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The Hult Center has announced its lineup for the 2026-27 season of national touring performances, including the Shakespeare jukebox reimagining “& Juliet,” corn comedy “Shucked,” and World War II history “Operation Mincemeat.”
Goofy British spies embarking on a madcap Nazi-tricking scheme. Two star-crossed lovers growing closer in a 1930s traveling circus while caring for an elephant, before a bloody finale. Famously executed women reclaiming their voices via pop ballads.
The Hult Center announced Monday, April 13, the next season of Broadway Presents touring musicals for its 2026-27 season. It includes a slate of five main season musicals and two add-on shows. The season consists of buzzy ensemble-driven crowd-pleasers, historical retellings, comedies and dramas that will be making stops in Eugene.
Laura Lee, the managing director of the Hult Center, said some of the shows in this season’s lineup were ones she missed out on seeing, as tickets had been sold out or too expensive in different markets. The range of shows, she said, speaks to the variety of touring Broadway shows that perform well in Eugene.
“Eugene is an open creative community that likes to see really great theatrical productions, but also those that ask questions of us to consider other people’s point of views,” Lee said in an interview. “We exercise our empathy muscle every time that we walk into a Broadway show.”
Here are the 2026-27 main season shows:
“& Juliet” (Oct. 6-11) is the popular jukebox show where William Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway tries to convince the Bard into changing the ending of “Romeo & Juliet” so Juliet doesn’t die by suicide, as told via renditions of songs like “…Baby One More Time” and “I Kissed a Girl.”
“Water for Elephants” (Nov. 6-8) is a stage adaptation of a historical novel (also made into a 2011 film with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson) about a 1930s-era animal caretaker in a traveling circus who falls in love with the star performer — who is also the abusive ringmaster’s wife.
“Operation Mincemeat” (Feb. 3-7, 2027) is a Tony- and Olivier-winning show about a stranger-than-fiction British intelligence shenanigan in World War II using false documents planted on a corpse to distract the Axis powers with a fake invasion plan.
“Shucked” (April 2-4, 2027) is a Tony-winning musical comedy about a corn-centric small town in crisis when — gasp — the corn begins to die, and a young woman leaves her beloved home of Cob County to try to save the crop. (Expect many, many “corny” puns.) The musical won the 2023 Tony for best featured actor in a musical for performer Alex Newell.
“Six” (April 30 – May 2, 2027) is a Tony-winning pop musical retelling the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives in a concert, with each woman telling their stories in song and competing to see who had the worst experience with their communal, brutal ex-husband. The show took home the award for best original score at the 2022 Tonys.
Two shows are “add-ons,” and are not part of the five-show season package:
“Jersey Boys” (Jan. 8-10, 2027) is the jukebox musical dramatizing the rise and fall of the 1960s Frankie Valli-anchored group The Four Seasons, peppered with hits including “Sherry” and “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night).” This year marks the 20th anniversary of the musical.
“Waitress” (June 25-27, 2027) the Sara Bareilles-penned musical adaptation of the 2007 movie, is about a woman working in a small-town diner who uses her pie recipes to express herself while trapped in an unhappy marriage.
Season subscription renewals and new subscriptions to the series are available at the Hult Center, with single ticket sales to be announced this summer. More information about the Broadway Presents series is available at the Hult Center website.
