Featuring Tony Winning Shows: Kimberly Akimbo, Some Like It Hot, & Juliet and New York, New York

Columbus Day Weekend

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

Come join us at one of the most beautiful times of year in New York City. NYC and Broadway are in the midst of an inspiring revival and we are inviting you to come and immerse yourself in that experience.

Miss the irreplaceable experience of live theatre on its grandest stage?    We have been welcoming guests back since autumn ‘21 and our guests have absolutely been enthralled to be back on Broadway and in the Big Apple.

If splendid autumn temperatures and the season’s changing colors sound about right to you, we invite you to join us for Columbus Day weekend from October 6 – 9.  

With 18 months of a darkened Broadway having faded into history, our patrons can once again count on the familiar core elements of the BAA travel experience including airfare, roundtrip private town car/SUV transfers between airport and hotel, excellent tickets to 3 shows, 3 nights hotel at a 4-diamond theatre district hotel, two groups meals and more.

Here’s a sense of how your Broadway weekend will take shape:

Following a festive welcome dinner with your fellow Broadway Across America patrons, the weekend gets underway with your choice of three shows: 13-time Tony Award nominee Some Like It Hot based on the classic Marilyn Monroe/Jack Lemmon film, MJ The Musical, the life story of Michael Jackson which has been blowing away audiences with its story telling, smash hit catalog and, of course, its dancing OR Back to the Future,  the reigning Olivier Best New Musical in London the long-awaited revival.

Complimenting an intimate and exquisite Q & A lunch at Sardi’s, your second day will feature a choice between the 2023 Tony Best Musical winner Kimberly Akimbo OR highly acclaimed new Neil Diamond musical A Beautiful Noise OR 9-time Tony nominee & Juliet, the hilarious new musical that flips the script on the greatest love story ever told.

There’s no letdown on Sunday when you once again have a choice from among 2 new musicals: OR 9-time Tony nominee New York, New York, a visionary, jubilant new musical from Susan Stroman that’s a glittering love letter to the greatest city in the world OR 8-time Tony nominee including best Musical Revival  Sweeney Todd, starring global icon Josh Groban.

On Saturday, your program will feature options for a theatre, museum or walking tour experience (including our traditional Central Park tour where we take in the fall foliage and remarkable back story of this NYC landmark) from among choices we will provide.   

Friday morning tour selections segue into an engaging Q & A and exquisite lunch with a Broadway actor guest or two at Sardi’s, the famed Broadway district establishment.

Come early October, you just might find there’s no other place you would rather be than NYC. The weather can be expected to be at its finest with scenic fall foliage in Central Park and just the right temperatures both day and night. Meanwhile, the many details of your trip will be attended to by our dedicated staff.

Show Overviews:

Kimberly Akimbo

Kim is a bright and funny Jersey teen, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady.  And yet her aging disease may be the least of her problems.   Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities and possible felony charges Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side.

New York, New York

It is 1946, the war is over, and a resurgent New York is beginning to rebuild. As steel beams swing overhead, a collection of artists has dreams as big and diverse as the city itself. But do these singers, dancers, musicians and makers have what it takes to survive this place, let alone to succeed? If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere.

New York, New York is a spectacular show for a singular city. With a unique blend of dazzling new songs and big band classics (“New York, New York,” “The World Goes Round”), this jubilant new musical is destined to become the talk of the town.

Be a part of it.

A Beautiful Noise

With his first break into songwriting in the 1960s and his meteoric rise in the 1970s, and plenty of crushing disappointments and heart-stopping triumphs along the way, Neil Diamond has maintained an almost unthinkable level of superstardom for five straight decades. How did a poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn become one of the most universally adored showmen of all time? There’s only one way to tell it: a musical set to his era-defining smash hits that entranced the world.

Including a score of Diamond’s most beloved songs, A Beautiful Noise features a book by four-time Academy Award®-nominee Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything), direction by Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot), and choreography by Olivier Award® winner and four-time Tony Award nominee Steven Hoggett (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Once, Black Watch).

& 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.

Back to the Future

Winner of London’s Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Back to the Future is set to land on Broadway this summer.

Welcome to Hill Valley! When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past and send himself… back to the future.

Set your destination time, New York and get ready to make musical theater history.

MJ

MJ is the electrifying new Broadway musical that takes audiences inside the creative process of one of the greatest entertainers in history.  Featuring over 25 of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, MJ allows us to rediscover the man in the mirror – with an explosion of music and theatricality as unforgettable as the artist himself.

Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s landmark musical tells the tale of a resourceful pie shop owner and a vengeful barber out for blood. After he’s sent away by a corrupt judge, Sweeney returns to London years later seeking his long-long family, and forms and unlikely partnership with Mrs. Lovett, who serves up pies underneath his former shop.  Together, they wreak havoc on Fleet Street and serve up the hottest – and most unsettling – pies in London.

Some Like It Hot

A new musical comedy based on the 1959 film of the same name. Some Like It Hot brings one of Hollywood’s greatest comedies to new life on the Broadway stage. Don’t miss your chance to join this fast-paced, sassy, brassy cross-county romp, as two best friends run for their lives – and find true love where they least expect it. Featuring a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, a book by Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance and Amber Ruffin Show), Some Like It Hot arrived this November at the Shubert Theatre.