COSTA MESA, CA – A season of Tony Award-winning Broadway hits – Center premieres and returning favorites – await audiences during Segerstrom Center for the Arts' 2018-2019 Broadway and Curtain Call Series, plus a special Bonus Offer. Coming to the Center for the first time are Waitress, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Disney's Aladdin, and Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There will be new productions of the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical Revival Hello, Dolly! starring Broadway legend Betty Buckley, Fiddler on the Roof and Cats. The season also includes two shows with remarkable and touching stories and iconic songs, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical and The Phantom of the Opera.

Free pre-show and intermission activities will entertain and inform audiences, and the popular Talk Backs with cast members will again be offered after most Thursday evening performances. One Saturday matinee performance of each show will be Open Captioned, Audio Described and ASL interpreted.

Current season subscribers may renew their tickets starting March 19. New season ticket packages will ALSO be available starting Monday, March 19 at 10 a.m. Single tickets will go on sale approximatelyeight weeks prior to individual engagements. Visit the Center's website, www.SCFTA.org for more information about both the current 2017 – 2018 Season and the 2018 – 2019 Season. For inquiries about group ticket discounts, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.

2018 – 2019 BROADWAY SERIES
Waitress • Dear Evan Hansen • Come From Away • Disney's Aladdin •

Fiddler on the Roof • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

DEAR EVAN HANSEN | CENTER PREMIERE January 1 – 13, 2019
Segerstrom Hall

“One of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” – The Washington Post

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant tobe told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always

wanted: a chance to finally fit in. DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it. “One of the most remarkable shows in musicaltheater history,” says The Washington Post. The New York Times calls DEAR EVAN HANSEN “a gut-punching, breathtaking knockout of a musical” and NBC News says that the musical is “an inspiringanthem resonating on Broadway and beyond.”

DEAR EVAN HANSEN features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy®, Tony® and Academy Award® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of DEAR EVAN HANSEN, produced by Atlantic Records, made an extraordinary debut at #8 on the Billboard 200 – the highest charting debut position for an original cast album since 1961 -- and went on to win the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. A special edition coffee table book authored by Levenson, Pasek and Paul, Dear Evan Hansen: through the window (Grand Central Publishing / Melcher) is now available, offering an in-depth, all-access look at the musical, including never-before-seen production photos and cast portraits, behind-the-scenes stories, and a fully annotated script by the authors.

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