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Next to Normal is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The musical addresses grief, depression, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and the ...
2023 Broadway. 2024 North American Tour. Awards. Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Back to the Future: The Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Bob Gale. It is adapted from the 1985 film Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Gale.
This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances. Eleven shows currently running on Broadway have at least 1,000 performances: the 1996 revival of Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hadestown, Moulin Rouge!, Six, and MJ the ...
Transforming the 1985 action comedy Back to the Future into a Broadway musical complete with song-and-dance numbers and Hollywood-level effects sounds like a heavy proposition.But the creative ...
Xanadu. (musical) Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth. [ 1] The title refers to Xanadu, the site of the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan 's summer palace.
A new normal panned out Sept. 29, when "Aladdin" became the first Broadway show to cancel a performance after the musical's company developed breakthrough COVID cases. The show later announced ...
Chicago. (musical) Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption ...
“Chicago” last came to Kansas City for the Broadway series in 2015, and “The Lion King” in 2018. The other 2024-25 shows will make their local touring premieres.