Broadway Sacramento
Broadway Sacramento (formerly California Musical Theatre) is the largest nonprofit arts organization (primarily producing musical theatre) in the state of California and the city of Sacramento's oldest professional performing arts company.[1] Its summer stock theatre, Music Circus, has been producing Broadway-style musicals since 1951.[2]
Formation
1951 Formerly known as the Sacramento Light Opera Association and California Musical Theatre
Theatre group
Broadway Musicals / Musical Theatre
- 15th and H St Sacramento California
In 2002 Music Circus produced its last season under a traditional canvas circus tent. The following year the company opened the Wells Fargo Pavilion. Built over the original concrete tent foundations, the new facility was designed to emulate a circus tent to continue the Music Circus tradition of a canvas big top. The enclosed, permanent architecture of the arena theatre is covered by an insulated space-age fabric. Recently in 2021, the Wells Fargo Pavilion has been renamed to the UC Davis Health Pavilion.
Broadway on Tour[edit]
Originally known as the Music Circus Winter Season and later as The Broadway Series, productions presented by Broadway on Tour are performed during Music Circus' "off season". Generally, these are touring productions of current musicals performed at the Community Center Theater. Starting in 1989, the series of shows has included The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago and The Producers. Broadway Sacramento is a founding member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and Executive Producer Richard Lewis is a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers.