2025 - 2026 Touring Season

[Timon3]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 7:25pm

So what is likely to go out? And where is going to play?

[Chaz Hands]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 8:55pm

So far I think we know:
 

Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Suffs, Water for Elephants, The Great Gatsby, and The Notebook for new musicals. 
 

Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Legally Blonde for revivals.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:04pm

Hell’s Kitchen and The Great Gatsby have not announced touring productions to this point. 

[Chaz Hands]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:10pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "Hell’s KitchenandThe Great Gatsbyhave not announced touring productions to this point."

Well technically neither has Beauty and the Beast, put with the information that has gone out to venues, I’d say all 3 are 90% likely.

Edit: I misspoke. BATB did officially announce its tour.

Updated On: 11/10/24 at 09:10 PM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:32pm

Chaz, where’d you get that Legally Blonde is doing another tour from? Is it the same one that Big League sent out a few seasons back?

The Jack O’Brien Sound of Music is going back out next season, I believe as equity.

I’m curious how much longer the current Les Miserables tour has in it and if they’ll bring that arena concert version of the show to the states eventually.

Updated On: 11/10/24 at 09:32 PM

[Chaz Hands]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:39pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Chaz, where’d you get thatLegally Blondeis doing another tour from? Is it the same one that Big League sent out a few seasons back?

The Jack O’Brien Sound of Musicis going back out next season, I believe as equity.

I’m curious how much longer the currentLes Miserablestour has in it and if they’ll bring that arena concert versionof the show to the states eventually."

It’s on the Big League website:

https://bigleague.org/productions/legally-blonde

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:39pm

Chicago, Suffs, The Notebook, The Outsiders, Phantom, Tommy & Water For Elephants. 

https://tourstoyou.org/seasons/2025-2026/all-shows/

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/10/24 at 9:43pm

Chaz Hands said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Chaz, where’d you get thatLegally Blondeis doing another tour from? Is it the same one that Big League sent out a few seasons back?

The Jack O’Brien Sound of Musicis going back out next season, I believe as equity.

I’m curious how much longer the currentLes Miserablestour has in it and if they’ll bring that arena concert versionof the show to the states eventually."

It’s on the Big League website:

https://bigleague.org/productions/legally-blonde"

Yuck

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/11/24 at 11:03am

Hearing Illinois might be going out on a short tour. Possibly non-equity.

[Timon3]

Posted: 11/11/24 at 12:43pm

Chaz Hands said: "So far I think we know:


Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Suffs, Water for Elephants, The Great Gatsby, and The Notebook for new musicals.


Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Legally Blonde for revivals."

Thanks.

Would Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera, Beaury and the Beast, Legally Blonde and Jack O’Brien’s The Sound of Music will be off subscription?

[Chaz Hands]

Posted: 11/11/24 at 5:08pm

Timon3 said: "Chaz Hands said: "So far I think we know:


Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Suffs, Water for Elephants, The Great Gatsby, and The Notebook for new musicals.


Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Legally Blonde for revivals."

Thanks.

Would Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera, Beaury and the Beast,Legally Blonde and Jack O’Brien’sThe Sound of Music will be off subscription?"

That depends on each venue, as each venue is different in how they determine what’s a part of the season subscription versus what are the add-on offerings.

Typically, add-on offerings are the shows which have been on tour for a long time (Les Mis, The Lion King, Come from Away, etc.) but even then depending on scheduling and popularity, venues can have those be a part of the main season for subscribers as well.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/11/24 at 7:29pm

Who’s Tommy, Spamalot, Phantom, and Beauty and the Beast are all ‘new’ productions and will definitely be sold to the road houses as part of the subscription packages. I’m not sure about The Sound of Music, it’s not a new production of the show, but it’s also been 10 years since the equity tour of it went out. There might be demand for it in the subscriptions. Legally Blonde is a bus and truck tour and is not hitting any major markets.

[Timon3]

Posted: 11/11/24 at 8:53pm

Thinking the small American cities need 5-6 shows to make up a subscription package. The bigger cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago need more than that.

As there is no real complexity to the staging, as there is not real any, do we think that Sunset Boulevard could be going out next season, or maybe Cabaret, if they can get it to work in a Proscenium theatre?

[carlisle14]

Posted: 11/12/24 at 11:55am

Water for Elephants and Phantom are both confirmed to be originating at the Hippodrome in Baltimore. Both Fall of 2025 (Phantom November)..  Maryland has a nice tax break via the Maryland Theatrical Tax Credit established in 2022 for originating shows, has the required union workers in the area for various pre-production construction and design, plus the ease of travel from NYC to Baltimore helps too. The legislation provides up to $2 million in refundable tax credits for eligible productions. Peter Pan, Life of Pi, &Juliet, Wiz (pre-Broadway), Phantom, and Elephants have/will all originate at Hippodrome. 

Updated On: 11/12/24 at 11:55 AM

[Timon3]

Posted: 11/25/24 at 4:49pm

Hells Kitchen launching nest year Cleveland.

https://playbill.com/article/broadway-hells-kitchen-will-launch-a-north-american-tour

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 4:22pm

Somehow Hell’s Kitchen got permission to be sent out on a level 5 contract.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 6:09pm

Timon3 said: "Thinking the small American cities need 5-6 shows to make up a subscription package. The bigger cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago need more than that.

As there is no real complexity tothe staging, as there is not real any, do we think that Sunset Boulevard could be going out next season, or maybe Cabaret, if they can get it to work in a Proscenium theatre?"

I think both would have to be radically restaged for a touring production and both are waiting to see if they even turn a profit, so footing the bill for a touring company might not be feasible. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 8:29pm

A Beautiful Noise announced they'll return to Chicago from Nov. 19-30, 2025.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 8:31pm

ACL2006 said: "Chicago, Suffs, The Notebook, The Outsiders, Phantom, Tommy & Water For Elephants.

https://tourstoyou.org/seasons/2025-2026/all-shows/"

this site now lists the following for touring in 2025:

• A Beautiful Noise
• Chicago
• Hamilton
• Hell's Kitchen
• Six
• Suffs
• The Notebook
• The Outsiders
• Phantom
• The Sound of Music
• Tommy
• Water For Elephants

[TellZ]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 9:31pm

Do we think the Sweeney Todd tour is dead?

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/3/24 at 10:25pm

One of the hottest tickets from last season and the current reigning best musical Tony winner is going out on tour on a level five contract… Did AEA even try to fight this one? The outsiders averages 1.2 million dollars a week and it brought in 1.8 million dollars last week. This should be on a top tier contract. 

Updated On: 12/4/24 at 10:25 PM

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/4/24 at 7:02am

Call_me_jorge said: "One of the hottest tickets from last season and the current reigning best musical Tony winner is going out on tour on a level five contract… Did AEA even try to fight this one? The outsiders averages 1.2 million dollars a week and it brought in1.8 million dollars last week. This should be on a top tier contract."

Why? That's very bizarre.

[Timon3]

Posted: 12/5/24 at 11:11am

Do we think that Hamilton will still have 2 companies on the road?

Where will Harry Potter go if it continues with its long sit downs? Could it be Boston or back to San Francisco and Toronto or maybe Cleveland? Cannot think of any other cities that would sustain a long sit down? 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/5/24 at 12:38pm

Maybe they’ll do a stint in Orlando and offer a vacation package for people going to Harry Potter world.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 12/5/24 at 1:48pm

Timon3 said: "Do we think that Hamilton will still have 2 companies on the road?

Where will Harry Potter go if it continues with its longsit downs? Could it be Boston or back to San Francisco and Toronto or maybe Cleveland? Cannot think of any other cities that would sustain a long sit down?"

I doubt Toronto. They don't have a great track record of bringing back shows that weren't hits the first time around.