2017-2018 Touring Season

[elephantseye]

Austin 2017-2018

 

The Kig and I

An American in Paris

Finding Neverland

School of Rock

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Rent (20th Anniversary tour)

Book of Mormon (for the third time in four years, I believe)

 

And Hamilton has been announced for the 2018-2019 series.

[pg1287]

Detroit announced this morning:

Love Never Dies (Fisher Theater)                     October 17-29

An American in Paris (Detroit Opera House)     November 28-December 10

The Bodyguard (Fisher Theater)                       January 16-28

Finding Neverland (Fisher Theater)                   February 6-18

School of Rock (Fisher Theater)                         April 10-22

On Your Feet! (Fisher Theater)                          May 1-13
Hamilton confirmed for 2018-2019 season, and current subscribers will get first access to tickets.

Additional non-subscription shows:

Gobsmacked, The Color Purple, Les Miserables, Cinderella, and Wicked

[lambchop2]

Broadway in Detroit:

Love Never Dies

An American in Paris

The Bodyguard

Fidning Neverland

School of Rock

On Your Feet

A disappointment for me. I might try to catch Finding Neverland with cheap seats because I loved the film but that's it. The Broadway in Detroit series used to get the better shows in Michigan, now it gets the same stuff that the Wharton Center and other venues get. What happened? Here's hoping the Opera House season makes up for this.

[ErinDillyFan]

Detroit (Nederlander) announced:

Love Never Dies

An American in Paris

The Bodyguard

Finding Neverland

School of Rock

On Your Feet

Have seen the filmed stage production of Love Never Dies.  Saw The Bodyguard in London and On Your Feet in Chicago.  Excited for An American in Paris and Finding Neverland and to see On Your Feet again.  I guess School of Rock will be new, so can check that off.  So, will probably get season tickets.

[Hum a tune]

Dayton Ohio

8/8 - 8/13  The Little Mermaid

10/3 - 10/8  In the Heights

11/7 - 11/12  An American In Paris

2/13 - 2/18  The Sound of Music

3/20 - 3/25  Something Rotten

4/11 - 4/22  The Phantom of the Opera

5/22 - 5/27  Beautiful

[MJPrice76]

Cleveland

2017-18 KeyBank Broadway Series

10/17 - 11/05   Waitress (National Tour Launch)

12/5 - 12/23     On Your Feet

01/09 - 01/28   Love Never Dies

03/06 - 03/25   Rent 20th Anniversary Tour

04/10 - 04/29   The Humans

05/02 - 05/27   Aladdin

07/17 - 08/26   Hamilton

[Blockhead24]

Smith Center-- Las Vegas

Something Rotten 8/8-8/13

Curious Incident 9/19-9/24

The Little Mermaid 10/3-10/8

The King and I 10/25-10/29

The Bodyguard 11/21-11/26

Rent--20th anniversary tour 1/31-2/4

Love Never Dies 3/20-25

The Color Purple 4/24-4/29

Hamilton 5/29--6/24

[BakerWilliams]

Is The Humans going on tour?

[itis2l84u]

When do the theatres in DC usually announce? I can't find when they'll be announcing anywhere on the Kennedy Center and National Theatre sites.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Kennedy Center should be within the next week or so!

The National I believe usually comes out in April-ish.

[Call_me_jorge]

Hoping waitress makes its way to Chicago 

[Clyde15]

The Denver Center announced its 2017-2018 season, along with the Pre-Broadway tryout of Frozen I believe we are getting every major tour next year, except Bright Star. 

 

Something Rotten

Rent Nov. 

Chicago 

Elf

Waitress 

The King and I 

Stomp 

Hamilton

Aladdin 

School of Rock 

The Book of Mormon 

Les Misérables 

On Your Feet! 

 

[TheSassySam]

Call_me_jorge said: "Hoping waitress makes its way to Chicago 

 

"

Oh, you know it will! My predictions for Chicago are:

Waitress

The Color Purple

Love Never Dies (after all, Phantom was just here)

The Humans or School of Rock

And a new musical. 

[annang]

Kennedy Center is announcing their theater season in April. 

http://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/specialevents/seasonannouncement

[saxpower]

Wilmington, Delaware announced today (Playhouse on Rodney Square).  Remember, Wilmington only has about 72,000 residents, AND we are a half-hour south of Philly, so we rarely get the "A" list tours.  We DO get some equity tours- had Gents Guide and Kinky Boots this season.  (The stage can fit most productions, the original version of Les Mis came here and the turntable fit). 

That said, the subscription series is (all have 8 performances)

 

Wizard of Oz

Cabaret

Dirty Dancing

Motown

The following are add-ons (three performances each)

The Illisionists

Dance to the Movies

The announcement is proof you can't please everyone.  For years the series was 6 shows with some add-ons.  A few years ago, they had to go to 5 main shows because of what was available- and people complained it was too few.  Last year it was 5 shows plus 3 add-ons- and people complained it was too many!

I'd had hoped something like Waitress, Bright Star, Love Never Dies or School of Rock was coming, but I understand we are not high on touring producers priority list. 

 

[dmwnc1959]

My apologies if this was already asked, and I scanned back several pages, but does anyone know when the Blumenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Charlotte, NC will announce the new 2017-2018 season? The representative on the phone said "sometime this Spring" but my guess it's nearer the end of this month? I've already seen what DPAC has to offer. After having such wonderful shows in Pittsburgh I'm hoping Charlotte gets some great shows.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

dmwnc1959 said: "My apologies if this was already asked, and I scanned back several pages, but does anyone know when the Blumenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Charlotte, NC will announce the new 2017-2018 season? The representative on the phone said "sometime this Spring" but my guess it's nearer the end of this month? I've already seen what DPAC has to offer. After having such wonderful shows in Pittsburgh I'm hoping Charlotte gets some great shows.

 

Blumenthal Performing Arts 2017-18 Broadway Lights Season: 

On Your Feet: Oct 31st - Nov 5, 2017

Les Miserables: Dec 13 - 17th, 2017

School of Rock: Jan 9th - 14th, 2018

The Phantom of the Opera: Jan 17th - 28th, 2018

Waitress: March 13th - 18th, 2018

Beautiful: April 17th - 22nd, 2018

The Humans: May 1st - 6th, 2018

Something Rotten: May 8th - 13th, 2018

Bright Star: June 26th - July 1st, 2018

The Color Purple: July 10th - 15th, 2018

The Book of Mormon: July 24th - 29th, 2018

The Lion King: Aug 22nd - Sept 9th

Love Never Dies: Sept 11th - 16th, 2018

Hamilton: Oct 10th - Nov 4th, 2018

 

I'm very excited for this season. 

[dmwnc1959]

THANK YOU and Wow! Very nice indeed!!! I can see me buying season tickets, and despite having already seen Something Rotten and The Book of Mormon I'd gladly seen them again. The rest of the shows will be 'first timers' for me. :)

[RockStarNYC]

FWIW Love Never Dies has posted an idea of their tour schedule on their site:

http://www.loveneverdies.com/ustour/tour-dates/

Taking a look at the gaps, it wouldn't surprise me if there are stops in DC (after Baltimore) either Philadelphia or Boston (after Providence), and Chicago ( before or after Minneapolis). 

[MJPrice76]

RockStarNYC said: "FWIW Love Never Dies has posted an idea of their tour schedule on their site:

http://www.loveneverdies.com/ustour/tour-dates/

Taking a look at the gaps, it wouldn't surprise me if there are stops in DC (after Baltimore) either Philadelphia or Boston (after Providence), and Chicago ( before or after Minneapolis). 

 

Cleveland is 01/09 - 01/28  2017 which is yet to be listed on Love Never Dies website

Looks like the performing arts centers that announced their seasons in the past week are not reflected on there website

Las Vegas is 03/20 - 03/25  2017

Charlotte is 09/11 - 09/16  2018

 

[mcsquared]

Taking a look at the gaps, it wouldn't surprise me if there are stops in DC (after Baltimore) either Philadelphia or Boston (after Providence), and Chicago ( before or after Minneapolis). 

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There's usually at least a few months between when something plays in Providence and when it's in Boston so they don't seem to use geographic proximity logic when booking. 

[trpguyy]

The process of planning a tour route almost always involves a drunk chimpanzee throwing darts at a map.

[sbflyfan]

trpguyy said: "The process of planning a tour route almost always involves a drunk chimpanzee throwing darts at a map."

Not really. Think of the amount of individual shows there on tour, plus the amount of cities/presenters who each choose a different selection of shows, and then have to fit them into their schedule.  It's all one big interconnected puzzle.

[bdboston]

And factoring in that producers would much rather spend less $$ on travel for cast/crew between cities, making it more lucrative to pay for bus fare than air fare. City distance definitely plays into things.

[asmith0307]

Ignoring the fact that people seemed to miss the joke, it really is a puzzle that doesn't always make sense. Take OYF for example. They are in Houston in November, but don't hit Dallas and San Antonio until Feb/March. They are far enough away from each other that you aren't going to cannibalize your audience, but close enough that it would be a fairly cheap drive (I used to do it in a bus all the time). 

[RoadGypsy2010]

You would be surprised how much it costs to rent a Charter Bus in some markets. 

On a recent tour we were flown between 2 cities in the same state, which we have always traveled the easy- one day (about 5 hours)- drive on a bus because the cost of flying everyone on an airline like Southwest, booking early and with a group rate, where all checked bags are free, was still significantly cheaper than it would have cost for a Bus. 

Much of how the road is booked has to do with the Venue and what they have scheduled in house. For many tour markets, the Broadway Series is only one small part of their yearly season. If they have Opera/Symphony/Philharmonic in house, or if there is a city wide conference that has booked out all of the hotels and convention/performance venues for their conference, it would create a booking issue. 

Cases like Boston/Providence/Worcester also exist, where a larger Tour market wouldn't want a smaller market to actively advertise the same product in the same viewing markets (TV and Radio adverts) in the same season.

Years back, when two similarly themed musicals were both touring, I asked a locally based road presenter if they would ever try to book them back-to-back and create an combined event, and I was told that one of the 2 shows had a non-competition clause in their rider, that no other similarly themed product could be booked in the same season, be advertised on the same marketing materials, etc. Which would also create booking logistic issues.