The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art entertainment complex. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern, the $102 million building opened in May 2002. Located across from Tranquillity Park and City Hall, the Hobby Center offers breath-taking panoramic views of downtown, two magnificent performance halls and an award-winning restaurant. Home to Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) and the Broadway in Houston series, the 2,650-seat Sarofim Hall is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and will surely delight theatergoers with its intimacy and early 20th century, ornate design.
TUTS, Broadway in Houston, Masquerade Theatre Schedules
TUTS - Meet Me in St. Louis (Sep. 29 Oct. 11, 2009)
Hop the trolley back to the turn-of-the-century for old-fashioned family fun and musical merriment (even for “The Boy Next Door”). You’ll be telling your loved ones “meet me” back home at TUTS…to enjoy such classic songs as “The Trolley Song”, “Skip to My Lou”, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
BROADWAY - Mary Poppins (Oct. 22 to Nov. 8, 2009)
Combining the best of the original stories by P. L. Travers and the beloved Walt Disney film, the Tony Award-winning MARY POPPINS is everything you’d hope for in a Broadway musical—and more. Produced by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, the show includes such wonderful songs as Chim Chim Cher-ee, A Spoonful of Sugar, Let’s Go Fly a Kite and, of course, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
MASQUERADE - A Christmas Carol (Nov. 19 to 29, 2009)
Mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge declares charity, compassion and Christmas itself to be a humbug, and turns in for a miserable Christmas Eve - only to have his fitful sleep interrupted by a series of ghosts, each imploring and cajoling and threatening the wicked old man to change his ways or be bound to the heavy chains of regret and avarice in the afterlife!
TUTS - The Sound of Music (Dec. 8 to Dec. 20, 2009)
Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, the show is one of only four which also won Broadway’s Best Musical Tony Award®. The songs everyone loves, including “Lonely Goatherd,” “Do Re Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” form a score still a top-seller for nearly five decades.
BROADWAY - A Chorus Line (Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, 2010)
This is A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put it all on the line. Winner of nine Tony Awards, including “Best Musical” and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is the longest-running American Broadway musical ever.
TUTS - Miss Saigon (Feb. 9 to Feb. 21, 2010)
This modernized version of the classic love story MADAME BUTTERFLY has all the timeliness of a country at war--making the character’s choices and struggles newly relevant. With soaring songs like “The Last Night of the World” and roaring production numbers that show a different kind of “American Dream”, thrill with TUTS to this contemporary classic musical smash.
MASQUERADE - Camelot (Feb. 19 to 28, 2010)
The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and of the tragic love between he, his queen Guenevere, and the champion Sir Lancelot is built on the inherent nobility of the King and his struggle to uphold a perfect ideal of chivalry and goodness in an all-too-human world... and all too soon, the choices he must make between being a husband, being a friend, and being a king.
BROADWAY - Cirque Dreams Illumination (Feb. 23 to Mar. 7, 2010)
Audiences of all ages will marvel and experience a journey of city dwellers who reinvent everyday objects, balance beyond belief, delicately dangle from wires, leap tall buildings and redefine the risks of flight in an array of astounding occurrences that transform the ordinary into extraordinary.
TUTS - South Pacific (Mar. 9 to Mar. 21, 2010)
Set on a tropical island during World War II, SOUTH PACIFIC tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples -- US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush & French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable & a young local native girl Liat -- and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written.
BROADWAY - In the Heights (Apr. 6 to Apr. 18, 2010)
With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony Award-winning score, IN THE HEIGHTS is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community - a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
MASQUERADE - The Full Monty (Apr. 9 to 18, 2010)
Blue-collar single father Jerry Lukowski and his hopelessly overweight best friend Dave Bukatinsky have been laid off along with dozens of other mill workers, leaving them without jobs, without hope and without confidence. It's not until a chance encounter with the Chippendales-style dancer that their wives have been raving about that Jerry hits on an idea to make money and win back a little pride...
TUTS - Little House on the Prairie (Apr. 28 to May 9, 2010)
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s inspirational stories take on a brand new frontier in an uplifting new musical! Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for 10 years in the much loved television series, continues her legacy by starring as Ma.
MASQUERADE - Jane Eyre (May 14 to 23, 2010)
Enjoy again the timeless story of plain Jane Eyre's growth from orphaned student at the Lowood School to governess for the ward of the enigmatic and passionate Edward Fairfax Rochester, and the all-consuming love that grows like a fire between the two.
BROADWAY - Young Frankenstein (May 25 to Jun. 6, 2010)
Don't miss the sensational cast delivering all your favorite moments from the classic film, plus brand-new show-stopping numbers for the stage, including "Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and “Puttin' on the Ritz."
BROADWAY - Wicked (Jun. 30 to Jul. 25, 2010)
Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular.
MASQUERADE - Rent (Jul. 22 to Aug. 1, 2010)
The Broadway smash hit finally comes to the Masquerade Theatre, and already the crowds are cheering for the show that turned the theatre world upside down! Follow a year in the life of eight friends living in the dying post-Bohemia of New York's East Village at the end of the millennium, and learning to cope with themselves adrift in the chaos of modern life and the ties that bind them all together.
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