The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW announces the 2020-2021 Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series. The eight-show series consists of:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jan. 5-10, 2021
Jesus Christ Superstar is an iconic musical phenomenon with a world-wide fan base. In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production comes to North America. Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and helmed by the acclaimed director Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You, Into the Woods) and award winning choreographer Drew McOnie (King Kong, Strictly Ballroom), this production won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival.
My Fair Lady
Jan. 12 – 17, 2021
Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady is the winner of 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Revival of Musical and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, 5 Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical Revival and 3 Drama League Awards including Best Musical Revival.
The Prom
Feb. 2 – 7, 2021
Everyone’s invited to the joyous Broadway hit that New York Magazine hails as “smart and big-hearted” while The New York Times declares it “makes you believe in musical comedy again!” The Prom is a new musical comedy about big Broadway stars on a mission to change the world and the love they discover that unites them all.
Summer – The Donna Summer Musical
Feb. 23 – 28, 2021
She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through every barrier, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed.
Dear Evan Hansen
March 2 – 7, 2021
Winner of six 2017 Tony Awards and a 2018 Grammy Award – A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life & the way we live it.
RENT
March 16 – 21, 2021
For a quarter of a century, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece RENT has inspired us to choose love over fear and to live without regret. Its immeasurable emotional impact has forever changed the world of musical theatre.
Blue Man Group on Tour
March 30 – April 4, 2021
Under the helm of visionary director Jenny Koons, in her first time collaboration with Blue Man Group, the tour features everything audiences know and love about BMG—signature drumming, colorful moments of creativity and quirky comedy—the men are still blue but the rest is all new!
An Officer and a Gentleman
April 6 – 11, 2021
An Officer and a Gentleman, based on the Oscar-winning film starring Richard Gere, is a breathtaking production that celebrates triumph over adversity and includes one of the most iconic and romantic endings ever portrayed on screen. Featuring the Grammy Award winning, #1 hit single “Up Where We Belong,” and a score based on the 1980’s catalogue of music that gave voice to a generation, the live stage production is a new adaptation by multiple Tony Awards nominee Dick Scanlan (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Everyday Rapture), based on the original screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart.
Season tickets can be purchased at the box office, by phone 239-481-4849 or online at www.bbmannpah.com.
Single tickets for the 2020-2021 series will be available at a later date.
