Next to Normal - Theatre League

The Kansas City page for Theatre League show that they will be running Next to Normal in their current season. However, the website for the show itself does not show Kansas City as a stop. Is this some special one city Non-Equity show?

I never quite understand the MTI list of upcoming shows - I mean e.g. there is a listing for the Kennedy Center FOLLIES (i.e. it appears to list professional productions), but why is there no listing for the upcoming Australian production of N2N?

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I agree about the Equity tour. I think they have too many stops in California and they don't even touch the south... I think there is still one date that is TBA but the tour is short, I agree.

If you haven't seen the show, even if you have to go out of your way to see the Equity tour, it's so worth it. Ripley has seen better days vocally but her portrayal of Diana Goodman is probably one of the most electric and emotional things I've ever experienced in a Broadway theater.

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"Why would they limit the official tour to such a select number of cities?"

That would be because those are the cities/presenters that booked the show. The producers of a tour do not have much say in the creation of the itinerary. Usually the only city that they handpick is the city that the tour techs and opens in (as they will want to make sure that they have what they feel is an ideal city to tech the show in). Other than that the route is basically created by the booking agents as they sell the show to the various road presenters. So if a tour does not come to your city it is either because your local presenter either didn't want it, couldn't afford it, or it was already booked by somebody else for the time that they had open in their schedules.

If there is a show that you really want to see that is about to go out on tour the best bet would be to make sure you write to your local presenter, and get others to do so, so that they know there is an interest in the show amongst ticket buyers.

There seems to be an Equity production in Texas. Here's the Playbill casting call:

http://www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/34909.html