Ticket alert: Broadway shows coming to South Florida include ‘Book of Mormon,’ ‘Beetlejuice’

Rod Stafford Hagwood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Fall season? Yes. Hurricane season? Afraid so. Thank goodness it’s also Broadway season here in SoFlo as national tours have highly touted stops in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Previously, only season subscription packages were available, but now individual tickets are being sold for the Great White Way musicals coming to our local venues, the Kravis, Broward and Arsht centers.

Below, find a box-office breakdown for the fall and winter seasons. And don’t worry, we’ll be back with Broadway ticket information for 2024.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 561-832-7469; kravis.org

‘Chicago’ — Nov. 7-12

Tickets: $34-$104

Long before social media and reality TV made being-famous-for-being-famous a thing, a talent triumvirate of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb came up with this glitzy-yet-grimy tale of fame, fortune and … “All That Jazz,” just one of the hit songs from this six-time, Tony-winning show. Other songs include “Cell Block Tango,” “Razzle Dazzle,” “When You’re Good to Mama” and “Mr. Cellophane.”

‘Mean Girls’ — Dec. 5-10

Tickets: $34-$104

The musical interpretation of the 2004 movie — both from virtual funny factory Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live,” “30 Rock”) — bowed on Broadway in 2018. Like the screen version, the stage musical’s story follows Cady, a teenager who moves with her zoologist parents from the wilds of Africa to suburbia in the United States. Having been home-schooled most of her life, Cady is spectacularly unprepared for the trials and tribulations of high school hierarchy.

‘Beetlejuice’ — Dec.19-24

Tickets: $44-$124 (to become available Oct. 7)

This Broadway-tized take on director Tim Burton’s hit 1988 movie is essentially the same story: A ghost couple try to rid their home of obnoxious new inhabitants by being spooky. When that fails, they enlist the far more experienced Beetlejuice for a little horror-help.

Broward Center for the Performing Arts

201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-462-0222; browardcenter.org; all programs, artists, ticket prices, availability, dates and times are subject to change without notice (additional fees may apply)

‘Annie’ — Oct. 10-22

Tickets: $45-$126

Inspired by the Harold Gray comic strip, this musical follows Annie as she is swept from a Depression-era orphanage into Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks’ Fifth Avenue mansion. Along the way, you get Great White Way hit tunes such as “It’s the Hard-Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “Little Girls,” “N.Y.C.,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” and “Tomorrow.”

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‘Funny Girl’ — Nov. 14-26

Tickets: $45-$136

Of course everyone knows the showbiz lore of how this musical shot Barbra Streisand to super-duper-stardom in 1964 (she went on to win an Oscar and Golden Globe for the 1968 movie version). For this national tour, the lead will be played by South Florida’s own Katerina McCrimmon. The show — with a refreshed book by Harvey Fierstein — follows Vaudeville legend Fanny Brice from her humble beginnings on N.Y.C.’s Lower East Side to international fame as a star of stage, screen and radio. The score by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill includes songs such as “People,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star” and “Sadie, Sadie.”

‘The Book of Mormon’ — Dec. 12-17

Tickets: $44-$150

The profane and satiric musical comedy came from the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of the five-time Emmy Award-winning animated series “South Park,” as well as Tony Award-winning composer Robert Lopez, of the musical-comedy “Avenue Q.” The winner of nine Tony Awards in 2011, including Best Musical, the show follows two Mormon missionaries and their misadventures while trying to spread their faith to a village in war-torn and impoverished Uganda. One has a crisis of faith, and the other refashions the liturgy with dashes of pop culture to win over converts.

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org

‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ — Dec. 5-10

Tickets: $35-$130

You remember the 1990 movie with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, right? Well, imagine that with an original score by Grammy winner Bryan Adams (yes, THAT Bryan Adams) and Jim Vallance as well as a book by iconic director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J.F. Lawton. The plot is the same: A hooker with a heart of gold is hired to accompany a bigtime tycoon through a flurry of weekend events. This Cinderella tale hit the Great White Way in 2018 and bowed out a year later.