Submitted by Tacoma Musical Playhouse.
Tacoma Musical Playhouse announces its 2025-2026 32nd Anniversary Mainstage Season
Tacoma Musical Playhouse announces its 2025-2026 season. This will be our 32nd anniversary season. We are as dedicated as ever to “Inspiring and enriching lives of our diverse community through musical theater.”
Based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The beloved book and score by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin feature some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written, including “Tomorrow.” With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations… and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Celebrate the seasons with Holiday Inn! This heartwarming musical features dazzling dance numbers, a charming love story, and a spectacular score by Irving Berlin—including classics like “White Christmas,” “Blue Skies,” and “Easter Parade.” Follow Jim, a song-and-dance man who leaves showbiz behind to open a farmhouse inn that only opens on holidays—until love and laughter turn every season into a reason to sing. Holiday Inn is a festive, feel-good treat for the whole family!
A deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical, Dear Evan Hansen follows Evan, a high school senior with social anxiety, who finds himself at the center of a misunderstanding after a classmate’s death. As a letter he wrote to himself is mistaken for a suicide note, Evan’s fabricated connection with the student spirals into a story that brings him closer to others—and further from the truth. With a moving score and a powerful message about connection, identity, and the impact of lies, Dear Evan Hansen is a heartfelt exploration of what it means to belong.
Inspired by Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Charity explores the turbulent love life of Charity Hope Valentine, a hopelessly romantic but comically unfortunate dance hall hostess in New York City. With a tuneful, groovy, mid-1960s score by Cy Coleman, sparkling lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and a hilarious book by Neil Simon, Sweet Charity captures all the energy, humor, and heartbreak of Life in the Big City for an unfortunate but irrepressible optimist. Musical numbers include: “Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” “I’m a Brass Band” and “Baby, Dream Your Dream.”
Anything Goes is a romantic comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. On an ocean liner bound from New York to London, Billy Crocker, a stowaway, falls in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy Number 13, “Moonface” Martin, aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. Musical numbers include: “Anything Goes”, “You’re the Top”, “All Through the Night”, and “I Get a Kick Out of You”.
It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and teen Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show. When she finally makes it on, her big hair and bigger heart take her from outsider to local star—and she uses her new fame to fight for integration on television. With catchy songs, high-energy dance numbers, and a whole lot of heart, Hairspray is a joyful celebration of acceptance, equality, and standing up for what’s right.
TMP’s Staff
Jon Douglas Rake (Managing Artistic Director and Choreographer)
Jeff Strvtecky (Business Manager & Musical Director)
Kayla Littleton (Education Director)
Ceili Caruso (Marketing Director)
Dennis Kurtz (Master Carpenter)
Iris McBride (Box Office Coordinator)
Braeden Linkenback (Shop Assistant)
Tacoma Musical Playhouse’s 2025/2026 Season includes:
Annie
September 12-October 5, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Sundays, 2:00 pm
Saturdays, September 27 & October 4, 2:00 pm
Music by CHARLES STROUSE
Lyrics by MARTIN CHARNIN
Book by THOMAS MEEHAN
Holiday Inn
November 21-December 14, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Saturdays & Sundays, 2:00 pm
Music and Lyrics by IRVING BERLIN
Book by GORDON GREENBERG and CHAD HODGE
Dear Evan Hansen
February 13- March 8, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Sundays, 2:00 pm
Saturdays, February 28 & March 7, 2:00 pm
Music and Lyrics by BENJ PASEK & JUSTIN PAUL
Book by STEVEN LEVENSON
Written and created by ROGER BEAN
Sweet Charity
April 10-May 3, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Sundays, 2:00 pm
Saturdays, April 25 & May 2, 2:00 pm
Music by CY COLEMAN
Lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS
Book by NEIL SIMON
Anything Goes
May 29-June 21, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Sundays, 2:00 pm
Saturdays, June 13 & 20, 2:00 pm
Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER
Book by GUY BOLTON, P.G. WOEHOUSE, HOWARD LINDSAY & RUSSEL CROUSE
Hairspray
July 10-August 2, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 pm
Saturdays & Sundays, 2:00 pm
Music by MARC SHAIMAN
Lyrics by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN
Book by THOMAS MEEHAN & MARK O’DONNELL
Where
All shows will play at Tacoma Musical Playhouse
Where: 7116 Sixth Avenue | Tacoma, WA 98406
Phone: 253-565-6867
Web: tmp.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TacomaMusicalPlayhouse/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tacomamusicalplayhouse/
2025 – 2026 Season Ticket Subscription Information
New Subscriptions now on sale
September 1, 2025 | Single Tickets and Flex reservations begin.
You can order tickets by phone, at the Box Office or online at tmp.org.
Single Ticket Prices
Adults $35.00
Senior, Military, Students $32.00
Children (12 & under) $25.00
Groups of 10 or more $30.00
All Seating is Reserved.
Tickets can be purchased at TMP’s Box Office located at 7116 Sixth Avenue, by phone at 253-565-6867, and online at www.tmp.org. Box office is open Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM.
About the Tacoma Musical Playhouse
Celebrating our 32nd season, Tacoma Musical Playhouse is a National and Internationally award-winning, non-profit (501c3) arts organization, and the largest community theater in the Pacific Northwest. TMP programs are made possible, in part, by funds from ArtsFund, and Tacoma Creates. TMP is a member of the American Association of Community Theatre.
