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The starry Broadway revival of The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman as Harold Hill and Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo, begins its highly anticipated Broadway run at the Winter Garden Theatre on December 20. As previously announced, the Jerry Zaks-helmed production will officially open on February 10, 2022. The musical was first announced to arrive on Broadway in September 2020, but was delayed due to the shutdown.

As announced, the production features Jefferson Mays as Mayor Shinn, Jayne Houdyshell as Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, Shuler Hensley as Marcellus Washburn, Marie Mullen as Mrs. Paroo, Remy Auberjonois as Charlie Cowell, Gino Cosculluela as Tommy Djilas and Emma Crow as Zaneeta Shinn.

The cast will also include Benjamin Pajak as Winthrop, Kayla Teruel as Amaryllis, Garrett Long as Ethel Toffelmier, Linda Mugleston as Alma Hix, Jessica Sheridan as Maud Dunlop, Rema Webb as Mrs. Squires, Phillip Boykin as Olin Britt, Eddie Korbich as Jacey Squires, Daniel Torres as Ewart Dunlop and Nicholas Ward as Oliver Hix.

The ensemble features Nick Alvino, Jordan Beall, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Maria Briggs, Audrey Cardwell, JT Church, Kammie Crum, Aydin Eyikan, Carlee Flanagan, Ethen Green-Younger, Emily Hoder, Curtis Holland, Eloise Kropp, Ethan Lafazan, Kayla LaVine, Andrew Minard, Sean Montgomery, Tanner Quirk, Lance Roberts, Daniel Patrick Russell, Ann Sanders, Sherisse Springer, Mitchell Tobin, Kathy Voytko, Branch Woodman and Ryan Worsing. Max Clayton is the standby for Harold Hill, Charlie Cowell and Marcellus Washburn.

The Music Man features a book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Warren Carlyle is the choreographer with Patrick Vaccariello serving as the music director.

All available info about The Music Man shows can be found here.

American comedy rock band Tenacious D have announced an upcoming tour of the United States, scheduled for summer 2022.

The band first announced the tour via their social media accounts on Wednesday, December 8. 

“Time to melt some faces!!!!” wrote the band on Instagram.

Tenacious D’s post also reveals that American clown-garbed singer-songwriter Puddles Pity Party will serve as a special guest performer for the duration of the seven-show tour.

The tour will see the band and Puddles Pity Party perform in Colorado, Oregon, San Diego, Palo Alto, and more from June 16-26. 

Tenacious D are the duo of actors, comedians and musicians Jack Black and Kyle Gass. In September, they released a reissue of their September 2001 self-titled debut album. The ‘Super Power Party Pack’ edition of their debut album includes the band’s original 1995 demo cassette and 2002 ‘Tribute’ EP.

In 2006, the duo released their now-iconic feature film, Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny. The film and its official soundtrack featured guest performances and cameos from Dave Grohl, Ronnie James Dio, and Meat Loaf.

In July, Tenacious D released their first single of the year, a medley cover of The Beatles’ ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’ and ‘The End’. The cover, and its outlandish music video, received praise from Paul McCartney himself, who said, “It’s so imaginative and so well performed. What a great tribute to the original”.

In June, Gass released a cover of the Ramones classic ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’, changing the lyrics and transforming the song into a COVID-19 vaccination anthem.

All available info on Tenacious D’s upcoming shows can be found here.

Tenacious D’s Summer 2022 US Tour Dates

Show date and time: June 16, 2022 – June 24, 2022

Show location: Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride, CO – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater, San Diego, CA

Olivia Rodrigo has announced a tour of the UK, Europe, and North America for 2022 – see dates below.

The shows, which come in support of the singer’s debut album Sour, will be her first headline tour dates, and will run from April to July next year.

Supporting Rodrigo on select dates of the tour, which starts in North America in April before heading to Europe in June and ending in the UK in July, will be Gracie Abrams, Holly Humberstone, and Baby Queen.

Last month (November 23), Rodrigo was nominated for seven Grammy awards for Sour and a number of its singles, including Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist.

After the nominations, it was revealed that The Recording Academy had rescinded the names of Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Annie Clark – aka St. Vincent – as part of the list of nominees on Sour’s Album Of The Year nomination.

Swift, Antonoff, and Clark were originally listed as part of the credited writers for the nomination, given that Swift’s 2019 single ‘Cruel Summer’ was interpolated on Rodrigo’s top-five 2021 single ‘deja vu’.

Both Swift and Antonoff were also credited for Rodrigo’s song ‘1 step forward, 3 steps back’, which interpolates Swift’s 2017 song ‘New Years Day’. This was done in accordance with the Academy’s new rule that everyone who served as a credited songwriter on an album nominated in the category shares the nomination.

The Academy have since, however, changed this rule to reflect those that directly wrote songs for the album, as opposed to those whose work is interpolated or referenced.

See the full list of available tickets for Olivia Rodrigo’s 2022 tour dates here.

Olivia Rodrigo 2022 Tour

Show date and time: April 2, 2022 – July 7, 2022

Show location: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA – Eventim Apollo, London, UK

Iron Maiden have announced a new North American tour for 2022 and additional European dates.

The ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ tour, which was halted last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will kick off September 7, 2022 in Mexico City.

Trivium will support Iron Maiden on the tour starting in El Paso, Texas on September 11 through to September 30 in Spokane, Washington. Within Temptation will take over support duties from October 3 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota through to October 27, the final date of Iron Maiden’s North American leg, in Tampa, Florida.

Prior to that Iron Maiden will make their way across Europe for previously rescheduled ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ shows. An additional six dates have been added in Croatia (May 22), Serbia (May 24), Romania (May 26), Ukraine (May 29), Bulgaria (July 13), and Greece (July 16).

In May 2020, the band announced that all concerts for the year had been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with tour dates rescheduled for 2021. Nearly one million people bought tickets for all 35 shows originally booked for 2020. In April 2021 it was announced that the 2021 tour was canceled once again and most of the European shows were rescheduled for 2022. In October 2020, the band announced that they would release a live album from the Legacy of the Beast World Tour called Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast: Live in Mexico City. The double concert album was recorded during three sold-out concerts in Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes for a combined audience of over 70,000 people. It was released worldwide on November 20, 2020. That same month, Dickinson announced that Iron Maiden had been “been working together a little bit in the studio” for the follow-up to The Book of Souls.

On 15 July 2021, Iron Maiden released a video for their first song in six years “The Writing on the Wall”, which was directed by Nicos Livesey. Four days later, the band announced that their seventeenth studio album, Senjutsu, would be released on 3 September 2021. On 19 August 2021, the band released another single from the album, “Stratego”.

More info on Iron Maiden’s upcoming shows can be found here.

Iron Maiden’s 2022 Legacy Of The Beast Tour

Show date and time: May 22, 2022 – September 27, 2022

Show location: Arena Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia – Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL

Comedian Jim Jefferies has expanded his 2022 homecoming tour to include four new venues, including Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Saturday, June 11.

He had to push his first tour of Australia in three years back to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“COVID bloody sucks, and I even spent two weeks in hotel quarantine for this!” Jim says of the rescheduling. “Make no mistake: I will be back to perform these shows for you next year. Stay safe, and please hang on to your ticket.”

After a nearly four-year wait (and a brief stay in Sydney hotel quarantine last year), these shows will be huge. Having sold out arenas worldwide – including iconic venues such as Madison Square Garden, Hammersmith Apollo – Jefferies’ live shows have covered everything you can imagine, from politics to celebrities, gun control to religion, family, sex and much, much more over the years – nothing is sacred.

Jefferies’ unapologetic social commentary is one of a kind. He calls a spade a spade.

“I can’t wait to get back and into the tour that COVID stopped,” Jefferies said.

“I’m very happy to also be adding New Zealand dates, as well as Canberra, Hobart, Newcastle and Wollongong to the Australian run.”

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Monday, December 6.

Jefferies is currently still performing.

He also shared this on his social media before sharing the new Australian and New Zealand updates. 

“Upcoming show dates for next week, New York, Philadelphia, and Virginia I look forward to seeing you all! Tickets are still available, visit Jimjefferies.com”

All available info can be found here.