Broadway in West Michigan Series
The Broadway in West Michigan Series features some of the best entertainment straight from the Great White Way — right here in Kalamazoo!
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RUBEN STUDDARD starring in AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
The Fats Waller Broadway Musical
also starring FRENCHIE DAVIS
Saturday, December 6, 2008 | 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.
The 30th Anniversary Tour of the 1978 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ starring 2003 American Idol winner Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis, 2003 American Idol contestant and star of RENT on Broadway. The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem is showcased in this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway’s most well-crafted shows of all time — sometimes sassy, sometimes sultry, with moments of heartwarming beauty. AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is simply unforgettable!
Oliver!
Friday, January 23 | 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 24 | 2 p.m.
“Oliver! is a stunningly beautiful musical,” gushes the New York Post. “Consider Yourself” enchanted by Oliver! Hailed the world over as one of the best-loved family musicals of all time, Oliver! brings to the stage some of Charles Dickens’ most unforgettable characters along with one of Broadway’s most memorable scores. Hits such as “Consider Yourself At Home,” “Food, Glorious Food” and “Where Is Love” surround this heartwarming tale of the young orphan Oliver Twist in this all new production of Lionel Bart’s magical musical.
Rain: The Beatles Experience
Friday & Saturday, February 13 & 14 | 8 p.m.
EXPERIENCE WHAT BEATLEMANIA WAS ALL ABOUT! FROM ED SULLIVAN TO ABBEY ROAD! They look like them and they sound just like them! “The next best thing to seeing The Beatles,” raves the Denver Post. All the music and vocals are performed totally live! RAIN covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late ’60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience ... a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups. “An adoring Valentine to The Beatles,” declares the Washington Post. Sing along with your family and friends to such Beatlemaniac favorites as “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude,” “My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Come Together” and “Can’t Buy Me Love.”
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wednesday & Thursday, April 22 & 23 | 7:30 p.m.
In the Tony Award® winning new musical comedy THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. SPELLING BEE has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “perfect in every possible way — that rarity of rarities, a super-smart musical that is also a bona fide crowd pleaser.” This tuneful, offbeat and at times heartwarming show offers audience members the opportunity (strictly voluntary) to become part of the action as on-stage spellers.
