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WORLD-CLASS SIX-SHOW SEASON ANNOUNCED
FOR THE 1999 - 2000 HOUSTON BROADWAY SERIES
SEASON PACKAGES ON SALE NOW!

Houston, TX - The Houston Broadway Series unveils a world-class, six-show season featuring the most dazzling productions fresh from Broadway. The 1999 - 2000 Houston Broadway series brings audiences an eclectic mix of live theatre, from celebrated Tony Award-winning productions to high-energy contemporary works and star-studded revivals. Truly an unprecedented season, the line-up includes: Broadway's family classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC starring Richard Chamberlain, from London's West End, FAME, plus, current Broadway draws ART,
CABARET, and TITANIC. Season packages are on sale now. For additional information or to subscribe to the Houston Broadway Series, please call the Best of Broadway Subscription Center (713) 622-SHOW (7469).

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC

December 21 - 26, 1999
1998 Tony Award Nominee
Starring Richard Chamberlain
Jones Hall
THE SOUND OF MUSIC starring Richard Chamberlain
DIRECT FROM BROADWAY!

Jones Hall will be alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC as the First National Tour of the Broadway revival kicks off the Houston Broadway Series season December 21 - 26, 1999.
Two-time Golden Globe Award-winner, Richard Chamberlain stars as the heroic Captain Georg von Trapp in the inspiring true story of the postulant Maria Rainer and their daring escape
from Nazi occupied Austria.  One of the world's most popular musicals, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is back for the first time in nearly 40 years since its premiere in 1959. This exhilarating favorite was a 1998 Tony nominee for Best Revival of a Musical. With music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, this classic is to be shared with the entire family.

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FOSSE

January 19 - 23, 2000
Winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical

FOSSE, the Tony Award winning smash hit musical, will play Houston's Jones Hall, from January 19 - 23, 2000.
Presented by the Society for the Performing Arts as part of the Houston Broadway Series, individual tickets to FOSSE will go on sale December 12, 1999.

FOSSE, winner of the 1999 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Lighting and Best Orchestrations, is currently playing to sold out audiences on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. This company of FOSSE began performances in September 1999 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago, IL.  FOSSE highlights the work of legendary choreographer / director Bob Fosse, and is directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking. Ms. Reinking serves as co-choreographer and has been the leading force behind the mounting of the new touring production. Chet Walker recreated Fosse's dances and Gwen Verdon, Fosse's wife and Broadway leading lady, is artistic advisor to the production.


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FAME, THE MUSICAL

March 21 - 26, 2000
Direct from London's West End

FAME - THE MUSICAL
DIRECT FROM LONDON'S WEST END!
First came the smash hit motion picture, then the long-running popular TV series and now, FAME - THE MUSICAL dances into the Wortham Center's Brown Theatre March 21 - 26, 2000.

A musical testament to the hopeful, young dreamer in all of us, FAME - THE MUSICAL features a dynamic cast of 25 performers. Set in the 1980's, FAME - THE MUSICAL focuses
on the hopes, dreams and aspirations of a group of students attending New York's High School of Performing Arts on West 46th Street. The musical chronicles their four-year odyssey from
audition to graduation at the school whose unofficial motto is "Fame costs and this is where you start paying." The mix of strongly motivated students - impoverished and privileged, black and
white - gives the story its passion and dramatic tension.

Conceived by David De Silva, with a book by Jose Fernandez, lyrics by Jacques Levy and music by Steve Margoshes, this high-energy production will be directed and choreographed by Lars
Bethke.

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A R T

May 30 - June 4, 2000
1998 Tony Award Winning Best Play

ART
DIRECT FROM BROADWAY!
Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play, London's Olivier and London Evening Standard
Awards for Best Comedy, Yasmina Reza's international hit play, ART goes on display in Jones
Hall May 30 - June 4, 2000. This comedy centers on three men whose friendship is thrown into
turmoil over, of all things, a painting.

The play's debate about a piece of modern art turns into an exploration of the nature of
friendship, male friendship in particular. The premise of this debate is brought on by Serge, the
art lover, who purchases a canvas that is for practical purposes, completely white. His longtime
friend, Marc, is infuriated by what he sees as the stupidity of such a move. His anger causes him
to question the entire basis of their friendship. Yvan, their mutual friend, tries to mediate, but
finds himself caught in the crossfire.

Christopher Hampton's English translation of Reza's hit French play opened October 15, 1996 at
Wyndham's Theatre in London with its North American premiere September 12, 1997 in Mexico
City.

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CABARET

June 27 - July 9, 2000
1998 Tony Award Winning Best Revival

CABARET
DIRECT FROM BROADWAY
Winner of four 1998 Tony Awards including Best Revival, the revolutionary reinvention of Kander and Ebb's hit musical, CABARET fills Jones Hall with the divinely decant theatrical
event of the season June 27 - July 9, 2000. Co-directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall, this production brings the seedy glamour of the legendary Kit Kat Club to Houston, after being the
talk of both London and New York. "Stunning" raves The New York Times, "CABARET has returned with a vengeance!"


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TITANIC, THE MUSICAL

July 11 - 23, 2000
1997 Tony Award Winning Best Musical

TITANIC - DIRECT FROM BROADWAY
TITANIC. A NEW MUSICAL, Broadway's Tony Award-winning phenomenon, is scheduled to
set sail July 11 - 23 into Jones Hall. More than eighty-five years after the R.M. S. Titanic first
sailed into history, the story behind the legendary maiden voyage opened at Broadway's Lunt-
Fontanne Theatre on April 23, 1997. TITANIC soon went on to win five Tony Awards, every
category in which it was nominated, taking the awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score,
Best Orchestrations, and Best Sets.

As one boards this ship of dreams, the lives and yearnings of the crew, staff and passengers
unfold against TITANICs awesome backdrop of facts more incredible than any fiction. The
pride of nautical engineering, the largest moving object in the world, the "unsinkable" R.M.S
Titanic went down in just two and a half hours after steaming full speed into an iceberg.

Directed by Richard Jones, the acclaimed British director, TITANIC has a story and book by
Academy Award and Tony Award-winner Peter Stone. Choreography is by Lynne Taylor-
Corbett, with sets and costumes by Stewart Laing, and lighting design by Paul Gallo.

 

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R E N T

August 16 - 20, 2000
Presented by the Society of the Performing Arts
As Part of the Houston Broadway Series




Jonathan Larson, creator of RENT. RENT returns to Houston, at Jones Hall, August 16 - 20, 2000. Tickets available at all Ticketmaster locations or charge by phone 713-629-3700.

In March 1998, R E N T stormed into Houston with a sold out run at Jones Hall. In the Summer of 2000, R E N T is coming back to Houston for a one week engagement from August 16th thru the 20th, 2000. Presented by the Society for the Performing Arts as part of the Houston Broadway Series, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - winning landmark American Musical was written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif.

 

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A renewal order form has been mailed to current Houston Broadway Series subscribers, which will allow them a priority opportunity to renew their current seat locations for each show on the
series before April 23, 1999. In addition, new orders are also being taken by mail, fax and phone at (713) 622-SHOW (7469) (phone) and (713) 621-2938 (fax). Seat locations will be confirmed once the current subscriber renewal deadline has passed. Only season subscriptions are available at this time. On sale dates for individual shows will be announced in the coming months.

Houston Broadway Series Subscribers are assured the best seats at the best prices, guaranteed same seat locations for each show, ticket exchange privileges, lost ticket insurance and priority
ticket offerings on "special engagements." Subscription prices for the six-show 1999 - 2000 Houston Broadway Series range ftom $193.25 - $389.50 depending upon performance time, date
and seat location. For more information or to purchase season packages, please call the Best of Broadway Subscription Center at (713) 622-SHOW (7469) Monday - Friday between the hours of 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. or subscribe anytime day or night by using our state-of-the-art Subscription Hotline. This new interactive phone system is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week and is courtesy of Lucent Technologies, the Official Communications Technology Sponsor of the Broadway Series. The 1999 - 2000 Houston Broadway Series is presented by the Society for the Performing Arts.

Additional support for the 1999 - 2000 Houston Broadway Series is provided by Continental Airlines, Official and Exclusive Airline.