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'Hamilton' is headed to Pittsburgh in 2018-19

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'Hamilton' is headed to Pittsburgh in 2018-19

First up: Tours of 'Waitress,' 'Aladdin,' 'School of Rock'

Ham­il­ton” is on its way to Pitts­burgh, but you will have to wait un­til the 2018-19 PNC Broad­way in Pitts­burgh sea­son.

Sub­scrib­ers from the 2017-18 sea­son will have first ac­cess to tick­ets for Broad­way’s Found­ing Fathers block­buster, which re­cently an­nounced a sec­ond na­tional tour­ing com­pany. Tour dates will be an­nounced in the spring of 2018. But com­ing up in the not-so-dis­tant fu­ture, the PNC Broad­way in Pitts­burgh se­ries for 2017-18 fea­tures re­gional pre­mieres of straight-from-Broad­way mu­si­cals, in­clud­ing the sea­son-open­ing “School of Rock,” “Waitress” and “Dis­ney’s Alad­din,” along with An­drew Lloyd Web­ber’s “Love Never Dies: The Phan­tom Returns,” “The Body­guard” and, for the first time in the Broad­way se­ries, “The Color Pur­ple,” the Tony win­ner for best mu­si­cal re­vival in 2016.

Also on the slate are the re­turn of “Rent” in its 20th an­ni­ver­sary tour, “Mo­town the Mu­si­cal,” “Wicked” and “Rodgers + Ham­mer­stein’s Cin­dere­lla,” pre­sented for the first time as part of the PNC Broad­way in Pitts­burgh se­ries. The hol­i­day of­fer­ing brings back “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christ­mas, the Mu­si­cal.”

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All shows at the Benedum Center un­less oth­er­wise in­di­cated.

Oct. 17-22: “School of Rock”— An­drew Lloyd Web­ber meets a bunch of rock ’n’ roll kids in the stage ad­ap­ta­tion of the film of the same name. The new mu­si­cal fol­lows Dewey Finn (Jack Black in the film), a wan­nabe rock star pos­ing as a sub­sti­tute teacher who turns a class of straight-A stu­dents into a gui­tar-shred­ding, bass-slap­ping, mind-blow­ing rock band. The mu­si­cal fea­tures an all-kids rock band and 14 new songs by Sir An­drew.

Nov. 14-19: “The Color Pur­ple the Mu­si­cal” — This re­con­ceived stag­ing by Tony-win­ning di­rec­tor John Doyle fo­cuses on the emo­tional story of one woman’s epic strug­gle for love and in­de­pen­dence. The re­vival in­tro­duced Brit­ish star and now Tony win­ner Cyn­thia Erivo as Celie and gave Jen­ni­fer Hud­son her Broad­way de­but.

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Jan. 2-7, 2018: “An­drew Lloyd Web­ber’s Love Never Dies: The Phan­tom Returns” — It is 1907, 10 years af­ter the Phan­tom’s dis­ap­pear­ance from the Paris Opera House, and he has es­caped to a new life in New York, among the amuse­ment park rides and freak shows of Coney Island. Mr. Web­ber de­scribes the pro­duc­tion as, “Prob­a­bly the fin­est one I could ever, ever hope for.”

Feb. 27-March 4, 2018: “The Body­guard” — The mu­si­cal that went from Lon­don’s West End straight to a U.S. tour adapts the Law­rence Kas­dan film, in which sparks fly when for­mer Se­cret Ser­vice agent Frank Farmer (Kevin Cost­ner in the film) is hired to pro­tect su­per­star singer Rachel Mar­ron (Whit­ney Hous­ton) from an un­known stalker. The mu­si­cal fea­tures songs from the late Ms. Hous­ton’s ca­reer, in­clud­ing “I’m Every Woman,” “Sav­ing All My Love” and “I Will Al­ways Love You.” R&B star Deb­o­rah Cox (Broad­way’s “Aida,” “Jekyll & Hyde”) orig­i­nated the role of Rachel on tour; Ms. Cox does not per­form at Satur­day mat­i­nee and Sun­day eve­ning per­for­mances.

March 6-11, 2018: “Waitress: — The new mu­si­cal by pop singer Sara Ba­reilles (“Brave,” “Love Song”), with a book by screen­writer Jessie Nel­son and di­rec­tion by Diane Pau­lus, was in­spired by Adri­enne Shelly’s film about Jenna, a wait­ress and ex­pert pie maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and love­less mar­riage.

March 27-April 1, 2018: “Rent 20th An­niver­sary Tour” (Heinz Hall) — The Pulit­zer Prize- and Tony Award-win­ning mu­si­cal re­turns to the stage in a new tour­ing pro­duc­tion.

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Aug. 21-Sept. 9, 2018: “Dis­ney’s Alad­din” — The block­buster mu­si­cal of the an­i­mated film is an on­go­ing Broad­way suc­cess since hit­ting the Great White Way in 2014, and now it’s tak­ing it to the road. The show in­cludes new songs and fa­vor­ites (“A Whole New World,” “Friend Like Me”) by Alan Menken, Howard Ash­man and Tim Rice.

Sea­son sub­scrip­tions: $175-$630. Sin­gle tick­ets go on sale ap­prox­i­mately six to eight weeks be­fore a show’s open­ing; 412-456-1390 or www.trus­tarts.org/​Broad­way.

Sea­son spe­cials: Nov. 21-26: “Mo­town the Mu­si­cal”; Dec. 19-24: “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christ­mas, the Mu­si­cal” (Heinz Hall); Jan. 24-Feb. 11, 2018: “Wicked” (au­tism-friendly per­for­mance 2 p.m. Feb. 3); May 22-27, 2018: “Rodgers + Ham­mer­stein’s Cin­dere­lla” (Heinz Hall).

Sharon Eberson: seberson@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1960. Twitter: @SEberson_pg.

First Published: March 21, 2017, 12:49 a.m.

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