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Dates announced for Water for Elephants
News Desk, August 14th, 2024
Broadway2024 Tony NomineeMusical
Get ready - the circus is rolling into town! The Tony-nominated musical Water for Elephants, which earned an impressive seven 2024 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, is set to embark on its first national tour in fall 2025. After a hugely successful world premiere run in Atlanta, the musical adaptation of Water for Elephants made its Broadway debut in 2024. The show utilizes the book by Rick Elice, which in turn is based on Sara Gruen's original novel, and features music and lyrics by the PigPen Theatre Co. Tony-nominated Jessica Stone will be taking the directorial helm. The stunning play comes complete with clowns, aerialists, jugglers, and more to give the true circus experience!...
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News Desk, August 8th, 2024
Comedy
Kevin Hart is a Philly-born former shoe salesman who has become one of the funniest actor-comedians in America today. He has appeared in films such as the Jumanji franchise, Get Hard and Central Intelligence. A lot of his material usually drawn from his personal experiences with family, friends and loved ones. Don't miss your chance to catch him live as he heads to a venue near you!...
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News Desk, August 1st, 2024
BroadwayMusicalTony Nominee
Hey sister... the Broadway sensation, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is heading out on tour! The scintillating spectacle continues to load up the windmill and its elephant since it hit the road on its first-ever national tour in 2022. Garnering rave reviews from Broadway's toughest critics Moulin Rouge! is the most gorgeous Broadway event of the year, don't miss it when it lands in your town!...
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News Desk, July 30th, 2024
Broadway2023 Tony WinnerMusical
Winner of two Drama Desk Awards! After an a-maize-ing premiere at Broadways Nederlander Theatre, the heartwarming story is heading on a national tour! With Nashville's top songwriting talents from Tony winner Robert Horn, in collaboration with Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, this musical offers a kernel of joy in these divided times, exploring how opening up to people and ideas we are wary of can be a beautiful process, uniting us in our similarities, not our differences. Aw Shucks!...
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News Desk, March 22nd, 2024
BroadwayMusicalDrama Desk Winner
Tina Fey's Drama Desk award-winning Broadway musical, based on the 2004 Lindsay Lohan film, Mean Girls is out on tour! With a book by Fey, direction by Book of Mormon's Casey Nicholaw, music and lyrics by Jeff Richmond, and Legally Blonde's Nell Benjamin - which includes tracks "Apex Predator" and "I'd Rather Be Me"- it's no surprise that the musical is a Broadway smash hit, earning 12 Tony nominations along the way....
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News Desk, March 5th, 2024
Broadway2023 Tony WinnerMusical
The 13-time Tony-nominated, Grammy-winning show is hitting the road on a brand new tour in 2024! The classic black and white romantic comedy Some Like It Hot bursts onto the stage in full technicolor during a brand new imagining of Billy Wilder's 1959 musical mobster classic. Widely considered one of the most influential and celebrated filmmakers of the Golden Era of Hollywood cinema, Wilder brought together silver screen legends Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon for bonafide box office success, creating one of the most beloved films of the MGM canon in the process....
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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News Desk, December 12th, 2023
Wands at the ready. J.K Rowling and Jack Thorne's theatrical heavyweight, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is heading on tour! Following record-breaking and multi-award-winning runs on London's West End and Broadway, Chicago audiences can now experience the magic of the astounding production as it launches the trek with a 21-week engagement at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, beginning in fall 2024. A continuation of The Boy Who Lived's story, 'Cursed Child catches up with Harry and co as grown-ups where the challenges of adulthood, jobs, and kids prove far scarier than anything Voldemort could have cooked up!...
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News Desk, October 12th, 2022
Rising comedian Taylor Tomlinson is hitting the road once again this year! After cutting her teeth as a comedian at the tender age of 16 in church basements, Tomlinson has made appearances on Conan, The Tonight Show and has three Netflix stand-up specials already under her belt. Don't miss the blossoming of this exciting new comedic voice as she storms a stage near you!...
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