Broadway in Boston Will Announce 2013/2014 Season on March 11 (today)

According to their Facebook page, Broadway in Boston will be announcing its upcoming season around 5:45 pm tonight. What do you hope/expect will come through? I would like to see the Newsies and Nice Work if You Can Get It tours come to Boston, but I have a feeling we will get Mamma Mia and Wicked for the umpteenth time (Wicked for the current season hasn't even played yet).

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Updated On: 3/11/13 at 11:52 AM

There's a season announcement event at the Opera House for subscribers tonight. I'll report back if no-one else has posted the line-up by the time I get home. I did hear that two of the shows will be "Flashdance" in March 2014 and a return engagement of "The Lion King" for 5 weeks in Aug/Sept 2014. I also suspect "Ghost" may be one of the shows, as the design of the invitation to the announcement event looked a lot like the "Ghost" marketing visuals, which they tend to do as a teaser.

Actually just looked at the Broadway in Boston website on a lark, and they must have been doing some deployments in the back end, as for a brief moment the listings for the new shows were up:

Million Dollar Quartet, Oct. 8-20
We Will Rock You, Nov. 5-10 (season special)
A Christmas Story, Nov. 20-Dec. 8 (season special)
I Love Lucy, Dec. 3-22 (season special)
Once, Jan. 7-19, 2014
American Idiot, Feb. 7-9, 2014 (season special)
Flashdance, Mar. 11-23, 2014
Phantom of the Opera, June 11-July 20, 2014

No Ghost it seems, and perhaps they are saving The Lion King to kick off the 2014/2015 season. Somewhat surprised we're not getting Evita.

Updated On: 3/11/13 at 03:30 PM

Ho to the hum.

Meanwhile, we already know there's potential for some real nourishing theater all around the area next season. The Gamm in Providence will set their up-close and personal sights on "Good People," perhaps besting the Huntington's exquisite production this year.

The New Rep is doing area premieres of plays by Ellen McLaughlin and Deb Margolin, as well as bringing in James Fluhr's "Our Lady," which played the NY Fringe.

Trinity Rep is mounting "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and "Oliver!"

And of course, The Huntington will have the Zimmerman "Jungle Book" in the fall.

Most of the companies haven't even announced their complete line-ups and we haven't even heard from ART or ArtsEmerson. So nobody has to try and make do with We Will Rock You and Flashdance.

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Still, when up against a non-Eq American Idiot?

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It looks like "Once" will play the Opera House, which is way too big, IMO. I thought for sure it'd be at the Colonial.