Hollywood Heavyweights ~ 10th Anniversary

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As a follow-up to the tremendous reception we have had for the first nine editions of our Hollywood Heavyweights weekend, Broadway Across America is excited to announce our 10^th Anniversary experience with show choices including the highly anticipated Broadway returns of Audra McDonald, James Monroe Iglehart and Nicole

So come join us for “Hollywood Heavyweights 2025,” a custom-built and strictly limited Broadway weekend.

Come early January, you just might find there is no other place you would rather be than New York City.  With the holiday crowds melted away and the city relatively quiet, this will be your own little well-kept secret of a Broadway excursion. 

Here’s a capsule look at some of our featured shows on the weekend:

– Gypsy: starring inimitable 6-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald

– Cabaret:  Adam Lambert & Sally Bowles star in the ground-breaking Broadway revival of Kander & Ebb’s classic musical.

– The Outsiders:  12-time Tony Award nominee and reigning Best New Musical, a landmark new stage adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s famed novel

– Sunset Boulevard:     Olivier Best Actress Winner Nicole Scherzinger arrives from London’s West End with this new production 

– Hell’s Kitchen:     A new musical featuring music and lyrics from 16-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys

With a capacity projected at a cozy 16 to 24 guests, this Broadway Across America exclusive also features roundtrip airfare, door-to-door luxury sedan service to and from the airport, distinctive 4-diamond accommodations and the professional on-site services of our dedicated staff. 

As is customary, your experience with Broadway Across America features an elegant welcome event including cocktails, dinner and dessert on the first night with your fellow travelers. 

Our second featured group meal is our traditional lunch at Sardi’s highlighted by an intimate Q & A session with a cast member or two from your shows. 

Come join us!

Show Overviews:

Gypsy

Audra McDonald returns to Broadway as Rose in the classic musical from Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim.  Gypsy is the landmark Broadway musical about a domineering mother in the early 20th Century who will do anything to make her young daughters Vaudeville stars. Inspired by the early life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, this new production is directed by George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, and is the musical that introduced the hit songs “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,“ and “You Gotta Get a Gimmick.”

& Juliet

Created by the Emmy ® -winning writer from Schitt’s Creek,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & JULIET asks: what would happen if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning a second chance at life and life – her way.

Cabaret

Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome to the Kit Kat Club. Home to an intimate and electrifying new production of Cabaret. Experience this groundbreaking musical like never before.

The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a decadent sanctuary inside Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Step inside their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.

London’s hottest ticket arrives on Broadway this Spring with Academy® and Tony Award® winner Eddie Redmayne reprising his Olivier Award-winning performance as the Emcee, and introducing Gayle Rankin as the Toast of Mayfair, Sally Bowles. 

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends

Celebrate one of Broadway’s true icons with this legendary theatrical event! Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends is an irresistible celebration of the master himself, with a company headlined by none other than Tony Award® winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga. Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends comes to Broadway from London’s West End, where it earned a bevy of 5-star raves and was hailed by The Times as “unmissable musical theatre.”  

The Outsiders

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, the hardened hearts and aching souls of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and their chosen family of ‘outsiders’ are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them. A story of the bonds that brothers share and the hopes we all hold on to, this gripping new musical reinvigorates the timeless tale of ‘haves and have nots’, of protecting what’s yours and fighting for what could be.

A Wonderful World:  The Louis Armstrong Musical

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart stars as jazz legend and American icon Louis Armstrong in this new musical. Louis Armstrong’s innovative musicianship and incredible charisma as trumpeter and vocalist would lead him from the early days of jazz in his native New Orleans to five decades of international stardom. A Wonderful World tells the story of Armstrong’s blazing musical career from the perspective of his four wives, who each had a unique impact on his life.

Hell’s Kitchen

There’s a place where the rhythm of the city is music, where every corner has a story, and every window is a kaleidoscope. Where a girl can step out of her apartment and find the world. That’s 13-time Tony Award nominee Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical from 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys that’s about to make Broadway feel brand new.

Chicago

Celebrating 27 years on Broadway! The Tony-winning revival of Kander and Ebb’s musical will razzle dazzle you.   Set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma’s serving time for killing her husband and sister after finding the two in bed together. Driven chorus girl Roxie’s been tossed in the joint for bumping off the lover she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of prison matron Mama Morton and slickster lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a murder-of-the-week media frenzy, thus preparing the world for a splashy showbiz comeback. But Roxie’s got some of her own tricks up her sleeve…

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