Season announcement

New Broadway Dallas season lines up Beetlejuice, Funny Girl, and another shot at Hamilton

Broadway Dallas and Broadway Across America have unveiled the full lineup of Broadway shows coming to Dallas for the 2023-2024 Germania Insurance Broadway Series presented by Broadway Dallas. It will feature eight productions, including four Dallas premieres and the return of audience favorites.

Among the newcomers, the headliner is Beetlejuice, based on Tim Burton’s cult classic 1988 film, running February 20-March 3, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park. The musical comedy tells the story of Lydia Deetz, an unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. With music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, it became a fan favorite on Broadway during its runs there, and was nominated for eight Tony Awards.

Returning for a third time to Dallas but showing for the first time at Winspear Opera House as part of Broadway Dallas' collaboration with the AT&T Performing Arts Center is the perennially popular Hamilton, running May 8-June 9, 2024. The now-iconic musical, featuring a cast of Latino and Black actors playing the Founding Fathers and Alexander Hamilton's family, previously played at the Music Hall at Fair Park on both April 2-May 5, 2019, and November 16-December 5, 2021.

Fans of jukebox musicals will get two different ones during the season. MJ, running November 21-December 3, 2023 at the Music Hall at Fair Park, is centered around the making of Michael Jackson's 1992 Dangerous World Tour. It goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted the singer into legendary status.

Another legendary performer is showcased in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, running January 23-February 4, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park. It chronicles the inspiring journey of Turner, a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. The production features many of her much-loved songs and the showmanship for which she was known.

Girl from the North Country, running April 9-21, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park, is not a jukebox musical, but it reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,” and “Like A Rolling Stone,” to tell a story set in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota, where the lives of a group of wayward travelers intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life, and hope.

For the first time in 48 years, a national tour of Funny Girl (running August 6-18, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park) will come to Dallas, this time as part of the classic musical's revival that had some drama on Broadway over the casting of the main role, Fanny Brice. Featuring one of the greatest musical scores of all time, including “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star,” and “People,” it's a bittersweet comedy about a girl from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who dreamed of a life on the stage.

The season is rounded out by two returning favorites, Les Miserablés (running December 20-31, 2023 at the Music Hall at Fair Park), making its record-tying eighth appearance in Dallas after last being seen in 2018; and Hairspray, running June 18-30, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park, making its third appearance after last being seen in 2008.

Season tickets for the 2023-2024 are on sale now at BroadwayDallas.org or by calling 866-276-4884, with packages starting at $230. Subscriber benefits include priority access to additional tickets before public on sale, ticket exchange privileges, and more.

Single tickets to individual shows will go on sale at a to-be-determined later date.

Photo by Matthew Murphy

Beetlejuice will make its Dallas premiere, running February 20 - March 3, 2024 at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

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history in the making

Taylor Sheridan to be honored with legendary Texas award in 2027

1923 Las Vegas Premiere Screening & After Party Taylor Sheridan

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Taylor Sheridan is a 2027 recipient of the History-Making Texan Award.

Trailblazing North Texas producer, director, and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan will add a new award to his shelf in 2027. Sheridan has been named one of two recipients of the History-Making Texan Award, which the Texas State History Museum Foundation (TSHMF) will present in Austin in spring 2027.

Since 2005, the organization has honored "living Texas legends whose contributions to the state and the nation have been truly historic and exceptional in scope and nature." Past galas have recognized prominent Texas figures such as former presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush and former first ladies Barbara and Laura Bush, as well as H-E-B chairman Charles Butt, singer-songwriter and accordionist Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenéz, among others.

Joining Sheridan as the other 2027 honoree is Texas Historical Commission chairman, businessman, and philanthropist John L. Nau, III. The 2027 gala will be held at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin on March 2, Texas Independence Day.

"Our honorees are national leaders whose accomplishments have elevated Texas’ distinctive place on the national and international stage," said Debbie Raynor, Dinner Chair and TSHMF Trustee, in a relase. "John L. Nau, III and Taylor Sheridan have each, in very different ways, helped tell the Texas story — one through the preservation of our history and treasured places, the other through the power of storytelling that has brought Texas and the American West to audiences around the world."

Quadruple-threat filmmaker Sheridan is most widely recognized for his award-winning neo-Western TV series Yellowstone and its associated spin-offs 1883, 1923, Marshals, and Dutton Ranch. Raynor hailed Sheridan for his success in bringing a "remarkable new dimension to the way the world sees Texas and the American West."

"As a creator, writer, director, and executive producer of some of television’s most successful series, he has captured the imagination of audiences across the globe while bringing the people, landscapes, traditions and enduring spirit of the West into millions of homes," she said. "And he does more than tell the Texas story — he lives it, as a native Texan, accomplished horseman and steward of two legendary Texas ranches."

Nau is the former chairman and CEO of Silver Eagle Beverages, one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the U.S. Raynor said Nau's "commitment to preservation" extends further than his protection of Texas historic sites "to the stewardship and conservation of the land itself, including his bay area lodge in south Texas and his ranch in west Texas."

"[Nau's] leadership and lifelong dedication to history have earned him national recognition, but perhaps his greatest legacy is his determination to ensure that the stories and places that shaped Texas endure for generations to come," Raynor said.

A release estimates about 450 "business, political, and community leaders" attend the Texas Independence Day Dinner each year, and proceeds will benefit the Bullock Museum's educational programs and special projects.

The 2027 Texas Independence Day Dinner will take place March 2, 2027, at the Bullock Museum in Austin. A VIP reception will start at 6:30 pm, followed by a 7 pm reception, and 7:30 dinner and program.

Taylor Sheridan is gifting his creative archive to Texas State University.

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Taylor Sheridan is a 2027 recipient of the History-Making Texan Award.

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