Broadway Across America News

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to St. Louis July 16 & 17

Broadway Across America is thrilled to announce the 10/11 Cincinnati season sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Season tickets will go on sale Monday, March 29th. Select seats in person at the Broadway Across America Cincinnati Box Office in the Mercantile Center downtown at 120 East Fourth Street, Monday - Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. Season tickets can be purchased online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or by calling the Broadway Across America toll-free Cincinnati Season Ticket Hotline at 800-294-1816.

PNC Broadway Across America - Pittsburgh - presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Broadway Across America - today unveiled its 'practically perfect' 2010/2011 season. One of the city's premier entertainment series, PNC Broadway Across America - Pittsburgh is generously sponsored by The PNC Foundation. The 2010/2011 season presents an array of must-see musical theater productions presented on the Cultural District's world-class stages.

CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION is an out of this world, all-new, street smart spectacle from the creators of the groundbreaking hit CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY the only show of its kind to ever perform on Broadway. 'Vaudeville meets the future in Cirque Dreams Illumination' raves the Norwich Bulletin and proclaimed, 'Dazzling! A reason to stand up and cheer', by the New York Daily News, CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION will ignite Houston when it performs at the Hobby Center thru March 7.

CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and its PURE ENTERTAINMENT! Now celebrating 13 glorious years of girls, glitz and glamour on the Great White Way, the record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO is now the sixth longest-running musical in Broadway history... and shows no sign of ever slowing down!

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America present Storytime Live!--the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool television shows: Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan.

From the theatrical madness of 'Young Frankenstein' that only a Mel Brooks could produce, to the depths of passionate emotion evoked by such legendary musicals as 'Les Misérables' and 'West Side Story,' announced by Broadway Across America for subscription season 2010-2011 are a mix of six (6) musical hits that will also include such current Broadway show-stoppers as 'HAIR,' the dance excitement of 'Burn The Floor,' and the fast-moving '80s rocker 'Rock of Ages' presented by Florida Theatrical Association at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center March 6-7, 2010.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to Clowes Memorial Hall, April 20-25, 2010 as a Broadway Across America 09/10 Season presentation. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased from an authorized ticket agent online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, by phone at 1-800-982-2787, or in person at Clowes Memorial Hall, The Murat Theatre and the Broadway Across America Box Office downtown at 342 Massachusetts Avenue.

Long-running hit 'The Lion King,' back in Boston through March 21, proves why director and designer Julie Taymor rules the jungle

In the mood to do something "mindless, trivial, and pointless?" Go to the theatre! Or at least that is what the lead character in The 39 Steps suggests. This play, performing now until March 14th at the Aronoff Center, is anything but "mindless, trivial, and pointless." In fact, it is the complete opposite: an engaging, clever, quick-witted comedy with a mysterious Hitchcock plot.

Atlanta brings Atlanta arts fans a lineup of Broadway sensations as part of its newly announced 2010-2011 season at The Fabulous Fox Theatre. Audiences will embark on a dramatic and diverse journey with the debuts of BURN THE FLOOR and SHREK THE MUSICAL paired with award-winning fan favorites DREAMGIRLS, WEST SIDE STORY and HAIR.

After breaking box office records in 2009, WICKED, the smash-hit musical, will return to Louisville's Kentucky Center, May 5-23 as a PNC Broadway Across America Special Presentation.

Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will play at The Fabulous Fox Theatre from March 9-14, 2010, and is presented by Broadway Across America - Atlanta as part of the 2009-2010 season. BroadwayWorld brings you an inside look at the production!

Based on the beloved book by Dodie Smith and led by an award-winning creative team including four-time Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks (A BRONX TALE, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, GUYS AND DOLLS), acclaimed bookwriter/co-lyricist B.T. McNicholl (BILLY ELLIOT, SPAMALOT, THE IT GIRL), and Dennis DeYoung, co-founder of the legendary rock band Styx, The 101 Dalmatians Musical promises a quirky, upside-down view of the world where the audience sees life from a dog's point of view. This stage musical transports audiences to a topsy-turvy, exciting, and altogether fantastic reality that gives grand license for song, dance, and spectacle in a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience.

According to the New York Times, the hit Broadway musical Billy Elliot will be making its way to South Korea by Auguust 2010. The producers of 'Billy Elliot the Musical' said that a Korean-language version of the show, will play in Seoul. Years in the making, the South Korean production includes a cast of local actors including four young Billys.

Fiddler on the Roof has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal and timeless message. The North American Tour continues the tradition of the 1964 Jerome Robbins Tony® Award-winning production playing at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center May 11-16, 2010. Robbins won twin Tony awards for his direction and choreography of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. In this national tour, both are faithfully recreated by Director Sammy Dallas Bayes, choreographer of the Broadway reviv

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS. This 2 time Tony and Drama Desk Award winner will play the Robert S. Whitney Hall - The Kentucky Center from March 16 through 21, 2010 as a part of the Broadway Across America series.

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS. This 2 time Tony and Drama Desk Award winner is coming to The Kentucky Center, March 16-21, 2010 as a PNC Broadway Across America 09/10 Season Presentation.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific opened a 5-night stand in San Antonio's Majestic Theatre Tuesday evening. Winner of seven Tony Awards, the 1949 musical is currently enjoying a lively revival on Broadway and is touring the US as a part of Broadway Across America.