I'm actually curious to see how the Donna Summer Musical tour is staged since they had all those projection screens on Broadway as well as the 3 leads coming up from under the stage.
Mike Barrett said: "Will Escape To Margeritaville be an equity tour? "
I believe it will be a SETA tour contract.
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.
Ah thats exciting about OOTI!!! Never got the chance to see it in NY, I do wonder how they'll restage it for the tour. Hopefully actors still go into the audience and the level of immersion can be kept in some ways.
RWPrincess said: "I'm actually curious to see how the Donna Summer Musical tour is staged since they had all those projection screens on Broadway as well as the 3 leads coming up from under the stage."
The projection screens won’t be a problem, but they will definitely have to restage the show without the elevators used on Broadway.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Broadway across Canada just posted a hint on Instagram for the western Canada upcoming season. The hint shows the emojis of a camera +cow+heart+pride flag. Im thinking its the Rent tour....
Houston's Theatre Under the Stars is announcing at 2pm today. Expecting:
A Chorus Line - September 2019 Spring Awakening - October 2019 Elf the Musical - December 2019 Once on This Island - February 2020 Pure Country - April 2020 Newsies - May 2020
I believe CHORUS LINE, ELF and ONCE ON THIS ISLAND are tours, rest I believe are locally produced. Not 100% sure though. They will be streaming the announcement on their Facebook page.
antonijan said: "Shnsf is getting Beautiful and Rent again!"
Is this considered a complete season announcement, or I wonder if more shows will be added?
I've never managed to see Beautiful and have heard really good things about it, so I'm excited that it's coming to SF. (I'm assuming this is still the equity tour? SHN seems to only do equity productions).
Will likely pass on Rent - I love the show, but I've heard mixed things about the 20th anniversary tour.
Houston's Theatre Under the Stars has officially announced.
A Chorus Line - September 10 - September 22, 2019 Spring Awakening - October 8 - October 20, 2019 Elf the Musical - December 7 - December 22, 2019 Once on This Island - February 18 - March 1, 2020 Pure Country - April 14 - April 26, 2020 Newsies - May 19 - May 31, 2020
They confirmed in their announcement video that ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is the national tour and the other shows will all be locally produced.
Kitsune said: "antonijan said: "Shnsf is getting Beautiful and Rent again!"
Is this considered a complete season announcement, or I wonder if more shows will be added?
I think this is outside the season. Last year at this time they announced Les Mis and Phantom, which were not part of the 2018-2019 season. Last year's announcement came around the first week of February.
Stellasteve said: "Kitsune said: "antonijan said: "Shnsf is getting Beautiful and Rent again!"
Is this considered a complete season announcement, or I wonder if more shows will be added?
I think this is outside the season. Last year at this time they announced Les Mis and Phantom, which were not part of the 2018-2019 season. Last year's announcement came around the first week of February."
Okay, that makes sense, as does the Les Mis/Phantom comparison (I can see how season subscribers wouldn't necessarily want to have two shows that have already been in the area).
I know we're already getting Mean Girls and The Band's Visit, but I'm curious what else.
Also, reading the rest of this thread makes me realize that shows stop in SF for a (comparatively) long time! I was surprised to see that even the equity shows only stop in some cities for a week.
According to their FB pages, Miami's season has 6 shows (including "Hamilton", and Minneapolis will be posting show clues each day on their FB page at 3 PM CST starting tomorrow (Thursday) until their reveal, which brings their total to 7-8 shows depending on how you interpret the message. San Jose and Vegas should provide some general insight as to what to we'll see out West. We have yet to get any locations for "SpongeBob," and "My Fair Lady" so perhaps they will start out there.
I also got a show survey from the Capitol Center in Concord, NH which had "The Color Purple" listed as an possible option for their 19/20 season ("Jersey Boys" and "Beautiful" were the other options). So, I'm guessing it's returning after pretty much being off for a season. (Survey for reference: https://app.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E3C7ABB3EAA5B4B5E4)