A BRONX story, ANASTASIA, CATS and greater announced for Broadway in Chicago off-season; Tickets On Sale This Weekend

Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce its next season will go on sale to the public this Sunday, September 23. The season contains: A BRONX story, ANASTASIA, CATS and Tony Award-winning COME FROM AWAY, FALSETTOS and A BAND'S seek advice from.

The low season specials will consist of: Emerald metropolis Theatre's Ken Ludwig'S 'TWAS THE night earlier than CHRISTMAS, THE booklet OF MORMON, STOMP, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL, KINKY BOOTS, chums! The Musical Parody, THE CHOIR OF MAN, intercourse counsel FOR STRAIGHT ladies FROM A gay MAN, merciless INTENTIONS: THE '90S MUSICAL, JERSEY BOYS, faucet canine, AMERICAN girl reside, CHICAGO and appoint twentieth Anniversary Tour.

to renew or buy a new subscription, please discuss with BroadwayInChicago.com or name 312-977-1717. Subscriber benefits encompass savings of as much as fifty six% off ticket costs this season, coupon codes on both parking and suite carrier, invitations to Broadway In Chicago exclusive movements, free trade privileges in keeping with availability and greater. The Broadway In Chicago line-up, together with performance dates and venues, is as follows:

A BRONX tale

March 12 - 24, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

in accordance with the one-man show that impressed the now traditional movie, this streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of the Bronx within the Nineteen Sixties-the place a younger man is caught between the daddy he loves and the mob boss he'd like to be. featuring an customary doo-wop rating, here's a tale about admire, loyalty, love, and peculiarly else: family. the new musical aspects a publication by way of Academy Award nominee Chazz Palminteri, track via Oscar, GRAMMY, and Tony Award winner Alan Menken, and lyrics via GRAMMY Award winner and Oscar and Tony Award nominee Glenn Slater, directed by using two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro and 4-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography through Tony nominee Sergio Trujillo.

ANASTASIA

March 26 - April 7, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

>From the Tony Award-profitable creators of the Broadway traditional Ragtime, ANASTASIA is a stunning new show that transports us from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the Twenties, as a courageous younger woman units out to find the mystery of her past. Pursued by means of a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the support of a rushing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat. together, they embark on an epic experience to help her locate domestic, love, and family. This 2017 Broadway hit features booklet by celebrated playwright Terrence McNally, a lush new score with the aid of Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) that elements favorites "journey to the previous" and "once Upon a December," and direction by way of Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak.

FALSETTOS

may additionally 28 - June 9, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

FALSETTOS revolves across the lifetime of an enthralling, intelligent, neurotic gay man named Marvin, his spouse, lover, about-to-be-Bar-Mitzvahed son, their psychiatrist, and the lesbians round the corner. or not it's a hilarious and achingly poignant look at the countless possibilities that make up a contemporary family unit... and an attractive reminder that love can inform a million reviews. This production of FALSETTOS marks a happy reunion for composer/lyricist William Finn and playwright/director James Lapine. The show changed into a critical success, described by way of The long island instances as "an excellent production of a perfect musical."

CATS

July 16 - Aug. 4, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

Audiences and critics alike are rediscovering this loved musical with breathtaking music, including one of the vital treasured songs in musical theater-"memory". Winner of seven Tony Awards together with greatest MUSICAL, CATS tells the story of 1 magical nighttime when an outstanding tribe of cats gathers for its annual ball to have fun and choose which cat might be reborn. The fashioned score by using Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Phantom of the Opera, faculty of Rock, sunset Boulevard), customary scenic and costume design via John Napier (Les Misérables), all-new lighting fixtures design via Natasha Katz (Aladdin), all-new sound design via Mick Potter, new choreography by way of Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) in line with the long-established choreography through Gillian Lynne (The Phantom of the Opera) and course by means of Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables), make this creation a new CATS for a brand new generation!

COME FROM AWAY

July 30 - Aug. 18, 2019

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

The big apple instances Critics' pick takes you into the heart of the awesome real story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran excessive, however uneasiness grew to become into have confidence, music soared into the nighttime, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. On 9/eleven, the world stopped. On 9/12, their reviews moved us all. do not miss this breathtaking new musical written with the aid of Tony nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and helmed with the aid of this year's Tony-profitable gold standard Director, Christopher Ashley. Newsweek cheers, "It takes you to a place you under no circumstances are looking to leave!"

THE BAND'S discuss with

Sept. 10 - 22, 2019

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

one of the crucial TONY AWARD winning MUSICALS IN history!

After a mixture-up on the border, an Egyptian Police Band is sent to a faraway village within the center of the Israeli barren region. with out a bus except morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely tourists are taken in with the aid of the locals. beneath the spell of the wilderness sky, their lives become intertwined in the most sudden techniques. THE BAND'S consult with celebrates the deeply human approaches tune, longing and laughter can join us all. Ten-time Tony Award-winning construction, THE BAND'S seek advice from facets music and lyrics through Tony and Drama Desk Award winner David Yazbek, and a book by using Tony Award, ny Drama Critics Circle, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards winner Itamar Moses. it is in keeping with the screenplay through Eran Kolirin, and is directed with the aid of Tony, Drama Desk, Lortel & Obie Award winner David Cromer.

OFF SEASON SPECIALS WILL consist of:

Ken Ludwig'S 'TWAS THE evening before CHRISTMAS

Nov. 3 - Dec. 30, 2018

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower vicinity (a hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

Directed via Emerald metropolis Theatre artistic Director Jacqueline Stone, Ken Ludwig'S 'TWAS THE nighttime earlier than CHRISTMAS is a merry, modern secret! Go on a playful polar odyssey with Emily and her ally Amos the mouse as they look for Santa's missing Naughty or first-rate list. Teamwork, resolution and coronary heart retailer the day in this magnificent, slapstick holiday affair. A returning favourite stuffed with xmas swashbuckling, this cheery creation is a holiday hit for all a long time!

THE e-book OF MORMON

Nov. 20 - Dec. 2, 2018

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

The long island times calls it, "The greatest musical of the century." The Washington put up says, "it's the type of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And leisure Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight reveal calls it "Genius. stunning. extra special." it be THE publication OF MORMON, the nine-time Tony Award-winning premier MUSICAL. This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway the world over to unfold the decent note. Now with standing room most effective productions in Australia, London, on Broadway, and throughout North the united states, THE book OF MORMON has truly become a global sensation. includes express language.

STOMP

Dec. 5 - 30, 2018

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower area (a hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

STOMP, the overseas percussion sensation, returns to Chicago for the holidays by ordinary demand. From its beginnings as a road performance in the UK, STOMP has grown into a world sensation during the last two decades, having performed in additional than 50 international locations and in front of greater than 24 million americans. Created by way of Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, STOMP continues its extraordinary run with four world productions: the continued sell-out construction at ny's Orpheum Theatre, a everlasting London enterprise, and North American and European excursions. all over its life, the show has endured to change with the aid of creating new cloth; this 12 months, it is going to contain two new pieces. it is secure to assert you will on no account again analyze grocery store carts or plumbing fixtures the identical method... or paint cans, or kitchen sinks or...

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Dec. 18, 2018 - Jan. 6, 2019

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

"a wholly clean, funny, and gorgeous new creation. A cause of party!" - new york magazine. rich with musical hits you recognize and love, together with "lifestyle," "dawn, sunset," "If I were A prosperous Man," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and "To life (L'Chaim!)," FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is the heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and other halves, and existence, love and laughter. Tony-successful director Bartlett Sher and the crew in the back of South Pacific, The King and that i and 2017 Tony-winning premier Play Oslo, deliver a clean and authentic imaginative and prescient to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. that includes a gifted solid, lavish orchestra and superb circulation and dance from Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, in line with the usual staging through Jerome Robbins, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF will introduce a brand new generation to the upl ifting social gathering that raises its cup to joy! to like! To existence!

THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL

Jan. 8 - 13, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL, an "electrifying" (Newsday) musical adaption of The manhattan instances optimal-selling novel written via Rick Riordan, will launch its countrywide Tour in Chicago. With greater than one hundred million copies of the e-book collection sold global, this global phenomenon has discovered a brand new domestic on the are living stage in a "spell binding" theatrical experience that proves "lightning can strike twice!" (TheaterMania). Following a sold-out run in long island city, where it garnered 3 Drama Desk Award nominations, together with choicest Musical, this "successful adaptation" (The Hollywood Reporter) is coming to rock Chicago.

KINKY BOOTS

Jan. 22 - 27, 2019

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings collectively 4-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (book) and GRAMMY Award-successful rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for top of the line ranking for KINKY BOOTS), will return to Chicago the place it originated its Pre-Broadway World optimum in Chicago in Oct. 2012. The winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including choicest Musical, KINKY BOOTS facets a Tony Award-successful score by Cyndi Lauper, a publication with the aid of Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by way of Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. KINKY BOOTS tells the uplifting and heartwarming story of Charlie rate, a younger man reluctantly taking on his family unit's struggling shoe manufacturing facility and searching for a clean concept. Charlie meets and finds thought in Lola, and together they discover that it takes a good chum to make a very good pair.

chums! The Musical Parody

Feb. 12 - March three, 2019

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower area (a hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

pals! The Musical Parody is the hilarious new musical that lovingly lampoons tv's chums celebrating the wacky misadventures of your favourite group of 20-anything acquaintances as they navigate the pitfalls of labor, existence, and love in Nineteen Nineties manhattan. or not it's a apparently regular day at new york's simplest espresso store, critical Perk, except an unexpected runaway bride with alluring hair enters the graphic and kicks the complete gang out of 2d gear! This delightfully naughty confection plucks the most suitable moments from the display's ten years and recreates the moments through an uncensored, quick-paced, song filled romp. you are going to snort! you'll cry! you're going to Unagi! recommended for mature audiences.

THE CHOIR OF MAN

March 12 - 17, 2019

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower place (a hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

The runaway hit of a lot of foreign tune gala's is hitting the road for its first U.S. tour! ordinary throughout the globe as "the most efficient believe-decent reveal," THE CHOIR OF MAN offers up 90 minutes of indisputable pleasure! it's a celebration. it be a live performance. or not it's a pint-filled first rate time set in a working pub that combines hair-raising harmonies, excessive-energy dance, and live percussion with foot-stomping choreography. The multi-gifted solid of 9 handsome blokes sings every thing - pub tunes, folks, Broadway, classic rock - all to roof-raising heights. or not it's the premiere singing, dancing, stomping, pub crawl of a live performance you'll ever see! CHEERS!

sex tips FOR STRAIGHT ladies FROM A gay MAN

March 19 - 31, 2019

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower place (175 E. Chestnut)

Voted surest Comedy for Couples, sex counsel FOR STRAIGHT girls FROM A homosexual MAN has been sharing its upbeat company of humor with theater audiences all across the us for over five years! Hailed by way of critics as an evening of "massive laughs and naughty fun," this romantic comedy takes the viewers on a hilarious and wild ride the place no subject is taboo and the insider 'suggestions' come straight from the supply: a homosexual man. Theatermania calls intercourse information "one of the vital top of the line date-nighttime suggests you are going to see this year!" and The Des Moines Register raves, "or not it's a slick demonstrate that delivers precisely what it guarantees!"

cruel INTENTIONS: THE '90S MUSICAL

April 2 -14, 2019

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower region (one hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

in line with the French novel, Les Liasions Dangereuses, and the classic cult film starring Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe and Sarah Michelle Geller, cruel INTENTIONS: THE '90S MUSICAL pulls you into the manipulative world of ny's most unhealthy liaisons: Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil. Seduced by way of revenge and fueled by means of ardour, both diabolically charming step-siblings vicinity of venture on even if or no longer Sebastian can deflower their incoming headmaster's daughter, Annette Hargrove. as the two set out to damage the blameless lady-and any person who receives in their way-they locate themselves entangled in a web of secrets and techniques, temptation, and the cruelest video game of all: love. that includes your favourite throwback hits via artists like Boyz II guys, Christina Aguilera, REM, *NSYNC, and, of route, Britney Spears, this intoxicating new musical is "the most desirable evening out" (entertainment Weekly).

JERSEY BOYS

April 2 - 7, 2019

Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt tuition (50 E. Congress Pkwy.)

JERSEY BOYS is the behind-the-track story of Frankie Valli and The four Seasons. They had been simply 4 guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first notice. they had a sound no one had ever heard... and the radio just could not get adequate of. but whereas their harmonies have been ultimate on stage, off stage it became a extremely distinctive story - a story that has made them a world sensation in every single place once more. The reveal aspects all their hits together with "Sherry," "huge girls do not Cry," "Oh What a night," "walk Like a person," "cannot Take My Eyes Off You" and "Working My way returned To You."

RAIN

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

April 14

As "the next neatest thing to seeing The Beatles!" (associated Press), RAIN performs the total latitude of The Beatles' discography are living onstage, together with essentially the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but by no means carried out for an viewers. This tribute display will return to Chicago for two performances only on Sunday, April 14 at 2 p.m. and seven:30 p.m. in addition to contemporary sets that consist of LED, excessive-Definition monitors and multimedia content material, RAIN will bring the Abbey road album to life in its entirety.

faucet dogs

April sixteen -21, 2019

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

The international dance sensation faucet dogs hits the road on an international tour of jaw dropping new surprises. adventure the excitement of a revitalized genre of dance. Seventy-5 action packed minutes of part theatre, half dance, part rock live performance and part development website. An adrenaline pumped cast turns typical faucet dancing upside-down and into the greatest night out. faucet canine premiered on the Sydney Theatre festival and success immediately followed with seasons in London, manhattan, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Shanghai and around the world. Created via Oliver Award-profitable choreographer Dein Perry, and firstly directed with the aid of Nigel Triffitt, with track by using Andrew Wilkie and lights through Gavin Norris.

AMERICAN woman are living

April 30 - may additionally 12, 2019

Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower region (a hundred seventy five E. Chestnut)

event American lady in an all-new musical! AMERICAN girl live is a superior stage production, that includes all-usual songs and unforgettable experiences. Come alongside to sleepover camp with some new pals for a thrilling summer season away from home. As bold tales of bravery and friendship come to existence, iconic American girl characters assist via story and tune. be a part of your favorite American woman characters and the campers as they follow their hearts, share their goals, and be taught the energy of friendship.

CHICAGO

may additionally 7 -12, 2019

Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph)

there may be under no circumstances been an improved time to journey CHICAGO, Broadway's razzle-dazzle smash. This effective hit musical, which is the recipient of six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, a GRAMMY, hundreds of standing ovations and now the #1 longest-running American Musical in Broadway background, welcomes NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George to the position of "Billy Flynn." CHICAGO has every thing that makes Broadway outstanding: a conventional story of repute, fortune and all that jazz; one display-stopping tune after one more; and essentially the most brilliant dancing you might have ever seen. even if you might be searching on your first Broadway musical, no matter if you've got viewed the Academy Award-winning movie and need to event the display live on stage or even if you have considered it earlier than and want to recapture the magic, CHICAGO always promises!

hire twentieth Anniversary Tour

Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph)

may additionally 10 - 19, 2019

In 1996, an normal rock musical by way of a little-normal composer opened on Broadway... and forever modified the panorama of american theatre. greater than two many years later, Jonathan Larson's appoint twentieth Anniversary Tour continues to communicate loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and in every single place the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece returns to the stage. A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, appoint follows an unforgettable yr in the lives of seven artists struggling to comply with their goals with out promoting out. With its inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear, this timeless get together of friendship and creativity reminds us to measure our lives with the most effective factor that truly concerns-love.

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