Summer Stages: BWW's Top Summer Theatre Picks - Omaha!
WIth so much theater to choose from in the Omaha area, where do you begin? These are my top picks.
May 29-June 28
SPAMALOT
Omaha Community Playhouse
Box Office: (402) 553-0800
Toll Free Box Office: 1-888-782-4338
Email: info@omahaplayhouse.org
Tony-award winner for Best Musical, you can't go wrong with SPAMALOT. Omaha Community Playhouse does Monty Python's outrageously funny series of mishaps in search of the Holy Grail proud. This is community theater as good as it gets.
June 5-28
MARY POPPINS, The Broadway Musical
The Rose Theater
Box Office: (402) 345-4849
Email: info@rosetheater.org
One of the most popular Disney films of all time soars to life on the stage of the Rose Theater. You will find it supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
July 10-August 2
THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND
The Shelterbelt Theater
Box Office: (402) 341-2757
Email:boxoffice@shelterbelt.org
This unauthorized Golden Girls musical by Nick Brennan and Luke Jones will delight fans with its singing, dancing and hilarity.
May 28-June 21
CALENDAR GIRLS
SNAP Productions
Box Office: (402) 341-2757
Email: www.snapproductions.com
Based on the true story of eleven women who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund.
May 23,24, 28-31, June 5-7
MESSIAH ON THE FRIGIDAIRE
The Lofte Theater
Box Office: (402) 234-2553
Email: LofteTickets@Lofte.com
The image of Jesus appears on the refrigerator in a trailer park, drawing in hoards of miracle seekers and challenging the relationships of the people living there.
July 15-27, 23-26, August 1, 2
GODSPELL
The Lofte Theater
Box Office: (402) 234-2553
Email: LofteTickets@Lofte.com
A popular musical retelling of the Gospel with music by Stephen Schwartz.
Photo Credit: Christian Robertson
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James and the Giant Peach Nebraska Communities Playhouse (6/19-6/28) |
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A Few Good Men Lofte Community Theatre (9/04-9/13) |
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A Year with Frog and Toad Annie L. McDonald Theatre (1/29-2/07) |
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Sister Act Annie L. McDonald Theatre (10/29-11/08) |
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Weird Al Yankovic Baxter Arena (7/28-7/28) |
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Noah James Bourbon Theatre (7/18-7/18) |
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Derek Hough at Orpheum Theatre Orpheum Theatre (7/08-7/08) |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (Florida) Outdoors - Old Main Amphitheatre (4/01-4/11) |
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The Book of Mormon Orpheum Theater Omaha (5/18-5/23) |
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Underdog: The Other, Other Bronte Enid Miller Theatre (10/02-10/11) |