The Great White Way right here
The Kravis Center lines up hits for Broadway season.
The Broadway season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach is going to be bigger for 2016-2017.
Kravis on Broadway will feature seven Great White Way musicals (up fromthe usual four), including shows that won multiple Tony Awards, such as “Kinky Boots,” “An American in Paris” and “Beautiful— the Carole King Musical.”
“The 2016-2017 Kravis on Broadway season boasts a powerful lineup and four of them are making their Kravis Center debut,” says Lee Bell, the Kravis Center’s senior director of programming, in a press release. “Best of all, for the first time, we will be presenting as many as seven major shows.”
Subscribers for the Kravis on Broadway series will receive their renewals in mid-March. Tickets will go on sale to the general public in July. For more information or to order a subscription, call 561-832-7469 or 800-572-8471 or go to Kravis.org/Broadway.
Here are the dates for the shows.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nov. 15-20, 2016 A critical success on both sides of the pond, this play is about amathematical genius of a teenager who sets his incredible mind to the task of solving the mystery of who stabbed a neighbor’s dog with a pitchfork.
An American in Paris
Dec. 6-11, 2016 The stage musical based on the 1951 Gene Kelly-Leslie Caron movie won four Tony Awards when itwas staged on Broadway in 2015. The score by George and Ira Gershwin includes standards such as “I Got Rhythm,” “But Not for Me,” “S’ Wonderful” and “Stairway to Paradise.”
Dirty Dancing— the Classic Story on Stage
Jan. 3-8, 2017 The1987 film about a teenage girl vacationing with her family in the Catskills getting her “grind on” with a dance instructor has been turned into a stage musical with many of the hits from the movie, including “Do You Love Me,” “Hungry Eyes” and “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life.”
Beautiful— the Carole King Musical
Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 2017 This musical about the rise of pop-rock composer Carole King brought home two Tony Awards in 2014 and spotlights King’s hit songs such as “One Fine Day,” “I Feel the Earth Move” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman.”
The Phantom of the Opera
March 23-April 1, 2017 The story about a singing sociopath with a disfigured face haunting an opera house in 19th century Paris might seem an odd story line for a Broadway show, but the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been packing them in since it debuted in the West End in 1986. Hit songs fromthe show include “Masquerade,” “Prima Donna,” “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You.”