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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to present TROIKA Entertainment's KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for Best Score for KINKY BOOTS), April 3-8. Tickets start at $48 and can be purchased online at www.ordway.org, by phone at 651-224-4222 or in person at the Ordway ticket office.

Victoria Theatre Association's Premier Health Broadway Series presents the completely original new musical Something Rotten!, directed and choreographed by Tony Award©  winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin), with music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award © nominee Wayne Kirkpatrick and Golden Globe Award and Tony Award© nominee Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Tony Award© nominees Karey Kirkpatrick and best-selling author John O'Farrell, run March 20-25 at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale now at Ticket Center Stage, located in the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center, by phone at 937-228-3630 or toll-free at 888-228-3630, or online at Ticketcenterstage.com.

To commemorate The Plastics' favorite day of the week, customers who wear pink on Wednesdays can score a special, limited time only ticket offer for the Broadway premiere of Mean Girls. Find out how to make sure you're sitting at the right table.

Oh, remember those great mega-musicals from the 90's? There was LES MISERABLES AND PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and OMELETTE: MUSICAL...Well OMELETTE was the little known musical from the 1590's, not 1990's, that is the subject of the riotous National Tour now playing at Shea's Buffalo Theatre, aptly named SOMETHING ROTTEN!

The out of town tryout og PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL has already begun performances in Chicago. This week, the show's stars, Samantha Barks and Steve Kazee sat down with Fox 32 Chicago to dish on their iconic new gig. See the video below!

The touring company of Something Rotten comes up smelling like a rose in Philly.

Mean Girls, the new musical produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film, is pleased to announce ticket lottery policies for all performances of the show's Broadway premiere. Mean Girls is now in rehearsals; preview performances begin Monday, March 12 and opening night is Sunday, April 8 at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street).

Legendary ballet costume designer HOLLY HYNES and costume and scenic designer ZACK BROWN are among the 2018 TDF/Irene Sharaff Award recipients which were just announced by TDF, the not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts. Ms. Hynes was selected to receive the 2018 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design and Mr. Brown will receive the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. The awards are presented through TDF's Costume Collection. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 20, at 6:30pm, at the Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street).

The completely original new musical Something Rotten!, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin), with music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Wayne Kirkpatrick and Golden Globe Award and Tony Award nominee Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Tony Award nominees Karey Kirkpatrick and best-selling author John O'Farrell, will make its Atlanta premiere at the Fox Theatre from April 17-22 as part of Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta's 2017/2018 season.

Pretty Woman will be walking down 41st Street soon and now the whole block knows it. PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL will begin performances on Broadway on Friday, July 20, 2018, at The Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street), with an official opening night of Thursday, August 16, 2018. Check out photos of the marquee below!

Pretty Woman will be walking down 41st Street soon and now the whole block knows it. This afternoon, the show tweeted the installation of its marquee at the historic Nederlander Theater. Check out the Instagram post below!

The completely original new musical SOMETHING ROTTEN!, directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin), with music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award® nominee Wayne Kirkpatrick and Golden Globe Award and Tony Award® nominee Karey Kirkpatrick, and book by Tony Award® nominees Karey Kirkpatrick and best-selling author John O'Farrell will perform in Cobb Great Hall from March 13-18, 2018.Part of the MSU Federal Credit Union Broadway at Wharton Center Series, tickets are on sale now and available at Wharton Center's official ticketing outlets: online at whartoncenter.com, at the Auto-Owners Insurance Ticket Office at Wharton Center, or by calling 1-800-WHARTON.

Get set to be swept away on a magic carpet ride as Disney's Aladdin officially opens in Queensland Performing Arts Centre's, (QPAC's) Lyric Theatre today Friday 23 February, running until Sunday 3 June 2018.

Rock singer and former American Idol David Cook will be making his Broadway debut as Charlie Price in Kinky Boots this spring! Cook will begin performances on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. He will play a limited run through Saturday, May 5, 2018.

Samantha Barks and Steve Kazee, stars of the upcoming musical Pretty Woman, got glammed up in a new photo for Vanity Fair. Check out the stunning photo below, courtesy of VanityFair.com.

Kinky Boots producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Emmy Award-winner and Grammy Award nominee Wayne Brady will step back into his heels as 'Lola' in the Tony Award® -winning musical Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) beginning on Monday, March 5, 2018. He will play a strictly limited run through Friday, April 26, 2018.

Sometimes touring productions of Broadway musicals are better than their original versions. When I first saw the Tony Award nominated musical Something Rotten in NYC, I found it to be forced and too over-the-top. The current touring production, now playing DC's National Theatre, features a cast that some might say is even better than the original. While all the laughs are still there, everything feels more natural.

For the most part, the brief Orange County return of the Tony Award-winning musical smash KINKY BOOTS---which continues its quick week-long stop at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through February 11---pretty much preserves its hard-to-escape fabulousness. Its current incarnation as a non-Equity bus-and-truck tour---now presented by Troika Entertainment, but retains many of the original's main elements---only feels slightly different from previous productions you've likely seen. The musical's endearing narrative, its vibrant main characters, and the ear-candy confections concocted by pop superstar Cyndi Lauper all combine to showcase a fun and genuinely lovable musical that celebrates living one's authentic self… triumphantly.

A dazzling new trailer for the multi award-winning West End production Dreamgirls has been released today. Watch the full trailer below! Presented by Sonia Friedman Productions, this critically acclaimed musical is now booking at the Savoy Theatre in London through to 22nd September 2018.

The wishes of Queensland musical theatre fans are soon to be granted with less than two weeks until Disney's Aladdin opens at Queensland Performing Arts Centre, (QPAC) from 20 February 2018.