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Popejoy Hall brings Broadway back to New Mexico

Windows outside of Popejoy Hall showcasing their line up for the season.
Mia Casas
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Windows outside of Popejoy Hall showcasing their line up for the season.

in Albuquerque just announced its 2025-2026 season, which includes 6 broadway shows touring from New York.

If you are a theatre kid growing up in New Mexico, Broadway can feel really far. New York isn鈥檛 just a hop across town, it鈥檚 more like a leap across the country.

Popejoy Hall is trying to bridge that gap, so you can experience the shows you know and love closer to home.

Director of Popejoy Hall, Fabianna Tabeling knows this feeling all too well.

鈥淵ou know, you鈥檙e listening to the soundtracks, you鈥檙e hearing about these shows, but I mean what chance are you going to get to go to New York, it's a very expensive trip. But we bring the same quality that you do see on Broadway, here to New Mexico,鈥 Tabeling said.

Tabeling has been curating this season since April of last year with her team. She said it is an exciting process. Putting together a season is a combination of what sells and just a little bit of personal taste.

鈥淪o Moulin Rouge was definitely one where I was like, I want this in our season. I got to see it on Broadway a few years ago and I was so blown away by it,鈥 Tabeling said. 鈥淚 kinda made sure, I was like, we need this in our season.鈥

Four of the six Broadway shows have never been staged in New Mexico. Non-broadway productions this season, or 鈥渙vation鈥 shows, include Twilight: In Concert, Moana: Live to Film, The TEN Tenors, and many more

Popejoy offers a variety of including the 鈥溾 package, which allows you to see five of the Broadway shows. They also offer discounted student tickets and payment plans.

You can visit our Instagram, , for sneak peaks of a few of the shows.

Mia Casas graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts in English with minors in Journalism and Theatre. She came to 九色网 through an internship with the New Mexico Local News Fund and stayed on as a student reporter as of fall 2023. She is now in a full-time reporting position with the station, as well as heading the newsroom's social media.
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