Show History - Shea's Performing Arts Center

Show History

Take a look back through all of the productions that have been a part of our Broadway Series.

Now Playing

2025-2026

Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Special Engagement)
The Outsiders (National Tour Launch)
The Notebook
Wicked
'Twas The Night Before
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Kimberly Akimbo
Water For Elephants
Suffs

2024-2025

2023-2024

Mrs. Doubtfire (National Tour Launch)
Moulin Rouge
The Nutcracker
Annie (Special Engagement)
Girl From the North Country
Funny Girl
Les Misérables
Mamma Mia!
Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Engagement)
Shrek (Special Engagement)
MJ The Musical

2022-2023

The Prom
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Disney's Aladdin (Special Engagement)
The Nutcracker
Come From Away
Elf the Musical (Special Engagement)
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Into the Woods (National Tour Launch)
Hadestown
Beetlejuice
Six
Jagged Little Pill
Dear Evan Hansen (Special Engagement)

2021-2022

"It's Only an Intermission" Season

Disney's Frozen (National Tour Launch)
Tootsie (National Tour Launch)
The Band's Visit
Escape to Margaritaville
Pretty Woman
The Nutcracker
Hamilton (Special Engagement)
Oklahoma!
My Fair Lady
To Kill a Mockingbird (National Tour Launch)
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Anastasia
Ain't Too Proud

2019-2020

Mean Girls (National Tour Launch)
Come From Away
Jersey Boys (Special Engagement)
Les Misérables (Special Engagement)
The Nutcracker
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Special Engagement)
The Illusionists (Special Engagement)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Blue Man Group (Special Engagement)
Hello, Dolly!

2018-2019

Disney's Aladdin
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (National Tour Launch)
Fiddler on the Roof
Hamilton
The Nutcracker
Cats (Special Engagement)
Miss Saigon
Rent (Special Engagement)
Book of Mormon (Special Engagement)
Dear Evan Hansen
Rock of Ages (Special Engagement)

2017-2018

On Your Feet! (National Tour Launch)
Bodyguard: The Musical
Kinky Boots (Special Engagement)
The Nutcracker
The Lion King (Special Engagement)
Waitress
Something Rotten!
School of Rock
The Phantom of the Opera (Special Engagement)
Love Never Dies

2016-2017

Finding Neverland (National Tour Launch)
Stomp (Special Engagement)
An American in Paris
Once (Special Engagement)
The Nutcracker
A Christmas Story The Musical
42nd Street (Special Engagement)
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
The Sound of Music
Cabaret
Wicked (Special Engagement)
The Little Mermaid (Special Engagement)

2015-2016

Newsies
Matilda
Flashdance (Special Engagement)
The Nutcracker
Annie
Pippin
Beautiful
The Wizard of Oz (Special Engagement)
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Dirty Dancing

2014-2015

Joseph and the Amazing, Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mamma Mia!
Cinderella
Motown
Chicago
Million Dollar Quartet
The Illusionists
The Phantom of the Opera
Kinky Boots
The Book of Mormon

2013-2014

Ghost
War Horse
Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Wicked (Special Engagement)
American Idiot (Special Engagement)
Porgy and Bess
Once
Rock of Ages (Special Engagement)
Beauty and the Beast (Special Engagement)
Evita

2012-2013

Billy Elliot
Jekyll & Hyde
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Blue Man Group (Special Engagement)
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Sister Act
Fela! (Special Engagement)
Rock of Ages (Special Engagement)
Jersey Boys (Special Engagement)
The Book of Mormon

2011-2012

The Lion King
Million Dollar Quartet
The Addams Family
Rain (Special Engagement)
Les Misérables
Spamalot (Special Engagement)
Stomp (Special Engagement)
South Pacific
Memphis

2010-2011

Mary Poppins
Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Special Engagement)
Dreamgirls
Shrek
Young Frankenstein
Wicked
West Side Story

2009-2010

Chicago
Fiddler on the Roof
Cirque Dreams Holidaze
In The Heights
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Grease
Jersey Boys

2008-2009

Legally Blonde
Radio City Spectactular
Annie (Special Engagement)
Rent (Special Engagement)
Mamma Mia!
The Wizard of Oz
A Chorus Line
The Color Purple
Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Engagement)

2007-2008

High School Musical (Special Engagement)
Camelot
The Nutcracker (Special Engagement)
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Stomp (Special Engagement)
The Drowsy Chaperone
Hairspray (Special Engagement)
Avenue Q
Wicked

2006-2007

Mamma Mia! (Special Engagement)
Cirque Dreams
The Nutcracker (Special Engagement)
Rent
Sweet Charity
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Spamalot
Burn the Floor (Special Engagement)
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life

2005-2006

My Fair Lady
Hairspray
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
David Copperfield (Special Engagement)
Blast
Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance
Peter Pan
Little Shop of Horrors
Movin' Out (Special Engagement)
Annie (Special Engagement)

2004-2005

The King & I
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Radio City Spectactular
The Producers
The Lion King
Chicago

2003-2004

Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Sound of Music
David Copperfield (Special Engagement)
Starlight Express
Movin' Out
Les Misérables
Grease (Special Engagement)
Oklahoma!
Mamma Mia! (Special Engagement)

2002-2003

West Side Story
42nd Street
Cats (Special Engagement)
Mamma Mia! (Special Engagement)
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Phantom of the Opera
The Full Monty
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Forever Plaid

2001-2002

A Chorus Line (Special Engagement)
Guys & Dolls
Cookin' (Special Engagement)
Swing
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Saturday Night Fever
Fiddler on the Roof
Blast
Lord of the Dance (Special Engagement)
Beauty and the Beast (Special Engagement)
The Vagina Monologues (Special Engagement)
Aida

2000-2001

Miss Saigon
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Special Engagement)
Cabaret
Footloose
Annie (Special Engagement)
Ragtime
Tony n' Tina's Wedding (Special Engagement)
Smokey Joe's Café (Special Engagement)
Fosse

1999-2000

"A New Beginning" Season

Cats (Special Engagement)
Late Nite Catechism
The King & I
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Titanic
Rent (Special Engagement)
Beauty and the Beast
Les Misérables (Special Engagement)
Jekyll & Hyde
Riverdance (Special Engagement)
Fame

1998-1999

"A Star is Re-Born" Season

Riverdance
Tony n' Tina's Wedding
Peter Pan
The Phantom of the Opera
Sunset Boulevard

1997-1998

Grease (Special Engagement)
Chicago
Defending the Caveman
Annie
Lord of the Dance (Special Engagement)
David Copperfield (Special Engagement)
Tap Dogs (Special Engagement)
Big
Dreamgirls
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Rent

1996-1997

Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Les Misérables (Special Engagement)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Engagement)
Damn Yankees
Carousel
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Singin' in the Rain
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Man of la Mancha
Cats (Special Engagement)

1995-1996

Fiddler on the Roof
Stomp (Special Engagement)
Ain't Misbehavin'
Music of the Night (Special Engagement)
42nd Street
David Copperfield (Special Engagement)
West Side Story
Tommy
Grease

1994-1995

Hello, Dolly!
The Sound of Music
Jelly's Last Jam
The Secret Garden
Crazy For You
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Cats (Special Engagement)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Engagement)

1993-1994

Cats
Jesus Christ Superstar
Les Miserables
The Will Rogers Follies
Guys and Dolls

1992-1993

Cats
Evita
Lost in Yonkers
Aspects of Love
Camelot

1991-1992

Cats
My Fair Lady
Les Misérables
Grand Hotel
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber

1990-1991

Ken Hill's The Phantom of the Opera
Anything Goes
Sarafina
Starlight Express
The Fantasticks
Peter Pan
A Chorus Line
The Sound of Music

1989-1990

Driving Miss Daisy
Fiddler on the Roof
Nunsense
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Les Miserables
Cats

1988-1989

Our 1st Broadway Season Subscription

Cabaret
Me and My Girl
Elvis: An American Musical
Nunsense
Cats
Can-Can (Special Engagement)
Big River (Special Engagement)

1987-1988

West Side Story
A Chorus Line
South Pacific
Cats

1986-1987

Singin' in the Rain
Pippin
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
Lord of the Rings
Cats

1985 - 1986

Camelot
Dreamgirls
Zorba
42nd Street
Annie

1984 - 1985

Sugar Babies
La Cage aux Folles

1983 - 1984

Little Shop of Horrors

1982 - 1983

Evita

1981 - 1982

Camelot
Annie
Peter Pan

1980-1981

Annie
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The King and I

1979-1980

The Babes in Toyland
Jesus Christ Superstar
A Chorus Line
Annie

1976-1977

Oh! Calcutta!

1973 - 1974

No, No, Nanette

1972 - 1973

Sleuth

1971 - 1972

Carousel
Company
Promises, Promises

1970 - 1971

Zorba
Butterflies Are Free
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Fiddler on the Roof
1776
Hadrian VII

1969 - 1970

Shea's Buffalo Attractions
First Subscription Series

I Do! I Do!
Macbeth (The National Shakespeare Company)
Cabaret
Plaza Suite
The Barber of Seville
Your Own Thing
Hamlet (The National Shakespeare Company)

1968 - 1969

You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running
Fiddler on the Roof
Hello, Dolly!