Tucson, AZ--- Behold! It’s a Christmas miracle! Broadway Barbara – legendary performer, social media sensation (@BroadwayBarbaraOfficial), and unstoppable force of pure entertainment –makes her Tucson, Arizona debut with her titanically enthralling Holiday Spectacular! Broadway Barbara comes to Tucson straight from sold out shows in New York, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Los Angeles and San Diego!
This year, Barbara’s giving the season a real kick in the Santa pants! To celebrate the release of her new holiday album – We Need A Little Barbara (available this fall from Razzmatazz Records) – Barbara is bringing along a sack packed with classic holiday tunes, a sleigh full of slay, and at least two stockings piled full of Christmas surprises.
Barbara Dixon is no mere entertainer; she is the living, breathing, dancing, screaming embodiment of entertainment itself. An inveterate performer with decades of experience, Ms. Dixon is a singer and dancer whose career has touched every medium and genre – from (off-) Broadway to (near-) Hollywood, and everywhere in between. Barbara Dixon is a tireless artist, having logged more audition time without booking a lead role than any other performer in Broadway history.
This all-singing, all-dancing, all-Barbara evening is the perfect holiday treat. So give yourself the gift that keeps on giving: Broadway Barbara, live onstage in Tucson!
“The show gifted us moments where Judy-Garland-esque gravitas could rub against wackiness worthy of Lucille Ball.” (Australian Arts Review)
“Barbara, is original and laugh-out-loud funny. I honestly can’t remember the last time I 80 minutes with no intermission
The show runs for 80 minutes with no intermission, Age recommendation is High School PG. Two performances only - December 13 and 14, Contact 520-882-9721 or visit www.invisibletheatre.com
CAST
Leah Sprecher as Broadway Barbara Dixon
PERFORMANCE DATES
Saturday, December 13th: 7:30pm
Sunday, December 14th: 2:00pm
PRODUCTION STAFF
Producer; Betsy Kruse Craig
Technical Direction: James Blair
Production Stage Manager: Linda Pierce
Musical Director: Jack Lipson
WHERE:
The Invisible Theatre 1400 N. First Avenue (at Drachman), Tucson, AZ 85719
ABOUT THE SHOW
Created by Leah Sprecher while she was a member of the famed Groundlings’ Theater Sunday Company, Barbara Dixon is informed by Leah’s genuine affection for classic Broadway performers — and her own attempts to forge a creative career, through years of auditions, rejection, and the helpful advice that “it might take you a while.”
To make this indomitable character the center of her own show, Leah devised a comedic cabaret that charts the history of modern Broadway — and forms a backdrop for the absurd, ribald, surprisingly touching, and ultimately inspiring career of Barbara Dixon. Crafting a script and stage show with her then-boyfriend (and now husband) writer/director Brad Stevens, Leah first brought Barbara to the stage in Los Angeles in 2018.
During the pandemic, the couple used the time away from the stage to craft social media videos that would hone Barbara’s voice and back story… and cause the character to go viral. Bringing “Broadway Barbara” back to the stage in 2021, Leah has since performed in New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, London, and her home base of Los Angeles. By mid-2022, Barbara was selling out venues across the country and had amassed nearly half a million followers on social media.
Broadway Barbara Live! is conceived and performed by Leah Sprecher and is written and directed by Leah Sprecher and Brad Stevens.
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