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Reasons to subscribe to the 2024-2025 Broadway Series.

• Enjoy a Lifetime of Music: Bringing Moulin Rouge! The Musical to the stage was a decade-long journey, spanning 3 continents, encompassing 75 songs credited to 165 songwriters, administered by 31 publishers, representing over 160 years of music.
• Back by Popular Demand: Les Misérables is the longest running musical in the world, and in September 2019, celebrated its 14,000th performance in London. Les Misérables also remains the 6th longest-running Broadway production of all time after The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Chicago, The Lion King and Wicked. Enjoy the world’s most popular musical as it returns to Sarasota.
• It’s “Simply the Best”: Experience TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, the story of one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time! Tina Turner won 12 GRAMMY Awards and her live shows were seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.
• Glamorous Looks: Funny Girl is set in the lower east side in NYC during the early 1900s.The costumes from the Vaudeville era of Broadway are designed by the Tony Award winning Susan Hilferty. They are stunning and glamorous!
• Big Stage to Big Screen: The award-winning Broadway hit, Dear Evan Hansen, which garnered six Tony Awards for its uplifting portrayal of challenging themes, served as the inspiration for the 2021 film adaptation.
• Based on True Events: Returning to the Van Wezel stage, Come From Away! Based on a true story – everything portrayed on stage was influenced by a real person or pulled from an experience that occurred in Gander in September 2001.
• Broadway Resurrections: Beeltejuice found its audience and flourished when the musical found its way onto social media platforms like TikTok. Fans shared their enthusiasm by posting intricate fan made videos. When the show announced that it would be closing in 2020, fans began to rally on social media campaigning to #SaveBeetlejuice and keep the musical on Broadway. The show’s popularity continued to grow from there, which ultimately led to its Broadway comeback.
• Timeless Classics: The classic board game Clue, debuted in 1949, marking its 75th anniversary, while the film adaptation is nearing 40 years old. Since its inception, Clue has seen various adaptations, including video games, movies, a musical comedy, and now a non-musical farce.
• Macabre Magic: Although numerous film and television adaptations of Addams' cartoons exist, The Addams Family musical is the first stage show based on the characters based on Charles Addams' original macabre cartoons.

Subscribe today and save up to 20% on your tickets. Visit VanWezel.org/subscriptions or call the Box Office at 941-263-6799.