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I can’t stress this enough: ‘Hairspray’ is the upbeat musical we all need right now

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That summer, I read that the Tony Award-winning Broadway stage production of “Hairspray” was touring the nation and I decided my daughter and I should go see it. I searched for dates and places we could realistically visit and never found one.
In subsequent years, I searched for notices of a tour several times, but it wasn’t until last fall that I learned the 2022 tour of “Hairspray” was coming to Huntsville’s Von Braun Center on April 1-3, hosted by Broadway Theatre League.

You don’t want to miss ‘Cats’ during its Huntsville run

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Legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber apparently thought so, too. The charming mischief makers inspired Webber to write the musical “Cats,” the fourth longest running Broadway play of all time. It has earned more than $3.5 billion to date. Let’s just say its success brought about the phenomenon of the “megamusical.”

Memories of the Broadway experience right here in Huntsville

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When I was young, I thought live theater was only for people who lived in big cities and had lots of money. My small Georgia hometown had access only to plays performed by local high school students. It wasn’t until I was a young single mother that I experienced a live show here in Huntsville. […]

The gift of Broadway will stay with them for years to come

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There’s no experience like a live experience. It’s difficult to describe the feeling of being in the audience of a Broadway play. When a company takes a show on the road, they perform with the same enthusiasm and heart as the actors in New York. It can make your heart soar and break and soar […]