Prelude to a Kiss Tickets

In Prelude to a Kiss, Peter and Rita follow their whirlwind courtship with a storybook wedding. After a mysterious elderly man appears and kisses the bride at the wedding, the two lovers are sent on a magical journey that they will never forget. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship and Rita's nagging doubts, their love is put to the test by unknown forces. This revival comes after a successful Off-Broadway production starring Alec Baldwin and Mary Louise Parker, a Broadway production starring Parker and Timothy Hutton and a film version starring Baldwin and Meg Ryan.

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Tickets at Todd Haimes Theatre

The Todd Haimes Theatre was built in 1918 by producers (and brothers) Arch and Edgar Selwyn and was originally named The Selwyn Theatre. Like many other theaters, it fell victim to the economic woes of the Great Depression and became a movie house in the 1930s.


The venue was a movie theater for almost 70 years, until it was purchased by the Roundabout Theatre Company in the late 1990s. After an expensive overhaul, it reopened as The American Airlines Theatre in 2000. In January 2024, the theater was renamed in memory of Roundabout Theatre Company's longtime artistic director and chief executive Todd Haimes.

Address

227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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About Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway

Venue

Todd Haimes Theatre
227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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Opening

March 8, 2007

Story for Prelude to a Kiss

In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-nominated comedy by Craig Lucas (The Light in the Piazza) a whirlwind romance takes a startling turn at Rita (Parisse) and Peter’s (Tudyk) wedding when an uninvited guest (Tony Award® winner John Mahoney) congratulates the bride with a kiss. With this one kiss the couple embarks on a mystical journey, traveling through puzzling identities and hidden longings to find the pure connection of love. Sometimes, a kiss isn’t just a kiss. John Mahoney, best known for playing Martin Crane on "Frasier," won a Tony® for his Broadway debut in The House of Blue Leaves and has appeared in numerous plays with Steppenwolf. Alan Tudyk, who may be familiar to Roundabout audiences from Misalliance in 1997, has gone on to perform on Broadway in musicals such as Epic Proportions and Spamalot as well as numerous films.