Introducing the 2019-20 New Victory Season!
The Pout-Pout Fish
October 12 - October 20, 2019 – Times Vary by Date
Oh my blub, it's The Pout-Pout Fish! Put your fins together for this brand new musical based on the best-selling children's book series. When Ms. Clam's precious pearl gets swept out to sea, everyone's favorite frowny fishie blankets the reef with his biggest dreary-weary yet. Can our fish of little faith find the gem and save the day? Be shore to find out! For after all, not everything in the big blue sea is as blue as it seems.
Time: 55 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Ages 4-7
Categories: Musical theater with puppetry; silly and bubbly
Notes: Sensory-Friendly Performance on 10/3 at 3:00pm. Lighting and sound have been adapted to accommodate sensory sensitivities and Autism specialists will be on hand to provide assistance if needed. Talk-Back on Sunday, 10/20 at 11:00am and Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 10/20 3:00pm.
Family Workshop: Under-the-sea Puppetry
October 20, 2019 - 12:30pm and 4:30pm
Create your own underwater creature and explore their life in the deep blue sea. This workshop is inspired by The Pout-Pout Fish and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Ages 4-7
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Aesop's Fables
November 1- 3, 2019 - Times Vary by Date
When Aesop escapes his master and embarks on a journey to Mount Olympus, he learns some very valuable lessons, like "where there's a will there's a way" and "look before you leap!" You'll happily keep your eyes wide and your ears open to take in the colorful costumes, enthralling dance and spirited sounds of South Africa in this vibrant opera by the incomparable Isango Ensemble. Sung through in English and a mix of South African languages with a soaring live score of marimba music, sound advice sure sounds sunny in Aesop's Fables.
Time: 70 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Categories: Opera with live music; exuberant and contemporary
Notes: Sign-Interpreted show on Friday, 11/1 at 7:00pm and Talk-Back on Saturday, 11/2 at
2:00pm.
Family Workshop: Make Your Own Play
November 2, 2019 - 11:30am
Make your original story come to life as you write the words, invent the characters and perform it! This workshop is inspired by Aesop's Fables and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
RE:PLAY
November 15 - December 1, 2019 - Times Vary by Date
Creature conjurors! Shape shifters! Material manipulators! The masked mimics of MUMMENSCHANZ make their New Victory debut with RE:PLAY. Inspiring audiences across five continents over four decades with three stints on Broadway, the "Musicians of Silence" will surprise you with each artful scene. A playful production of timeless vignettes, RE:PLAY is as much about what you don't see as what you delightfully do!
Time: 60 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 6 and Up
Categories: Visual theater; wordless and quirky
Notes: Sign-Interpreted show on Friday, 11/22 at 7:00pm, Talk-Back on Friday, 11/22 at
7:00pm and Audio-Described show Saturday, 11/24 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: Magical Masks
November 17, 2019 - 10:00am and 2:00pm
Craft your own mask and learn how to make a variety of masked characters come to life! This workshop is inspired by RE:PLAY and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 6 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
42FT – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels
December 6, 2019 - January 5, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Behold! A man so strong he juggles trees! An acrobat so light she floats on air! With a brilliant blur of sequined stilts, feathered frocks and flashing circus stripes, the endlessly inventive Cirque Mechanics upends expectations in a dizzying, dazzling array of acts that have never before appeared on the New Victory stage. Bright with light, laughter and good cheer, this stunning spectacle is a high-flying hit for the holidays!
Time: 1 Hour and 45 Minutes with One Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 5 and Up
Categories: Circus; breathtaking and jolly
Notes: Family Benefit show on Sunday, 12/8 at 1:00pm, Sensory-Friendly show on Saturday, 12/14 at 7:00pm, Sign-Interpreted show on Saturday, 12/14 at 7:00pm, Talk-Back on Sunday, 12/22 at 12:00pm and Audio-Described show on Sunday, 12/22 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: Circus Tricks
December 15, 2019 - - 10:00am and 2:30pm
Surprise yourself and impress others as you learn circus basics and develop your own act. This workshop is inspired by 42FT – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 5 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
CARTOGRAPHY
January 10 - 19, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Inflatable rafts on the Mediterranean. Dark holds of cargo trucks. Family photos hidden carefully in a backpack. Hear the stories of young refugees when CARTOGRAPHY asks what part we play in the lives of young people who set out into the unsure waters of their futures. In this multimedia theatrical work, witness a world alive with movement and migration as the effects of climate change, war and poverty give shape to where we have come from and where we are going.
Time: 60 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 10 and Up
Categories: Theater; timely and poignant; complex subject matter
Notes: Talk-Back after every performance and Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 1/18 at 7:00pm.
Riddle of the Trilobites
February 7 - 23, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Travel way way way way way back in time! In this live, original musical, set 500 million years ago, all life dwells in one sea and trilobites rule the ocean floor. When young Aphra discovers that the fate of the entire trilobite kingdom rests on her shelled shoulders, she and her arthropod pals must solve the Riddle of the Trilobites before a sea change of epic proportions destroys their home. With humor, heart and eye-popping prehistoric puppetry, this underwater adventure shows us how we can leave our mark on the world when we dare to be brave.
Time: 80 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 6 and Up
Categories: Musical theater with puppetry and live music; witty and mythic
Notes: Sensory-Friendly show on Sunday, 2/9 at 12:00pm, Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 2/16 at 12:00 pm and Talk-Back on Saturday, 2/22 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: Prehistoric Puppets
February 15, 2020 – 10:00am and 2:30pm
Invent your own unique prehistoric puppet and explore how it walks, talks and survives! This workshop is inspired by Riddle of the Trilobites and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 6 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Drumfolk
February 28 - March 15, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Powerful. Precise. Persistent. Political. The drum is talking. The music is calling. When Africans lost the right to use their drums, the beats found their way into the body of the people—the Drumfolk. New percussive art forms took root and made way for tap, beatboxing and the African American tradition of stepping. From hambone to hip-hop, an extraordinary ensemble of dancers, drummers and musicians takes us from West Africa to Washington, D.C., to reveal the hidden histories and resounding rhythms that transformed America.
Time: 1 Hour and 45 Minutes with One Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Categories: Dance with live music; celebratory and moving
Notes: Talk-Back on Saturday, 3/7 at 2:00pm and Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 3/8 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: African Dance
February 29, 2020 - 12:00pm and 4:30pm
Experience the power, grace and culture of African Dance, from drumming to movement! This workshop is inspired by Drumfolk and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Treasure Island
March 20 - 29, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Ahoy, mateys! Time to set sail for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. In this rendition of the classic pirate story, 12 puppeteers animate exquisitely handcrafted marionettes to tell the swashbuckling adventures of cabin boy Jim Hawkins. Battling the high seas and the infamous Long John Silver, can Jim solve the mystery of Captain Flint's buried treasure? Or will he walk the plank? You'll have to pay a buccaneer to find out! From Milan's famed Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company, 19th-century artistry takes center stage in this visually stunning production.
Time: 1 Hour and 40 Minutes with One Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 8 and Up
Categories: Puppetry; artful and intricate
Notes: Talk-Backs after every performance, Sign-Interpreted show on Saturday, 3/28 at 7:00pm and Audio-Described show on Sunday, 3/29 at 5:00pm.
Four Go Wild in Wellies
March 27 - April 5, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
It's time to explore the great outdoors! What do we need? Tiny tents, bobble hats, scarves and wellies, of course! With all of the foliage and fun of any good forest adventure, Four Go Wild in Wellies features an inclusive dance company who reminds us that nothing is more natural than a kid's curiosity.
Time: 30 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Ages 3-5
Categories: Dance
Notes: Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 4/5 at 1:00pm.
Magic Shadows
April 3 - 19, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
With the arc of an arm, the point of a toe or the twist of a torso, America's Got Talent finalists Catapult stretch their bodies (and your imaginations!) in Magic Shadows. See Vivaldi's Four Seasons spring to life, follow a camel across the Sahara and spy a giant panda snacking on bamboo. Animated by the dancers' shadows, every cinematic scene is a kaleidoscope of colorful storytelling that will awe and astound you.
Time: 60 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 5 and Up
Categories: Shadow theater and dance; clever and energetic
Notes: Sign-Interpreted show on Friday, 4/3 at 7:00pm, Talk-Back on Saturday, 4/4 at 2:00pm and
Audio-Described show on Sunday, 4/5 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: Shadow Dance
April 18, 2020 - 11:30am and 4:00pm
Cast your shadow! Bust a move! Watch your shadow pose and groove! This workshop is inspired by Magic Shadows and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 5 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Snow White
April 24 - May 3, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Mirror, mirror on the wall, this Snow White has laughs for all! Join our charmingly cheerful heroine as she escapes her hilariously homicidal stepmother with help from a family of feisty woods-dwelling, banjo-strumming, washboard-wearing vegans. From the creators of last season's Beauty and the Beast, this rustic romp boasts an eclectic indie score and affirms the belief that even the most evil deserve a chance at redemption.
Time: 2 Hours with One Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Categories: Theater with live music; cheeky and inventive
Notes: Sensory-Friendly show on Sunday, 4/26 at 5:00pm, Talk-Back on Saturday, 5/2 at 5:00pm
and Sign-Interpreted show on Sunday, 5/3 at 5:00pm.
Family Workshop: Create Your Own Fairy Tale
April 26, 2020 - 3:00pm
Explore your own imagined fairy tales and create spells, songs and heroes! This workshop is inspired by Snow White and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 7 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Jabberbabble
May 9 - 17, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Bon bon mornay! What happens when birds of different feathers flock together? And if they don't sing the same language, will they understand each other? In this sweet story about four birds and one nest, Theatergroep Kwatta uses a mix of languages to share a universal message about belonging. Allonzy tutti to Jabberbabble, where every day is wonderfeej!
Time: 60 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Ages 4-7
Categories: Operetta with live music; oddball and endearing; sung-through
Notes: Talk-Back on Sunday, 5/10 at 11:00am and Sign-Interpreted show on Saturday, 5/16 at 3:00pm.
Family Workshop: Musical Theater
May 17, 2020 - 12:30pm and 4:30pm
Learn the art of storytelling through music as you write, sing and perform your own original song! This workshop is inspired by Jabberbabble and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Ages 4-7
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Family Workshop: Family Acro
May 30, 2020 - 12:00pm and 4:00pm
Develop classic partner acrobatic skills with your family using balance, strength and flexibility. This workshop is inspired by Fierce 5 and teaches performance skills that are used in the show!
Time: 90 Minutes
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 9 and Up
Notes: Everyone must have a workshop ticket to attend and each family must have at least one adult participating. Due to space limitations, tickets must be purchased in advance.
Fierce 5
May 30 - June 14, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Push, pull, rise, fall and fly. Fierce 5 exposes the success and perseverance, the balance and imbalance that come from making the impossible possible. In a tangle of cables, straps and perspectives, five fearless acrobats move through darkness and into light as they test the tenacity of the human spirit and find strength in solidarity. Harnessing raw energy and fighting against forces seen and unseen, these astonishing artistes break through the void and dive into the mystère of the unknown.
Time: 65 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Everyone Age 9 and Up
Categories: Contemporary circus and acrobatics; edgy and daring
Notes: Sign-Interpreted show at Saturday, 6/6 at 7:00pm and Talk-Back: Saturday, 6/13 at 7:00pm.
Não Não
June 5 - 14, 2020 - Times Vary by Date
Squish! Splash! Smash! Two seriously silly sculptors craft from clay a mischievous little boy bent on pandemonium and play. As Não ("no" in Portuguese) discovers the joys of muddy mayhem, audiences are treated to a tender and tuneful performance that shows us just how messy life can be.
Time: 35 Minutes - No Intermission
Ages: Recommended for Ages 1-4
Categories: Puppetry
Notes: Não Não is playing at The Duke on 42nd Street. Sign-Interpreted show on Saturday, 6/13 at 10:00am.