The Bushnell Announces Rescheduled Broadway Dates

HARTFORD, CT - The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford has announced the new dates for eight postponed productions from the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Broadway seasons. These dates are dependent upon government officials agreeing that it is safe for theaters to open; the Bushnell will be in full compliance with all CDC recommendations when it reopens.

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE, which was part of the original 2019-2020 season, will kick off the reopening October 12 – 17, 2021. THE BAND’S VISIT, another part of the 2019-2029 season, is now scheduled for November 16 – 21, 2021,

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, from the 2020-2021 season, is scheduled for January 26 – 30, 2022. MY FAIR LADY, another original ‘20-’21 season show, will now run March 8 – 13, 2022.

BLUE MAN GROUP (presented by Voya,) that was originally part of the 2019-2020 season at the Bushnell, is scheduled for March 17 – 20, 2022. DEAR EVAN HANSEN, another part of the 2019-2020 season, is scheduled for March 29 – April 3, 2022.

PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, part of the 2020-2021 season, will run April 26 – May 1, 2022. And, wait for it, HAMILTON, originally scheduled for the same season, will now run June 22 – July 10, 2022.

Dates are still being secured for HADESTOWN and MEAN GIRLS, the remaining shows in the 2020-21 Broadway Series package.

Jimmy Buffett’s ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE - Welcome to Margaritaville, where people come to get away from it all—and stay to find something they never expected.

THE BAND’S VISIT, the winner of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a joyously offbeat story, set in a town that’s way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue.

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME - The 2019 Tony nominated Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist, by playwright Heidi Schreck, arrives at The Bushnell for a limited engagement. The play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

MY FAIR LADY - From Lincoln Center Theater comes the Lerner & Loewe classic musical. The show tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a "proper lady."

BLUE MAN GROUP - The blue men return to Hartford for a limited engagement on their new North American tour. It’s everything you know and love about BLUE MAN GROUP; the men are still blue but the rest is all new!

DEAR EVAN HANSEN -The winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical with music by Pasek and Paul, this is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL - After a run on Broadway, this musical based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved stories, comes to Hartford.

HAMILTON - As if you didn’t know, this is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in musical theatre.

HADESTOWN - Intertwining two mythic tales, that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone, HADESTOWN invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

MEAN GIRLS - Direct from Broadway, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team. Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois.

Connecticut Critics Circle member Nancy Sasso Janis is not throwing away her shot to review all of these productions.