2026-2027 Season Tour Launches- Page 4

[Timon3]

Posted: 2/6/26 at 7:33pm

Last season’s offering for Los Angeles Center Theatre Group was appalling with no new Broadway show, they need to pull their socks up for next season.

[inception]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 9:42am

Las Vegas anounced last night 

Beauty and the Beast
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 - Sunday September, 20 2026
The Phantom of the Opera
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - Sunday November 1, 2026
Elf The Musical
Tuesday, November 24, 2026 - Sunday, November 29, 2026
The Outsiders
Tuesday, January 19, 2027 - Sunday, January 24, 2027
Buena Vista Social Club™
Tuesday, March 2, 2027 - Sunday, March 7, 2027
Boop!® The Musical
Tuesday, May 11, 2027 - Sunday, May 16, 2027
Maybe Happy Ending
Tuesday, June 8, 2027 - Sunday, Jun 13, 2027

Oh Mary! Was already anounce for The Smith Center for October 6-11, but I guess they considered it too risqué to include in the regular Broadway season package.

[tacotheatrelover]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 10:20am

inception said: "Oh Mary! Was already anounce for The Smith Center for October 6-11, but I guess they considered it too risqué to include in the regular Broadway season package."

Las Vegas is a bunch of pansies, they need to force the regular season holders and the general public to see this. It would be so funny to see their reactions.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 10:26am

Toronto's 26/27 Season:

Hell's Kitchen

The Karate Kid: The Musical

Operation Mincemeat

13 Going on 30: The Musical

The Mousetrap

Inside the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Salesman in China

Additions:

Paranormal Activity, Dirty Dancing, Water for Elephants Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia, etc.

Updated On: 2/10/26 at 10:26 AM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 10:37am

The run of Dirty Dancing in Toronto is being billed as the Canadian Premiere. Didn’t the show premiere there in 2007?

[DaveyG]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 11:10am

Call_me_jorge said: "The run of Dirty Dancing in Toronto is being billed as the Canadian Premiere. Didn’t the show premiere there in 2007?"

It's apparently a completely new version. 

[inception]

Posted: 2/10/26 at 1:11pm

tacotheatrelover said: "
Las Vegas is a bunch of pansies, they need toforce the regular season holders and the general public to see this. It would be so funny to see their reactions."

Well if you want you can watch the livestream from last night on the Smith Center website.  They brought Seth Rudetsky out to Las Vegas & he tried to hype it, but the main guy is quite cautious saying stuff "this won't be for everyone."  They know their audience.  When I went to Suffs there last Fall it was a lot of retirees who've moved to LV for the weather.  Season subscribers do get first dibs on seats to OM though.  I signed up for early access (after subscribers), but right now I'm still not sure if I want to do Vegas in October or November this year.

 

 

[Ceej]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 10:14am

Houston's Theatre Under the Stars 26/27 Season announced today. Shows:

THE MUSIC MAN (tour)
MRS. DOUBTFIRE (tour)
THE LITTLE MERMAID (locally produced)
THE WHO'S TOMMY (tour)
KINKY BOOTS (tour)
OH, MARY! (tour)

Usually TUTS brings two to three tours and does the rest locally. Unless I'm mis-reading their website and announcement, only one show is being produced locally. 

[carlisle14]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:01am

fashionguru_23 said: "Toronto's 26/27 Season:

Hell's Kitchen

The Karate Kid: The Musical

Operation Mincemeat

13 Going on 30: The Musical

The Mousetrap

Inside the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Salesman in China

Additions:

Paranormal Activity, Dirty Dancing, Water for Elephants Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia, etc."

 

Are some of those local productions?  I haven't seen many of those as a tour ... Karate Kid, Salesman in China. Paranormal Activity. etc.  

[William12]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 1:11pm

carlisle14 said: "fashionguru_23 said: "Toronto's 26/27 Season:

Hell's Kitchen

The Karate Kid: The Musical

Operation Mincemeat

13 Going on 30: The Musical

The Mousetrap

Inside the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Salesman in China

Additions:

Paranormal Activity, Dirty Dancing, Water for Elephants Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia, etc."



Are some of those local productions? I haven't seen many of those as a tour ... Karate Kid, Salesman in China. Paranormal Activity. etc."

 

Karate Kid is apparently the UK Tour coming over here. 13 Going on 30 is billed as the pre-West End run. Salesman in China is a local production, a transfer from its run at Stratford Festival a few years ago.  Inside the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is similar, it's a docu-concert coming over from PEI.

I assume Paranormal Activity will be the tour.

[carlisle14]

Posted: 2/11/26 at 2:12pm

Detroit has announced.  

 

The Notebook    September 22–October 4, 2026    
Maybe Happy Ending    October 20–November 1, 2026    
The Great Gatsby    November 17-29, 2026    
BOOP! The Musical    December 1-13, 2026    
Operation Mincemeat    January 12-24, 2027    
Oh, Mary!    February 23-28, 2027++ Season Add On
Water for Elephants    March 2-7, 2027  ++ Season Add on  
Death Becomes Her ~    March 23–April 4, 2027

Updated On: 2/11/26 at 02:12 PM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 11:00am

The upcoming national tour of The Who’s Tommy will launch at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio (the Rock and Roll Capital of the World) this fall.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-WHOS-TOMMY-Will-Launch-North-American-Tour-in-Cleveland-20260212

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 11:09am

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Anyone know if Tommy is going non eq?"

Before today’s official press release the website was still using press photos of the broadway cast. Today those photos no longer appear which is confirmation, to me, that the tour will be non-equity.

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 12:17pm

Someone on Reddit commented that they got audition materials for the show stating it’ll be non-eq, too.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 12:24pm

DiscoCrows said: "Someone on Reddit commented that they got audition materials for the show stating it’ll benon-eq, too."

100% will be non eq. Probably just that big video screen and that's it.

[tacotheatrelover]

Posted: 2/17/26 at 11:47am

Hamilton is having it's first week long only engagement in Birmingham Alabama from September 22nd to 27th.

Other shows in the season include

Mamma Mia!: Nov 17 - 22, 2026

The Sound of Music: Feb 2 - 7, 2027

The Notebook: April 6 - 11, 2027

The Outsiders: May 25 - 30, 2027

Season Add On:

The Book Of Mormon: June 15 - 20, 2027

[DCS]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 12:02am

Timon3 said: "Last season’s offering for Los Angeles Center Theatre Group was appalling with no new Broadway show, they need to pull their socks up for next season."

it's incredibly difficult for the Ahmanson to book the big Broadway tours anymore with the Nederlander run Pantages in Hollywood being a larger theatre with a full slate of big touring musicals on their season schedule, tour producers can rake in a lot more $$$ at the Pantages with its 2700+ seats compared to the 2,084 seats at the Ahmanson

[carlisle14]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 9:02am

Orlando

 

Hamilton    September 29–October 18, 2026    
Buena Vista Social Club    October 20-25, 2026    
Death Becomes Her    December 1-6, 2026    
Wicked    January 6-31, 2027    
The Great Gatsby    February 9-21, 2027    
The Sound of Music    March 16-21, 2027    
BOOP! The Musical    March 30–April 4, 2027    
Beauty and the Beast    April 20–May 2, 2027    
Beetlejuice    May 11-16, 2027    
Jersey Boys    June 22-27, 2027

[carlisle14]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 9:04am

Grand Rapids

 

Hell’s Kitchen    September 15-20, 2026
The Notebook    October 13-18, 2026
Maybe Happy Ending    November 10-15, 2026
Six *    January 12-17, 2027 SEASON ADD ON 
Beauty and the Beast    February 9-14, 2027
Death Becomes Her    March 2-7, 2027
The Phantom of the Opera    August 11-22, 2027

[Timon3]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 7:36pm

DCS said: "Timon3 said: "Last season’s offering for Los Angeles Center Theatre Group was appalling with no new Broadway show, they need to pull their socks up for next season."

it's incredibly difficult for the Ahmanson to book the big Broadway tours anymore with the Nederlander run Pantages in Hollywood being a larger theatre with a full slate of big touring musicals on their season schedule, tour producers can rake in a lot more $$$ at the Pantages with its 2700+ seats compared to the 2,084 seats at the Ahmanson"

I do appreciate that, but there are always smaller shows, which would get lost in the Pantanges, that would sit in the Ahmanson better. For example Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, Oh Mary, The Outsiders, Suffs, Buena Vista Social Club, Six, Operation Mincemeat, Titanique and Maybe Happy Ending. Maybe Totoro or The Devil Wears Prada from the London. Shows can run longer at the Ahmanson to compensate, what actor wouldn’t like to live in LA for a month? The utilisation of the Ahmanson this season has been dreadful.

[inception]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 8:00pm

All those shows play thestres similar in size to the Pantages in other markets,  so why should they go smaller in LA.  Yes maybe for the audience it would be a better experience,  but tours are about making as much money as possible - not about the audience experience. 

Timon3 said: "
I do appreciate that, but there are always smaller shows, which would get lost in the Pantanges,that would sit in the Ahmanson better. For example Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, Oh Mary, The Outsiders, Suffs, Buena Vista Social Club, Six, Operation Mincemeat, Titanique and Maybe Happy Ending. Maybe Totoro or The Devil Wears Prada from the London. Shows can run longer at the Ahmanson to compensate, what actor wouldn’t like to live in LA for a month? The utilisation of the Ahmanson this season has been dreadful."

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 8:01pm

Louisville

• Jersey Boys: October 6 - 11, 2026 
• The Lion King is November 12-29, 2026
• BOOP! The Musical: January 5 - 10, 2027
• A Beautiful Noise: February 16 - 21, 2027
• Death Becomes Her: March 9 - 14, 2027
• Maybe Happy Ending: April 6 - 11, 2027
• Hell’s Kitchen: May 11 - 16, 2027

[DCS]

Posted: 2/18/26 at 8:31pm

Timon3 said: "DCS said: "Timon3 said: "Last season’s offering for Los Angeles Center Theatre Group was appalling with no new Broadway show, they need to pull their socks up for next season."

it's incredibly difficult for the Ahmanson to book the big Broadway tours anymore with the Nederlander run Pantages in Hollywood being a larger theatre with a full slate of big touring musicals on their season schedule, tour producers can rake in a lot more $$$ at the Pantages with its 2700+ seats compared to the 2,084 seats at the Ahmanson"

I do appreciate that, but there are always smaller shows, which would get lost in the Pantanges,that would sit in the Ahmanson better. For example Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, Oh Mary, The Outsiders, Suffs, Buena Vista Social Club, Six, Operation Mincemeat, Titanique and Maybe Happy Ending. Maybe Totoro or The Devil Wears Prada from the London. Shows can run longer at the Ahmanson to compensate, what actor wouldn’t like to live in LA for a month? The utilisation of the Ahmanson this season has been dreadful."

I agree with you in terms of audience experience (the Pantages is a huge barn of a theatre), but it's all about making as much money as you can and the Ahmanson just can't compete.  Of the shows you mentioned, SUFFS just played the Pantages a few months ago and SIX opens at the Pantages tonight for its 2nd visit. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ahmanson might snag Oh Mary or Operation Mincemeat, but we'll wait and see what happens when they finally announce their 26/27 season.

[sarcadam88]

Posted: 2/19/26 at 2:58pm

Anyone know if Suffs or Spamalot will continue to tour next season? I haven’t seen either on any recent announcements.

[Timon3]

Posted: 2/19/26 at 7:21pm

DCS said: "Timon3 said: "DCS said: "Timon3 said: "Last season’s offering for Los Angeles Center Theatre Group was appalling with no new Broadway show, they need to pull their socks up for next season."

it's incredibly difficult for the Ahmanson to book the big Broadway tours anymore with the Nederlander run Pantages in Hollywood being a larger theatre with a full slate of big touring musicals on their season schedule, tour producers can rake in a lot more $$$ at the Pantages with its 2700+ seats compared to the 2,084 seats at the Ahmanson"

I do appreciate that, but there are always smaller shows, which would get lost in the Pantanges,that would sit in the Ahmanson better. For example Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, Oh Mary, The Outsiders, Suffs, Buena Vista Social Club, Six, Operation Mincemeat, Titanique and Maybe Happy Ending. Maybe Totoro or The Devil Wears Prada from the London. Shows can run longer at the Ahmanson to compensate, what actor wouldn’t like to live in LA for a month? The utilisation of the Ahmanson this season has been dreadful."

I agree with you in terms of audience experience (the Pantages is a huge barn of a theatre), but it's all about making as much money as you can and the Ahmanson just can't compete. Of the shows you mentioned, SUFFS just played the Pantages a few months ago and SIX opens at the Pantages tonight for its 2nd visit. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ahmanson might snag Oh Mary or Operation Mincemeat, but we'll wait and see what happens when they finally announce their 26/27 season."

Okay I know what you are saying and you know what I am saying too, Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the country but only has only has theatres, where San Francisco and Chicago have 3. There are shows that work better in the Pantanges like Hamilton, Great Gatsby, Hell’s Kitchen, Moulin Rouge, The Lion King, Aladdin, Death Becomes Her or MJ. I am not saying you are wrong, but there are right shows for the Pantanges and right shows for the Ahmanson, think we are both agreed on that. Then I agree with the point you are making with producers wanting a quick buck over substance.

I wouldn’t enjoy Six in the Pantanges, nor Suffs.