Three musicals will make their Columbus debuts during the next season of Broadway in Columbus.

“An American in Paris,” “School of Rock — The Musical” and “Waitress" will visit Columbus for the first time as part of the 2017-18 theater lineup, which is co-presented by the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts.

Rounding out the five-show subscription season: “Chicago” (starring former NFL and Ohio State star Eddie George as fast-talking lawyer Billy Flynn) and “The King and I.”

Looking further ahead, the biggest Broadway blockbuster in years — “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer-winning musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton — will reach Columbus during the 2018-19 season.

Patrons who buy 2017-18 subscriptions can guarantee tickets for “Hamilton,” according to CAPA officials. (“Hamilton” dates and tickets will be announced later.)

All shows will be presented at the Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St., except where noted:

• Oct. 10-15: “School of Rock — The Musical.” The 2016 Tony nominee for best musical, score and book is composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, author Julian Fellowes’ and lyricist Glenn Slater’s adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black comedy film about a struggling rock-singer/guitarist who rehearses fourth-graders for a Battle of the Bands.

• Nov. 7-12: “Waitress.” The 2016 Tony nominee for best musical, score and book is Grammy-nominated composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles and author Jessie Nelson’s inspirational comedy-drama based on the 2007 film about a waitress who dreams of winning a pie-baking contest to escape her small town and loveless marriage.

• Dec. 16-17 “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical” (optional add-on). The 75-minute two-act is a family-oriented show adapted from the TV classic. (Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St.)

• Jan. 3-14: “The Phantom of the Opera” (optional add-on). The restaged version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Gothic mega-hit first visited Columbus in 2014.

• Feb. 6-11: “Chicago.” The Kander and Ebb musical about two women who get away with murder returns as the longest-running American musical on Broadway. (Palace Theatre)

• March 6-11: “An American in Paris.” Chosen for 12 Tony nominations in 2015 (including best musical and book) and winner of four (including best choreography), the show was adapted with many Gershwin songs by Craig Lucas (“Prelude to a Kiss”) from the Oscar-winning 1951 film about an American soldier-painter and a mysterious French girl.

• April 24-29, 2018: “The King and I.” The recent Lincoln Center Theatre revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical centers on a British governess hired to tutor the children of a Siamese ruler.

• May 22-27, 2018: “The Book of Mormon” (optional add-on). The encore run of the 2011 Tony winner for best musical returns with its provocative and satirical tale by the “South Park” creators (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) and Robert Lopez about two Mormon missionaries confronting tragic realities in Africa.

Subscriptions to the five-show season, on sale now, cost $160 to $565, with tickets sold separately to the three nonsubscription shows. Call 1-800-294-1892, or visit the Ohio Theatre box office or www.broadwayincolumbus.com.

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