The Walnut Street Theatre's 202nd Anniversary Season!
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Broadway's musical comedy whodunit will keep your toes tapping with hilarious fun!CURTAINS
September 7 – October 24
Book by Rupert Holmes, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Original Book and Concept by Peter Stone, Additional Lyrics by John Kander and
Rupert Holmes
You're invited backstage to Boston's Colonial Theatre! It's 1959 and there's a new musical coming to town. It looks like Robbin' Hood of the Old West could be a Broadway smash, if it weren't for the supremely untalented leading lady. What's a show to do? But wait! News just in! The leading lady is murdered during her opening night curtain call. Whodunit? Everyone's a suspect. Can a police detective who moonlights as a musical theater fan save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens? From the creators of Chicago and Cabaret comes this hilarious new musical comedy whodunit filled with romance, mystery, laughter and song and dance. It's Curtains!
This all-NEW production of Irving Berlin's holiday musical will melt your heart!Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS
November 9 – January 9
Based Upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written For the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Celebrate the holiday season with an all-new production of the Broadway musical, White Christmas. Remember that great feeling you get with the season's first snow? And how about that glow you feel when you've found true love? You get both in White Christmas. See what happens when a couple of song-and-dance men with romance in mind follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by the boys' former army commander. Sparks fly and snow falls! The dazzling score features some of the best songs ever written, including "Blue Skies," "I Love a Piano," "How Deep is the Ocean?" and of course the unforgettable title song. It's merry. It's bright. And it will snow inside the Walnut with Irving Berlin's White Christmas!
It's Mozart's genius vs. Salieri's passion-for-fame in Peter Shaffer's thrilling, action-packed masterpiece!AMADEUS
January 18 – March 6By Peter Shaffer
Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play, the Academy Award for Best Film, and triumphant in recent revivals in London and on Broadway, Amadeus weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the court of the Austrian Emperor Josef, Antonio Salieri is the influential court composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The final contest is not between Salieri and Mozart, but between Salieri and God. This theatrical masterpiece, filled with some of the greatest music ever composed, will be a thrilling start to the New Year!
It's fast-paced, nonstop laughter as Broadway takes on the master of suspense!Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS
March 15 – May 1Adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock and an original concept by Nobby Dimon and Simon Corble
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of merry mayhem and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced mystery for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters played by a ridiculously talented cast, an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure comedic pleasure!
Broadway's epic love story is a musical masterpiece you will never forget!MISS SAIGON
May 17 – July 17Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil
A classic love story is brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In Miss Saigon, the creators of Les Misérables bring Puccini's Madame Butterfly to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years ends in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had. An international sensation, Miss Saigon is an epic musical masterpiece with a thrilling score. Miss Saigon promises to be a truly spectacular finale to the Walnut's 202nd season!
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