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2015-16 Best of Broadway series announced

Carolyn Lamberson

West Coast Entertainment's Best of Broadway 2015-26 will kick off with the 20th anniversary of "Riverdance," feature a return engagement of "The Book of Mormon," and include the classic "42nd Street."

"Riverdance" will return to the INB Performing Arts Center from Oct. 22-25. And before you can say, "You'll shoot your eye out," the musical version of "A Christmas Story" will hit town Dec. 3-6.

"The Book of Mormon," which opened the 2014-15 season, will return in 2016 for run from Jan. 26-31. Then from March 24-27, the venerable Broadway musical "42nd Street" lands, followed May 3-8 with the hits show "Disney's Newsies."
Season tickets are available now, with a renewal deadline of May 31.

West Coast Entertainment also is binging 10 additional special engagements. They are: "All Hands on Deck" (Sept. 13), "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" (Oct. 2), "Shaping Sound: Dance Reimagined" (Oct. 30), Hall Hollbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight!" (Nov. 14), the R&B/fusion group Snarky Puppy (Nov. 20), "A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas" (Nov. 22),  "Mythbusters: Jamie and Adam Unleashed" (Dec. 11), the New Shanghai Circus (Feb. 7, 2016), the Illusionists (Feb. 13-14) and the musical "Beauty and the Beast" (April 5-6).

Finally, the National Geographic Live series also will return with Kevin Hand's "The Search for Life Beyond Earth" (Nov. 3), Steve Winter's "On the Trail of Big Cats" (Feb. 9, 2016), "Where the Wild Things Live" with Vincent J. Musi (March 8), and Cedar Wright's "Sufferfest" (April 19).

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