Tony Award-Winning 'Evita' Will Kick Off The Gateway's 2023/24 Season

BELLPORT, NY — The Gateway’s new season kicks off in May with the premiere of the Tony Award-winning production of "Evita," followed by a string of Broadway hits like "Summer - The Donna Summer Musical," and "Jersey Boys," which will be performed over the summer.

The fall and winter portion of the line-up includes the "Holiday Spectacular or Ice," "Fiddler on the roof," and "In the Heights."

"Evita" is set in Argentina between 1934 and 1952, following the historical events of Eva Duarte de Perón on her journey from a poor child to an actress, and finally the wife of president Juan Peron, and the most powerful woman in Latin America, worshiped by her people, as the revolutionary, Ché Guevarra, narrates her rise and fall.

The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features classic numbers like “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” “Oh What a Circus,” “Buenos Aires,” and “Another Suitcase in Another Hall.”

It will run from May 5 to 28.

Paul Allan, the Gateway’s executive artistic director, said staffers are "thrilled to have embarked on the new journey of offering performances all year long for 2022 - 2023 and look forward to another year of exciting titles for our patrons."

Concerts and special events will be announced on select dates, creating the perfect mix of "top-quality entertainment all year long."

"Summer" follows Donna Summer from the gospel choir to her time as a dance floor diva, showing how she had to break through barriers to become an icon, according to theater producers. The score includes 20 of Summer’s classic songs, including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff."

It will run June 16 to July 16.

The Tony and Olivier award-winning "Jersey Boys" will take the audience behind Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons' 40-plus-year friendship from the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It will include renditions of chart-topping hits like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Dawn,” and “My Eyes Adored You.”

It will run from Aug. 4 to Sept. 10.

The family-friendly "Holiday Spectacular on Ice" will feature show-stopping singers and dancers, as well as "astonishing performance artistry," theater producers said. It will run from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1.

"Fiddler on the Roof, also a Tony Award winner when it hit the stage in 1964, is the brainchild of Broadway legends, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince, songwriters, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and book writer, Joseph Stein. It is set in the little village of Anatevka, centering on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters.

The score includes "Tradition," "Matchmaker," "Sunrise Sunset," "To Life," "If I were a Rich Man," and "Anatevka."

It will run from Jan. 16 to Feb. 25.

"Hamilton" creator, Lin Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights," tells the story of New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, "a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music," theater producers said.

"It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind," the synopsis continues.

The show features songs like "In the Heights," "Breathe," "Blackout," "Carnival de Barrio," and "It Won't Be Long Now."

It will run from March 15 to April 14.

For more information, go to TheGateway.org.