San Francisco's 2006-07 Best of Broadway Season

San Francisco's up-coming Best of Broadway 2006-07 season is brimming with eight highly-anticipated theatre events and premieres! Year after year, San Francisco is becoming a favored hub of Broadway and Off-Broadway premieres and debuts, with an outstanding new line-up this year under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays.

San Francisco continues to pride itself as the premiere city for Broadway-bound productions, national tours, and world debuts in new theatrical experiences.

The Light in the Piazza
The season begins this summer with The Light in the Piazza composed by Adam Guettel with a book by Craig Lucas.  Set in romantic Florence, Italy in 1953, The Light in the Piazza weaves the beautiful love story of an innocent American girl and a warm-hearted local Italian boy -- and an over-protective mother with a secret.  The musical won six Tony Awards including best orchestrations, original score, and scenic, light, and costume design.

Doubt
Also in the fall is the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Doubt starring Cherry Jones, who is reprising her Tony Award-winning role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier.  John Patrick Shanley's riveting drama discusses scandal in a Catholic school in 1964 and a nun who thinks one of the priests may have acted inappropriately with a young male student.

Edward Scissorhands
The highly-acclaimed new dance musical, Edward Scissorhands, by Matthew Bourne makes its North American premiere in San Francisco this fall.  Bourne's award-winning choreography is set to a score by Danny Elfman who also composed the music for Tim Burton's 1990 film.  Edward Scissorhands, already a smash in London, tells the story of a young-man with scissors for hands, created by a mad inventor, who must find his place in a picturesque suburbia.  Bourne's masterful storytelling was recently seen in San Francisco this month in the 10th Anniversary of his celebrated adaptation of Swan Lake.

Jersey Boys
San Francisco is the first stop for the national tour of this hit Broadway musical about the singing sensation, The Four Seasons.  Jersey Boys tells the story of how four kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history.  The Four Seasons wrote their own music and sold 175 million records worldwide.  Jersey Boys features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."  Jersey Boys is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and also features composer Bob Gaudio and lyricist Bob Crewe.

Legally Blonde
"Ohmigod, I'm like so psyched for San Francisco! It's only the city that invented the bend-and-snap!" reads Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, The Full Monty), the Tony Award-winning director and choreographer of the new musical Legally Blonde based on the 2001 film.  The new musical features music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe (Batboy) and Nell Benjamin (Sarah, Plain and Tall); book writer Heather Hach; and scenic designer David Rockwell (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).  Legally Blonde is follows "sorority star Elle Woods [who] puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law.  Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style."

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Fresh from their Tony Award-winning Broadway production and West-End engagement, Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin reprise their roles in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in San Francisco next spring.  Directed by Anthony Page, the infamous feuding George and Martha terrorize young newly-weds during a viscious and boozy evening.

Altar Boyz
Next spring will also usher in the hit Altar Boyz, a spoof on Christian boy bands that triumphantly won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical.  "With an extraordinary mix of side-splitting songs convincing enough to be played on MTV, uncontrollable laughs and lighthearted fun, this award-winning and totally original new musical is 90 minutes of pure delight that's suitable for all ages and will have the whole family laughing and singing along." 

The final show of San Francisco's Best of Broadway 2006-07 season is still to be announced.

Exact performance dates and locations have not yet been announced, but ticket-packages are currently on sale for subscribers.  To purchase tickets or for more information about San Francisco's current and up-coming seasons, call 415-551-2050 or visit www.bestofbroadway-sf.com.

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