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You can cancel at any time!Loading&amp;hellp;{{title}}{{description}}{{banner}}(renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax){{tagline}}{{special_title}}{{html}}You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.© 2022 Lee EnterprisesShare This'Hamilton' returning to Overture Center; 2021-22 Broadway season announcedShare thisJoseph Morales and Nik Walker led the second national "Hamilton" tour as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, respectively.&nbsp;"Hamilton" is scheduled close out the newest season of Broadway at Overture, running Aug. 9-21, 2022.People wait to buy tickets for "Hamilton" at Overture Center in September 2019.“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster Broadway musical, is returning to the next year, arts center officials said Thursday.“We’re so excited to be able to have it back,” said Tim Sauers, Overture’s vice president of programming and community engagement.In 2019, “Hamilton” became the biggest money-maker in Overture’s then 15-year history. The run didn’t sell out as expected before it opened in Madison, but the touring production wound up with full houses for each of its 24 shows, and generated just over $7.5 million in gross ticket sales.The 2021-22 Broadway at Overture season, announced to subscribers Thursday night, will also feature six-time Tony Award-winner “Dear Evan Hansen,” as well as “Mean Girls” and “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations,” all rescheduled from the pandemic-interrupted 2020-21 season.The Overture Center has had a $20 million revenue loss since it closed in mid-March due to COVID-19, Sauers said. The center cut staff and other expenses.Sauers said the donations the center has received while it’s been closed have helped offset the losses. Overture exceeded by almost 50% its “Intermission Campaign” goal of $1.5 million. The campaign, announced Sept. 1, aimed to raise $1.5 million by Dec. 31. The center received 2,200 donations totaling $2.2 million.The wait-and-see nature of the pandemic has been hard on scheduling, Sauers said. Overture canceled all its shows through February and is now canceling March through August. Announcing the new Broadway at Overture lineup helps give theater fans something to look forward to, he said.“We’re going to be looking for herd immunity to be able to have large crowds gathered again,” Sauers said. “And the shows have to be assured of that in order to be able to go out and to schedule.”Sauers said the theater industry is following the predictions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the country’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout. That plan gives Broadway the confidence to restart its season in the fall.“The building will open to large crowds when we’re able to do that, and when we can guarantee that everybody’s safe and healthy,” he said.For a Broadway tour to go on the road, it usually needs to play 25 cities, Sauers said, and with Broadway closed down, the idea of how and when a new season could start depended on the course of the pandemic.Programmers added “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Hairspray” to the 2021-22 Broadway at Overture season, but have so far been unable to reschedule “Wicked,” Disney’s “The Lion King” and “Oklahoma!”Sauers, now in his eighth season of programming, said he hopes to present those productions in a future season. He said big, multi-week tours are scheduled about two years in advance, so reprogramming them will take time.“Fiddler on the Roof,” last at Overture in February 2012, will kick off the 2021-22 Broadway at Overture season, running from Nov. 16-21. It’s a new, updated tour based on the last Broadway revival, Sauers said. “They played around with the choreography. It’s kind of a reset, fresh version of ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ It’s a popular show.”The first Broadway show to come to Overture this year, “Come From Away,” was rescheduled from the 2019-2020 season, and is in addition to the 2021-22 Broadway at Overture season. It will be presented during the last week in September and the first week in October.The Tony Award-winning Canadian musical is set in the week following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and tells the true story of what happened when 38 planes were ordered to land unexpectedly in the small town of Gander in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.The show was originally scheduled to play Overture in August 2020, and Sauers said he’s thrilled he was able to reschedule it because it was high scoring with Overture patrons when they were surveyed, and because “it’s one of the most beautiful shows I have ever seen as a Broadway show.”In order to reschedule, Sauers, who came to Madison in 2008 to be the center’s director of education and community engagement, said every couple of days he had to “move dates left and right.”And because the Broadway shows he books share space at Overture Hall with resident companies such as Madison Opera, Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Ballet, that meant a lot of juggling, he said.“Broadway is a little bit more flexible in terms of weeks,” he said, adding that trying to book shows during the pandemic put lots of dates in doubt. “But we hope that we’re far enough out with all of the busy schedules that it will all work in our favor.”“Mean Girls,” a Madison premiere, will be presented Jan. 11-16, 2022. “Hamilton” will close out the 2021-22 season, running Aug. 9-21, 2022.Here is the 2021-22 Broadway at Overture season: "Come From Away,"&nbsp;(rescheduled from the 2019-20 season), Sept. 28–Oct. 3 "Fiddler on the Roof," Nov. 16-21 "Mean Girls," Jan. 11-16, 2022 "Hairspray," Feb. 22-27, 2022 "The Prom," March 22-27, 2022 "Dear Evan Hansen," May 10-15, 2022 "Ain't Too Proud&nbsp;— The Life and Times of the Temptations," June 14-19, 2022 "Hamilton," Aug. 9-21, 2022Sign up now to get the most recent coronavirus headlines and other important local and national news sent to your email inbox daily.Joseph Morales and Nik Walker led the second national "Hamilton" tour as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, respectively.&nbsp;"Hamilton" is scheduled close out the newest season of Broadway at Overture, running Aug. 9-21, 2022.People wait to buy tickets for "Hamilton" at Overture Center in September 2019.In 2019, "Hamilton" became the biggest money-maker in Overture's then 15-year history.{{title}}{{summary}}You don't have any notifications.Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.Topics

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