The London stage production of the musical La Cage aux Folles is heading to Broadway next spring, its producers say. The Menier Chocolate Factory production of the Tony Award-winning show is to open April 18 at a Shubert theater in Manhattan to be announced.

More than a dozen of New York's Broadway plays and musicals have announced they will stop all showings by the end of January. The New York Times reported Sunday that among the closing productions, which represent nearly half of all current Broadway showings, are a rendition of Hairspray and a performance of the musical Spring Awakening. Final curtains also will fall this month on Young Frankenstein, 13 and Boeing-Boeing.

The Broadway production of the musical "Hairspray" is scheduled to end its six-year run early next year, its producers announced. Playbill.com said the show's original Tony Award-winning star Harvey Fierstein will reprise his role of Edna Turnblad starting Nov. 11.

The run of a Broadway production of the musical "Hairspray" is approaching its end at New York's Neil Simon Theater, production heads say. The head of the production informed cast members last week that the Tony Award-winning musical would end Jan. 18, Variety reported Friday.

By Michael Kuchwara Associated Press NEW YORK -- Funny thing about silences on stage. They can enhance what follows. And there are plenty of quiet, affecting moments in "A Catered Affair," a most unusual little musical that has the courage of its low-key, yet heartfelt convictions.