SHEAR MADNESS
“GENUINELY ALL-AGES ENTERTAINMENT! THE GUY BEHIND ME WAS HELPLESS WITH LAUGHTER!”
– The New York Times
“UNPREDICTABLE AND OVERWHELMINGLY ENJOYABLE!” – Talkin’ Broadway
“A MASH UP OF NANCY DREW AND CLUE!” – Daily News
“DOWNRIGHT HILARIOUS!” – Huffington Post
“A LEGITIMATE PHENOMENON!” – Variety
America’s longest-running play, SHEAR MADNESS, is now knocking ‘em dead in New York at New World Stages! The madness erupts at your not-so-typical hair salon, when suddenly the old lady upstairs gets mysteriously murdered and everyone’s dying to know WHODUNIT? The audience combs through the clues, questioning the suspects like a bona fide “Shearlock Holmes.” Theatermania declared “An absurdly enjoyable, uproarious experience! A killer time will be had by all!” And the best part? It’s different every time you see it.
Performance Schedule:
Jan thru Feb 28, 2016 – Mon 7 ● Wed, Thurs, Fri 8 ● Sat 2 & 8, Sun 3 & 7:30
Starting Feb 29, 2016 – Mon 7 ● Wed 8 ● Thurs 2 & 8 ● Fri 8 ● Sat at 2 & 8 ● Sun 3
Running Time: 2 hours, including 1 intermission
TICKETS:
$39.50 (Reg. Price: $79.50)
THREE EASY WAYS TO BUY:
ONLINE: Visit http://www.TelechargeOffers.com and enter code SGSHMD3950 click here
PHONE: Call (212) 947-8844 and mention code SGSHMD3950
IN PERSON: Bring a printout of this offer to the New World Stages box office:
340 West 50th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves)
WEBSITE: http://www.shearmadness.com/
RESTRICTIONS:
Tickets regularly $79.50. Offer valid on performances through 9/4/16. Blackout dates may apply. All prices include a $2 facility fee. All sales are final – no refunds or exchanges. Offer subject to availability and prior sale. Not valid in combination with any other offers. Normal service charges apply to phone and internet orders. Performance schedule subject to change. Offer may be revoked or modified at any time without notice.
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Only $30 for a woman’s haircut at a Manhattan salon? That’s what they charge at Shear Madness, a wacky little shop that’s just opened on West 50th Street, though it looks as if it had been there forever. The walls are baby blue, the floor is linoleum, and isn’t that a ficus tree in the corner, over near the exposed brick?
What year is this again?
You can’t necessarily tell from the banter of the puckish owner, Tony; his gum-chomping stylist, Barbara; or the customers who filter in and out. Sure, there’s a slightly crude Kardashian joke and a mention of Perez Hilton, which at least put us in the past decade or so. Then someone mixes up Cathy Rigby and Eleanor Rigby, and you have to wonder if time has stopped.
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But the audience at “Shear Madness” on the night I saw it, at New World Stages, loved the Rigby joke, and that’s probably why it’s still in the show, an astonishingly durable interactive murder mystery that’s been running in Boston since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Which may explain Will Cotton’s set design.
Only $30 for a woman’s haircut at a Manhattan salon? That’s what they charge at Shear Madness, a wacky little shop that’s just opened on West 50th Street, though it looks as if it had been there forever. The walls are baby blue, the floor is linoleum, and isn’t that a ficus tree in the corner, over near the exposed brick?
What year is this again?
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