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OUR ALL NEW 2020|2021 SEASON SHARE THIS BROCHURE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Click to Open THE BAND’S VISIT SEPTEMBER 8 – 13, 2020 1776 OCTOBER 6 – 11, 2020 Dear Theatregoer, HADESTOWN We are so excited to start this new decade with a thrilling JANUARY 19 – 24, 2021 lineup for our 2020-2021 Season. We have everything from the top musicals currently playing on Broadway, fresh THE CHER SHOW national tours, a special pre-Broadway engagement and MARCH 16 – 21, 2021 returning San Diego audience favorites, and for the first time in 10 years, we are adding a play to our exciting lineup. TOOTSIE MAY 11 – 16, 2021 The road from Broadway to San Diego is shorter than ever, and that has everything to do with the support of our PRETTY WOMAN: sponsors, starting with title sponsor, San Diego County THE MUSICAL Credit Union® for their generous and ongoing support, and JUNE 1 – 6, 2021 you, our audience, for the trust we strive to maintain with TO KILL A each and every presentation. MOCKINGBIRD JUNE 22 – 27, 2021 Whether you are returning for another season, just joined us for the first time, or still considering a Season Ticket Package, we can’t wait to welcome you to the theatre for another incredible season. My Best, Vanessa Davis, General Manager Broadway San Diego — A Nederlander Presentation OUR ALL NEW 2020|2021 THE BAND’S VISIT SEPTEMBER 8 – 13, 2020 Patrick Page 1776 and Amber Gray in OCTOBER 6 – 11, 2020 HADESTOWN. Photo by Matthew HADESTOWN Murphy. JANUARY 19 – 24, 2021 THE CHER SHOW MARCH 16 – 21, 2021 TOOTSIE MAY 11 – 16, 2021 PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL JUNE 1 – 6, 2021 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD JUNE 22 – 27, 2021 EXTRA SEASONDISNEY’S EVENTS THE LION KING AUGUST 12 – 30, 2020 IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS NOVEMBER 24 – 29, 2020 LES MISÉRABLES MARCH 2 – 7, 2021 “Bring Him Home” - Nick Cartell as ‘Jean Valjean’ in the new national tour of LES MISÉRABLES. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Next Page The company of THE BAND’S VISIT North American Tour. Photo by Matthew Murphy. THE BAND’SSEPTEMBER 8 VISIT– 13, 2020 The critically acclaimed smash- hit Broadway musical THE BAND’S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony®- winning musicals in history. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. In this joyously offbeat story, set in a town that’s way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue. Under the spell of the desert sky, and with beautiful music perfuming the air, the band brings the town to life in unexpected and tantalizing ways. Even the briefest visit can stay with you forever. With a Tony®- and Grammy®-winning score that seduces your soul and sweeps you Janet Dacal & Sasson Gabay. Photo by Evan Zimmerman, MurphyMade. off your feet, and featuring thrillingly talented onstage musicians, THE BAND’S VISIT rejoices in the way music makes us laugh, makes us cry, and ultimately, brings us together. DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Previous Page GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com 1776OCTOBER 6 – 11, 2020 They knew they would make history, but not what history would make of them. Fed up with living under the tyranny of British rule, John Adams attempts to persuade his fellow members of the Continental Congress to vote in favor of American Independence and sign the Declaration. But how much is he willing to compromise in the pursuit of freedom? And to whom does that freedom belong? Direct from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, visionary director Diane Paulus reexamines a pivotal moment in American history in a re-imagining of the Tony Award®-winning musical 1776 prior to its Broadway engagement at Roundabout Theatre Company. DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Next GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com Page . HADESTOWN HADESTOWN Credit: Matthew Murphy JANUARY 19 – 24, 2021 Original the and Noblezada Eva Broadway Cast of COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE. Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, this acclaimed new musical by celebrated singer- songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today... and always. Intertwining two mythic tales—that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone—HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go. Eva Noblezada, Andre De Shields, and Reeve Carney. Credit: Matthew Murphy DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Previous Page GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com The Cast of THE CHER SHOW Original Broadway Company. Photo by Joan Marcus. THE CHER SHOW MARCH 16 – 21, 2021 THE TONY AWARD®-WINNING MUSICAL! HER LIFE. HER STORY. HER LEGEND. Superstars come and go. Cher is forever. For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture—breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries, and letting nothing and no one stand in her way. THE CHER SHOW is the Tony Award®-winning musical of her story, and it’s packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play Original Broadway Company. Photo by Joan Marcus. Joan by Photo Company. Broadway Original her: the kid starting out, the glam pop star, and the icon. THE CHER SHOW is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star THE CHER SHOW CHER THE husbands, a Grammy®, an Oscar®, an Emmy®, and enough Tony Award®-winning Bob Mackie gowns to cause a sequin shortage in New York City, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have you dancing in the aisles! Stephanie J. Block as Star in DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Next GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com Page TOOTSIE Original Broadway Company. Santino Fontana and Company. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2019. TOOTSIEMAY 11 – 16, 2021 It’s “far and away the funniest musical of the season” (Daily News). It’s “the most uproarious new show in years” (The Hollywood Reporter). It’s “the best comedy on Broadway” (Forbes). No matter how you say it, TOOTSIE is unanimously funny! It’s a laugh-out-loud love letter to the theatre, based on the Oscar®-nominated film. Featuring a Tony ®-winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony® winner David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), this New York Times Critic’s Pick is a “hilarious, thoroughly modern Tootsie” (People Magazine) that’s “even funnier than the movie!” (New York Post). “In these turbulent times, with the world out of balance, we need a place to let the good times roll,” says Rolling Stone, “Tootsie is it.” Original Broadway Company. Lilli Cooper and Company. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2019. TOOTSIE DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Previous Page GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICALJUNE 1 – 6, 2021 After an incredible record- breaking run on Broadway, Audience Choice Award® winner PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is coming to San Diego! PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is brought to life by a powerhouse creative team representing the best of music, Hollywood, and Broadway. Featuring direction and choreography by two- time Tony Award® winner Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), an original score by Grammy® winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance (“Summer of ’69”, “Heaven”), and a book by the movie’s legendary director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J.F. Lawton, PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL will lift your spirits and light up your heart. “If you love the movie, you’ll love the musical!” (BuzzFeed News). Atlantic Records’ PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is produced by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and is now available on all DSPs. (Top and Left) PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL Hamburg Production. Photos by Morris Mac Matzen. DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com Next Page TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD JUNE 22 – 27, 2021 All rise for Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning masterwork. The New York Times Critic’s Pick TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is “the most successful American play in Broadway history. It has not played to a single empty seat” (60 Minutes). Rolling Stone gives it 5 stars, calling it “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic,” and New York Magazine calls it “a real phenomenon. Majestic and incandescent, it’s filled with breath and nuance and soul.” With direction by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD—“the greatest novel of all time” . Photo by Julieta Cervantes. (Chicago Tribune)—has quickly become “one of the greatest plays in history” (NPR). O KILL A MOCKINGBIRD A KILL O Lisa Gay Hamilton, Nina Grollman in T DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Season Brochure for a Sneak Peak Previous Page GET SEASON TICKETS TODAY visit www.BroadwaySD.com EXTRA SEASON EVENT Buyi Zama as “Rafiki” in THE LION KING North American Tour. ©Disney. Photo Credit: Deen van Meer. THEDISNEY’S LION KING AUGUST 12 – 30, 2020 More than 100 million people around the world have experienced the phenomenon of Disney’s THE LION KING, and now you can, too, when San Diego’s best-loved musical returns to the Civic Theatre. Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, this landmark musical event brings together one of the most imaginative creative teams on Broadway.