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For the first time in its nearly 75-year history, Broadway Sacramento is producing a full-run holiday show at its Broadway at Music Circus facility. “Elf The Musical” will play at UC Davis Health Pavilion this December on the theater campus they once shared with the now-closed Sacramento Theatre Company (STC).
Until now, under an agreement with STC, Broadway at Music Circus could only offer summer seasons, so they weren’t in competition with STC’s regular seasons. Now, with STC having taken its last bow with its productions and educational programs in recent months, Broadway at Music Circus will be able to extend their season to a year-round residency at the site on H Street.
Broadway Sacramento can’t stage holiday shows at the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center on L Street — which is owned by the City of Sacramento — because Sacramento Ballet’s “Nutcracker” takes over the facility in December.
Broadway Sacramento oversees both Broadway on Tour, which hosts traveling theater companies, and Broadway at Music Circus, which produces local theater. The announcement of Broadway at Music Circus’ extended season on Tuesday, Nov. 12 has been met with mixed emotions. There is excitement about staging more theater-in-the-round musicals, but sadness about the closing of STC, the oldest theater company in Sacramento which opened in 1949.