Six new Broadway touring reveals are heading to San Diego in 2024-25

San Diego theater followers who haven’t been again to New York to catch the newest Broadway reveals for the reason that pandemic ended can unpack their luggage. For its forty seventh season kicking off in October, Broadway San Diego is bringing six of the Nice White Approach’s latest and most-acclaimed musicals right here.

The nationwide excursions of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” “Kimberly Akimbo,” “Some Like It Sizzling,” “Again to the Future: The Musical,” “Shucked” and “A Stunning Noise” will all be introduced for the primary time on the San Diego Civic Theatre subsequent season. Additionally a part of the upcoming season might be an almost monthlong engagement of “Depraved.” The upcoming season will comply with the ultimate reveals of the 2023-24 season, which embody “MJ the Musical” subsequent week, “Disney’s Aladdin” in April, “Mrs. Doubtfire” in June and “Peter Pan” on the finish of July.

“Every year, we have now the good privilege of presenting the perfect in nationwide touring Broadway reveals in San Diego and this 12 months isn’t any exception,” mentioned Vanessa Ybarra Davis, vice chairman of Broadway San Diego, in an announcement. “With a lot of our season presently enjoying on Broadway or new reveals simply starting their nationwide excursions, the gap between Broadway and San Diego is now nearer than ever.”

All performances will happen on the San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown. Subscriptions for the seven-show 2024-25 season begin at $328 and are actually on sale at (888) 937-8995 or broadwaysd.com. Right here’s the schedule:

“Kimberly Akimbo” — The humorous and bittersweet 2021 musical by composer Jeanine Tesori (“Enjoyable Dwelling,” “Caroline, Or Change” and “Totally Fashionable Millie”) and bookwriter David Lindsey-Abaire received six 2022 Tony Awards, together with Finest Musical, Finest Ebook of a Musical and Finest Unique Rating. Primarily based on Lindsey-Abaire’s 2001 play of the identical identify, it’s the story of a teen woman with progeria, a untimely getting old syndrome that provides her look of an aged girl. Oct. 8-13.

“Again to the Future: The Musical” — Impressed by the 1985 Robert Zemeckis movie comedy a couple of Nineteen Eighties California teen touring again in time to the ‘50s to vary the course of his household’s historical past, this jukebox musical was born in England in 2020 and arrived on Broadway final 12 months. The musical options many pop and rock songs from the movie and is understood for its dazzling particular results, together with a flying DeLorean vehicle “time machine.” Jan. 14-19, 2025.

“Some Like It Sizzling” — Impressed by the 1959 Marilyn Monroe-Tony Curtis film famously filmed on the Lodge Del Coronado, this 2022 musical adaptation incorporates a rating by the “Hairspray” composing crew of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and e-book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. Set throughout the Prohibition period, the bubbling faucet dancing-filled farce is the story of two male jazz musicians on the run from the mob who disguise themselves as girls and be part of an all-girl band on the Lodge Del. In a inventive new twist, one of many males in drag discovers and finally embraces their trans id. Directed by former San Diegan Casey Nicholaw, “Some Like It Sizzling” was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and received 4. Jan. 28-Feb. 2.

“Depraved” — One of the crucial common musicals to ever go to the Civic, this tour will spend practically a month on the Civic Theatre. The Tony-winning Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical was impressed by Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel that explored why the the Witch of the West turned depraved in Coronado resident L. Frank Baum’s 1900 kids’s novel “The Great Wizard of Oz.” Feb. 5-March 2.

“A Stunning Noise” — This 2022 Broadway jukebox musical tells the story of Neil Diamond’s life and profession. The musical’s script by novelist and screenwriter Anthony McCarten is structured round a sequence of visits Diamond makes to his therapist, the place their dialogue of his music lyrics takes him again in time to 60 years of reminiscences. Might 27-June 1.

“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” — The North American tour of this 2019 Broadway musical makes its first go to to San Diego with a two-week cease subsequent summer time. Impressed by the 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie of the identical identify, with a mixture of songs from the movie and new originals, it’s the story of an idealistic younger composer who falls in love with Satine, the courtesan-like cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. June 24-July 6.

“Shucked” — Directed on Broadway by former Outdated Globe creative director Jack O’Brien, this wacky 2022 musical was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, together with Finest Musical. It’s the story of the homespun folks in a corn-growing county within the Midwest confronted with catastrophe after a thriller illness endangers their lifestyle. To show their fortunes round, a younger townswoman embarks on a journey to discover a corn physician in Florida and mayhem ensues. Corny because it sounds, it’s really a raucous comedy full of laughs, coronary heart and intelligent songs. Aug. 12-17.

2024 season continues

Nonetheless to return for this season are “MJ the Musical,” working March 5-10; “Disney’s Aladdin,” April 3-7; “Mrs. Doubtfire,” June 4-9; and “Peter Pan,” July 30-Aug. 4.

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