Be their guest: Popejoy announces 2026-27 season including '&Juliet,' 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Hamilton'

Popejoy Hall has announced their 2026-27 “Broadway in New Mexico Series” and the lineup includes some Land of Enchantment debuts, along with familiar favorites.

Popejoy will bring six shows to the stage: “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” “& Juliet,” “The Bodyguard,” “The Outsiders,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Hamilton.”

While three shows will be staged for the first time at Popejoy — “& Juliet,” “The Bodyguard” and “The Outsiders” — “Mamma Mia!” and “Beauty and the Beast” are back for the first time in nearly a decade.

Fabianna Borghese, director of Popejoy Hall, is eager to see them return.

“I have never actually seen ‘Mamma Mia!’ on stage, so I’m excited to see that,” she said, “and then ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is so beautiful.”

“The costumes and music, and it has so many elements that classic kind of Broadway musicals have with the big ballads, the love story, the big dance numbers, very kind of flashy in that way,” Borghese said.

Borghese said it is important to bring both new and classic shows to New Mexico audiences. “Mamma Mia!” and “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” were first staged in the 1990s, with 2022’s “& Juliet” and 2024’s “The Outsiders” more recent musicals making the jump off Broadway.

“We all love the classics, and so I think that’s important to still keep the classics and bringing that to new audiences as well,” Borghese said. “If you’re younger and have never seen some of the more classic musicals, it’s always kind of great to see these new tours that sometimes bring some fresh eyes to it.”

Members who previously subscribed to the “Broadway in New Mexico” package can renew their subscription now and potential members can join a waitlist to purchase a package.

“If you are not currently a subscriber and would like to be one, we have a wait list that you can join. Then on (Friday) March 6, those wait-listed people will be able to jump in line and buy a subscription package,” Borghese said.

Monday, March 9, is when new subscription sales start, Borghese said. 

“So if you’re not already a Broadway subscriber, you can become a new subscriber and get tickets to all of the shows this season.”

The season subscriptions begin at $205 for a five-show package, excluding “Hamilton”; ticket packages that include “Hamilton” are $254. Individual show tickets will be released on a show-to-show basis.

Elizabeth Secor is an arts fellow from the New Mexico Local News Fellowship program. You can reach her at esecor@abqjournal.com.