Season Announcement
This is the moment for Dallas' Lyric Stage and its 2024-25 musical season
Catch "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" in February.
Lyric Stage, the Dallas-based theater company dedicated to the development and preservation of musicals, has announced its 31st season, which will not take place at its previous home, the Majestic Theatre.
Instead, the company will produce three shows at its intimate Lyric Studio Space, located at 1170 Quaker St. in the Dallas Design District, and the final production at the Moody Performance Hall in partnership with Turtle Creek Chorale.
In addition to the season, Lyric Stage is introducing a new free summer concert series on the lawn behind the Studio Space, called Lyric Under the Stars. Shows will take place on June 22 and 29, and July 13 and 20, all at 8:30 pm.
First up is Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings, a holiday classic by Stewart Ross.
At first, Francis, Jinx, Smudge, and Sparky aren't sure why they've returned to Earth for another posthumous performance, but a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they're needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world.
Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites, like their riotous three-minute-and-eleven-second version of The Ed Sullivan Show – this time, featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks, and The Vienna Boys Choir, as well as a Plaid Caribbean Christmas that puts the "Day-O" in Excelsis.
This production is rated G and is fun for the whole family. Audience members can purchase either general admission tickets or reserved cafe tables. It runs November 29-December 22, 2024.
To honor Black History Month, Lyric Stage is presenting Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.
In 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Billie Holiday puts on a show that, unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witnesses to one of the last performances of her lifetime.
Through her brilliant voice and sometimes haunting songs, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time shares her loves and her losses. Once again, audience members can purchase either general admission tickets or reserved cafe tables. This production is rated R and runs January 31-February 23, 2025.
The third show is Jekyll & Hyde, based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and with a score from multi-Grammy and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse.
An evocative tale of two men — one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman — and two women — one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women are in love with the same man and both are unaware of his dark secret.
A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind's most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man that the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.
The production is rated PG-13 and runs March 28-April 19, 2025.
The final show of the season is Guys & Dolls, a co-production with Turtle Creek Chorale presented at The Moody Performance Hall with a full orchestra and large cast.
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys & Dolls ran for 1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It received nearly unanimous positive reviews from critics and won a bevy of awards, including Tony Awards, Drama Desks, and Oliviers. The production is rated PG and runs August 15-17, 2025.
Tickets for all shows range in price from $35 to $65 and will be available on soon. For more information, visit here.
