A New Decade Begins - What Are You Seeing in 2020?

With a new decade just days away, I thought we could share plans and dreams of what shows we are seeing, or want to visit, on Broadway.

January has several closures - Tootsie, Oklahoma, Slave Play, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and Waitress, to name a few - and a number of highly anticipated shows are coming in during the first few months of 2020 - Company, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Girl From The North Country, Six, The Minutes, and Caroline, or Change, among many others.

So who’s got trips planned and what are we seeing in 2020?

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone, and may all of your theatre dreams come true!

Updated On: 12/28/19 at 08:09 AM

So far I have three trips to the city booked.

February: Hadestown, WSS, TKAM, Six

May: Company, Caroline, or Change (one more slot open)

November: Music Man

Plus, I’m seeing most of what coming through Detroit. Should be a packed year I can’t wait.

Saw Company-and Tina- in London and loved both- found Girl From The North Country to be dreary- so far have tickets to :

Six, Leopoldstatz, &Juliet, Nora, The Visit, Hamilton and Book Of Mormon- both again- London

Lehman Trilogy, Music Man- BWAY

Updated On: 12/28/19 at 08:58 AM

After three great trips in 2019, which were to celebrate my BIG #60, only one trip scheduled back to Broadway in 2020: for the closing show of Beetlejuice. Got to have my priorities! lol :)

Starting off the new decade by seeing Waitress on January 1st.

Plaza Suite

Waitress on tour

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Jungle

Birthday Candles

Planning to see

Company

Jagged Little Pill (again)

Shows that I haven’t seen and have tickets for:
-Slava’s Snowshow
-Come From Away*
-Tina
-A Soldier’s Play
-Caroline, or Change
-American Buffalo
-Beetlejuice
-Six
-West Side Story
-The Music Man
-Ain’t Too Proud

Of the above, I’m most excited to see A Solider’s Play so I’ll most likely book my return ticket on my train home the same day.

Shows that I’ve already seen and have tickets for:
-Hamilton
-Hadestown


There’s a few understudies I’d like to see again next year so I’ll see Hadestown at least 2 more times to see both Persephone understudies, and Frozen one more time to see an Anna understudy.

*EDITS

-Edited add Come From Away. Plans changed and instead of seeing Ain’t Too Proud, I’ll see CFA as my second of two shows (thank you Amtrak and schedule changes). I’m keeping Ain’t Too Proud on my list though because I do have a ticket for it already. I’ll just post date and hope they honor on the day I try to go.

There are (right now) two shows I’d like to see but do not have tickets for. They are: Donna Summer tour (Philly stop) and To Kill a Mockingbird. Donna Summer is in June and not selling well in Philly so I’ll probably just buy day of. And my plan for To Kill A Mockingbird is hopefully take a day off work in October/November and go. Assuming it’s open still.

Updated On: 12/29/19 at 10:59 AM

My New York dates aren't set yet, but I'd like to get to New York around Tony season. I definitely want to go, but there are fewer shows that I feel like I absolutely need to see. Then again, my opinion may change based on the buzz for things like Flying Over Sunset, etc.

Here's what I do want to see in New York:

• Company revival
• Six
• Jagged Little Pill
• Hadestown (repeat visit)
• Lempicka (assuming it comes in this year)

Touring shows:

• The Spongebob Musical (have tickets)
• Mean Girls
• The Band's Visit (saw the New York production, so it'll be a repeat visit)
• My Fair Lady (same)

Regional / local theater in the Bay Area:

• The Tale of Despereaux (Berkeley Rep, I have tickets)
• Swept Away (Berkeley Rep)
• School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (Berkeley Rep)
• Merrily We Roll Along (42nd Street Moon)
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (42nd Street Moon)
• Groundhog Day (SF Playhouse. I have um, multiple tickets)
• Follies (SF Playhouse)
• The rest of the plays in SF Playhouse's season (Tiny Little Things, Real Women Have Curves, The Clean House - already have tickets)
• The Full Monty (Bay Area Musicals)
• A Chorus Line (Bay Area Musicals)
• Toni Stone (American Conservatory Theater)

To some degree I'm more excited about the local theater, but I also know that things are going to pop up in New York throughout the year that I'll want to see. Looking forward to 2020!

Six
Jagged Little Pill
Come From Away and Phantom - want to finally see them!
Hadestown...again haha. I love it!

I'm planning a five-day binge in the spring. 8 shows, 7 musicals, and 1 play.
Moulin Rouge!
Company
Hadestown
Flying Over Sunset
Caroline, or Change
Birthday Candles
The Visitor (Off-Broadway at The Public)
Beetlejuice

I get that but then I think babies are on this earth a full year before they turn one year old. But then I think the earth isn’t like a baby. But then again wasn’t the earth once just 6 months old, too? So if so, what happens to that first year? Does it just not belong to a decade? And now I have a headache. Lol

And yes, I know the earth is older than 2019 years old. Lol

Updated On: 12/28/19 at 04:43 PM

Booked:

Tootsie (never made time for it during most of the run but decided to catch the last show)

Flying Over Sunset (normally I would wait for at least some word of mouth but I can't say no to a Broadway LincTix)

Not booked yet but fully intend to see:

Company

The Lehman Trilogy

Hangmen

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?