Joan Rivers show will take place on Friday, March 23, 2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers's comic style relies heavily on poking fun at herself and other celebrities. Joan has been a comic for 40 years, and even she can't believe the amount of filth that she witnessed at her Roast. View available tickets for Joan Rivers Baltimore show 2012 below.
The Mamma Mia broadway musical will be held on 6/15/2012 - 6/17/2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Mamma Mia! is a stage musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, former members of the band. Although the title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia", the plot is fictional, not biographical. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who composed the original music for ABBA, were involved in the development of the show from the beginning. Anni-Frid Lyngstad has been involved financially in the production and she has also been present at many of the premieres around the world. The musical includes such hits as "Super Trouper", "Lay All Your Love On Me", "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Take A Chance On Me", "Thank You for the Music", "Money, Money, Money", "The Winner Takes It All", "Voulez Vous" and "SOS". Over 42 million people have now seen the show which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide. A film adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters was released in July 2008. View available dates and tickets for Mamma Mia musical below....
The Mary Poppins broadway musical will be held on 4/24/2012 - 5/6/2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P. L. Travers and the Disney 1964 film. The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography. The musical features the film's music and lyrics by the Academy Award winning Sherman Brothers, along with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The book was written by Julian Fellowes. The musical was directed by Richard Eyre and co-directed by Matthew Bourne, who also acted as co-choreographer with Stephen Mear. A Broadway production with a near-identical creative team opened in November 2006, with only minor changes from the West End version. It received seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, winning for Best Scenic Design. The stage musical is a fusion of various elements from the film and the books. Some elements from the Mary Poppins series of children's books that had been omitted from the film were restored, such as the walking statue and the ladders rising to the stars. Others were removed, such as the scene in which Uncle Albert gets caught on the ceiling, laughing. View available dates and tickets for Mary Poppins musical below....
The Memphis The Musical broadway musical will be held on 4/3/2012 - 4/8/2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Memphis is a musical by David Bryan (music and lyrics) and Joe DiPietro (lyrics and book). It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. It was staged during the 2003-04 season at both the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and TheatreWorks in Mountain View, California and opened on Broadway on October 19, 2009. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical, along with three other Tony Awards, at the 2010 Tony Awards. Memphis has played 800 performances on Broadway as of September 21, 2011. The Broadway production was filmed during regularly scheduled performances January 18–21, 2011 by Broadway Worldwide for high definition exhibition in digital cinemas during spring 2011. The show was captured utilizing multiple high definition cameras and 96 tracks of sound recording. Director Don Roy King and sound producer Matt Kaplowitz led the production team for Broadway Worldwide. The filmed production was screened nationwide from April 28 through May 3, 2011. View available dates and tickets for Memphis The Musical musical below....
The The Addams Family broadway musical will be held on 3/6/2012 - 3/18/2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show is based upon The Addams Family characters created by Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre. Numerous film and television adaptations of Addams' cartoons exist, but the musical, which is the first stage show based on the characters, is based upon the cartoons rather than the television and film characters. The Addams Family is also the first production produced by Elephant Eye Theatricals (A Broadway producing organization combining an experienced producing team with the institutional leadership and subscription audiences of fifteen performing arts centers). After a tryout in Chicago, the show opened on Broadway in April 2010. The original cast featured Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. An original Broadway cast recording was released on June 8, 2010. View available dates and tickets for The Addams Family musical below....
The Lion King broadway musical will be held on 12/7/2011 - 1/8/2012 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical. The show debuted in the West End's Lyceum Theatre on October 19, 1999 and is still running. The cast of the West End production were invited to perform at the Royal Variety Performance 2008 at the London Palladium on December 11, in the presence of senior members of the British Royal Family. The Lion King received four Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. The film would go on to win two Golden Globes, for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and Best Original Score, as well as two Academy Awards, for Best Original Score (by Hans Zimmer) and Best Original Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" by Elton John and Tim Rice. View available dates and tickets for Lion King musical below....
West Side Story broadway musical will be held on 4/12/2011 - 4/24/2011 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore. West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The musical's plot and story are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York City in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation Americans from Puerto Rico taunted by the Jets, a working-class white [1] group who consider themselves the true Americans. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical has become extremely popular; it includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke" and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances (a successful run for the time), before going on tour. The production garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical in 1957, but the award went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It won a Tony Award in 1957 for Robbins' choreography. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international success. The production spawned an innovative, award-winning 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, and starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. It won ten Academy Awards out of eleven nominations, and it is produced frequently by schools, regional theatres, and occasionally by opera companies. View dates and available tickets for West Side Story musical below....
Shrek musical will be held on 3/22/2011 - 4/3/2011 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Shrek is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 1990 book Shrek by William Steig as well as the 2001 DreamWorks film of the same name. After a tryout in Seattle, the original Broadway production opened in December 2008 and lasted over 12 months, closing January 2010. The First North American Tour began in July 2010, with a West End production set to open May 2011. The First North American Tour of the show began previews at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, on July 13, 2010, and officially opened on July 25. The new production marks the debut of an all-new Dragon. On the subject, set designer Tim Hatley stated "The biggest change [will be] the dragon. It will be a different creature from the puppet/soul trio on Broadway but I think we've finally gotten it right". The tour, co-directed by Rob Ashford, also features a new opening, new songs and improved illusions, from those on Broadway. For the tour, the song sung by the Dragon on Broadway - Donkey Pot Pie - was replaced by a new song intitled Forever. The tour saw the deletion of three fairy tale creatures: Fairy Godmother, White Rabbit and Gnome. Humpty Dumpty was also scrapped and replaced by Tweetledum. The Magic Mirror was also cut. The original cast includes Eric Petersen as Shrek, Haven Burton as Princess Fiona, Alan Mingo, Jr. as Donkey, and Blakely Slaybaugh as Pinocchio. The role of Lord Farquaad was initially played by Todd Buonopane, however, on the fifth day of previews he was replaced by understudy David F.M. Vaughn, for unknown reasons. Eric Petersen, Haven Burton, and David F.M. Vaughn all understudied their respective roles in the Broadway production. View available dates and tickets for Shrek broadway musical below....
Les Miserables musical will be held on 3/1/2011 - 3/6/2011 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Les Miserables is a musical composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil, and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. On October 8, 2006, the show celebrated its 21st anniversary on London's West End and became the longest-running West End musical with 9,500 performances. The production continues at London's Queen's Theatre. The show is now in its 25th year. It is currently the 3rd longest-running show in Broadway history and the longest-running show in musical theatre history. Based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, set in early 19th-century France, the plot follows the stories of the characters as they struggle for redemption and revolution. The lead characters are joined by an ensemble that includes prostitutes, student revolutionaries, factory workers, and others. The Tony Award-winning score features the song "I Dreamed a Dream", sung as a solo by the character Fantine during the first act. Numerous professional artists have recorded cover versions of this song since the musical's premiere in October 1985, including Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, David Essex, Susan Boyle, Michael Crawford and most recently as a duet between Idina Menzel and Lea Michele on the television show Glee. View available dates and tickets for Les Miserables musical below....
Jersey Boys musical will be held on 2/2/2011 - 2/27/2011 at Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Jersey Boys is a documentary-style musical based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons. The musical opened on Broadway in 2005, and has had a North American National tour, along with productions in the West End, various US cities, Toronto, and Melbourne. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards, Best Musical, Best Actor (John Lloyd Young), Best Featured Actor (Christian Hoff), and Best Lighting Design (Howell Binkley). Jersey Boys premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California in an out-of-town tryout on October 5, 2004 and ran through January 16, 2005. The musical opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre starring John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli, Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito, Daniel Reichard as Bob Gaudio, and J. Robert Spencer as Nick Massi. The musical is directed by Des McAnuff, the then artistic director at La Jolla Playhouse, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo. It uses many of the group's hit songs to tell the turbulent story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' rise to fame. The first national tour of Jersey Boys began on December 10, 2006 at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. On May 3, 2007, that tour's run ended in San Francisco to prepare for its Los Angeles premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre. The next day, a second company debuted at the Curran and ended its run on September 30, 2007, before transferring for an open-ended run at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre. The Chicago production opened on October 5, 2007 with Michael Ingersoll, a Chicagoan, in the role of Nick Massi. View dates and available tickets for Jersey Boys musical below....
