In a powerful lineup of one of the strongest theatrical seasons Miami has seen in years, Tony® Award winners OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS THE COLOR PURPLE, WICKED and SPRING AWAKENING will be the dynamic centerpieces of the five-show 09-10 all-musical RRA Broadway Across America-Miami subscription series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The all-time dancing-in-the aisles hit, MAMMA MIA!, and the lighthearted family show, 101 DalmatiAns The Musical, round out the subscription season at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, presented by the Florida Theatrical Association and the Adrienne Arsht Center.
Also announced as 2009-2010 season “specials” are a limited run of the internationally acclaimed hit comedy, THE WALWORTH FARCE, from November 4 – 7, and a dynamic performance by Broadway icon Brian Stokes Mitchell on December 12 presented exclusively by the Adrienne Arsht Center.
Season tickets for the RRA Broadway Across America – Miami 2009-20010 five-show package range from $125.00 – $477.00. Beginning April 18, those interested in renewing or purchasing new season tickets can visit www.arshtcenter.org or call the Season Ticket Hotline at 800-939-8587. The phone lines are open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday, 12 p.m. – curtain time. When renewing, season ticket holders need to have their account number, renewal invoice, and credit card. Visit www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com for the most up-to date information about touring Broadway.
Broadway Across America Season Ticket Holders receive exclusive benefits including:
• SAME premium seats for all season shows
• Additional seating purchase privileges for all season shows before the general public
• Toll-Free VIP phone service including ticket exchanges
• Replacement ticket insurance for lost tickets
The 09-10 RRA Broadway Across America Miami five-show subscription series is as follows:
OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS THE COLOR PURPLE
October 27 – November 1, 2009
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS THE COLOR PURPLE, a soul-stirring musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg. It is the unforgettable and inspiring story of a woman named Celie, who triumphs over tremendous odds to find joy in life, and her true inner beauty. Nominated for eleven Tony® Awards, THE COLOR PURPLE is a landmark theatrical event. With a joyous GRAMMY®-nominated score featuring jazz, gospel and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE is capturing the hearts of young and old, and uniting audiences in a celebration of love.
“A ROOF-RAISING STORY OF TRIUMPH!” -Michael Kuchwara, AP
“A SOARING, EPIC TALE. It made a JOYFUL noise in my heart.” -Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
“BLESSED WITH TALENT. A bright odyssey of survival and triumph with a fairy-tale sense of wonder.” -Ben Brantley, New York Times
101 DALMATIANS THE MUSICAL
December 30, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
101 DALMATIANS is an experience for the entire family about what it means to be a family, canine and courageous. More than a simple story about good versus bad, the family bands together to overcome every hurdle and hardship in the most difficult times. Led by the creative team of Jerry Zaks (La Cage Aux Folles, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Everybody Loves Raymond), B.T. McNicholl (Spamalot, Billy Elliot, Cabaret) and Dennis DeYoung (founding member of the rock group Styx, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), 101 DALMATIANS will transport audiences to a slightly topsy-turvy, exciting, and altogether fantastic reality that gives grand license for song, dance and spectacle in a one-of-a-kind show that will leave everyone cheering.
WICKED
March 3 – 21, 2010
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Back by “Popular” Demand. The New York Times calls WICKED “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster,” and when it first played Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center in 2007, it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Winner of 15 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony® Awards, The Miami Herald calls WICKED “Extravagant” and “Beguiling.”
Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the Land of Oz One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
MAMMA MIA!
March 30 – April 4, 2010
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it’s your turn to have the time of your life at this smash-hit musical that combines ABBA’s greatest hits, including “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S.,” “Super Trouper,” “Take A Chance on Me” and “The Winner Takes It All,” with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship. Whether it’s your first visit or your fourteenth, see the show that has the whole world coming back for more, because every time feels like the first time at MAMMA MIA!
SPRING AWAKENING
May 11 – 16, 2010
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
WINNER OF 8 TONY® AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL! Broadway’s most talked about new musical is now the biggest Tony Award Winner in years. SPRING AWAKENING is the groundbreaking fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that has awakened Broadway like no other musical in years. The New York Times acclaimed “Broadway may never be the same again!” Winner of 8 Tony® Awards including Best Musical, SPRING AWAKENING celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy and a passion you will never forget. We agree with the
“HAUNTING AND ELECTRIFYING! This brave new musical has a shivery sensual allure unmatched by anything in the theatre right now.” – Charles Isherwood, New York Times
“A GROUNDBREAKING JOLT OF GENIUS!” – Clive Barnes, New York Post
***SPECIAL EXTRAS***
(NOT INCLUDED IN THE FIVE-SHOW SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE)
THE WALWORTH FARCE
November 4 – 7, 2009
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – Carnival Studio Theater
Written by Enda Walsh , Directed by Mikel Murfi
“Ferociously Entertaining!” -The New York Times
Direct from acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway runs comes the award-winning hit Variety calls “a triumph of suspense and staging, enacted unforgettably!” Brilliantly incorporating rapid costume changes, cross-dressing, and mistaken identities, THE WALWORTH FARCE shifts from hilarity to shocking realism, from madcap slapstick to the deeper, darker concerns that are revealed when an outsider enters the family circle. Initially resembling a wild Irish version of the “Three Stooges”, THE WALWORTH FARCE eerily transports you into the “twilight zone of one family’s personal mythology: the anecdotes, the rituals, the lies, the wounding jokes that keep blood kin shackled together in irons that are stronger than truth” (The New York Times).
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL “QUARTETTE”
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts – John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall
“The greatest cabaret performance I’ve ever seen in my life!” -The New York Times
Dubbed by The New York Times as Broadway’s “last leading man,” Brian Stokes Mitchell is a star of Broadway, television and film. A brilliant actor as well as an extraordinary singer, Mitchell won a Tony® Award for his role
in Kiss Me Kate and received Tony nominations for Man of La Mancha, Ragtime, and King Hedley II. Join Brian Stokes Mitchell for a spectacular evening of show tunes, ballads and classic love songs. “In his silken, elegant phrases that linger over each ecstatic exclamation, Mr. Mitchell makes you believe that the happiness bursting out of him is as natural as breathing” (The New York Times).
