I live in Cleveland and Playhouse Square is making a BIG deal out of the official announcement tomorrow night--party, live stream etc. That list is pretty much what I suspected it would be so it looks like they got scooped.
Edit to Add: According to twitter there was an event for donors tonight where attendees were told early yet "sworn to secrecy." This list is definitely accurate.
Seattle October 18 - November 4, 2018 Denver November 13 - 25, 2018 Los Angeles November 28, 2018 - January 6, 2019 San Francisco January 8 - February 3, 2019 Las Vegas February 19 - 24, 2019 Vancouver March 5 - 10, 2019 Edmonton March 12 - 17, 2019 Calgary March 19 - 24, 2019 Baltimore April 23 – 28, 2019 Milwaukee May 7 - 12, 2019 New Orleans May 28 - June 2, 2019 Tampa Bay June 4 - 9, 2019 Orlando June 11 - 16, 2019 Miami June 18 - 23, 2019 Atlanta June 25 - 30, 2019 Cleveland July 9 - 28, 2019 Ottawa August 20 - September 1, 2019
Washington DC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia & Portland are all expected to be added to their schedule.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
This was on social media last night, after an announcement event with a full theater of people in attendance. Not sure how they thought making the announcement a full day before "the announcement" would fare. I heard this year's event is half the spectacle of last year's with the Hamilton announcement.
Pithyaspromised said: "This was on social media last night, after an announcement event with a full theater of people in attendance. Not sure how they thought making the announcement a full day before "the announcement" would fare. I heard this year's event is half the spectacle of last year's with the Hamilton announcement."
Yeah that makes zero sense. I'm not going to the launch party but if I had planned to leave work early to go downtown for it I'd be pretty disappointed that it got leaked the night before. I really don't see how they thought this would work.
I'm so tired of the manufactured hype and hysteria PlayhouseSquare tries to create about EVERYTHING they try to do. But the Cleveland sheeple buy right into it, based on the comments on their social media accounts. Guess it won't be stopping anytime soon.
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I cannot wait til Buffalo and Rochester are announced, I genuinely have no idea what we will get besides hamilton, and deh so if anyone has any ideas, let me know!
Kentucky Center for the Arts (Louisville) 2018-19 Season
Aladdin (Oct 10-21)
A Christmas Story The Musical (Nov 27 to Dec 2)
Something Rotten (Jan 15-20)
The Book of Mormon (Feb 26-March 3)
On Your Feet (March 12-17)
Hello Dolly (May 14-19)
Hamilton (June 4-23)
I swear I read that Fiddler and Miss Saigon were supposed to come to Louisville. Kinda disappointed they aren’t. Guess I’ll have to make the trip up to Cincy for those.
Anyone know if the Equity Rotten tour has extended or if the Louisville stop will be non-equity? I have a friend who send me a playbill listing saying the equity tour did extend, but I know the word around here was that the current tour would wrap up in May, then a non-equity version would open this fall. Who has the scoop?
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Are you saying spamalot and bat out of hell are going on tour?
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BAT has announced that it would tour... but it hasn't yet appeared on many other seasons and a route hasn't been published, I don't think. I would imagine that they'd be presenting a tour, as it would be odd for them to license the property to a big regional before it's road life. Maybe they're testing it for touring markets in St Paul?
Someone is booking a tour of SPAMALOT with the Booking Group (http://www.thebookinggroup.com/spamalot/), but no clue yet who's producing it... and also odd that it's not popping up in many other seasons yet.
To confirm some question that have been asked in this thread in recent days, Something Rotten Equity company closes after Providence in May, and relaunches as a non-equity company in September. Bat Out of Hell is going out as an equity mini-tour, and Spamalot is going back out non-equity, not sure who is producing-waiting for a casting call for more info.