Theatre Under The Stars

Join the Fun at Theatre Under The Stars!

What an incredible night for our GLBT family! You'll enjoy a spectacular, fun-filled evening featuring cabaret music, karaoke, drinks, mingling and so much more every first Thursday of each performance after the show at Artista Restaurant.
GLBT patrons and anyone who loves musical theatre are welcome to attend all OUT@TUTS events and enjoy special perks like free hors d’oeuvres and well drinks and house wine at happy hour prices. Come join the party and mingle with cast members from TUTS shows. Sponsored by OUTSMART Magazine, OUT@TUTS events are free of charge to both subscribers and single ticket holders. Come and experience the post-show excitement and sing a tune or two. Hope to see you there!

Theatre Under The Stars' URBAN PROFESSIONALS group, known as UP@TUTS, is made up of young arts activists and hip theatre-lovers. UP@TUTS offers everything from cast parties, talk-backs, backstage tours and exclusive events, to educational and community outreach opportunities.
Along with the free membership, the 08-09 Season boasts an amzing line-up and special pricing on select nights. The three shows featured for UP@TUTS members are Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple, Legally Blonde - The Musical and Cabaret. New this season, members can subscribe to a monthly newsletter and stay "in-the-know." If you would like to be a part of this fantastic URBAN PROFESSIONALS group, please contact Elizabeth at 713.558.2658 or e-mail [email protected] for details.
 
Coming to TUTS JULY 9 - 14, 2009...

 
42ND STREET  
A tap-dancing musical extravaganza as only Theatre Under The Stars can produce. With a fun and infectious score featuring songs like "We're In the Money," "Lullaby of Broadway," "Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and "Forty-Second Street," 42nd STREET is destined to have you tapping your toes too! Set in 1933, 42nd STREET captures the spirit of anyone who has ever pursued a dream. This Tony® Award winning musical tells the fairytale story of an aspiring chorus girl and her journey to find love and success on the Great White Way. 42nd STREET will transport you back to the glamour, spectacle and fashion of the 1930's. Escape with us to 42nd STREET!
Group discounts are available to groups of 15 or more. www.tuts.com for more information.
TUTS' 2008-2009 Season!
AUGUST 18 - 23, 2009
OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS THE COLOR PURPLE, a soul-stirring musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg. It is the unforgettable and inspiring story of a woman named Celie, who triumphs over tremendous odds to find joy in life, and her true inner beauty. Nominated for eleven Tony Awards, THE COLOR PURPLE is a landmark theatrical event.With a joyous GRAMMY-nominated score featuring jazz, gospel, and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE is capturing the hearts of young and old, and uniting audiences in a celebration of love.
Introducing TUTS' 2009-2010 Season!
SEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
The one that you want is back! GREASE, Time Magazine’s 2007 pick for “#1 musical of the year,” is rockin’ across the country in this new production direct from Broadway. “Bad boy” Danny and “the girl next door” Sandy fall in love all over again to the tune of your favorite songs: “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’” and “We Go Together” as well as additional songs from the hit movie: “Grease,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “You’re the One That I Want.”
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 11, 2009
Among our “most wanted” last season, this MGM-style family classic returns to our line-up for the fall. Hop the trolley back to the turn-of-the-century for old-fashioned family fun and musical merriment (even for “The Boy Next Door”). You’ll be telling your loved ones “meet me” back home at TUTS…to enjoy such classic songs as “The Trolley Song”, “Skip to My Lou”, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.
DECEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 20, 2009
After last season’s WHITE CHRISTMAS with “snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,” this year TUTS presents another holiday gift from the wish list of your favorite things ... that classic show for all ages, THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The songs everyone loves, including “Lonely Goatherd,” “Do Re Mi,” and “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” form a score still a top-seller for nearly five decades. THE SOUND OF MUSIC will charm you once again just in time for the holiday season. Your “heart will be blessed”... and you’ll “sing once more!”
FEBRUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 21, 2010
The heat is on in SAIGON! One of the shows that our subscribers have asked for again and again, this modernized version of the classic love story MADAME BUTTERFLY has all the timeliness of a country at war--making the character’s choices and struggles newly relevant. With soaring songs like “The Last Night of the World” and roaring production numbers that show a different kind of “American Dream”, thrill with TUTS to this contemporary classic musical smash.
MARCH 9 - MARCH 21, 2010
Set on a tropical island during World War II, SOUTH PACIFIC tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples -- US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush & French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable & a young local native girl Liat -- and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such musical theater classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame” and “A Wonderful Guy.”
APRIL 28 - MAY 9, 2010
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s inspirational stories take on a brand new frontier in an uplifting new musical! Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for 10 years in the much loved television series, continues her legacy by starring as Ma. Families will continue to fall in love with these life affirming stories about the Ingalls’ struggles and triumphs through the celebration of the pioneering spirit and the core values on which this country was founded — a spirit that resonates within each of us today.