You might experience a sense of deja vu with the AT&T Performing Arts Center's 2024-25 Broadway season, as several titles have come through DFW recently.
Luckily a lot of those musicals are crowd-pleasers, with plenty of movie tie-ins to further refresh your memory. As with previous recent ATTPAC seasons, all will perform at the Winspear Opera House and most of the runs are very, very short.
“This season, we have selected five stories that — in their own ways — speak to the universal challenge of finding acceptance in a confusing world," says ATTPAC president and CEO Warren Tranquada. "While job one of a performance is to entertain through compelling storytelling, we can authentically connect artistry to issues in our own lives."
First up is Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, with the gender-bending twist recently seen on Broadway courtesy of director Marianne Elliott.
It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, “Why isn’t she married? Why can’t she find the right man and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family?” As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in the 21st century could drive a person crazy.
Company features such award-winning songs as "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "The Ladies Who Lunch," "Side by Side by Side," and the iconic "Being Alive." It runs September 25-29, 2024.
Next is Dear Evan Hansen, the first contemporary musical about connection in the digital age.
Meet Evan Hansen, a high school student who always feels like he’s on the outside looking in. After writing a letter to himself that was never meant to be seen, Evan becomes entangled in a lie that was never meant to be told and a life he never dreamt could be his. As a result, Evan finally gets what so many of us are searching for: the chance to finally fit in.
Packed with some of the most popular musical theatre songs from the last decade including “You Will Be Found,” “Waving Through A Window,” and “For Forever,” Dear Evan Hansen features an uplifting score by the Tony, Grammy, and Oscar-winning team behind The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson. It runs December 19-21, 2024.
The new year brings Mean Girls, the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond ("Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde,) and original director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina's reign, she learns the hard way that you can't cross a Queen Bee without getting stung. It runs April 17-19, 2025.
Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, which played the Music Hall at Fair Park in fall 2022, returns to tell the story of The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Set to the beat of the group’s treasured hits, including "My Girl," "Just My Imagination," "Get Ready," and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," Ain’t Too Proud tells the unforgettable story of the legendary quintet that Billboard Magazine named the greatest R&B group of all time. It runs May 1-4, 2025.
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, The Addams Family is the magnificently macabre musical featuring everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters.
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren't upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.
Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before: keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents. It runs June 26-28, 2025.
That concludes the main season, but there are also four add-ons.
This is the sixth year of ATTPAC's partnership with Broadway Dallas, and the co-pros for this season are Come From Away (January 14-19, 2025) and Life of Pi ( August 5-17, 2025).
Another partnership with TITAS/Dance Unbound brings CARMEN.maquia January 24-25, 2025.
Ballet Hispanico’s CARMEN.maquia is a Picasso-inspired contemporary take on Bizet’s beloved classic. The physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance, with nods to the Spanish paso doble and flamenco.
A stunning set design by Luis Crespo and minimalist black-and-white costumes by fashion designer David Delfin evoke the paintings of Pablo Picasso. This is the premiere of the ballet's evening-length version.
STOMP is the final production on the list, bringing its percussive approach to supermarket carts, plumbing fixtures, paint cans, and even the kitchen sink. It runs May 31-June 1, 2025.
ATTPAC promises that shows will feature new and improved programming elements, including pre-show Facebook Live viewings, themed digital photo booths and bar drinks, Encore at the Cantina, and more.
Four-show subscription packages range from $116-$632, and five-show subscription packages range from $145 to $790.
Subscription package sales begin February 15 and may be purchased by phone at 214-880-0202 or online at www.attpac.org/broadway. Single tickets will be available at a later date.
Photo by Jenny Anderson
You can sit with the Mean Girls April 17-19, 2025.
