Cirque du Soleil

Happy May! As always, we’re celebrating the month by looking at some of the musicals that opened in New York this month on this week’s Dress Circle (5/4 7:00 p.m.). The list of May openings is not extensive because of Tony nominations and voting. The cut-off for nominations this year was April 27th, so a show opening after that would be eligible for the following year’s award if the nominating committee and voters remembered it. We still have eleven shows represented, spanning 119 years of musical history.

We're looking at 100 years of Broadway history on this week's Dress Circle as we look at some of the shows that opened in New York on this week's program. Our earliest show is "Step this Way" from 1916, and our most recent opening is the last musical to open in May, 2016's "Paramour" by Circque du Soliel.

This week, we're surveying 107 years of musical history with New York openings from 1909 through 2016.

May is the month of emeralds and lilies of the valley as well as some wonderful musicals opening in New York which we’ll showcase on this week’s Dress…