Memorial Hermann Broadway on the Pastime Heart simply introduced their 2025-2026 season, and this is perhaps one of many freshest and most literary lineups ever. Gone are the times when Houston musical lovers needed to both fly to New York or wait a few years for the most popular present to tour. A number of of those massive reveals solely debuted on Broadway a yr or two in the past, and the season brings to Houston each the Tony-winning Greatest Musicals for 2023 and 2024, Kimberly Akimbo and The Outsiders. But, for such a collection of latest smash hits, many of those reveals look to timeless novels and tales for inspiration.
“Over the previous couple of years, so many thrilling new musicals have opened on Broadway,” mentioned Pastime Heart President and CEO Mark Folkes in regards to the season. “The 2025-2026 Memorial Hermann Broadway on the Pastime Heart Season welcomes a dynamic group of productions to Houston, together with the Tony Award successful finest new musicals from every of the previous two Broadway seasons. Boasting classics and household favorites to recent new reveals, this can be a season that may completely thrill Houston audiences.”
Whereas we’ve bought loads of performances nonetheless to see for the remainder of the 2024-2025 season, let the musical anticipation start.
Kimberly Akimbo (September 30-October 5, 2025)
Winner of the 2023 Greatest Ebook, Greatest Rating, and Greatest Musical Tony Awards, this bittersweet musical comedy received over audiences and critics alike. The present follows the story of adlescent Kimberly, who struggles with a uncommon genetic dysfunction and becoming in when she strikes to a brand new city in suburban New Jersey. Kimberly makes needs for a greater life, as she navigates her household’s dysfunction, unrequited love, clueless mates and potential felony costs. Ever the optimist, she is set to seek out happiness towards all odds and take a journey on a minimum of one nice journey.
A Stunning Noise: the Neil Diamond Musical (November 4-9, 2025)
Within the custom of jukebox musicals about music stars like Jersey Boys and Tina, this newest musical biography places the lifetime of Neil Diamond at heart stage. Created in collaboration with Diamond himself, the present chronicles his beginnings as a poor child from Brooklyn to grew to become a chart-busting, American showman with 120 million albums offered. That includes a number of the greatest songs of Diamond’s catalogue, together with “Candy Caroline,” “Love on the Rocks,” and “Kentucky Girl,” Stunning Noise attracts connections between the songs’ highly effective lyrics and essential moments in Diamond’s life.
The Outsiders (November 18-23, 2025)
The latest Greatest Musical Tony Award-winner on the checklist relies on the traditional younger grownup novel by S. E. Hinton, in addition to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie adaptation. Set in Nineteen Sixties Oklahoma, The Outsiders tells the story of orphan Ponyboy Curtis, his brothers, his finest buddy Johnny Cade and their Greaser found-family of ‘outsiders.’ At all times in battle with the upper-class Socs, the Greasers reside in a world of violence the place “nothing gold can keep” however dream about a greater life full of love and acceptance. But in the long run, hope may reside within the act of storytelling.
Disney’s Magnificence & the Beast (January 6-18, 2026)
Thirty years in the past, Disney made theatrical historical past and put its lasting mark on Broadway with the timeless story of Belle and her beastly prince. Houston was part of that historical past, because the musical had an early tryout right here. Now, prepare for a brand new manufacturing to have fun the thirtieth anniversary. Whereas beloved songs like “Be Our Visitor” and “Magnificence and the Beast”stay the identical, search for spectacular new units and costumes. Reuniting to create this new manufacturing are members of the unique Tony Award-winning creative group, together with composer Alan Menken, lyricist Tim Rice, guide author Linda Woolverton, with course and choreography by Matt West.
Water for Elephants (January 27-February 1, 2026)
One other Broadway present within the lineup impressed by a novel — on this case the best-selling historic romance by Sara Gruen — Water for Elephants was a critics’ favourite in 2024. After shedding what issues most, a younger man jumps a shifting practice uncertain of the place the tracks will take him and finds a brand new house, household, and love among the many exceptional crew of a touring circus. Seen by the eyes of his older self, his journey turns into a poignant reminder that if you happen to select the experience, life can start once more at any age. Expertise all the sunshine, shade, and music of a Nineteen Thirties circus on this emotional extravaganza.
The Nice Gatsby (March 3-8, 2026)
We journey again to the Roaring Twenties for this glitzy, glamorous musical primarily based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s nice American novel. The present takes us into Gatsby’s jazz-age world full of wealth and nonstop events. However that ritzy facade hides tales of misplaced love, failed relationships, and tragedy. Director Marc Bruni (Stunning: The Carole King Musical) brings this story of extravagance and longing to life onstage set to a jazz and pop-influenced unique rating that may go away audiences roaring for extra.
Some Like It Sizzling (March 24-29)
Should you like your musicals with numerous massive dance productions, this Tony winner for finest choreography is the present for you. Primarily based on the gender-bending, beloved Marilyn Monroe movie, the Prohibition-set story follows Joe and Jerry, two membership musicians who’re pressured to flee Chicago after witnessing a mob hit. To flee, they be a part of an all-women jazz band headed to California. Becoming a member of the band, after all, requires some adjustments in outfits and outlooks. The music and spectacular dance numbers give Some Like It Sizzling an old-Broadway, retro really feel, whereas the daring, up to date lyrics and guide ship a twenty first century sensibility.
Clue (June 9-14)
The one play within the lineup is the final word comedian whodunit primarily based on the cult 80s movie, which was primarily based on the traditional board sport. Six mysterious visitors, who could or could not know one another, assemble at Boddy Manor to dine on crimson herring after which play just a little after dinner sport of blackmail, threats, and homicide. Was it Mrs. Peacock within the examine with the knife, Colonel Mustard within the library with the wrench, or Miss Scarlet in conservatory with a candlestick? Did the butler do all of it alongside? Or maybe the twisty ending solely results in extra comedian thrills.
The season additionally boasts two further non-obligatory alternatives, viewers favorites making their return to Houston. In February, 2026, the street to hell is filled with dangerous intentions however the most effective music because the Tony successful Hadestown entwines the traditional Greek love tales of Hades and Persephone with Orpheus and Eurydice into one epic present. As the primary music, “Street to Hell” spoils, don’t anticipate a happily-ever-after with these tales, however do pay attention for a distinct bluesy tackle these traditional Greek myths.
Then April, 2026 brings a rocking model of British historical past, because the Sixwives of Henry VIII interact in a singing competitors over who had the worst marriage. With these marriage outcomes being: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived, they’ve bought quite a bit to sing about.
