Broadway Across America - Indianapolis 2010/2011 season to be announced Friday!

[broadwayfreak4]

Posted: 2/22/10 at 11:51pm

Any predictions?

[mina3]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 1:03am

Nope, just happy to see Indianapolis mentioned on the main board! Yay hometown. I hope they get something good/new - other than proximity to Chicago, I don't understand why Indy is like a third-season city for most tours.

[never_has_been]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 3:36am

If I were to guess I would think maybe South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Fiddler on the Roof. Perhaps Spring Awakening early in the season and Lion King as the last show. In the Heights could be a possibility too, but I don't know if there would be enough interest.
Oddly enough despite living in Fort Wayne, the first show I saw in Indy was Wicked last June. I can see why Indy is a late tour stop for most shows. By the time they're booked for Indy all of the bigger citys have previously hosted them with the orginal tour casts. For example in the past year and a half I've made six trips out of state to see shows (Chicago[4], Dayton, and Cincinnati) because its so hard to guess if the show will ever come to Indy or not. Of course I hope that this will be an exciting season coming up but with Chicago, Cincinatti, Columbus, and Louisville semi close by I won't be holding my breath.

[mina3]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 11:42am

I bet you're right about Spring Awakening - they haven't gotten it yet and it's been on tour for ages. They just had Lion King last season, though, so that would be pretty soon for a repeat. It would be awesome for them to get South Pacific in its second season.

And see, that's what I mean - why does Cincinnati get booked as a tour stop before Indy? I remember going all the way to there or to Louisville to see shows as a child, and Indy's bigger than both of them combined. The only "bigger" city in the area is Chicago (and Detroit, but I can't remember them ever getting much in the way of touring shows either). It's a mystery to me.

[broadwayfreak2]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 5:01pm

mina3 - I also live in Indiana! Yay home state! :) I'd LOVE to see BILLY ELLIOT, IN THE HEIGHTS, SOUTH PACIFIC, or SPRING AWAKENING. But the one I wanna see most right now is BILLY ELLIOT.

[broadwayfreak2]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 12:05pm

2010-2011 Season!

MARY POPPINS - Sep. 23-Oct. 10, 2010 @ Murat Theatre

DREAMGIRLS - Nov. 2-7, 2010 @ Murat Theatre

WICKED - Dec. 15, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011 @ Murat Theatre

9 TO 5 - Jan. 11-16, 2011 @ Clowes Hall

GREASE - March 22-27, 2011 @ Clowes Hall

ROCK OF AGES - April 12-17, 2011 @ Clowes Hall


I had a feeling 9 TO 5 would be included for some odd reason. I'd kinda like to see all of them now that I think about it. I've seen WICKED twice. Do I want to go for a third??

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 12:25pm

Well that is a disappointing schedule.

Posted: 2/26/10 at 12:27pm

I'm shocked neither HAIR or West Side Story is coming. The Grease run will be the new non eq tour.

Anyone by chance know when Chicago is going to announce?

[mina3]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 1:09pm

Dreamgirls! I hope Moya Angela is still with the tour then, since Indy is her hometown too (we went to high school together). I'm sure the show will get a great reception if she's still with it.

Also...doesn't this mean Wicked will be in both Indy and Chicago over the holidays? That's pretty weird. And the second tour was just there last June.

This seems like a pretty smart season to me - 9 to 5 will have a ton of appeal, Wicked is Wicked, Mary Poppins is good for families, Dreamgirls has an Indy connection, and Rock of Ages is new. There's always at least one dud (*coughGreasecough*)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 1:34pm

Chicago has announced Fuerza Bruta starting in May, Lion King for September (with no closing date announced) and Wicked for December. But I am assuming they are all specials. Their season is so odd because they split the season into two season ticket packages. My current season tickets are Feb-July and my last season ticket package was Nov-Feb (overlapping a show in the current package). I am very excited about Fuerza Bruta and hope it can hang on through the summer. I really have no use for Lion King or Wicked again.

Updated On: 2/26/10 at 01:34 PM

[figaroindy]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 3:08pm

Simple answer on seasons - I used to work at Clowes Hall in the box office, and the main reason Indy gets shows behind Cincinnati and Louisville is that it is a poor showing town for season ticket sales. Tour companies would rather have more season tickets sold - so the money comes in IN ADVANCE - than to wait until the show is up for single ticket sales. The cities that do better season ticket sales get better seasons because they can promise safer money. If the season tickets are bought, the income is guaranteed, if it's mostly relying on single tickets, there's a MUCH larger chance of taking a loss on a show. Indy is NOT a season-ticket type of town. Cincinnati and Louisville are. I've been buying the Cincinnati Broadway Series for years (I still live in Indy) because the shows are newer/better choices. I swap back to Indy (a perk of the Broadway series) for anything that's the same in both seasons. It's been this way forever, and until Indy starts really getting some season ticket sales, it's going to stay that way. It's too dangerous to bring in an expensive show, hoping you can pay for it with single tickets at the time of the show.

[mina3]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 3:33pm

Ah yes, that does explain it. I wonder why Indy doesn't have season-ticket sales, though - my family's had season tickets forever, and I know so many people with season subscriptions to IRT and the like. It's probably a catch-22: no one wants season tickets when the shows are always so iffy, and big shows don't want to come because there are no season ticket sales. That's too bad.

[figaroindy]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 3:55pm

A few years ago, the Indy season was pretty decent, and I think it was a test to see if they could bump season sales with bigger shows....I also think it didn't succeed, so here we are with "Grease."

I think people are less willing to spend that much money (the seasons are not cheap in Indy, and the seating locations are not great at the lower prices), and there are LOTS of entertainment options - community theaters, ISO, IRT, Colts, etc.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 2/26/10 at 5:06pm

As a Louisville BAA subscriber, I'd be very happy if we got "Mary Poppins," "Dreamgirls," "9 to 5," and "Rock of Ages." Does anyone have any inside info as to when Louisville will announce their season?