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Our big, fat Spring Arts Guide

So, spring is finally here and winter’s finally gone? Get out! No, we mean that: Get. Out.

Phantom of the Opera plays at the Academy of Music through April 12.
Phantom of the Opera plays at the Academy of Music through April 12.Read more

SO, SPRING IS finally here and winter's finally gone? Get out! No, we mean that: Get. Out.

In the many links below, our Daily News arts and entertainment writers pick the season's best reasons to move your butt from the couch at home to an aisle seat at a concert hall, jazz club, Avenue of the Arts venue or multiplex - and to move your feet in the direction of spring's top festivals and museum exhibits.

The A-list celebrities passing through town include Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Cher - and that's just in one three-week stretch, starting in late April. The Tony Awards' best play of 2013 comes to town, along with some Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. Philadanco and Ignat Solzhenitsyn return. Bob Marley's son Stephen performs, with Bob Marley's grandson Jo Mersa as an opening act. John Legend does back-to-back commencement and concert appearances.

The Franklin Institute opens a brainy new wing. The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosts a blockbuster show of Korean art - before Los Angeles gets it. Scarlett Johansson is box-office bait in not one but two movies. Bryan Cranston and Godzilla co-star, so we'll see who's baddest.

All that, plus the Penn Relays, Devon Horse Show, Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival, Beer Week . . . and these are just the highlights from our critics' 90-plus springtime picks.

We know you love your couch, so TV columnist Ellen Gray grants permission to head back there for spring's big TV moments - including Jack Bauer's return. (If you need us, we'll be hiding under the bed.) But mostly we'd urge you to spring forth.