South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
Want to know what Broadway shows are coming to Miami? Here you go.
By Rod Stafford Hagwood
After hitting the pause button for more than a year, the Broadway musical season has finally been announced for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.
Starting in September, the Great White Way shows getting the green light include “Hadestown,” “Hairspray,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Anastasia” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Oddly enough, that list is pretty close to what was originally announced — pre-coronavirus pandemic — around this time in 2020. The updated slate of stage musicals has dropped the national tour of “The Cher Show” and postponed indefinitely “Wicked.”
Season subscriptions go on sale at 12 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 (or maybe think of it as midnight on Wednesday) at ArshtCenter. org.
Subscriptions will be sold over the telephone at 305-949-6722 beginning at noon on Thursday, Feb. 4.
Season ticket prices for the five-show subscription package range from $191 to $764.
Current season subscribers will be automatically moved into the new show date schedule. For details, current ticketholders should go to ArshtCenter. org/account/login or call 305-949-6722.
Here’s a breakdown of the shows coming to the Arsht Center, according to Broadway Across America, a presenter of touring Broadway shows in 47 regional markets, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Sept. 28-Oct. 3 — ‘Hadestown’
This show, which won eight Tony Awards in 2019 (including best musical), re-imagines two Greek myths, Orpheus/Eurydice and King Hades/Persephone. The whole production grew out of a 2010 concept album by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell that was billed at the time as a “folk opera.”
Dec. 28-Jan. 2, 2022 — ‘Hairspray’
Film auteur John Waters’ 1988 movie about outsiders crashing insiders’ parties (and desegregation in the early 1960s) was turned into a rockin’ and rollin’ stage musical in 2002. That
Broadway hit, in turn, was splashed back onto the big screen in 2007 with John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah and Christopher Walken. The score features toe tappers “Welcome to the ‘60s” “Good Morning Baltimore,” “It Takes Two” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” This national tour also grabs “Ladies Choice” from the 2007 movie musical.
Feb. 15—20, 2022 — ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
This musical is about a high schooler with social-anxiety disorder who begins to connect with his classmates after telling little lies about a deceased student that balloon out of control. “Dear Evan Hansen” won six Tony Awards in 2017, including best musical. The score is by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (“La La Land,” “The Greatest Showman”), the dynamic duo who are Academy Award, Golden Globe and Tony Award winners.
March 22—27, 2022 — ‘Anastasia’
This Broadway musical is based on the 1997 animated movie of the same name. The film was a big hit for Fox Animation Studios, spawning a computer game, toys, books, a direct-to-video sequel and this stage show, which opened on the Great White Way in 2017 and was nominated for two Tony Awards. Set in the 1920s in Russia and Paris,
“Anastasia” is a very loose retelling of the popular myth about how a member of the Russian Imperial Romanov family supposedly escaped execution in 1918. This stage version (with a book by Terrence McNally) features six songs from the animated movie version along with 16 new numbers.
May 31—June 5, 2022 — ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of this rock musical’s loose retelling of parts of the canonical gospels and the last few weeks of Jesus’ life, this show has been rebooted. This new production was staged by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London and directed by Timothy Sheader (“Crazy for You,” “Into the Woods”) and choreographed by Drew McOnie (“King Kong,” “Strictly Ballroom”). The score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice includes well-known show tunes such as “Everything’s Alright,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Superstar.”