June 27 - 29, 2008
The
Backyardigans Live: Tale of the Mighty Knights
A stage production designed for pre-schoolers follows the characters from
the Nickelodeon television series through a series of adventures.
August 2, 2008
African
American Theatre Night
Daniel Beaty will perform in what is billed as an evening of fellowship and
community development.
September 16 - 21,
2008
The Marriage
Counselor
Tamar Davis, Tony Grant, A.T. Grayson and Palmer Williams Jr. appear in
another Tyler Perry production.
December 2 - 7, 2008
The Wizard of
Oz
Harold Arlen’s delightful musical takes Dorothy "Over the Rainbow" to join
Scarecrow, Tinman and The Cowardly Lion in the search for the Wizard.
February 10 - 15, 2009
Avenue Q
The touring version of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical about Sesame
Street style puppets living side by side with humans and sharing their very
adult trials and tribulations, all set to a charming, inventive and very
funny score. (Not a show for children.)
February 24 - March 8, 2009
A Bronx Tale
Chazz Palminteri performed his one act solo show off-Broadway in the 1990s,
detailing his memories of a childhood spent in the Bronx with two types of
family – his biological relatives and the members of the mob. Last year he
revived it on Broadway. Now he takes it on tour.
March 17 - 22, 2009
Jesus Christ
Superstar
The start of the Andrew Lloyd Webber phenomenon (Cats, Phantom of the
Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita,
Aspects of Love) was this rock opera based on the gospel according to
John which he wrote with Tim Rice (who, without Lloyd Webber wrote lyrics
for Aida, Chess, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King).
May 26 - 31, 2009
Rent
Jonathan Larson’s rock-influenced musical sets the La Boheme story in New
York’s East Village. This national tour of the show will feature the
original stars of the Broadway production, Adam Pascal who was Roger and
Anthony Rapp who was Mark on opening night, April 29, 1996. Pascal was
nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. |
