“Hamilton,” Michael Jackson, “Funny Girl” highlight 2024-25 Broadway Series

COLUMBUS – The next chance for Columbus theater fans to be in the room where it happens is in  2025.

HAMILTON will close out the upcoming PNC Broadway in Columbus series in July 2025, according to the full schedule unveiled Monday by Broadway in Columbus and CAPA.

This will mark the 10th season of PNC as Broadway in Columbus series sponsor.

The 2024-25 season begins on Sept. 10 with the Columbus premiere of MJ, a musical centered around the making of Michael Jackson’s 1992 Dangerous World Tour.

Other Columbus premieres include & Juliet, which employs an array of pop music anthems to explores the alternate storyline that explore what might have happened to Shakespeare’s heroine if she had not ended it all over Romeo.

The Broadway revival of Funny Girl, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical and 2023 Tony winner Kimberly Akimbo will also make their Columbus premieres this season.

2024-2025 PNC Broadway in Columbus Season Schedule

  • MJ                                 September 10-15, 2024
  • Peter Pan                   January 14-19, 2025
  • & Juliet                        February 18-23, 2025
  • Funny Girl                   March 25-30, 2025
  • A Beautiful Noise     April 22-27, 2025
  • Kimberly Akimbo    June 3-8, 2025
  • Hamilton                    July 8-20, 2025

THE BOOK OF MORMON (Oct. 8-13) and Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (Dec. 3-8) are available as season options.

New State Fair concerts scheduled

Ohio State Fair officials announced two more concerts have been added to the schedule.

Stone Temple Pilots with special guest Soul Asylum will appear on Friday, July 26 and Boyz II Men with guest comedian Preacher Lawson are scheduled for July 27.

The 2024 Ohio State Fair will run July 24 – Aug. 4