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Bombay Dreams
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 29, 2004
Closed Jan 1, 2005

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

London's hit musical Bombay Dreams comes to Broadway! Based on an idea by Shekhar Kapur and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the show tells the story of a handsome young slum-dweller and his dreams of becoming a Bollywood movie star. With music by A R Rahman, lyrics by Don Black, and a book by Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan, the show weaves together the glamour of the movies, heart-aching romance, and epic spectacle.

Now featuring American Idol Superstar TAMYRA GRAY in her Broadway debut, performing the lead role of Priya for a limited engagement.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Broadway Theatre
1681 Broadway
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The idea for Bombay Dreams is credited to Shekhar Kapur and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Maybe it seems a sour-curry idea to begin with, but no idea is intrinsically bad. At bottom, everything depends on execution, doesn't it? After all, when word got around that George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion was about to become a musical, the sound of scoffing was heard throughout the land. Then out popped My Fair Lady.

So it's possible that someone or -ones could have made something of the Kapur-Lloyd Webber notion to put a Bollywood film on stage, "Bollywood" being the sobriquet given the hyperactive Bombay film industry. Run a boy-gets-girl love story past patrons and interrupt it as often as possible wit[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Apr 30, 2004

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