Audiences will experience this season’s breathless excitement
and glamour up-close, and personal
UNCASVILLE, CT (October 9, 2024)?– Following last year’s fan-frenzy that led to a sensational sold-out tour, Dancing with the Stars is back on tour to heat up the winter with a dazzling, sexy, high energy, brand-new live production! Launching January 7th at Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, This year’s all-new stage show will feature your favorite professional dancers from the blockbuster television series when the stars visit Mohegan Sun Arena on January 10th and 11th for back-to-back 8:00pm performances.
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 11th via Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, October 12th, subject to availability.
Audiences at Dancing with the Stars: Live! will have the opportunity to experience the athleticism, and the artistry they see in the TV show’s famed ballroom live during two unforgettable nights of electrifying dance performances from world-renowned dancers who topped the leaderboard, including Emma Slater, Alan Bersten, Brandon Armstrong, Britt Stewart, Daniella Karagach, Gleb Savchenko, Pasha Pashkov, and Rylee Arnold.
“It is such an honor to be able to produce the DWTS live tour once again and get to collaborate with the sensational pro dancers, celebs, and creative team to bring this show to life. We love getting to see fans of all ages fill the venues and get to experience all the excitement that DWTS has to offer. We at Faculty promise to deliver a brand-new next level show in 2025 that is sure to bring the ballroom to life in the fan’s hometown.” – Jared Paul, Faculty Inc.
Dancing with the Stars: Live! is also thrilled to announce that Emmy Award winner Mandy Moore (Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, La La Land) will be returning to choreograph and direct this year’s tour. “Directing this tour is one of my favorite times of the year. I have a long-standing history with the DWTS brand and these dancers, it’s like returning home to family. The collaboration with these world class performers presents an amazing opportunity to highlight their inimitable talent, their athleticism, and it’s what truly makes them artists.” – Mandy Moore
“Dancing with the Stars: Live!” is produced by Faculty Productions in association with BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions and is promoted by Live Nation and NS2.
“Dancing with the Stars” airs live Tuesday nights (8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT) on ABC, Disney+ and is available to stream the next day on Hulu
ABOUT FACULTY PRODUCTIONS
Faculty, formed by veteran manager and producer Jared Paul in partnership with Live Nation, the world’s leading live entertainment company, produces and creates world-class live branded entertainment and concerts. Faculty is responsible for some of the most successful global touring productions including the Faculty-managed New Kids on the Block recently completed 46-city Magic Summer 2024 Tour, which sold over 500,000 tickets, and the upcoming multi-year Las Vegas Residency: The Right Stuff, set to open in June 2025; and the Big Time Rush 2023 Can’t Get Enough Tour and 2024’s sold-out EU/UK and Australia/Asia Tours. Big Time Rush returned in 2022 after 9 years with sold out shows in the US and Mexico including stops at legendary venues such as Madison Square Garden. In 2022, Faculty produced the first-ever CHEER LIVEtour with stars from the Netflix series, are the long-time producers of the Dancing with the Stars: Live! Tour, and producers of Move Live on Tour (Derek Hough and Julianne Hough), Glee Live! In Concert!, America’s Got Talent Live!, American Idol Live!, and So You Think You Can Dance Live Tour. In 2017, Faculty and Paul created the acclaimed immersive pop-up art exhibit HAPPY PLACE, which started in Los Angeles before moving to locations across the US and Canada and most recently to Sydney, Australia and New Zealand. In 2023-2024, Faculty produced COCOMELON PARTY TIME an all-new, first-of-its-kind, kid-centric event centering on JJ, Cody & friends from the hugely popular children’s program CoComelon, the #2 most subscribed YouTube channel in the world with over 400 million views per month. Party Time has visited 28 cities thus far across the US and Canada entertaining thousands of families.
ABOUT BBC STUDIOS
The main commercial arm of BBC Commercial Ltd, BBC Studios generated revenues in the last year of ￡1.8 billion and a third consecutive year of profits of over ￡200 million. Able to take an idea seamlessly from thought to screen and beyond, the business is built on two operating areas: the Content Studio, which produces, invests and distributes content globally and Media & Streaming, with BBC branded channels, services including bbc.com and BritBox International and joint ventures in the UK and internationally. The business made more than 2,800 hours of award-winning British programmes last year for a wide selection of public service and commercial broadcasters and platforms, both in the UK and across the globe. Its content is internationally recognised across a broad range of genres and specialisms, and includes world-famous brands like Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars, the Planet series, Bluey and Doctor Who.
In the U.S, BBC Studios operates both a distribution business and one of its major production units. The production unit, based in Los Angeles, creates and produces adaptations of UK programs, as well as all new original programs, for linear and digital platforms in the U.S. This production unit is responsible for the phenomenally successful, Emmy?-winning Dancing with the Stars, the multi-award-winning Life Below Zero franchise, the popular reboot of the classic quiz show Weakest Link, the US version of the global sensation The 1% Club, the revved up Top Gear America, and the survival competition series Outlast. In scripted, the team has achieved success adapting British hits, including Ghosts, Call Me Kat (based on the UK format Miranda) and Welcome to Flatch (This Country in the UK) for top U.S. broadcast networks.
Mohegan Sun Arena, one of the busiest sports and entertainment venues in the world today, was awarded the 2024 Newsweek Readers’ Choice award for “Best Casino with Live Entertainment in America”. In 2021, the 10,000-seat Arena also received its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its size in the world from Pollstar and VenuesNow. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently recognized among the top five venues in the United States, and also in 2021 was named “Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency during the pandemic. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been named the “World’s Best Casino Venue,” by Best of Hartford Magazine, and is a seven-time national award winner for “Arena of the Year” by the Academy of Country Music Awards and G2E Las Vegas. For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
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