2017-2018 Touring Season

[ACL2006]

Kansas City

 

Waitress: Nov. 14- 1 9(Music Hall)

Les Miserables: December 5 - 10(Music Hall)*

The Color Purple: Jan. 16 - 21, 2018(Kauffman Center)

Finding Neverland: Feb. 27 - March 4, 2018(Music Hall)

Let It Be: March 23 - 24(Kauffman Center)*

The Lion King: May 9 - 27(Music Hall)

A Chorus Line: May 29 - June 5(Kauffman Center)

 

*Season Add-On and Swap A Show Option, not included with the regular Broadway series package. 

[JudyDenmark]

Tampa (Straz Center) just announced their 2017–2018 season package:

• On Your Feet [Oct 24–Oct 29, 2017]
• Fun Home [Nov 28–Dec 3, 2017]
• Love Never Dies [Dec 12–Dec 17, 2017]
• School of Rock [Jan 2–Jan 7, 2018]
• The Color Purple [Mar 6–Mar 11, 2018]
• The Bodyguard [Mar 20–Mar 25, 2018]
• Waitress [Apr 24–Apr 29, 2018]

Plus extra non-package shows:

• Book of Mormon [Dec 5–Dec 10, 2017]
• Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour [Jan 19–Jan 21, 2018]
• Phantom of the Opera [Feb 14–Feb 25, 2018]
• Beautiful [Mar 27–Apr 1, 2018]

(Updated to include dates & non-package shows)

[ACL2006]

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[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Durham Performing Arts Center's 2017-18 season is...

Circus 1903: September 12th-17th
The Little Mermaid: October 17th-22nd
Love Never Dies: October 31st-November 5th
School of Rock: November 28th-December 3rd
On Your Feet!: January 2nd-7th
Les Miserables: January 30th-February 4th
The Phantom of the Opera (season option): February 28th-March 11th
The Color Purple: April 3rd-8th
Waitress: May 1st-6th

[ozjust4]

Is the Les Mis tour equity? 

[trpguyy]

ozjust4 said: "Is the Les Mis tour equity? "

Yes

[Mike Barrett]

Any word on when Boston will announce? Im predicting a big season for them. Aladdin, School of Rock, On your feet, HAMILTON, probably Les Mis as well. Im thinking a Book of Mormon return is also happening. Sorta disappointing season this year, only shows I had interests in were Jersey Boys, Something Rotten (wasn't even around to see it) or Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nightime. 

[carolinaguy]

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Durham Performing Arts Center's 2017-18 season is...

Circus 1903: September 12th-17th
The Little Mermaid: October 17th-22nd
Love Never Dies: October 31st-November 5th
School of Rock: November 28th-December 3rd
On Your Feet!: January 2nd-7th
Les Miserables: January 30th-February 4th
The Phantom of the Opera (season option): February 28th-March 11th
The Color Purple: April 3rd-8th
Waitress: May 1st-6th

 

"

Wasn't terribly excited by DPAC's season. Two Andrew Lloyd Webber shows in the regular package, plus a return engagement of that dreadful Phantom tour? Definitely a comedown from the current season.

[bdboston]

Boston is announcing its season on Mon. Mar. 27.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

How about the National Theater? I'm hoping to see Aladdin again, especially since Adam is in it 

[BeachGirl2]

For those Southern Californians, Segerstrom Center is announcing their 2017/2018 season this week and is teasing the shows today on Facebook with word scrambles of the show names.  The first two are Motown and Kinky Boots, both of which were here in the last couple of years.  I know Hamilton is coming (yay!), but hoping for other new shows (Waitress, Something Rotten, Aladdin, etc) instead of repeats. They usually have a good mix, so we'll see what else we get...

[KConradG]

Segerstrom finished off their list. No dates yet.

Motown
Kinky Boots
School of Rock
The Color Purple
Hamilton
On Your Feet
Love Never Dies
Something Rotten

[bdboston]

The Providence Performing Arts Center announced its 2017-2018 season (and also revealed Hamilton will play RI in 2018-2019):

 

LES MISÉRABLES - September 21 – 30, 201

FUN HOME - November 7 – 12, 2017

FINDING NEVERLAND -  November 28 – December 3, 2017

KINKY BOOTS - December 8 – 10, 2017

LOVE NEVER DIES - December 26 – 31, 2017

THE BODYGUARD - January 9 – 14, 2018

ON YOUR FEET! - January 30 – February 4, 2018

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL - February 27 – March 4, 2018

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS - March 13 – 18, 2018

SOMETHING ROTTEN! - May 15 – 20, 2018

[Willie4316]

KConradG said: "Segerstrom finished off their list. No dates yet.

Motown
Kinky Boots
School of Rock
The Color Purple
Hamilton
On Your Feet
Love Never Dies
Something Rotten"

Update: Dates have been announced

Something Rotten: November 7 - 19, 2017

Motown: December 19 - 24, 2017

Kinky Boots: February 6 - 11, 2018

The King and I: February 27 - March 11, 2018

Book of Mormon: March 20 - 25, 2018

Love Never Dies: April 24 - May 5, 2018

Hamilton: May 8 - 27, 2018

The Color Purple: June 19 - 24, 2018

School of Rock: July 24 - August 5, 2018

On Your Feet: August 21 - September 2, 2018

[BroadwayConcierge]

Wait, Hamilton in Costa Mesa from May 8 to May 27, 2018? Those dates overlap with Hamilton's scheduled run in Houston, right? This means there's gotta a second national tour announcement coming soon...

[LesWickedly]

BroadwayConcierge said: "Wait, Hamilton in Costa Mesa from May 8 to May 27, 2018? Those dates overlap with Hamilton's scheduled run in Houston, right? This means there's gotta a second national tour announcement coming soon...

 

"

Wow, interesting catch. Maybe Chicago will wrap up and head out on tour.

[asmith0307]

There is another tour launching in about a year if I am not mistaken. 

[BeachGirl2]

Yeah, the Costa Mesa dates are also weird because I thought Hamilton would come here after San Diego or even Seattle (to stay on the West Coast).  So that makes sense if it's another touring company altogether, especially Chicago.  Although, I'm a little bummed if we don't get Joshua Henry.  And I figured Rory O'Malley would do Costa Mesa since he's LA based.  Curious to see how this plays out...

In other Segerstrom season news, I'm thrilled to get Something Rotten and Color Purple, but bummed neither Waitress or Aladdin are coming next season. I guess they are sticking to LA on their first stops, then will circle back for 2018-2019.  

[Willie4316]

LesWickedly said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Wait, Hamilton in Costa Mesa from May 8 to May 27, 2018? Those dates overlap with Hamilton's scheduled run in Houston, right? This means there's gotta a second national tour announcement coming soon...
"
Wow, interesting catch. Maybe Chicago will wrap up and head out on tour.

"

Chicago run and then hitting the road would make the most sense. Save costs perhaps?

[Call_me_jorge]

I'd guess January Chicago would close up shop, unless they are trying for 3 the originally intended years. I just want it to stay in Chicago forever, but I guess it's not gonna happen.

[trpguyy]

The Chicago company will close when it is no longer making money. 

[ACL2006]

The Chicago run is open-ended.

[bdboston]

This article in the NYTimes from July 2016 clearly indicated that there would be two national tours, with the second one (not the SF one) starting in Seattle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/upshot/how-scalpers-make-their-millions-with-hamilton.html?_r=0

 

 

 

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

FWIW, there are upcoming auditions for the "Eliza tour" company. The current tour is Angelica,  so either it's casting for the second national company or Chicago is nicknamed Eliza.  I think Hamilton will do what we saw Wicked do a decade ago: one or two sit down productions and multiple touring companies. At this point, the demand is there, I say run with it!

[trpguyy]

oncemorewithfeeling2 said: "...or Chicago is nicknamed Eliza."

It's not. Chicago is its own, open-ended production, and soon there will be multiple companies touring concurrently. 

[rebeccmam31]

Does anyone know when Pittsburgh is going to announce? I feel like by this time last year we knew when the announcement date would be (it was March 28 if memory serves).