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Premieres, national tours make up Broadway in Chicago season

Broadway in Chicago on Tuesday unveiled its 2015-2016 season, which includes the previously announced pre-Broadway world premiere of “Gotta Dance!” about a senior citizen hip-hop crew, beginning performances Dec. 13 at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre.

Tickets go on sale Sunday, March 8, for the season, which begins Aug. 18 with the return of “Dirty Dancing” to the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago.

The national tour of 2014's Tony Award-winning “A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder” — about a distant heir to a family fortune who plots to bump off the heirs ahead of him — begins Sept. 29 at the Bank of America Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award-winning revival of “Cabaret” launches its national tour in 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of the John Kander/Fred Ebb/Joe Masteroff musical, which stops at the Bank of America Theatre from Feb. 9 to 21, 2016.

“If/Then,” the 2013 musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (“Next to Normal”) about a divorced woman making a new start in New York City, plays the Cadillac Palace from Feb. 23 to March 6, 2016.

BIC's season concludes with “Matilda the Musical,” running March 22-April 10, 2016, at the Oriental Theatre. Based on Roald Dahl's book, the musical tells the tale of a bright young girl with a unique power who stands up against her disinterested parents and her school's hateful headmistress.

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"Matilda The Musical," seen here in its New York production, comes to Chicago in 2016. Courtesy of Joan Marcus
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