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Get a first look at the non-equity national tour of Tootsie in all new photos and videos! The cast includes Drew Becker as Michael Dorsey, Ashley Alexandra as Julie Nichols, Payton Reilly as Sandy Lester, Lukas James Miller as Max Von Horn, Jared David Michael Grant as Jeff Slater, Kathy Halenda as Rita Marshall, Steve Brustien as Stan Fields, and Adam du Plessis as Ron Carlisle.

The Kansas City Broadway Series has announced the Tony Award-winning Broadway Musical Tootsie. The first national tour of Tootsie will kick off the KANSAS CITY BROADWAY SERIES from November 23–28, 2021 at Music Hall. 

TOOTSIE, the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical, is coming to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta for a limited one-week engagement from Jan. 25-30, 2022. To celebrate Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta’s 40th anniversary season, a select number of $40 tickets will be sold for each performance.

DPAC has announced that beginning today, October 18th at 9:00 AM, a digital rush lottery will take place for TOOTSIE. TOOTSIE will premiere at DPAC October 19-24, as part of Truist Broadway at DPAC. 

The American Theatre Guild has announced Colorado Springs engagement of CATS on November 9-10, 2021 at the Pikes Peak Center. CATS is part of the Broadway Is Back At The Pikes Peak Center Series.

TOOTSIE has taken the town as the first National tour of the Broadway musical opened in Buffalo this week. A full house of Covid vaccinated theatre goers packed into Shea's Buffalo theatre. Based on the 1982 movie, this non-Equity  tour has been rehearsing in Buffalo prior to launching it's visits across the country next week.

The full cast and a complete 2021/2022 tour route were announced today for the North American tour of CATS. The new production will visit more than 50 cities in the 2021/2022 season and beyond in 2023.

The final, outdoor, Broadway style show for the 2021 season at Starlight Theatre is Jimmy Buffet’s 2018 juke box musical “Escape to Margaritaville.” If you are a certified Jimmy Buffet fan, otherwise known as a Parrott-head, then this fun evening is absolutely for you.

TOOTSIE, the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical is coming to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center for a limited one-week engagement Tuesday, November 30 through Sunday, December 5, 2021. 

Complete casting has been announced for the First National Tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Tootsie. Meet the cast of the tour.

Theater director Sammi Cannold, Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker Dori Berinstein, WYSIWYG Studios, CEO Kwan-Woo Park and Elizabeth Armstrong, have announced that their documentary film, The Show Must Go On, will have its virtual premiere on Broadway on Demand, the industry-leading streaming platform beginning TONIGHT, Monday, August 9 at 6:30pm ET.

Theater director Sammi Cannold, Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker Dori Berinstein, WYSIWYG Studios, CEO Kwan-Woo Park and Elizabeth Armstrong, have announced that Broadway favorites Sierra Boggess, Ariana DeBose, Ali Ewoldt, Shereen Pimentel, Adrienne Warren, and more, will perform at the premiere of the new documentary film, The Show Must Go On.

Three national tours will launch from Shea’s Buffalo Theatre part of the M&T Bank Broadway Series: Frozen, Tootsie, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird - resulting in more than a $25 million dollar economic impact on the Western New York community.

The TheaterMakers Studio will host The TheaterMakers Summit virtually on November 14th and 15th, with a bonus day of content on November 16th. The annual conference, which is now in its 4th year, will focus on the theme of 'making theater in a new world' in 2020.

Troika has issued a statement to clarify a casting notice which called for submissions from only people of color for the upcoming national tour of TOOTSIE. The tour will be going out non-equity, though work had been done on an Equity production, including offers to actors and stage managers. The tour is set to launch in October in Buffalo.

TROIKA Entertainment announced the 2019-20 North American tour of the Tony Award®-winning Broadway revival of THE COLOR PURPLE. The tour will visit more than 30 cities, including Akron, at E.J. Thomas Hall February 11 & 12 as part of the 19-20 Broadway in Akron Series. To purchase tickets, visit broadwayinakron.com, call 330-253-2488 or visit the E.J. Thomas Hall Ticket Office. Group orders may be placed by calling 800-888-9941.

The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of THE COLOR PURPLE will be coming to the Washington Pavilion from January 14-16, 2020 for three performances.

Just how far would you take sisterly devotion? Would you be willing to take years in a loveless marriage, with a man who believes that the way to get a woman to do whatever he wants her to is to beat her, after already spending years being assaulted by your own father? That's exactly how Miss Celie spends much of her life, in hopes that her sister, Nettie, doesn't have to. Brought to Jackson's Thalia Mara Hall as part of their Jackson Live! Series, The Color Purple's national tour brought those questions, and many more, to mind on November 14th and 15th.

BroadwayWorld has a first listen to the  2019-20 North American tour cast of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of THE COLOR PURPLE. Preview performances will begin October 19, 2019 in Largo, Maryland at The Center for the Performing Arts at Prince George's Community College. The tour will have its official opening October 25, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana at The Mahalia Jackson Theatre.

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