Celebrate Broadway

BUY TICKETS Season Tickets available beginning June 17. General Public Tickets available beginning June 24. Performance Dates Celebrate Broadway Merryman Performing Arts Center 225 West 22nd Street, Kearney, NE 68845 August 13, 2022 • 7 pm August 14, 2022 • 2 pm Adults $20

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps Spring 2014 Kearney Community Theatre (Performed in partnership with KCT) Bored with his aimless life, Richard Hannay decides to go to the theatre. While there he meets a mysterious woman named Annabella Schmidt who turns out to be a secret agent trying to save England from a mysterious organization

Godspell

Godspell Summer 2010 Kearney High School Auditorium Godspell is a uniquely powerful show that has the ability to make audiences laugh and cry within moments. This immensely successful rock opera needs little introduction, but when it was first produced on Broadway in 1971 it broke new ground in its stage treatment of

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Summer 2010 Cope Amphitheater at Yanney Park Charles Schulz’s beloved comic comes to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The whole gang is here: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy Schroeder who doesn’t give her the time

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors Summer 2011 Merryman Performing Arts Center Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, that follows a down and out skid row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for

SNOOPY!!! The Musical

SNOOPY!!! The Musical Summer 2011 Cope Amphitheater at Yanney Park Snoopy!!! is a musical comedy by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady based on the world renowned Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. This sequel to the musical You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown features the whole gang, complete with Peppermint Patty and

Into the Woods

Into the Woods Summer 2012 Merryman Performing Arts Center A popular Broadway musical that first made it’s way into the hearts of audience members in 1986, Into the Woods is a Tony Award winning classic. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine have intertwined the stories of various familiar fairy tales with an original

A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year with Frog and Toad Summer 2012 Cope Amphitheater at Yanney Park Destined to become a classic, A Year with Frog and Toad is inventive, exuberant and totally enchanting. Arnold Lobel’s well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reale’s musical. Conceived by Mr. Lobel’s daughter,

Two Rooms

Two Rooms Summer 2012 Kearney High Auditorium Two Rooms is both a love story and a debate. Named by Time Magazine as “Best Play of the Year” in 1988, Lee Blessing has crafted a truly powerful story of perseverance. The story takes place in, as the title suggests, two rooms. It opens

Grease

Grease Summer 2013 Merryman Performing Arts Center One of the most popular musicals of all time, Grease had its Broadway premiere in 1972 and has triumphed throughout the world. In 1979 Grease took over the record as the longest-running show in the history of Broadway and the hit film starring John Travolta