US Regional and Local Theatre
Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida has also been performed by numerous professional Regional Theatre companies, including: Barn Theatre (2004), North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, Massachusetts (2004 featuring Montego Glover as Aida), Music Theatre Of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas (2005 also featuring Montego Glover as Aida), Gateway Playhouse, Bellport, New York (2005), and Bailiwick Chicago (2010).
Aida played at Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago (March–May 2011). Aida is also playing a return production in Osaka, Japan from March 11, 2011 presented by the Shiki Theatre company. There are over a dozen productions of Aida scheduled to be performed by various theatre companies, colleges and high schools in the US during 2011.
Aida has also become a popular choice for plays among school and community theatre groups.
Read more about this topic: Aida (musical)
Famous quotes containing the words local and/or theatre:
“Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)