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Brought to you by - City Springs Theatre Company This September, City Springs Theatre Company will open its fifth season of musicals at the Byers Theatre in the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center. The company, which is led by Executive Director Natalie DeLancey and Tony® Award winner and Atlanta native Shuler Hensley as its Artistic Director, has set a high standard for its productions, most recently mounting an acclaimed run of A Chorus Line directed by original cast member Baayork Lee. The fifth season offers a mix of classics and more recent Broadway fare, three of which are Best Musical Tony® Award winners.
The 2022-2023 PNC Bank season opens in September with the Cole Porter musical-comedy ANYTHING GOES (September 9 - 25, 2022), featuring timeless songs such as “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top,” “Friendship,” “It’s De-Lovely,“ ”Easy to Love,” and the title song, “Anything Goes!”
Then, it’s IN THE HEIGHTS (October 21 - November 6, 2022), the crowdpleasing first Broadway musical from the Tony®, Pulitzer® and Grammy® award-winning creator of Hamilton, LinManuel Miranda. IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Newsday called it “a big, pulsing power-surge of a show, igniting a new energy source for musical theatre.”
One of the company’s second season shows that was canceled by the pandemic is finally back on schedule. MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT (March 10 - 26, 2023) retells the legend of King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table, and of their search for the elusive Holy Grail. Aided in their journey by the glamorous Lady of the Lake, the knights sing and dance their way through medieval England, where they encounter cows, chorus girls, a killer rabbit, and assorted French people.
The season finishes on a high note as Tony® Award Recipient Baayork Lee returns to direct and choreograph the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber musical CATS (May 5 - May 21, 2023). Based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, this international hit musical features one of the most treasured songs in all of musical theatre —” Memory”. Since its debut, this feline-themed dance spectacular has been translated into 16 languages and has been seen by more than 73 million people worldwide.
Current subscribers can renew their subscriptions May 10 - June 6, 2022. New subscriptions will be available to the public beginning June 21, 2022. Complete details can be found at CitySpringsTheatre.com
City Springs Theatre Company still has two productions on tap in the coming months. The hit musical (and soon to be movie musical) THE COLOR PURPLE plays May 6 - 22, 2022 at the Byers Theatre in the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, followed by the classic WEST SIDE STORY which will rumble its way into the theatre July 8 - 24, 2022. Tickets are available at CitySpringsTheatre.com/tickets.
