& Juliet, Broadway Across Canada, photo by Evan Zimmerman
By Liz Nicholls, .ca
The opener in the five-production 2026-2027 touring lineup announced this week by Broadway Across Canada is a hit jukebox romantic comedy musical with a witty, and joyful, premise.
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C’mon, haven’t you always wondered what would happen if Juliet (you know, that Capulet girl with the doom-laden first-ever boyfriend), resisted the downer ending of Shakespeare’s big-finish tragedy, and took charge of her own destiny? Not to mention got to sing …Baby One More Time?
& Juliet, a 2019 rom-com musical that arrived in New York from London three years later, gathers a 30-song jukebox crammed with pop hits from the archive of the Swedish chart monarch Max Martin taken up by pop stars like Britney, Katy, Ariana. In the script by David West Read, the Canadian-born writer of Schitt’s Creek, you get to find out what happens when Anne Hathaway turns dramaturg, and Will gets notes. & Juliet runs Sept. 20 to 27 at the Jube.
Mrs. Doubtfire, Broadway Across Canada. Photo by Joan Marcus.
The other musical in the lineup that’s new to Broadway Across Canada touring in these parts is Mrs. Doubtfire, based on the 1993 film. You’ll remember the premise, and the endearing performance by Robin Williams as a hapless husband, a man-of-good-intentions who gets the boot by his wife, and then poses as a nanny to spend quality time with his kids. The musical, which hits the Jube Jan. 12 to 17 2027, has music by the sibling duo of Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Broadway Across Canada. Photo by Matthew Murphy
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, billed as “Disney’s first new touring production of the beloved musical in over 25 years,” arrives Nov. 17 to 22, with its outrageously contagious Alan Menken/ Tim Rice score, and its original creative team. Expect to see the singing/dancing Armoire, and his domestic cohorts, in new costumes in this “tale as old as time.” It runs Nov. 17 to 22.
Hamilton, Broadway Across Canada. Photo by Joan Marcus.
The season includes the return of Hamilton (June 29 to July 4, 2027), the most profoundly influential (and most awarded) musical of the contemporary era. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s audacious and dazzlingly theatrical musical, last here in 2022, offers a view of both history and musical theatre from the outsider’s perspective. It tells the story of an orphan immigrant who became one of America’s founding fathers, in a unique swirl of hip-hop, jazz, blues, G&S, and musical theatre.
Six, Broadway Across Canada. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Tudor-mania returns in Six, the clever musical that re-makes Henry VIII’s ‘ex’s as girl-power pop stars. It got honed at the Citadel in 2019 for its his Broadway incarnation, played there twice, and now it’s back and on the Jube stage May 4 to 9, 2027.
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