Hollywood Heavyweights

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

As a follow-up to the tremendous reception we have had for the first ten editions of our Hollywood Heavyweights weekend, Broadway Across America is excited to announce our 2026 experience with show choices including the highly anticipated Broadway returns of Kristin Chenoweth and Lea Michele, PLUS the top 2025 Tony Award success stories Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending, 4-time winner The Buena Vista Social Club and 10-time nominee Death Becomes Her.

So come join us for “Hollywood Heavyweights 2026,” 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. 

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:

Maybe Happy Ending

Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen star in the Broadway premiere of this new romantic musical comedy.

Inside a one-room apartment in the heart of Seoul, Oliver lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a Helper-Bot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow Helper-Bot neighbor Claire asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even…love?

Buena Vista Social Club

Step into the heart of Cuba, beyond the glitz of the Tropicana, to a place where blazing trumpets and sizzling guitars set the dance floor on fire. Here, the sound of Havana is born—and one woman discovers the music that will change her life forever.

Inspired by true events, the new Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club™ brings the GRAMMY® Award-winning album to thrilling life—and tells the story of the legends who lived it. A world-class band joins a sensational cast of musicians, actors and dancers from around the globe for an authentic experience unlike any you’ve seen or heard before. Don’t miss this captivating tale of big dreams, second chances and the unbreakable bonds of making music together.

Wicked

Wicked, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another girl, born with emerald-green skin—smart, fiery, misunderstood, and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular, their initial rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships…until the world decides to call one “good,” and the other one “wicked.”

Visually stunning, Wicked boasts a soaring score from Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin) that includes the hits “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good, Tony Award-winning sets and costumes and some of the most gravity-defying moments on the Great White Way. Wicked has been hailed by The New York Times as “the defining musical of the decade.” 

“The most complete, and completely satisfying, musical I’ve come across in a long time.”

Review by Elysa Gardner from USA Today

Death Becomes Her 

“The most fun night out on Broadway!” – The Daily Beast

Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies…until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for.

After one sip of Viola’s magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity.

Chess  
Starring Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit Chess is the iconic musical where power and passion collide, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s America versus Russia at the World Chess Championship, where the espionage and romance are as complicated and exhilarating as the game itself. For the two players and the woman torn between them, everything—personal, professional, and political—is at risk… and nobody’s rules are the same.

The Queen of Versailles  
From computer engineer to Mrs. Florida to billionairess, Jackie Siegel sees herself as the embodiment of the American Dream. Now, as the wife of David “The Timeshare King” Siegel and mother of their eight children, they invite us to behold their most grandiose venture yet: They’re building the largest private home in America in Orlando, Florida—a $100 million house big enough for her dreams and inspired by the Palace of Versailles. But with the Great Recession of 2008 looming, Jackie and David’s dreams begin to crumble, along with their lavish lifestyle. The Queen of Versailles explores the true cost of fame, fortune and family.

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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