War Horse Tour 2012

Votes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated! This was our BIGGEST year yet! After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to announce the 2012 Toronto Winners! Thanks to all who voted and HUGE congrats to all the winners!

The Hennepin Theatre Trust presents the 2012/2013 Broadway Season, which features five Minnesota debuts: The Book of Mormon, the multi-Tony Award winning musical blockbuster from the creators of "South Park;" War Horse; Catch Me If You Can; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Also featured in the season is Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, Rock of Ages, Monty Python's Spamalot, and Shear Madness. Aida, a co-production in partnership with Theater Latte Da and directed by the acclaimed Peter Rothstein, is also available.

At a press conference held June 5 at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 169 nominations for 212 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2011 and May 22, 2012 for the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto.

The Fabulous Fox Theatre continues its 30-year tradition of bringing Broadway shows to St. Louis audiences with the announcement of its 2012-2013 U.S. Bank Broadway Series. Celebrating 30 years of Fabulous Broadway in 2012, Fox Associates presents a seven-show subscription package featuring Broadway's Tony Award®-winners and classic favorites. THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards® including Best Musical headlines this season as it makes its Fox debut. Also making its first St. Louis appearance is WAR HORSE, the 2011 Tony Award®-winner for Best Play. Other new shows include current Broadway shows PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT and MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. ANYTHING GOES, winner of the 2011 Tony Award® for Best Musical Revival, will set sail for St. Louis and the classic LES MISÉRABLES will return to the Fox Theatre stage in an all-new 25th Anniversary production. BLUE MAN GROUP will make a stop at the Fox during its first U.S. theatrical tour. U.S. Bank Broadway Series subscribers will also have the first opportunity to purchase tickets for St. Louis favorites WICKED, STOMP, and ROCK OF AGES which will be featured as off-series specials.

Broadway's best new shows will be on stage in Charlotte next season in the 2012-2013 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center revealed its 2012/13 10th Anniversary Season schedule which includes performances by local arts groups, signature cultural shows and Broadway hits including War Horse and a return engagement of Disney's The Lion King.

The 2012/2013 KeyBank Broadway at The Paramount Season will bring another year of entertainment to The Paramount Theatre, with a roster of mega hits, press notes state.

The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) and Broadway in Columbus (BIC) today announced the 2012-13 Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series season. Four of the productions on the five-show subscription series have never before been seen in Columbus, including Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Million Dollar Quartet, Green Day's American Idiot, and War Horse, winner of five 2011 Tony Awards including Best Play. Disney's Beauty and the Beast, presented by NETworks, will also return to Columbus to kick off the new season. In addition to the five-show season package, season specials will include the return of Les Miserables and Wicked.

The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization today announced the line-up of Broadway's most popular touring stage musicals coming to Philadelphia for the 2012/13 Broadway Season. The Broadway Season is presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization with productions at the Academy of Music, Forrest Theatre and Merriam Theater.

Broadway In Boston announces the upcoming 2012-2013 Lexus Broadway Season which will include eight theatrical productions at the Boston Opera House and the venerable Citi Performing Arts Center Colonial Theatre.

Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta is set to bring five of Broadway's performances to Atlanta's majestic Fox Theatre this season. Featuring two Tony Award® winning musicals, the 2012-2013 season lineup includes WAR HORSE, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, FLASHDANCE, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET and SISTER ACT.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture and long-form television nominations for the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards. The categories include: The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures; The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures; and The David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television. The documentary film category and other television category nominations were already announced by the Guild in December 2011.

According to reports from The Age, Britain's National Theatre production of WAR HORSE is set to play at the Art Centre's State Theatre in Melbourne, Australia sometime in late 2012.

War Horse was a big winner at the 65th Annual Tony Awards ceremony presented in New York City on June 12. Originally staged by the United Kingdom's National Theatre, War Horse won the Tony Award for Best Play.

Today, 6 June, the National Theatre's award-winning production of War Horse at the New London Theatre will release over 290,000 new tickets for sale, taking bookings up to 20 October 2012.

The National Theatre's epic WAR HORSE, now a five-time Tony® Award nominee currently playing at Lincoln Center Theater and in the West End in London, will embark on a national tour in June 2012, bringing the hit play to 20 U.S. cities during the 2012-2013 season. A new production will also be mounted at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre in February 2012 for an open-ended run.