‘La Cage,’ ‘Hedwig’ among Short North Stage shows

Short North Stage will offer six musicals next season.

Except where noted, all 2018-2019 performances of the professional troupe’s eighth season will take place at the Garden Theater’s Main Stage, 1187 N. High St.

• Aug. 23-Sept. 16: “The Toxic Avenger” — The off-Broadway rock musical, in its central Ohio premiere, will offer a satirical cautionary fable based on the cult film about a mutant freak who struggles with bullies and corrupt politicians to save New Jersey from pollution.

• Oct. 11-Nov. 3: “The Rocky Horror Show” (Garden Theater’s Green Room) — The campy cult rock musical, about an innocent couple who visit a mansion with a mad transsexual scientist who dances “The Time Warp,” spoofs B-grade science-fiction and horror movies.

• Nov. 1-25: “La Cage aux Folles” — The production will be based on the 2010 revival version of the Broadway musical adapted by composer-lyricist Jerry Herman and author Harvey Fierstein from the film comedy about gay partners, running a drag nightclub in St. Tropez, whose world is jolted when a son brings his fiance and her bigoted parents to meet his father.

• Dec. 6-30: “Mamma Mia!” March 21-April 14, 2019: “Pippin” Broadway revival of the Stephen Schwartz coming-of-age musical about Charlemagne’s son in the medieval era.

• June 6-23, 2019: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” — Author John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask’s rock musical, previously staged in 2013 by the troupe, follows the concert tour of a transgendered rocker who suffers from a botched operation.

Subscriptions, on sale May 15, cost $158 to $202 for six shows, $132 to $178 for five shows or $106 to $154 for four shows.

Single tickets, on sale July 1, cost $30 to $44 for Main Stage productions or $35 for Green Room shows.

Call 614-725-4042 or visit www.shortnorth stage.org.

— The jukebox musical weaves “Dancing Queen,” “SOS” and other ABBA disco/pop hits into a mother-daughter comedy-drama about love, marriage and youthful impulses.

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— The production will be based on the circusthemed 2013-2015