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Long Center announces Broadway shows
The new Long Center for the Performing Arts will play host to three Broadway shows this year, center officials announced today.
Five-time Tony Award-winning musical “The Drowsy Chaperone” will play the Long Center’s Dell Hall Aug. 19-24.
Academy Award nominated actor Chazz Palminteri will kick off his U.S. tour of “A Bronx Tale” in Austin Sept. 2-7.
And direct from Broadway, the internationally acclaimed “Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” will play Nov. 25-30.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 18. Tickets available online at www.TheLongCenter.org at (512) 474-5664 or at the 3M Box Office at the Long Center. Groups of 20 or more may call (512) 457-5161 now to pre-book tickets before the public on-sale.
From the Long Center press release:
“The Drowsy Chaperone” received more Tony Awards than any other musical of the 2006 Broadway season, including Best Book, Original Score, Costume Design, and Scenic Design. A completely original musical comedy, “The Drowsy Chaperone” tells the story of a modern day musical theater addict known simply as “Man in Chair”. To chase his blues away he drops the needle on his favorite LP — the 1928 musical comedy, “The Drowsy Chaperone.” From the crackle of his hi-fi, the musical magically bursts to life on-stage telling the tale of a pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show business to get married, her producer who sets out to sabotage the nuptials, her chaperone, the debonair groom, the dizzy chorine, the Latin lover and a pair of gangsters who double as pastry chefs.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks, “A Bronx Tale” features Palminteri as 18 characters depicting a rough childhood on the Bronx streets. First mounted Off Broadway in 1989, “A Bronx Tale” helped establish Palminteri as a writer and actor. He now has over 50 movies to his credit, including “The Usual Suspects,” “Bullets over Broadway,” “Analyze This,” “Hurly Burly” and “Mulholland Falls.”
“Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” sees 25 aerialists, contortionists, acrobats, jugglers and musicians combine athleticism and theater in a spectacular show inspired by nature’s unpredictable creatures.
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