30 Years of Broadway in Cincinnati: A Production History

For over 31 years, Broadway in Cincinnati has been proud to bring the very best of Broadway to Cincinnati.  Below you’ll find a listing of all the shows we’ve presented here in the Queen City, both at the Taft Theatre and the Aronoff Center for the Arts.

2020 – 2021 

  • Pretty Woman: The Musical
  • My Fair Lady
  • Disney’s Frozen
  • The Band’s Visit
  • Hamilton
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Hairspray
  • Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations

2019 – 2020 

  • Come From Away
  • Jersey Boys
  • Mean Girls
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Disney’s The Lion King
  • Les Miserables
  • Escape to Margaritaville
  • Anastasia
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • The Book of Mormon

2018 – 2019

  • Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
  • The Play That Goes Wrong
  • RENT 20th Anniversary Tour
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Hamilton
  • On Your Feet: The Emilio & Gloria Estefan Musical
  • Miss Saigon
  • Dear Evan Hansen
  • Cats

2017 – 2018

  • Wicked
  • Finding Neverland
  • A Christmas Story
  • Waitress
  • School of Rock
  • Chicago
  • The King and I
  • Disney’s Aladdin
  • The Book of Mormon

2016 – 2017

  • The Sound of Music
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Something Rotten!
  • Mamma Mia!
  • The Illusionists
  • Matilda the Musical
  • Beautiful – The Carole King Musical

2015 – 2016

  • Motown the Musical
  • Pippin
  • White Christmas
  • Kinky Boots
  • If/Then
  • Disney’s Newsies
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Cabaret

2014 – 2015

  • Dirty Dancing
  • Once
  • Elf
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
  • Anything Goes
  • The Lion King
  • I Love Lucy

2013 – 2014

  • Ghost
  • Flashdance
  • Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Evita
  • Wicked
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • American Idiot

2012 – 2013

  • Blue Man Group
  • Jersey Boys
  • Memphis
  • Million Dollar Quartet
  • Peter Pan
  • War Horse
  • Sister Act

2011 – 2012

  • Les Misérables
  • Mamma Mia!
  • The Addams Family
  • West Side Story
  • Billy Elliot
  • Wicked
  • Beauty and the Beast

2010 – 2011

  • Stomp
  • Shrek the Musical 
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Burn the Floor starring SYTYCD’s Ashleigh & Ryan
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Rock of Ages starring Constantine Maroulis
  • South Pacific

2009 – 2010

  • Dreamgirls
  • Legally Blonde
  • Mary Poppins
  • The 39 Steps
  • Cats
  • Spring Awakening
  • Rent

2008 – 2009

  • Mamma Mia!
  • Dora The Explorer
  • A Chorus Line
  • Riverdance
  • Avenue Q
  • Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
  • Frost/Nixon starring Stacey Keach
  • Grease starring Taylor Hicks
  • Stomp
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Hairspray

2007 – 2008

  • Jersey Boys
  • Go Diego Go!
  • The Color Purple
  • High School Musical
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Wicked
  • The Drowsy Chaperone
  • Camelot starring Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Annie
  • My Fair Lady

2006 – 2007

  • Mamma Mia!
  • The Lion King
  • All Shook Up
  • 12 Angry Men starring Richard Thomas & George Wendt
  • Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life
  • Rent
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 
  • Spamalot
  • The Light in the Piazza
  • Barbie Live! in Fairytopia

2005 – 2006

  • Little Women
  • Les Misérables
  • Peter Pan
  • Wicked
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Golda’s Balcony
  • Phantom
  • Shangri La
  • Cats
  • Dora’s Pirate Adventure
  • Evita

2004 – 2005

  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Big River
  • Movin’ Out
  • Rent
  • Late Nite Catechism
  • Oliver
  • A Tuna Christmas
  • Miss Saigon
  • Riverdance
  • Matters of the Heart
  • Chicago
  • Mamma Mia!

2003 – 2004

  • Dora the Explorer
  • Oklahoma!
  • Dame Edna
  • Late Nite Catechism
  • Forbidden Broadway
  • The Full Monty
  • The Graduate
  • Hairspray
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • Stomp
  • Urinetown

2002 – 2003

  • The Lion King
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Seussical
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Contact
  • Cats
  • The Producers
  • Les Misérables
  • 42nd Street

2001 – 2002

  • The Vagina Monologues
  • The Music Man
  • Mamma Mia!
  • Swing
  • Defending the Caveman
  • South Pacific
  • David Copperfield
  • Aida
  • Vagina Monologues
  • Radio City Christmas Spectacular
  • Blast!
  • Rent
  • The Phantom of the Opera

2000 – 2001

  • Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel
  • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Ann Margret & Gary Sandy
  • Cinderella starring Deborah Gibson & Eartha Kitt
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Ron Bohmer
  • Radio City Christmas Spectacular
  • The Sound of Music starring Barry Williams
  • Annie
  • Riverdance
  • Fosse

1999 – 2000

  • Fame
  • Mark Twain starring Hal Holbrook
  • Stomp
  • Cabaret starring Joley Fisher
  • The Civil War starring Larry Gatlin & BeBe Winans
  • Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby
  • Jekyll & Hyde
  • Titanic
  • Lily Tomlin

1998 – 1999

  • Ragtime
  • Riverdance
  • Les Misérables
  • Rent
  • Victor/Victoria starring Toni Tenille
  • Cats
  • Bring in ‘da Noise/Bring in ‘da Funk
  • Footloose
  • Chicago starring Alan Thicke
  • Evita
  • Annie starring Sally Struthers
  • Red, White & Tuna starring Joe Sears & Jaston Williams
  • Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding

1997 – 1998

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Grease
  • Rent
  • Tap Dogs
  • Cirque Ingenieux
  • The King & I starring Hayley Mills & Faith Prince
  • Stomp
  • Big: the musical
  • Show Boat starring Dean Jones & Cloris Leachman
  • Master Class starring Faye Dunaway
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • The Phantom of the Opera

1996 – 1997

  • Cats
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Ralph Macchio
  • Defending The Caveman starring Rob Becker
  • Carousel
  • Chicago starring Jasmine Guy & Charlotte D’Amboise
  • David Copperfield
  • A Chorus Line
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Smokey Joe’s Café
  • Deathtrap starring Elliot Gould & Mariette Hartley
  • Les Misérables
  • Stomp
  • Sunset Boulevard

1995 – 1996

  • Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Neeley
  • West Side Story
  • Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis
  • Grease starring Mackenzie Phillips
  • An Inspector Calls
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’ starring The Pointer Sisters
  • David Copperfield
  • Miss Saigon
  • Jekyll & Hyde
  • The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber

1994 – 1995

  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Sam Harris
  • The Sound of Music starring Marie Osmond
  • Cats
  • Jelly’s Last Jam starring Maurice Hines
  • The Sisters Rosensweig starring Linda Thorson, Nancy Dussault & Greg Mullavey
  • Grease starring Brooke Shields, Davy Jones, Sally Struthers & Rex Smith
  • Les Misérables
  • Hello Dolly! starring Carol Channing

1993 – 1994

  • Camelot starring Robert Goulet
  • Tommy
  • Crazy For You starring Karen Ziemba
  • Five Guys Named Moe
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Neeley & Carl Anderson
  • My Fair Lady

1992 – 1993

  • Cats
  • David Copperfield
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Love Letters starring Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers
  • City of Angels starring Barry Williams
  • Les Misérables
  • M. Butterfly
  • Bye Bye Birdie starring Tommy Tune
  • The Odd Couple starring Tim Conway & Tom Poston

1991 – 1992

  • The Secret Garden
  • Lost In Yonkers
  • Guys & Dolls starring Lorna Luft
  • David Copperfield
  • The Will Rogers Follies starring Keith Carradine
  • Evita
  • And the World Goes ‘Round 

1990 – 1991

  • Ziegfeld
  • The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Cats
  • David Copperfield
  • Grand Hotel
  • Lend Me A Tenor starring Barry Nelson
  • Tru starring Robert Morse
  • A Chorus Line
  • Starlight Express
  • Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby

1989 – 1990

  • Les Misérables
  • Into the Woods
  • David Copperfield
  • Lily Tomlin
  • Cats
  • Me & My Girl
  • Anything Goes starring Mitzi Gaynor
  • Driving Miss Daisy starring Julie Harris & Brock Peters
  • Starlight Express
  • Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol

1988 – 1989

  • Les Misérables
  • Dreamgirls
  • Nunsense starring Dody Goodman
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Can-Can starring Chita Rivera
  • Cabaret starring Joel Grey

1987 – 1988

  • Cats
  • David Copperfield
  • South Pacific starring Robert Goulet
  • Arsenic and Old Lace starring Jean Stapleton & Marion Ross
  • Singin’ in the Rain

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