The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced its full line-up of five shows in its 2015-16 Broadway Series tonight, including the dates for the already-announced Matilda and another huge show set to play the following season.
Matilda (pictured), based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl and featuring a female character played by a man in drag, will kick off the season as expected, opening Sept. 23 and playing through Oct. 4, 2015. It will be followed by the return of Jersey Boys (Dec. 16-27), then the non-musical Love Letters (March 22–April 3, 2016), the return of the enduring hit Cabaret (May 25–June 7) and concluding with the current Tony-winning hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (June 7–19). Love Letters will feature the stunt-casting (typical of this show) of former Love Story Oscar nominees Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal in the epistolary romance.
In addition, last year’s Tony winner for best musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, will open in 2016-17 but, as with Matilda last year (and War Horse before that), we won’t know the dates until later.
