Get ready for a schedule full of hits with the Stranahan Theatre's 2025/26 Broadway season announcement. With five Toledo premieres, it's going to be one to remember!

&Juliet
December 16 - 21

The pop sensation
Nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best New Musical! If you've been waiting for a musical featuring the hits of Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, and The Weeknd, your day is finally here! Following its rapturous run on Broadway, & Juliet features music by songwriter extraordinaire Max Martin and now heads out on tour! This brand-new tuner is bound to be a season highlight and an unforgettable night out!
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Shucked
January 20 - 25, 2026

We're all ears!
Winner of two Drama Desk Awards! After an a-maize-ing premiere at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre, the heartwarming story is heading on a national tour! With Nashville's top songwriting talents from Tony winner Robert Horn, in collaboration with Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, this musical offers a kernel of joy in these divided times, exploring how opening up to people and ideas we are wary of can be a beautiful process, uniting us in our similarities, not our differences. Aw, Shucks!
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The Great Gatsby
April 7 - 12, 2026

A national tour, old sport!
After rapturous runs at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in late 2023 and on Broadway, this brand-new Tony-nominated musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece will now offer national audiences a peek into mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby's world! The production features book by Kait Kerrigan, a score by Tony Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, and is directed by Marc Bruni.
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The Wiz
May 26 - 31, 2026

First tour in 40 years
The seven-time Tony-winning hit, "The Wiz," is back with a brand new tour the first in 40 years! The soul, gospel, funk, and R&B-fused reimagining of Frank L. Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" is taking to the road on the second leg of its tour in a brand new production directed by Schele Williams, presenting William F. Brown and Charlie Smalls' vibrant musical for the 21st century. With additional material by Amber Ruffin and choreography by Jaquel Knight, join Dorothy, Toto, Tinman, Scarecrow, and Lion as they boogie down the Yellow Brick Road in search of heart, knowledge, courage, and home!
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A Beautiful Noise
June 16 - 21, 2026

Sweet Caroline, we're going on tour!
Good times never seemed so good, especially with a Neil Diamond musical is heading on tour! A Beautiful Noise is a brand new production about the Grammy Award-winning legend Neil Diamond's life. Tony Award-winning 'Once on This Island' producer Kev Davenport will join forces with Four Season's Bob Gaudio in producing this new musical. You'll experience a journey through Diamond's life with some of his memorable hits including 'Love on the Rocks', 'Songs Sung Blue' and of course 'Sweet Caroline' to keep your feet tapping along the way. It'll be an experience like no other!
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