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Doolittle and Company as Alfred Adam Grupper (center, LADY MY FAIR The Lincoln Center Theater of Lerner & Loewe’s Production 22 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 215.893.1955 KIMMELCENTER.ORG/BROADWAY2021 3 THE LINCOLN CENTER THEATER PRODUCTION Big New Musical. Big. Huge. THE MUSICAL Pretty Woman The Musical Hamburg Production. Photo by Morris Production. Hamburg Mac Matzen The Musical Pretty Woman LADY MY FAIR Mark in The Aldrich, Ahmed (center), William Michals Anderson Lincoln and Colin Center Theater of Lerner Shereen & Loewe’s Production Brown, Shavey OCT 27– NOV NOV 8, “IRRESISTIBLE! “Thrilling, glorious and 17–29, 2020 BETTER THAN IT EVER 2020 ACADEMY A romantic fantasy. ACADEMY OF MUSIC A contemporary fairy tale.” WAS. Eliza is a hero OF MUSIC The Hollywood Reporter for our moment!” The New York Times After an incredible run on Broadway, Audience Choice Award winner PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is now on tour! 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 (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), an original score by Grammy® winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance (“Summer of ’69”, “Heaven”), and a book by From Lincoln Center Theater and director Bartlett Sher comes “a sumptuous new production of the most the movie’s legendary director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J.F. Lawton, PRETTY WOMAN: THE perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Boasting such classic MUSICAL will lift your spirits and light up your heart. “If you love the movie, you’ll love the musical!” songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” and “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” MY FAIR LADY (BuzzFeed News). Atlantic Records’ PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (Original Broadway Cast tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor Recording) is produced by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and is now available on all DSPs. who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed? 4 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 215.893.1955 KIMMELCENTER.ORG/BROADWAY2021 5 Teal Wicks as Lady, Stephanie J. Block as Star, Micaela Diamond as Babe and the cast of THE CHER SHOW Original Broadway Company. Photo by Joan Marcus Company. Micaela Diamond as Babe Original and the cast of THE CHER SHOW Broadway Wicks as Lady, Stephanie J. Block as Star, Teal DEC JANDEC 8–20, See the all-new “You’ll“THE emerge CHER uplifted SHOW and 12–175–17, 2020 2021 IS AN EXPLOSION OF FORREST FORREST revival in our historic wiping tears from your eyes.” ACADEMYTHEATRE THEATRE OF MUSIC city before it goes to FABULOUSUSA Today EXCESS!” Broadway! Rolling Stone #THECOLORPURPLE THE TONY AWARD® WINNING MUSICAL! HER LIFE. HER STORY. HER LEGEND. They knew they would make history, but not what history would make of them. Fed up with living under Superstars come and go. Cher is forever. For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out the tyranny of British rule, John Adams attempts to persuade his fellow members of the Continental dominated popular culture—breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries, and letting nothing and no one Congress to vote in favor of American Independence and sign the Declaration. But how much is he stand in her way. THE CHER SHOW is the Tony Award® winning musical of her story, and it’s packed with willing to compromise in the pursuit of freedom? And to whom does that freedom belong? so much Cher that it takes three women to play her: the kid starting out, the glam pop star, and the icon. Direct from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, visionary director Diane Paulus THE CHER SHOW is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, a Grammy®, an reexamines a pivotal moment in American history in a re-imagining of the Tony Award® winning musical Oscar®, an Emmy®, and enough Tony Award® winning Bob Mackie gowns to cause a sequin shortage 1776 prior to its Broadway engagement at Roundabout Theatre Company. in New York City, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have you dancing in the aisles! 6 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 215.893.1955 KIMMELCENTER.ORG/BROADWAY2021 7 (L-R) Derrick Baskin, Jelani Remy, Jawan M Jackson, Ephraim Sykes, and James Harkness in AIN’T TOO PROUD. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Photo by Matthew PROUD. and James Harkness in AIN’T(L-R) Derrick Sykes, TOO M Jackson, Ephraim Jawan Baskin, Jelani Remy, Photo (c) Little Fang Damon Daunno & Mary Testa MAR 16– MAY APR 4, “AN ECSTATIC “How is it that the coolest 4–16, 2021 CELEBRATION that brings new show on Broadway 2021 ACADEMY FORREST OF MUSIC the crowd to their feet.” is a 1943 musical?” THEATRE Entertainment Weekly The New York Times AIN’T TOO PROUD—THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS is the electrifying new smash-hit Over 75 years after Rodgers & Hammerstein reinvented the American musical, this is OKLAHOMA! as Broadway musical that follows The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the you’ve never seen or heard it before—reimagined for the 21st century. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Stripped down to reveal the darker psychological truths at its core, Daniel Fish’s production tells a story of The winner of the 2019 Tony Award® for Best Choreography, it’s a thrilling story of brotherhood, family, a community circling its wagons against an outsider, and the frontier life that shaped America. Upending loyalty, and betrayal during a decade of civil unrest in America. Set to the beat of the group’s treasured the sunny romance of a farmer and a cowpoke, this OKLAHOMA! allows the classic musical—and our hits, including “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” AIN’T TOO country—to be seen in a whole new light. PROUD tells the unforgettable story of the legendary quintet that Billboard Magazine named the greatest Funny and sexy, dark and jolting, “this is the OKLAHOMA! that was there all along” (New York Magazine). R&B group of all time. The Daily Beast says “Forget your traditional idea of OKLAHOMA! 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