Baltimore is about to get shucked – theater tickets, that is.
Individual tickets went on sale on Friday for Shucked, a Tony Award-winning musical comedy that’s coming to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre April 1 to 6, 2025.
Part of the Hippodrome’s Broadway Series lineup for 2024-2025, Shucked tells the story of Cob County, an area grappling with a corn blight that threatens to end its citizens’ way of life. Along with a truckload of corny jokes and puns, the 2022 musical raises serious questions about everything from climate change to religion.
Music is by country songwriters Brandy Clark and Shane McNally, and the book is from Broadway veteran Robert Horn, the writer behind Tootsie. Three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien is the director. The show’s Broadway run ended in January, and Baltimore is one of more than 30 cities on its national tour, which starts later this month in Providence, Rhode Island. A film adaptation is also in the works.
“What do you get when you pair a semi-neurotic, New York comedy writer with two music superstars from Nashville?” the Hippodrome asks in its announcement about the show. “A hilarious and audacious farm-to-fable musical about the one thing Americans everywhere can’t get enough of: corn. Shucked is the new musical comedy that proves sometimes tearing down a few walls, rather than growing them, is the only way to preserve our way of life. Shucked is turning musical theater on its ear and is offering a kernel of hope for our divided nation.”
The cast includes Miki Abraham (Shucked on Broadway) as Lulu; Tyler Joseph Ellis (“The Sex Lives of College Girls”) as Storyteller 2; Maya Lagerstam (The Gospel According to Heather) as Storyteller 1; Mike Nappi (Darling Grenadine) as Peanut; Jake Odmark (Kinky Boots) as Beau; Quinn VanAntwerp (Shucked on Broadway) as Gordy; and Danielle Wade (“Cady” in the Mean Girls National Tour) as Maizy.
The cast also includes Zakiya Baptiste, Mackenzie Bell, Carly Caviglia, Cecily Dionne Davis, Ryan Fitzgerald, Sean Casey Flanagan, Jackson Goad, Erick Pinnick, Nick Raynor, Celeste Rose, Kyle Sherman and Chani Wereley.
Prices for individual tickets range from $49 to $164, with a select number of premium tickets for sale.
Tickets are available at BaltimoreHippodrome.com, Ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Hippodrome Box Office (12 N Eutaw Street) Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on show days from 11 a.m. until showtime. Groups of 10 or more can contact BaltimoreGroups@BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or call 888-451-5986.
