Best of Broadway Shines at Walton Arts Center

Featuring timeless stories, Broadway classics, inspiring biographies, and music you already know and love, Walton Arts Center’s upcoming 2023-24 season Broadway season features a fabulous lineup of six can't-miss shows. This Broadway season is one of our most exciting yet, with 12 Tony Awards® and one Grammy®. Five shows are coming straight from Broadway and will be making their Arkansas debut.

Six

Sept. 12-17

From Tudor Queens to pop icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st century girl power! This new original musical making its Arkansas premiere is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over!

TINA – The Tina Turner Musical

Dec. 12-17

An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a women who broke barriers and became the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters in its Arkansas premiere.

Jagged Little Pill

Jan. 23-28, 2024

Joy, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, life — everything we’ve been waiting to see in a new Broadway show — is here in the exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music. Another Arkansas premiere, this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect American family “vaults the audience to its collective feet” (The Guardian).

Company

Feb. 20-25, 2024

It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, why isn’t she married? As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married and being alive in the 21st century could drive a person crazy. This revelatory new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy will make its Arkansas premiere, and you don’t want to miss the party.

Aladdin

March 26-31, 2024

From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy, and breathtaking spectacle. It is an extraordinary theatrical event, where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite. Aladdin is “exactly what you wish for!” (NBC-TV).

To Kill A Mockingbird

April 16-21, 2024

All rise for Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork. The New York Times Critic’s Pick To Kill A Mockingbird is “the most successful American play in Broadway history” (60 Minutes). Rolling Stone gives it five stars, calling it “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic,” and New York Magazine calls it “a real phenomenon." You’ll get to see it first in its Arkansas premiere.

In addition to the six-season lineup, Walton Arts Center also announced three additional shows for the 2023-24 season. Patrons who subscribe now can also purchase tickets to The Cher Show November 19-21, which is launching its national tour from Walton Arts Center; Les Misérables January 2-7; and Hairspray May 3-5

Broadway subscriptions are on sale now and give you the best seats at the best prices. Six-show packages range from $326 to $478 for Tuesday and Wednesday evening and Thursday matinee, and $381 to $533 for Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, and Saturday and Sunday matinees.

Subscriptions are available for a limited time and can be renewed or purchased online at waltonartscenter.org, by calling the subscriber concierge at (479) 571-2785 or in person at the Walton Arts Center Box Office weekdays 10 am until 2 pm. Single tickets will be available later this summer.

Donations/Memorials

Anonymous

Susan Johnson

Dorothy Mitchelson

Steve and Sandy Haskins

Paul and Wyvern Beach in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Faye Crowell in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Curtis and Jane Shipley in memory of Mavis Dobbyn

Ray and Penny Culver in memory of Phil Wilson and Harris Sonnenberg

Larry and Borgny Hanley in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Robert and Katheryn Stinson in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Dick and Anne booth in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Beth Vaughan-Wrobel in memory of Harris Sonnenberg and Jack Lejeune

Barbara Counce in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

John and Sally King in memory of Harris Sonnenberg and Phil Wilson

Roy Clinton in memory of Harris Sonnenberg and Mavis Dobbyn

Earlene Henry in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Ron and Polly Hanson in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Kay Brewer in memory of Harris Sonnenberg, Phil Wilson, and Jack Lejeune

Health Care/Special Care Remodel/Sensory Garden Fund

Joyce Groettum

Lou and Trish Beland

Ann Roberts in memory of Mavis Dobbyn

Susan Rieff in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Verlaine Boyd in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Ray and Penny Culver in honor of Richard Wharry

Tom and Linda Townsend in memory of Jack Lejeune

Collier Drug Stores Inc. in memory of Mavis Dobbyn

James and Elizabeth Stanton in memory of Mavis Dobbyn

William and Margaret McKenzie in memory of Mavis Dobbyn

Vernon and Paulette Collins in memory of Harris Sonnenberg, Paulene Mueller, and Phil Wilson

Music and Performance Fund

Dennis Nelson and Elizabeth Houle

Claire Sutton in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Pat Jahoda in memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Barbara Brannan in the memory of Harris Sonnenberg

Morriss and Ann Henry in memory of Harris Sonnenberg, Jack Lejeune, and Corinne Robinson

Library Fund

Roy Clinton in honor of Gail Russell

Moving Made Easy

The Family of Pauline Mueller