Broadway in Chicago announces 2017 season

Posted October 16, 2016 11:00 pm

Broadway in Chicago on Monday announced its 2017 season will include a pair of Tony Award-winning revivals along with the previously announced Jimmy Buffett musical, "Escape to Margaritaville."

The season begins June 14, 2017, with director Bartlett Sher's Tony Award-winning revival of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I." Sher reunites with his award-winning team from "South Pacific" and "The Light in the Piazza" to tell the tale of the relationships between a British schoolteacher and the imperious King of Siam.

Next up is "Something Rotten!" (July 11-23, 2017). It's about Nick and Nigel Bottom, brothers desperate to write a hit play during William Shakespeare's time, who are inspired by a local fortuneteller to create the world's first musical.

Director/choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's Tony Award-winning "An American in Paris" arrives July 25, 2017. Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film and set to George and Ira Gershwin's score, it chronicles the romance between an American soldier and a French woman.

Will Chase, center, plays Shakespeare in the Broadway production of "Something Rotten!" The national tour comes to Chicago July 11, 2017, as part of Broadway in Chicago's season. Courtesy of Joan Marcus

It's followed Oct. 11, 2017, by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's "Les Misérables," based on Victor Hugo's epic about punishment, mercy and redemption.

The season concludes with the aforementioned world premiere of "Escape to Margaritaville" a tropical island romance set to the music of singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Performances begin Nov. 9, 2017, for the pre-Broadway run.

Off-season productions include the stage adaptation of "Men Are from Mars - Women Are from Venus Live!" (Feb. 14-March 5, 2017); "The Illusionists - Live From Broadway" (Feb. 21-26, 2017) and the adults only, Australian import "The Naked Magicians" (March 14-19, 2017). Also on the schedule is the magic-puppetry combination "Circus 1903 - The Golden Age of Circus" (March 21-26, 2017). The Beatles tribute "Rain" returns March 28, 2017, and the 20th anniversary tour of "Rent," Jonathan Larson's re-imagining of Puccini's "La Bohème," arrives May 16, 2017.

New season subscribers can purchase tickets beginning Nov. 7 at (312) 977-1717 or BroadwayinChicago.com.

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