Showstoppers

September 2, 2023 at 12:00pm

Limited Performance Season Ended

Produced by the Mac-Haydn Theatre

Our annual fundraising event returns! Join your favorite Mac-Haydn company members as they deliver show-stopping performances of musical theater’s greatest hits – covering styles from classic to contemporary, with tunes by the most noteworthy composers in show business and from Broadway’s biggest shows.

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42nd Street

June 22 – July 2, 2023

Season Ended

Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble
Based on the Novel by Bradford Ropes
Original Direction and Choreography by Gower Champion
Originally produced on Broadway by David Merrick

Get out your tap shoes, Francis! The ultimate show-within-a-show tap musical is back at the Mac-Haydn. Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, the fan favorite 42nd Street celebrates the magic of Broadway and what it means to be a part of “the biz.”

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Footloose

July 6 – July 16, 2023

Season Ended

Music by Tom Snow
Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie
Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford
Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman

Based on the decade defining film from the 1980s, Footloose arrives on our stage for only the second time in our history! This powerhouse musical is a story of wisdom, courage, forgiveness and healing supported by a Tony and Grammy Award-winning, Billboard Top 200-charting score!

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The Sound of Music

July 20 – July 30, 2023

Season Ended

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Suggested by The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp

The hills are alive for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved musical as it hits the Mac-Haydn stage! The winner of five Tony Awards and five Oscars, The Sound of Music has held a remarkable position in the musical theater canon for six decades. The legendary story is a timeless tribute to the transformative power of love and music.

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Godspell

August 3 – August 13, 2023

Season Ended

Book by John Michael Tebelak
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Conceived and Originally Directed by John Michael Tebelak
Based on The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Through games, parables, and comedy a group of players accompany Jesus on a mission to teach his lessons to today’s world. As they cover each teaching, they explore how the lessons resonate with current times, and continue Jesus’ message of respect, faith and forgiveness, even in instances of betrayal.

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Jersey Boys

August 17 – September 3, 2023

New Production 3 Week Run Season Ended

Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Music by Bob Gaudio
Lyrics by Bob Crewe

One of the most highly-requested shows in Mac-Haydn history finally hits the stage! Winner of both the Tony and Olivier Award for Best Musical, Jersey Boys is a story of rags to riches, celebrating one of the most influential bands in American history.

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The Marvelous Wonderettes

September 7 – 17, 2023

New Production PERFORMANCES CANCELLED

ANNOUNCEMENT SEPT 12: With heavy hearts we announce that, due to Covid cases within our performance team, the remaining performances of The Marvelous Wonderettes have been cancelled.

ALL TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE CONTACTED DIRECTLY

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To Sondheim, With Love

August 10, September 14 & 16, 2022

Limited Event New Production Season Ended

Conceived and Created by Meredith Lustig

Everybody says “don’t meet your heroes.” Well, Meredith Lustig says “do.” She met the legendary Stephen Sondhiem on two separate occasions and would never want to change that. Her only regret is that she didn’t know at the time how deep his gift for, and dedication to letter writing was. He wrote thousands of them through the course of his life, to all sorts of people.

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Showstoppers 2022

September 3, 14, 21 & 28, 2022

Limited Event

Our annual fundraising event returns and this time you have four chances to see it! Join your favorite Mac-Haydn cast members as they deliver show stopping performances of musical theater’s greatest hits. From classic to contemporary, it’s the ultimate show tunes revue.

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Xanadu

September 9 – October 2, 2022

Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar

Based on the Universal Pictures cult classic movie of the same title, this Tony Award-nominated fun-filled, roller skating, musical adventure about following your dreams rolls along to the original hit score composed by pop-rock legends, Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.

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The Full Monty

August 18 – September 4, 2022

Season Ended

Book by Terrence McNally
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek

Based on the internationally-acclaimed hit film of the same name, The Full Monty, a ten-time Tony Award nominee, is filled with honest affection, engaging melodies and possibly the most highly anticipated closing number of any show in history…

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Next To Normal

August 4 – August 14, 2022

New Production Regional Premiere Season Ended

Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Music by Tom Kitt

Winner of 3 Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Next to Normal has taken Broadway, and the musical theater world by storm over the past decade. An emotional powerhouse of a musical with a thrilling rock score, the show takes an honest look at the sometimes harsh realities of “normal” life.

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Kiss Me, Kate

July 21 – July 31, 2022

Season Ended

Book by Sam and Bella Spewack
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

The sophisticated, romantic and delightfully hilarious Broadway classic that earned the very first Tony award for Best Musical. Kiss Me, Kate combines the irreverent humor of four brilliant writers: Sam and Bella Spewack, Cole Porter and William Shakespeare.

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Urinetown

July 7 – July 17, 2022

New Production Season Ended

Book by Greg Kotis
Music by Mark Hollmann
Lyrics by Mark Hollmann & Greg Kotis

A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution and musical theater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touchingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it surveys societies established norms and foundational institutions.

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