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“Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” “Pretty Woman” and “Hadestown” will have their Denver premieres while “1776” plays the Buell Theatre as part of its pre-Broadway run in the upcoming Broadway season from Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
The full slate of DCPA’s 2020-21 subscriber and “added attraction” shows, which joins last month’s announcement of is on sale to subscribers starting on March 23.
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“I’m very excited to see what the reaction is to this lineup,” John Ekeberg, executive director for Broadway and Cabaret at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, said via phone last week. “We often talk about the ‘audience’ that sees our shows, but in reality it’s a lot of different audiences, and we’re trying to offer something for every one of them.”
Current subscribers have until April 12 to renew their subscription, DCPA officials said. Broadway and will also get pre-sale access to DCPA Off-Center’s Theater of the Mind,” co-created by Talking Heads leader David Byrne and writer Mala Gaonkar.
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Details will be announced at a later date, as will a single-ticket sale date for the 2020-21 Broadway shows.
” ‘Moulin Rouge!’ is this huge Broadway spectacle, but what’s unusual is that producers are putting the show out on the road before it’s gone through Tony (award) season,” Ekeberg said. “I’m very pleased we’re on the front end of that, as well as ‘Hadestown,’ which was less commercial but was a big Tony winner in its own Broadway season.”
Director Diane Paulus’ acclaimed revival of the musical comedy “1776,” which just hopped out of its nest at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., will visit Denver in advance of its 2021 Broadway debut. Best-sellers such as the Tony-winning “Come From Away,” which played the Buell and “Dear Evan Hansen,” which made its , also proved popular enough to merit a return, Ekeberg said.
“People were raving about those,” he said. “While it’s hard to measure, word a mouth still means a lot for these types of shows.”
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Here’s the full lineup:
| 1776 | Buell Theatre | Oct 13-25, 2020 |
| Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations | Buell Theatre | Oct 27-Nov 15, 2020 |
| The Other Josh Cohen | Garner Galleria Theatre | Nov 14, 2020-May 9, 2021 |
| Tootsie | Buell Theatre | Mar 2-14, 2021 |
| Hadestown | Buell Theatre | Apr 6-18, 2021 |
| Pretty Woman: The Musical | Buell Theatre | May 11-23, 2021 |
| Moulin Rouge! The Musical | Buell Theatre | Jun 10-Jul 4, 2021 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | The Ellie | Jul 13-Aug 1, 2021 |
| Added Attraction Shows | Theatre | Playing Dates |
| The Crown – Live! | Garner Galleria Theatre | Aug 5-Sept 6, 2020 |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical | Buell Theatre | Dec 11-13, 2020 |
| Jersey Boys | Buell Theatre | Dec 15-20, 2020 |
| Dear Evan Hansen | Buell Theatre | Jan 26-31, 2021 |
| Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show | Buell Theatre | Feb 16-21, 2021 |
| Les Misérables | Buell Theatre | Apr 27-May 2, 2021 |
| Come From Away | Buell Theatre | Jun 1-6, 2021 |
| Reunion ’69 and Reunion ’85 | Buell Theatre | Aug 11-Sept 12, 2021 |
