Little Dancer

Broadway visionaries meet ballet royalty. Little Dancer is a new musical from Five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact) and Tony Award-winning authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island). Together with acclaimed New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, they invite you backstage into 19th-century Paris, where glittering opulence hobnobbed with underworld dangers.

In this era of groundbreaking artistry, a girl named Marie (Peck) dreams of being the next star of the ballet. Despite the odds of her hard-scrabble life, she scrimps, saves and steals in pursuit of her ambitions. But when fate leads her to the studio of Impressionist Edgar Degas, she unknowingly steps into immortality. By this turn of fate, she becomes the inspiration for his most famous sculpture ever: Little Dancer.

Little Dancer also stars Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann (Pippin), Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!) and Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Contact). This gorgeous new musical is poised to conquer the stage – and your heart.

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Reviews

“A bona fide, must see, must cry throughout, accept no substitutes, hit in the making.”

BroadwayWorld

“Unquestionably marks a return to confident form for all three of its principal creators.”

The New York Times

“This new musical is well worth seeing, for ballet fans and theater lovers alike.”

Critical Dance

“Charming, winsome melodies you can’t get out of your head, stirring performances, and a book that will intrigue and move you.”

Huffington Post

“A handsomely mounted, highly romanticized and unabashedly old-fashioned musical with A-list designers and a blue-ribbon cast.”

The Seattle Times

“The extended dance number “The Choices” exhibits Stroman’s vivid theatricality, akin to the groundbreaking “dream ballets” created by Agnes de Mille for “Carousel” and “Oklahoma!”

The Seattle Times

“Achingly lovely choreography from Stroman – the final nightmare ballet is one for the ages. I was left breathless.”

BroadwayWorld

“I loved it all – the gorgeous costumes, the haunting lighting and projections, the simple yet incredibly fluid and evocative set, each element only serves to elevate the other and the show.”

BroadwayWorld

“Beautiful design – lights, sets, projections and ravishing costumes, lovely performances from the cast and a terrific final half hour which has momentum, passion, power and brilliant staging and choreography from Tony Award winning director Susan Stroman including a beautiful dream ballet sequence.”

Seattle Gay Scene