The 2011 2012 Broadway Across America Fort Lauderdale Season

The 2011-2012 Broadway Across America - Fort Lauderdale Season
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts!
Featuring an all Musical, Award Winning six show season direct from Broadway:
RAIN-A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES
Direct from Broadway
NETworks presents
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Enchanting Family Favorite
Working Its Way Back
JERSEY BOYS
Tony ®, Grammy® and Olivier Award Winning Best Musical
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL
"BEST MUSICAL OF THE DECADE" - Time Magazine
Winning ten 2009 Tony Awards® including Best Musical
Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC
Winner of 7 2008 Tony® Awards including Best Musical Revival
Jerry Herman'S LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Winner of three Tony Awards® including the award for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL

FT. LAUDERDALE, March 25, 2011 - Locking in the theatrical treasure that is the long running multi Tony-Award® winning musical is the dynamic international hit, BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL. Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale continues its long time tradition of providing local theater-goers with the best of current and classical musical theater showstoppers to celebrate the 20th Anniversary 2011-2012 subscription season presented by Florida Theatrical Association in association with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Launching on October 4-16 is RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES which continues to play to packed audiences at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater, followed by Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the most beautiful love story ever told coming to life November 15-27 and continuing with the record-breaking JERSEY BOYS, ready to rock in the New Year, January 11-29. BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL, the stunning 10 Tony Award-winning musical, is set to thrill audiences February 29 - March 11 followed by Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC, the Pulitzer-prize winning musical love affair that will capture audience's hearts from April 10- 22. As the season's grand finale, theater goers will again exult to Jerry Herman's heartwarming award-winning "best of times" musical, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, June 12-24.

Broadway Across America Season Ticket Holders receive exclusive benefits including:
• SAME seats for all season shows
• Additional ticket purchase privileges for all season shows and specials before the general public
• Toll-Free VIP phone service including ticket exchanges
• Replacement ticket insurance for lost tickets
Season tickets for the 2011-2012 Broadway Across America - Fort Lauderdale six-show package are currently available and range from $145 to $540. For faster service, those interested in renewing or purchasing new season tickets can visit www.broadwayacrossamerica.com. Orders can also be processed by calling the Season Ticket Hotline at 800.764.0700. Phone lines are open Monday through Friday, 10am - 5pm. When renewing over the phone or online, season ticket holders need to have their account number and credit card. Visit www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com for the most up-to date information about touring Broadway.

The 2011-2012 Broadway Across America Ft. Lauderdale six-show lineup is as follows:

RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES
October 4 - 16, 2011
DIRECT FROM BROADWAY "As the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!" (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. Together longer than The Beatles, RAIN has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance in this multi-media concert, that's as infectious as it is transporting. From the early hits to later classics (I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hard Day's Night, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Be, Come Together, Hey Jude and more), this adoring tribute will take you back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends.

NETworks Presents
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
November 15 - 27, 2011
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY EVER TOLD COMES TO LIFE
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Fort Lauderdale Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has won the hearts of over 35 million people worldwide. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including "Be Our Guest" and the beloved title song. Experience the romance and enchantment of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
www.BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com

JERSEY BOYS
January 11 - 29, 2012
More than 80,000 theatergoers cheered when JERSEY BOYS made its sell-out premiere in Fort Lauderdale in April 2009. Worldwide, more than 12 million people have seen JERSEY BOYS. And now, the show that made critics and audiences cheer / broke the Broward Center for the Performing Arts' box office record is "Working Its Way Back" to Fort Lauderdale. JERSEY BOYS, is the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30. JERSEY BOYS features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." "IT WILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!" proclaims Time Magazine.

The JERSEY BOYS creative team comprises two-time Tony Award®-winning director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bob Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL
February 29 - March 11, 2012
Fort Lauderdale IS ABOUT TO BE ELECTRIFIED BY BROADWAY'S "BEST MUSICAL OF THE DECADE" -
Time Magazine

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is the joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. A big musical with an even bigger heart, BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL will enchant the dreamer in all of us. Based on the international smash-hit film, BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is brought to life by a phenomenal cast of 45 and the Tony Award-winning creative team -- director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer LeeHall -- along with music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "HIS BEST SCORE YET!"

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S SOUTH PACIFIC
April 10 - 22, 2012
"Simply Wonderful! Beguiling Theatrical Magic!" hails the New York Post for Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC. This breathtaking new production of SOUTH PACIFIC is based on the 2008 Tony Award® winning Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. The beloved score's songs include "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa
My Hair," "This Nearly Was Mine" and "There is Nothin' Like a Dame." USA Today cheers, "! Gorgeous! SOUTH PACIFIC doesn't just float; it soars!" Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. www.SouthPacificOnTour.com

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES!
June 12 - 24, 2012
Winner of three Tony Awards® including the award for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, this funny new
production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was the biggest hit of the 2010 Broadway season, leaving audiences in stitches night after night!

LA CAGE tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! LA CAGE is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves. With a glorious score of hummable melodies and a dynamite cast featuring the "notorious and dangerous Cagelles,"
LA CAGE is an indisputable musical comedy classic... and this extraordinary new version shows you why. 

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