley) 'THE COLOR PURPLE' So much plot, so many years, so many characters to cram into less than three hours. Otherwise, this archivally exact production, directed by Bob Avian, feels like a vintage car that has been taken out of the garage, polished up and sent on the road once again (2:00). (Ben Brantley) 'A CHORUS LINE' If you want to know why this show was such a big deal when it opened 31 years ago, you need only experience the thrilling first five minutes of this revival. A less-than-perfect marriage of a first-rate actor with a first-rate play (2:30). Broadway 'BUTLEY' In this uneasy revival of Simon Gray's portrait of a toxic English professor, directed by Nicholas Martin, Nathan Lane fires off witticisms as if they were silver bullets with ''Made in Britain'' engraved on them. Fritz Weaver stars as the patriarch of a wealthy family in crisis in David Mamet's new adaptation of what may be Harley Granville Barker's finest drama (1:50). 'THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE' In previews opens on Dec. Julianne Moore plays an American war correspondent turned academic in David Hare's much-buzzed-about new play. 'THE VERTICAL HOUR' In previews opens on Nov. Signature Theater at Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 352-3101. Set in 1969, August Wilson's play includes his typically wonderful talk from a bunch of regulars at a local Pittsburgh diner that is about to be destroyed (3:30). 'TWO TRAINS RUNNING' In previews opens on Dec.
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The Manhattan Theater Club presents the world premiere of Paul Rudnick's new zinger-filled comedy of manners, set in high society (2:00). 'REGRETS ONLY' In previews opens on Sunday. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555. A Korean single father takes his two children on a revelatory road trip in Julia Cho's new play (1:30). Liked last season's ''Sweeney Todd''? Actors will pick up instruments again for another Stephen Sondheim revival. Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. The all-star cast includes Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Ehle and Richard Easton and many, many more (2:45). Tom Stoppard's three-play epic about the forebears of the Russian Revolution begins with ''Voyage,'' set in 1833 in the Russian countryside. 'THE COAST OF UTOPIA: VOYAGE' In previews opens on Nov. Manhattan Theater Club's City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212. After a production at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, David Greig's play, about an American whose plane crashes in a war-torn country, moves to New York. Previews and Openings 'THE AMERICAN PILOT' In previews opens on Tuesday.
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