BEAUTIFUL, THE BOOK OF MORMON & More Set for Inaugural Broadway at the Eccles Season

After 25 years, Broadway in Utah will have a new name and a new address for the 2016-17 season. Tony and Grammy Award®-winning Beautiful - The Carole King Musical will be the very first Broadway musical to play the brand-new George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater now under construction at 100 South and Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City with a full week of performances November 15-20, 2016.

Season tickets go on sale today (Friday, March 4) at 9am online at www.Broadway-at-the-Eccles.com and in person (610 E. South Temple, M-F 9am-5pm). Phones (801-355-5502) open Monday, March 7.

The 6 show season package includes - the 2013 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Kinky Boots; Time Magazine's #1 show of the year Matilda; the Tony Award®- winning Broadway musical from the creators of The Sound of Music and South Pacific, Rodger + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA; the national touring production of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage; Irving Berlin's White Christmas and season opener Beautiful - The Carole King Musical.

By popular demand, The Book of Mormon, which played a sold out two week engagement in 2015 returns to Salt Lake City.

Tickets for Disney's The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, the farewell tour of MAMMA MIA!, Cirque Dreams Holidaze, and A Kurt Bestor Christmas are also on sale now exclusively to season ticket holders.

"Our first season," explains MagicSpace Entertainment CEO John Ballard, "included two shows - A Chorus Line and LES MISERABLES. Four of us took orders for season tickets by hand on 3x5 cards. This 26th time around, it is an enormous privilege to present our 2016-2017 season of Broadway musicals in North American's newest performing arts center, a venue which will transform the experience of seeing shows and which will transform downtown Salt Lake City."

The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater, designed by the team of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and HKS Architects, will feature a winter garden with a soaring six-story glass wall and amenities including ample restrooms, an outdoor terrace and wi-fi throughout. The Encore Bistro, operated by Cuisine Unlimited, will offer a delicious pre-show menu and full bar.

Patrons will enjoy extraordinary sightlines in the 2,500-seat Delta Performance Hall from their seats beneath a state-of-the-art fiber optic starry sky. A total re-imagined Regent Street will connect City Creek Center, the Eccles Theater and Galivan Plaza. A public plaza, restaurants and retail will combine to create a place where people can gather, discover and connect.

The 2016-2017 Season:

November 15-20, 2016

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical tells the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning inspiring true story of King's remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.

December 6-11, 2016

Irving Berlin's White Christmas. The timeless movie "White Christmas" is adapted for the stage in a lavish new production that the New York Times recommends you "put on your wish list." Irving Berlin's White Christmas is full of dancing, laughter and some of the greatest songs ever written!

January 17-22, 2017

Kinky Boots is Broadway's huge-hearted, high-heeled hit! With songs by Grammy® and Tony® winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, this joyous musical celebration is about the friendships we discover, and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes you from a gentlemen's shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. With direction and choreography by two-time Tony® Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray) and a book by Broadway legend and four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), Kinky Boots is the winner of 6 Broadway Tony® Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Choreography.

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February 21-26, 2017

Matilda The Musical, based on the beloved novel by Roald Dahl, is the winner of 50 international awards including four Tony Awards®. Matilda The Musical is the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.

May 30-June 4, 2017

Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA is the Tony Award®- winning Broadway musical from the creators of The Sound of Music and South Pacific that's delighting audiences with its contemporary take on the classic tale. This lush production features an incredible orchestra, jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love - the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more-plus some surprising new twists! Be transported back to your childhood as you rediscover some of Rodgers + Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible" and "Ten Minutes Ago," in this hilarious and romantic Broadway experience for anyone who's ever had a wish, a dream... or a really great pair of shoes.

June 20-25, 2017

Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music played live by an eight piece onstage band, passionate romance and sensational dancing. Seen by millions across the globe, this timeless love story features the hit songs "Hungry Eyes," "Hey Baby," "Do You Love Me?" and the heart-stopping "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life." London's Sunday Express says "This crowd-pleasing stage adaptation hits the jackpot!"

2016-2017 Specials

Back By Popular Demand!

March 23-April 16, 2017

Disney's THE LION KING. More than 80 million people around the world have experienced the phenomenon of Disney's The Lion King, and now you can, too, when Salt Lake City's best-loved musical comes to the Eccles Theater. Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, The Lion King features some of Broadway's most recognizable music, crafted by Tony Award®-winning artists Elton John and Tim Rice.

August 1-20, 2017

The Book Of Mormon. Hailed by The New York times as "The best musical of this century" and winner of nine Tony Awards®, The Book of Mormon is the blockbuster Broadway smash from Trey Parker and Matt Stone and the Oscar®-winning composer of Disney's Frozen and Avenue Q, Bobby Lopez. This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the good word. Now with standing room only production in London, on Broadway and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.

December 1-3, 2016

Men Are From Mars - Women Are From Venus LIVE!, the Off-Broadway hit comedy, is a one-man fusion of theatre and stand-up, and is a light hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book of the last decade by John Gray. This show will play the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

December 15-17, 2016

A Kurt Bestor Christmas begins an exciting new chapter in the brand-new Eccles Theater with all the music, humor, spectacle and surprises which have made it one of Utah's most beloved holiday traditions.

December 29-31, 2016

Cirque Dreams Holidaze lights up the 2016 holiday season with its critically acclaimed holiday extravaganza. Not to be missed...this circus-like holiday stage spectacular features ornaments, costumes and acrobatics that come alive celebrating holiday themes, music and traditions for the entire family. With over 300 costumes, 20 acts and 30 artists from every corner of the globe, Cirque Dreams Holidaze is the greatest variety show on the planet!

February 2-5, 2017

MAMMA MIA!, the ultimate feel-good show, returns to Salt Lake City on its farewell tour. Now it's your turn to have the time of your life at this smash-hit musical that combines ABBA's greatest hits, including "Dancing Queen," "S.O.S.," "Super Trouper," "Take A Chance On Me" and "The Winner Takes It All."

The Zions Bank Broadway at the Eccles series is presented by MagicSpace Entertainment in partnership with Salt Lake County Center for the Arts and Broadway Across America.

Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, a division of Salt Lake County, owns and operates Abravanel Hall, Janette Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and the ArtTix ticketing service. The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater is owned by Salt Lake City, the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.

Magic Space Entertainment has presented the very best national Broadway touring musical theater and special events in Salt Lake City for more than a quarter of a century. MagicSpace, a Utah company, is one of the country's most prolific entertainment producers on tour, on Broadway and in London's West End. Current tours include The Illusionists, Alton Brown Live, Rain - A Tribute To The Beatles and Mannheim Steamroller Christmas.

Broadway Across America is part of the Key Brand Entertainment family of companies, which includes Broadway.com, under the supervision of John Gore (Owner & CEO) and is the foremost presenter of first-class touring productions in North America, operating in 38 markets.

Photo by Joan Marcus

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