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Encores! is a Tony-honored concert series dedicated to reviving American musicals, usually with their original orchestrations.Corliss, Richard. [http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,650680,00.html "That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores!"], Time June 12, 2004. Presented by New York City Center since 1994, Encores! has revived shows by Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, among many others. Encores! was the brainchild of Judith Daykin, who launched the series shortly after becoming Executive Director of City Center in 1992.{{Cite news |last=Span |first=Paula |date=March 16, 1997 |title=ENCORES! THE THEATER'S LIVE ARCHIVE |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1997/03/16/encores-the-theaters-live-archive/96ddd37a-9478-4412-a49f-2704c2a73796/ |access-date=November 14, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |author=Newsweek Staff |date=May 14, 1995 |title=Bewitched, Not Bewildered |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bewitched-not-bewildered-183452 |access-date=November 14, 2022 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} Besides initiating Encores!, Daykin is credited for turning City Center from a rental hall into a presenting organization.{{Cite web |last=Isherwood |first=Charles |date=June 12, 2002 |title=Daykin determines she’ll retire from City Center |url=https://variety.com/2002/legit/news/daykin-determines-she-ll-retire-from-city-center-1117868350/ |access-date=November 14, 2022 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} The series has spawned nineteen cast recordings and numerous Broadway transfers, including Kander and Ebb's Chicago, which is now the second longest-running musical in Broadway history.Cox, Gordon. [https://variety.com/2016/legit/news/chicago-on-broadway-20th-anniversary-walter-bobbie-1201915972/ "Broadway’s Chicago Turns 20: Stars Reflect on Show’s Success"], Variety November 14, 2016. Videotapes of many Encores! productions are collected at the Billy Rose Theater Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The series was led by artistic director Jack Viertel from 2001 to 2020; in October 2019, City Center announced that Lear deBessonet will take over as artistic director beginning with the 2021 Encores! season.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/theater/encores-city-center-lear-debessonet-jack-viertel.html|title=New Curator of Old Musicals: Lear deBessonet is to Lead Encores!|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 29, 2019|last1=Paulson|first1=Michael}}

From 2000 to 2001, City Center presented a short-lived sister series, Voices!, devoted to staged readings of infrequently-produced American plays and produced by Alec Baldwin. From 2007 to 2009, the spin-off series Encores! Summer Stars featured fully-staged productions of classic Broadway musicals, beginning with a production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines, and Laura Benanti. Gypsy received unprecedented attention for an Encores! show and eventually transferred to Broadway; LuPone, Gaines, and Benanti all won Tony Awards for their performances.

In 2013, City Center launched Encores! Off-Center!, a sister series devoted to groundbreaking Off-Broadway musicals. Led by founding artistic director Jeanine Tesori for its first four seasons,Weinert-Kendt, Rob. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/theater/encores-off-center-tilts-toward-the-political.html "Musical Revivalists With a Cause"], The New York Times July 3, 2013. Encores! Off-Center was subsequently led by Michael Friedman (2017), Tesori and Anne Kauffman (2018), and Kauffman (2019–2020).Paulson, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/theater/michael-friedman-to-be-artistic-director-ofencores-off-center.html "Michael Friedman to Be Artistic Director of Encores! Off Center"] The New York Times April 18, 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/stage-directions-anne-kauffman-reveals-her-plans-for-encores-off-center-2019|title = Stage Directions: Anne Kauffman Reveals Her Plans for Encores! Off-Center 2019|date = September 4, 2018}}

Encores! Productions

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! Title

! Music

! Lyrics

! Book

! Year

! Encores! run

! Stars

1

| Fiorello!

| Jerry Bock

| Sheldon Harnick

| Jerome Weidman and George Abbott

| 1959

| February 9–12, 1994

| Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Liz Callaway, Gregg Edelman, Donna McKechnie, Faith Prince, Jerry Zaks

2

| Allegro

| Richard Rodgers

| colspan=2 | Oscar Hammerstein II

| 1947

| March 2–5, 1994

| Stephen Bogardus, Christine Ebersole, Celeste Holm, Karen Ziemba

3

| Lady in the Dark

| Kurt Weill

| Ira Gershwin

| Moss Hart

| 1941

| May 4–7, 1994

| Patrick Cassidy, Christine Ebersole, Tony Goldwyn, Edward Hibbert, Carole Shelley

4

| Call Me Madam

| colspan=2 | Irving Berlin

| Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse

| 1950

| February 16–18, 1995{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Peter Bartlett, Walter Charles, Jane Connell, Tyne Daly, Christopher Durang, Melissa Errico, Ken Page

5

| Out of This World

| colspan=2 | Cole Porter

| Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence

| 1950

| March 30 – April 1, 1995{{ref|CD|CD}}

| LaChanze, Gregg Edelman, Andrea Martin, Marin Mazzie, Ken Page, Ernie Sabella, Peter Scolari

6

| Pal Joey

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| John O'Hara

| 1940

| May 4–6, 1995{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Peter Gallagher, Vicki Lewis, Patti LuPone, Bebe Neuwirth

7

| DuBarry Was a Lady

| colspan=2 | Cole Porter

| Herbert Fields and Buddy DeSylva

| 1939

| February 15–17, 1996

| Liz Larsen, Dick Latessa, Michael McGrath, Robert Morse, Burke Moses, Faith Prince, Donald Trump

8

| One Touch of Venus

| Kurt Weill

| Ogden Nash

| S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash

| 1943

| March 28–30, 1996

| Kevin Chamberlin, Marilyn Cooper, Melissa Errico, David Alan Grier, Jane Krakowski, Danny Rutigliano

9

| Chicago

| John Kander

| Fred Ebb

| Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb

| 1975

| May 2–4, 1996{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Michael Berresse, Joel Grey, Marcia Lewis, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking

10

| Sweet Adeline

| Jerome Kern

| colspan=2 | Oscar Hammerstein II

| 1929

| February 13–16, 1997

| Gary Beach, Stephen Bogardus, Patti Cohenour, Dorothy Loudon, Hugh Panaro, Tony Randall

11

| Promises, Promises

| Burt Bacharach

| Hal David

| Neil Simon

| 1968

| March 20–23, 1997

| Christine Baranski, Dick Latessa, Eugene Levy, Jenifer Lewis, Terrence Mann, Mike O'Malley, Martin Short, Samuel E. Wright

12

| The Boys from Syracuse

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| George Abbott

| 1938

| May 1–4, 1997{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Sarah Uriarte Berry, Danny Burstein, Mario Cantone, Davis Gaines, Malcolm Gets, Debbie Gravitte, Rebecca Luker, Michael McGrath, Marian Seldes

13

| Strike up the Band

| George Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin

| Morrie Ryskind

| 1927

| February 12–15, 1998

| Philip Bosco, Kristin Chenoweth, Jason Danieley, Judy Kuhn, Lynn Redgrave

14

| Li'l Abner

| Gene De Paul

| Johnny Mercer

| Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

| 1959

| March 26–30, 1998

| Danny Burstein, Lea DeLaria, Katie Finneran, Jonathan Freeman, Cady Huffman, Dana Ivey, Dick Latessa, Burke Moses, Julie Newmar, Alice Ripley, David Ogden Stiers

15

| St. Louis Woman

| Harold Arlen

| Johnny Mercer

| Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen

| 1946

| April 30 – May 3, 1998{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Charles S. Dutton, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Wendell Pierce, Vanessa Williams

16

| Babes in Arms

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

| 1937

| February 11–14, 1999{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Kevin Cahoon, David Campbell, Don Correia, Erin Dilly, Christopher Fitzgerald, Priscilla Lopez, Donna McKechnie, Thommie Walsh

17

| Ziegfeld Follies of 1936

| Vernon Duke

| Ira Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin and David Freedman

| 1936

| March 25–29, 1999{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Kevin Chamberlin, Christine Ebersole, Ruthie Henshall, Peter Scolari, Mary Testa, Karen Ziemba

18

| Do Re Mi

| Jule Styne

| Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| Garson Kanin

| 1960

| May 6–9, 1999{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Marilyn Cooper, Tovah Feldshuh, Randy Graff, Heather Headley, Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brad Oscar

19

| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

| Burton Lane

| colspan=2 | Alan Jay Lerner

| 1965

| February 10–13, 2000

| Brooks Ashmanskas, Brent Barrett, Roger Bart, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Friedman, Nancy Opel, Louis Zorich

20

| Tenderloin

| Jerry Bock

| Sheldon Harnick

| George Abbott and Jerome Weidman

| 1960

| March 23–27, 2000{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Sarah Uriarte Berry, Debbie Gravitte, David Ogden Stiers, Patrick Wilson

21

| Wonderful Town

| Leonard Bernstein

| Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov

| 1953

| May 3–7, 2000{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| David Aaron Baker, Laura Benanti, Stephen DeRosa, Gregory Jbara, Donna Murphy

22

| A Connecticut Yankee

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| Herbert Fields

| 1927

| February 8–11, 2001

| Christine Ebersole, Henry Gibson, Ron Leibman, Jessica Walter

23

| Bloomer Girl

| Harold Arlen

| E.Y. Harburg

| Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy

| 1944

| March 22–25, 2001

| Philip Bosco, Kathleen Chalfant, Donna Lynne Champlin, Anita Gillette, Kate Jennings Grant, Michael Park, Jubilant Sykes

24

| Hair

| Galt MacDermot

| colspan=2 | Gerome Ragni and James Rado

| 1967

| May 3–7, 2001

| Kevin Cahoon, Luther Creek, Gavin Creel, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Idina Menzel, Miriam Shor

25

| Carnival!

| colspan=2 | Bob Merrill

| Michael Stewart

| 1961

| February 7–10, 2002

| Debbie Gravitte, Anne Hathaway, David Margulies, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Douglas Sills

26

| Golden Boy

| Charles Strouse

| Lee Adams

| Clifford Odets and William Gibson

| 1964

| March 21–24, 2002

| Anastasia Barzee, Norm Lewis, Alfonso Ribeiro

27

| The Pajama Game

| colspan=2 | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

| George Abbott and Richard Bissell

| 1954

| May 2–6, 2002

| Mark Linn-Baker, Brent Barrett, Deidre Goodwin, Daniel Jenkins, Ken Page, Karen Ziemba

28

| House of Flowers

| Harold Arlen

| Harold Arlen and Truman Capote

| Truman Capote

| 1954

| February 13–16, 2003

| Roscoe Lee Browne, Brandon Victor Dixon, Stacy Francis, Maurice Hines, Nikki M. James, Armelia McQueen, Tonya Pinkins

29

| The New Moon

| Sigmund Romberg

| Oscar Hammerstein II

| Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab

| 1928

| March 27–30, 2003{{ref|CD|CD}}

| F. Murray Abraham, Rod Gilfry, Simon Jones, Brandon Jovanovich, Burke Moses, Christiane Noll, Danny Rutigliano, Lauren Ward

30

| No Strings

| colspan=2 | Richard Rodgers

| Samuel A. Taylor

| 1962

| May 8–11, 2003

| Len Cariou, Penny Fuller, Marc Kudisch, James Naughton, Emily Skinner

31

| Can-Can

| colspan=2 | Cole Porter

| Abe Burrows

| 1953

| February 12–15, 2004

| Charlotte d'Amboise, Patti LuPone, Michael Nouri, Reg Rogers, Eli Wallach

32

| Pardon My English

| George Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin

| Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind

| 1933

| March 25–28, 2004

| Rob Bartlett, Brian d'Arcy James, Emily Skinner, Don Stephenson, Jennifer Laura Thompson

33

| Bye Bye Birdie

| Charles Strouse

| Lee Adams

| Michael Stewart

| 1960

| May 6–9, 2004

| Walter Bobbie, Victoria Clark, Jessica Grové, Daniel Jenkins, Keith Nobbs, Doris Roberts, Karen Ziemba

34

| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

| Arthur Schwartz

| Dorothy Fields

| George Abbott and Betty Smith

| 1951

| February 10–13, 2005

| Jason Danieley, Emily Skinner

35

| Purlie

| Gary Geld

| Peter Udell

| Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell

| 1970

| March 31 – April 3, 2005

| John Cullum, Doug E. Doug, Anika Noni Rose, Blair Underwood, Lillias White

36

| The Apple Tree

| Jerry Bock

| Sheldon Harnick

| Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerome Coopersmith

| 1966

| May 12–16, 2005{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Michael Cerveris, Kristin Chenoweth, Malcolm Gets, James Earl Jones (voice only), Tony Yazbeck

37

| Kismet

| Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapting themes by Alexander Borodin

| Robert Wright and George Forrest

| Charles Lederer and Luther Davis

| 1953

| February 9–12, 2006

| Tom Aldredge, Danny Gurwin, Marcy Harriell, Randall Duk Kim, Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Danny Rutigliano

38

| 70, Girls, 70

| John Kander

| Fred Ebb

| Fred Ebb, Norman L. Martin, and Joe Masteroff

| 1971

| March 30 – April 2, 2006

| Carleton Carpenter, Ronn Carroll, Mary Jo Catlett, Carole Cook, Bob Dishy, Olympia Dukakis, Anita Gillette, George S. Irving, Charlotte Rae

39

| Of Thee I Sing

| George Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin

| George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

| 1931

| May 11–15, 2006

| Wayne Duvall, Jonathan Freeman, Victor Garber, Jefferson Mays, Jenny Powers, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jennifer Laura Thompson

40

| Follies

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| James Goldman

| 1971

| February 8–11, 2007

| Christine Baranski, Philip Bosco, Victoria Clark, Yvonne Constant, Colin Donnell, Victor Garber, Mimi Hines, Michael McGrath, Donna Murphy, Jenny Powers, Jo Anne Worley

41

| Face the Music

| colspan=2 | Irving Berlin

| Moss Hart

| 1932

| March 29 – April 1, 2007{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Walter Bobbie, Judy Kaye, Meredith Patterson, Lee Wilkof

42

| Stairway to Paradise

| colspan=3 | Various

|

| May 10–14, 2007

| Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jennifer Gambatese, Michael Gruber, Ruthie Henshall, Capathia Jenkins

43

| Applause

| Charles Strouse

| Lee Adams

| Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| 1970

| February 7–10, 2008

| Kate Burton, Mario Cantone, Erin Davie, Christine Ebersole, Tom Hewitt, Michael Park, Chip Zien

44

| Juno

| colspan=2 | Marc Blitzstein

| Joseph Stein

| 1959

| March 27–30, 2008

| Michael Arden, Victoria Clark, Tyler Hanes, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Rosaleen Linehan

45

| No, No, Nanette

| Vincent Youmans

| Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach

| Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, adapted by Burt Shevelove

| 1925 (revised 1971)

| May 8–12, 2008

| Michael Berresse, Mara Davi, Sandy Duncan, Charles Kimbrough, Beth Leavel, Rosie O'Donnell

46

| On the Town

| Leonard Bernstein

| colspan=2 | Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| 1945

| November 19–23, 2008

| Christian Borle, Jessica Lee Goldyn, Leslie Kritzer, Andrea Martin, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Tony Yazbeck

47

| Music in the Air

| Jerome Kern

| colspan=2 | Oscar Hammerstein II

| 1932

| February 5–8, 2009

| Sierra Boggess, Walter Charles, Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Latessa, Marni Nixon, Douglas Sills

48

| Finian's Rainbow

| Burton Lane

| E.Y. Harburg

| E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy

| 1947

| March 26–29, 2009{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Kate Baldwin, Jeremy Bobb, Philip Bosco, Christopher Fitzgerald, Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

49

| Girl Crazy

| George Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin

| Guy Bolton and John McGowan

| 1930

| November 19–22, 2009

| Chris Diamantopoulos, Ana Gasteyer, Wayne Knight, Becki Newton

50

| Fanny

| colspan=2 | Harold Rome

| S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan

| 1954

| February 4–7, 2010

| George Hearn, Priscilla Lopez, Elena Shaddow, James Snyder

51

| Anyone Can Whistle

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| Arthur Laurents

| 1964

| April 8–11, 2010

| Raúl Esparza, Sutton Foster, Edward Hibbert, Donna Murphy

52

| Bells Are Ringing

| Jule Styne

| colspan=2 | Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| 1956

| November 18–21, 2010

| Bobby Cannavale, Will Chase, Judy Kaye, Kelli O'Hara, Brad Oscar, Danny Rutigliano

53

| Lost in the Stars

| Kurt Weill

| colspan=2 | Maxwell Anderson

| 1949

| February 3–6, 2011

| Daniel Breaker, Chuck Cooper, Patina Miller

54

| Where's Charley?

| colspan=2 | Frank Loesser

| George Abbott

| 1948

| March 17–20, 2011

| Sebastian Arcelus, Rebecca Luker, Rob McClure, Howard McGillin, Jill Paice, Lauren Worsham

55

| Merrily We Roll Along

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| George Furth

| 1981

| February 8–19, 2012{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Betsy Wolfe

56

| Pipe Dream

| Richard Rodgers

| colspan=2 | Oscar Hammerstein II

| 1955

| March 28 – April 1, 2012{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Will Chase, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Stephen Wallem, Tom Wopat

57

| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

| Jule Styne

| Leo Robin

| Joseph Fields and Anita Loos

| 1949

| May 9–13, 2012{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Megan Hilty, Rachel York, Aaron Lazar, Clarke Thorell, Stephen R. Buntrock

58

| Fiorello!

| Jerry Bock

| Sheldon Harnick

| Jerome Weidman and George Abbott

| 1959

| January 30 – February 3, 2013

| Kate Baldwin, Jeremy Bobb, Erin Dilly, Jennifer Gambatese, Shuler Hensley, Danny Rutigliano, Emily Skinner

59

| It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman

| Charles Strouse

| Lee Adams

| Robert Benton and David Newman

| 1966

| March 20–24, 2013

| Alli Mauzey, David Pittu, Jenny Powers, Will Swenson, Edward Watts

60

| On Your Toes

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and George Abbott

| 1936

| May 8–12, 2013

| Christine Baranski, Walter Bobbie, Joaquín De Luz, Irina Dvorovenko, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba

61

| Little Me

| Cy Coleman

| Carolyn Leigh

| Neil Simon

| 1962

| February 5–9, 2014

| Christian Borle, David Garrison, Judy Kaye, Lewis J. Stadlen, Lee Wilkof, Rachel York

62

| The Most Happy Fella

| colspan=3 | Frank Loesser

| 1956

| April 2–6, 2014

| Laura Benanti, Heidi Blickenstaff, Shuler Hensley, Cheyenne Jackson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Jessica Molaskey

63

| Irma La Douce

| Marguerite Monnot

| colspan=2 | Alexandre Breffort; English version by Julian More, David Heneker, and Monty Norman

| 1956 (translated 1958)

| May 7–11, 2014

| Malcolm Gets, Rob McClure

64

| Lady, Be Good!

| George Gershwin

| Ira Gershwin

| Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson

| 1924

| February 4–8, 2015{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Colin Donnell, Patti Murin, Erin Mackey, Douglas Sills, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Tommy Tune

65

| Paint Your Wagon

| Frederick Loewe

| colspan=2 | Alan Jay Lerner

| 1951

| March 18–22, 2015{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Keith Carradine, Justin Guarini, Alexandra Socha

66

| Zorba!

| John Kander

| Fred Ebb

| Joseph Stein

| 1968

| May 6–10, 2015

| Adam Chanler-Berat, Santino Fontana, Marin Mazzie, John Turturro, Zoë Wanamaker

67

| Cabin in the Sky

| Vernon Duke

| John Latouche

| Lynn Root

| 1940

| February 10–14, 2016

| Chuck Cooper. Marva Hicks, LaChanze, Norm Lewis, Michael Potts

68

| 1776

| colspan=2 | Sherman Edwards

| Peter Stone

| 1969

| March 30 – April 3, 2016

| John Behlmann, André De Shields, Santino Fontana, Alexander Gemignani, John Larroquette, Christiane Noll, Bryce Pinkham, Jubilant Sykes

69

| Do I Hear a Waltz?

| Richard Rodgers

| Stephen Sondheim

| Arthur Laurents

| 1965

| May 11–15, 2016

| Claybourne Elder, Melissa Errico, Nancy Opel, Karen Ziemba

70

| Big River

| colspan=2 | Roger Miller

| William Hauptman

| 1985

| February 8–12, 2017

| Annie Golden, Kyle Scatliffe, Christopher Sieber, Lauren Worsham

71

| The New Yorkers

| colspan=2 | Cole Porter

| Herbert Fields

| 1930

| March 22–26, 2017

| Kevin Chamberlin, Scarlett Strallen

72

| The Golden Apple

| Jerome Moross

| colspan=2 | John Latouche

| 1954

| May 10–14, 2017

| Ashley Brown, Lindsay Mendez

73

| Hey, Look Me Over!

| colspan=3 | Various

|

| February 7–11, 2018

|Vanessa Williams, Carolee Carmello, Judy Kuhn, Marc Kudisch, Reed Birney, Bebe Neuwirth, Nancy Opel, Douglas Sills, Alexandra Socha

74

| Grand Hotel

| colspan=2 | Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Maury Yeston

| Luther Davis

| 1989

| March 21–25, 2018

|Brandon Uranowitz, Heléne Yorke, James Snyder, Irina Dvorovenko, John Dossett

75

| Me and My Girl

| Noel Gay

| Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose

| Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose, revised by Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent

| 1937 (revised 1984)

| May 9–13, 2018

|Christian Borle, Laura Michelle Kelly, Harriet Harris, Edward Hibbert

76

| Call Me Madam

| colspan=2 | Irving Berlin

| Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse

| 1950

| February 6–10, 2019

| Carmen Cusack, Darrell Hammond, Carol Kane, Lauren Worsham

77

| I Married an Angel

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

| 1938

| March 20–24, 2019

| Mark Evans, Ann Harada, Nikki M. James, Sara Mearns

78

| High Button Shoes

| Jule Styne

| Sammy Cahn

| George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet

| 1947

| May 8–12, 2019

| Kevin Chamberlin, Michael Urie, Betsy Wolfe

79

| Mack and Mabel

| colspan=2 | Jerry Herman

| Michael Stewart

| 1974

| February 19–23, 2020

| Lilli Cooper, Douglas Sills, Alexandra Socha

80

| The Tap Dance Kid

| Henry Krieger

| Robert Lorick

| Charles Blackwell

| 1983

| February 2–6, 2022

| Alexander Bello, Joshua Henry, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Trevor Jackson

81

| The Life

| Cy Coleman

| Ira Gasman

| David Newman, Cy Coleman, and Ira Gasman

| 1997

| March 16–20, 2022

| Alexandra Grey, Antwayn Hopper, Ledisi

82

| Into the Woods

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| James Lapine

| 1987

| May 4–15, 2022{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Sara Bareilles, Denée Benton, Gavin Creel, Jordan Donica, Annie Golden, Ann Harada, Neil Patrick Harris, Heather Headley, David Patrick Kelly, Julia Lester, Shereen Pimentel

83

| Dear World

| colspan=2 | Jerry Herman

| Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

| 1969

| March 15–19, 2023

| Donna Murphy, Brooks Ashmanskas, Andréa Burns, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ann Harada, Kody Jauron, Phillip Johnson Richardson, Samantha Williams

84

| Oliver!

| colspan=3 | Lionel Bart

| 1960

| May 3–14, 2023

| Raúl Esparza, Lilli Cooper, Tam Mutu, Brad Oscar, Benjamin Pajak, Mary Testa, Julian Lerner, Michael Siberry

85

| The Light in the Piazza

| colspan=2 | Adam Guettel

| Craig Lucas

| 2005

| June 21–25, 2023

| Ruthie Ann Miles, Anna Zavelson, James D. Gish, Ivan Hernandez, Andréa Burns, Shereen Ahmed, Rodd Cyrus

86

| Once Upon a Mattress

| Mary Rodgers

| Marshall Barer

| Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer

| 1959

| January 21–28, 2024{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Nikki Renée Daniels, Cheyenne Jackson, Harriet Harris, J. Harrison Ghee, David Patrick Kelly, Francis Jue

87

| Jelly's Last Jam

| Jelly Roll Morton and Luther Henderson

| Susan Birkenhead

| George C. Wolfe

| 1992

| February 21–25, 2024

| Nicholas Christopher, John Clay III, Joaquina Kalukango, Tiffany Mann, Billy Porter, Leslie Uggams, Okieriete Onaodowan, Alaman Diadhiou

88

| Titanic

| colspan=2 | Maury Yeston

| Peter Stone

| 1997

| June 12–16, 2024

| Bonnie Milligan, Chuck Cooper, Eddie Cooper, Drew Gehling, Ramin Karimloo, Emilie Kouatchou, Judy Kuhn, Brandon Uranowitz, Samantha Williams, Chip Zien

89

| Urinetown

| Mark Hollmann

| Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis

| Greg Kotis

| 2001

| February 5–16, 2025

| Jordan Fisher, Rainn Wilson, Stephanie Styles, Keala Settle

90

| Love Life

| Kurt Weill

| colspan=2 | Alan Jay Lerner

| 1948

| March 26—30, 2025

| Kate Baldwin, Brian Stokes Mitchell

91

| Wonderful Town

| Leonard Bernstein

| Betty Comden and Adolph Green

| Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov

| 1953

| April 30–May 11, 2025

| Anika Noni Rose, Aisha Jackson

92

| The Wild Party

| colspan=2 | Michael John LaChiusa

| Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe

| 2000

| 2026

|

Two Encores! productions scheduled for the spring of 2020 were canceled due to COVID-19. Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's 1948 musical Love Life was to have starred Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell and was eventually rescheduled to 2025; a revised version of Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan's 2002 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie was to have starred Ashley Park.

Voices!

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
! Title

! Playwright

! Year

! Voices! Run

! Stars

1

| Arsenic and Old Lace

| Joseph Kesselring

| 1941

| November 11, 2000

| Alec Baldwin, Celeste Holm, Joanne Woodward

2

| Little Murders

| Jules Feiffer

| 1967

| January 30, 2001

| Blythe Danner, Jules Feiffer, Christopher Fitzgerald, Joel Grey

3

| The Devil and Daniel Webster

| Stephen Vincent Benét

| 1939

| March 13, 2001

| Eric Bogosian, James Naughton

Encores! Summer Stars

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
! Title

! Music

! Lyrics

! Book

! Year

! Encores! Summer Stars Run

! Stars

1

| Gypsy

| Jule Styne

| Stephen Sondheim

| Arthur Laurents

| 1959

| July 9–29, 2007{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Laura Benanti, Alison Fraser, Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin, Patti LuPone, Nancy Opel, Tony Yazbeck

2

| Damn Yankees

| colspan=2 | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

| George Abbott and Douglass Wallop

| 1955

| July 5–27, 2008

| Randy Graff, Sean Hayes, Cheyenne Jackson, Jane Krakowski, Megan Lawrence, Michael Mulheren

3

| The Wiz

| colspan=2 | Charlie Smalls

| William F. Brown

| 1975

| June 12 – July 5, 2009

| Tichina Arnold, Ashanti, Joshua Henry, James Monroe Iglehart, Orlando Jones, LaChanze, Dawnn Lewis

Encores! Off-Center

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
! Title

! Music

! Lyrics

! Book

! Year

! Encores! Off-Center Run

! Stars

1

| The Cradle Will Rock

| colspan=3 | Marc Blitzstein

| 1937

| July 10–13, 2013

| Danny Burstein, Raúl Esparza, Judy Kuhn, David Margulies, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Anika Noni Rose

2

| Violet

| Jeanine Tesori

| colspan=2 | Brian Crawley

| 1997

| July 17, 2013{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry, Christopher Sieber

3

| I'm Getting My Act Together...

| Nancy Ford

| colspan=2 | Gretchen Cryer

| 1978

| July 24–27, 2013

| Renée Elise Goldsberry

4

| Tick, Tick... Boom!

| colspan=2 | Jonathan Larson

| Jonathan Larson, adapted by David Auburn

| 2001

| June 25–28, 2014

| Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Karen Olivo

5

| Randy Newman's Faust

| colspan=3 | Randy Newman

| 1995

| July 1, 2014

| Michael Cerveris, Randy Newman, Laura Osnes, Vonda Shepard, Tony Vincent

6

| Pump Boys and Dinettes

| colspan=3 | John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann

| 1981

| July 16–19, 2014

| Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson, Jordan Dean

7

| A New Brain

| colspan=2 | William Finn

| William Finn and James Lapine

| 1997

| June 24–27, 2015{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Dan Fogler, Ana Gasteyer, Jonathan Groff, Aaron Lazar

8

| Little Shop of Horrors

| Alan Menken

| colspan=2 | Howard Ashman

| 1982

| July 1–2, 2015

| Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marva Hicks, Taran Killam

9

| The Wild Party

| colspan=3 | Andrew Lippa

| 2000

| July 15–18, 2015

| Brandon Victor Dixon, Sutton Foster, Joaquina Kalukango, Steven Pasquale, Miriam Shor

10

| Runaways

| colspan=3 | Elizabeth Swados

| 1978

| July 6–9, 2016

| Sophia Anne Caruso, Mj Rodriguez

11

| Off-Center Jamboree

| colspan=2 | Various

|

|

| July 16, 2016

| Sutton Foster, Jonathan Groff

12

| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

| Alan Menken

| Howard Ashman and Dennis Green

| Howard Ashman

| 1979

| July 27–30, 2016{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Skylar Astin, Santino Fontana, James Earl Jones

13

| Assassins

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| John Weidman

| 1990

| July 12–15, 2017

| Steven Boyer, Alex Brightman, Victoria Clark, Shuler Hensley, Steven Pasquale

14

| The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

| colspan=3 | Kirsten Childs

| 2000

| July 26–27, 2017

| Nikki M. James

15

| Really Rosie

| Carole King

| colspan=2 | Maurice Sendak

| 1980

| August 2–5, 2017

| Taylor Caldwell

16

| Songs for a New World

| colspan=2 | Jason Robert Brown

|

| 1995

| June 27–30, 2018{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Shoshana Bean, Colin Donnell, Mykal Kilgore, Solea Pfeiffer

17

| Gone Missing

| colspan=2 | Michael Friedman

| Steve Cosson

| 2003

| July 11–12, 2018

| Taylor Mac

18

| Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope

| colspan=3 | Micki Grant

| 1971

| July 25–28, 2018

|

19

| Working

| Various

| Various

| Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso

| 1978

| June 26–29, 2019

| Helen Hunt, Christopher Jackson, Javier Muñoz, Tracie Thoms

20

| Promenade

| Al Carmines

| colspan=2 | María Irene Fornés

| 1965

| July 10–11, 2019

|

21

| Road Show

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| John Weidman

| 2008

| July 24–27, 2019

| Raúl Esparza, Brandon Uranowitz

Special Events

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
! Title

! Music

! Lyrics

! Book

! Year

! Run

! Stars

1

| Cotton Club Parade

| colspan=2 | Various

|

|

| November 18–22, 2011{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

|

2

| A Bed and A Chair

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

|

|

| November 13–17, 2013

| Jeremy Jordan, Norm Lewis, Bernadette Peters

3

| The Band Wagon

| Arthur Schwartz

| Howard Dietz

| Douglas Carter Beane

| 1931

| November 6–16, 2014

| Michael Berresse, Michael McKean, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Laura Osnes, Tony Sheldon, Tracey Ullman

4

| Annie Get Your Gun

| colspan=2 | Irving Berlin

| Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields

| 1946

| October 27–28, 2015

| Megan Hilty, Andy Karl, Judy Kaye, Brad Oscar, Ron Raines

5

| Sunday in the Park with George

| colspan=2 | Stephen Sondheim

| James Lapine

| 1984

| October 24–26, 2016{{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Annaleigh Ashford, Carmen Cusack, Jake Gyllenhaal, Phylicia Rashad

6

| Brigadoon

| Frederick Loewe

| colspan=2 | Alan Jay Lerner

| 1947

| November 15–19, 2017{{ref|CD|CD}}

| Stephanie J. Block, Robert Fairchild, Aasif Mandvi, Kelli O'Hara, Patrick Wilson

7

| A Chorus Line

| Marvin Hamlisch

| Edward Kleban

| James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante

| 1975

| November 14–18, 2018

| Jay Armstrong Johnson, Robyn Hurder, Tony Yazbeck

8

| Evita

| Andrew Lloyd Webber

| colspan=2 | Tim Rice

| 1978

| November 13–24, 2019

| Enrique Acevedo, Jason Gotay, Solea Pfeiffer

9

| Parade

| colspan=2 | Jason Robert Brown

| Alfred Uhry

| 1998

| November 1–6, 2022 {{ref|BWAY|BWAY}}

| Ben Platt, Micaela Diamond, Gaten Matarazzo

10

| Pal Joey

| Richard Rodgers

| Lorenz Hart

| Richard LaGravenese and Daniel "Koa" Beaty

|

| November 1–5, 2023

| Brooks Ashmanskas, Jennifer Holliday, Aisha Jackson, Elizabeth Stanley, Ephraim Sykes

11

| Ragtime

| Stephen Flaherty

| Lynn Ahrens

| Terrence McNally

| 1996

| October 30–November 10, 2024

| Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz

Notes

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{{note|BWAY|BWAY}}Transferred to Broadway.

{{note|CD|CD}}Received a cast recording.

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.nycitycenter.org/Home/On-Stage/Encores! Encores!] on the New York City Center website
  • 2005 American Theatre Wing [https://soundcloud.com/american-theatre-wing/episode39 interview] with Jack Viertel
  • 2007 American Theatre Wing panel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqOMOUf0Kk "The Evolution of Encores!"], featuring Ted Chapin, Judith Daykin, Rob Fisher, David Ives, and Jack Viertel

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