GREENSBORO, N.C. — Broadway excitement is brewing in Greensboro. The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts announced the all-new 2022-23 Broadway season lineup on Wednesday.
The season will open with Pretty Woman in October. Here's a full list of shows:
- Oct. 25-30, 2022: Pretty Woman
- Dec. 6-11, 2022: Jagged Little Pill
- Jan. 24-29, 2023: Cats
- Feb. 21-26, 2023: The Book of Mormon
- Mar. 14-19, 2023: Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
- Apr. 18-23, 2023: Beetlejuice
- May 17-June 4, 2023: Disney's FROZEN
Season ticket prices range anywhere between $266 to $1,200.
Watch the full announcement on our YouTube channel.
The inaugural Broadway season at Tanger has already been a hit. More than 17,000 season tickets were sold. Tanger Center said it's an industry record for a new venue.
Disney's The Lion King just wrapped up its two-week showcase at the center. The show grossed $3.5 million within that time, attracting more than 46,000 people downtown.
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan was at the announcement. She said the numbers prove the area has been hungry for this kind of entertainment.
"We had the largest opening for any performing arts center this year and that was even being impacted by COVID so you can even imagine what the next year is going to be like," said Mayor Vaughan.
Between hotels, travel, parking, and restaurants, the show generated $12 million in economic benefit to the city, economic experts said.
Small businesses are looking forward to what the current season has to offer and what the next season will bring.
"I personally love going to the shows so bring them on! We've had a lot of fun," said Laura Mensch with Vivid Interiors in Downtown Greensboro.
She owns the business with Gina Hicks.
"We’ve met some people who were from Charlotte and Raleigh who have come for shows so maybe they didn’t catch them when they were at the DPAC so it's been a lot of fun seeing people and seeing Greensboro really show up and go to these plays as well," said Hicks.
Jennifer Graf has watched her sales really take off since the Tanger Center opened.
"2022 seems to be turning around. I definitely see the pendulum swinging. The numbers that I'm getting are better than they’ve ever been before," she said.
Graf also said restaurants downtown seem to be more packed, which makes her happy to see, after a tough few years.
"I definitely have seen an increase in people coming downtown. The restaurants have been booming its been kind of hard to get into the restaurants. They're being introduced to a lot of places they didn’t even know existed," Graf said.