Natalie Cole officially kicks off the 2013-2014 season at Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center with a concert on Oct. 11, 2013.
But the entertainment already is shifting into high gear, with a summer calendar that includes Emmylou Harris, Yes, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Todd Rundgren and hometown hero Robert Randolph.
More than 120 acts stretching through June 2014 were announced on Wednesday.
Theater productions include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Green Day’s American Idiot. Entertainers run the gamut from Michael Bolton and Clint Black to Itzhak Perlman, Jason Alexander and Jim Belushi.
There is even an adult-only improv puppet show from the Henson company. (Behave yourself, Kermit!)
Tickets for most of these performances (below, marked by an asterisk) go on sale on June 24, 2013; see www.mayoarts.org or call 973-539-8008 for details.
By the end of this summer, MPAC expects construction to be completed on its new box office, new restrooms and an elevator to the balcony.
Here is the lineup, which is subject to changes and additions:
July 2013
7/10 *Boz Scaggs / Michael McDonald
7/12 *Emmylou Harris / Rodney Crowell
7/17 *Bob Saget
7/18 *John Kay & Steppenwolf
7/24 *The Fixx & Wang Chung
7/25 *Yes
7/26 *Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn
7/30 *Anthony Salazar Magic (10:30 am)
7/31 *Happy Together Tour 2013
August 2013
8/7 *Todd Rundgren
8/8 *Robert Randolph
8/13 *Sail Rock 2013
8/16 *The Mavericks
8/23 *Cheap Trick
September 2013
9/11 *Queen Extravaganza
9/13 *Don Felder
9/14 Kenny Loggins
9/21 *Jay Black
9/26 Potted Potter
9/27 *Tower of Power / War
9/28 *The Waterboys
October 2013
10/3 *Celtic Thunder: Mythology (7:30 pm)
10/4 *Michael W. Smith
10/5 An Evening with Jason Alexander and His Hair
10/6: Rufus Wainwright
10/10 Spank! The 50 Shades Parody
10/11 Natalie Cole
10/13 Angelina Ballerina (1:30 pm/4 pm)
10/16 *Diana Krall
10/17 *Patrizio Buanne
10/18 *Kathleen Madigan
10/26 Madeleine Peyroux
10/29 Starlight on Stage (7:30 pm)
November 2013
11/1 *Ralphie May
11/8 Air Supply
11/9 Hello Dolly!
11/10 Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell (1:30 pm/4 pm)
11/14 Clint Black
11/15 Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
11/16 Itzhak Perlman
11/21: Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby
11/22 *Linda Eder
11/23 Manhattan Comedy Night
11/24 Swingin’ The Benny Goodman Songbook (3 pm)
11/29 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
December 2013
12/1 Mooseltoe (1:30 pm/4 pm)
12/3 The Brian Setzer Orchestra
12/6 The Irish Tenors
12/7 Darlene Love
12/13-24 NJ Ballet’s Nutcracker (times vary)
January 2014
1/4 Gallagher’s Last Smash
1/5 Sing-A-Long Grease (3 pm)
1/10 Sylvia Browne
1/11 Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam
1/12 Fancy Nancy (11 am/1:30 pm/4 pm)
1/17 Million Dollar Quartet
1/18 Million Dollar Quartet (3 pm/8 pm)
1/21 Starlight on Stage (7:30 pm)
1/24 Manhattan Comedy Night
1/25 Don McLean/Judy Collins
1/26 Dinosaur Train Live! (1:30 pm/4:30 pm)
1/31 Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
February 2014
2/1 Guitar Passions
2/7 Bobby Collins
2/8 Masters of Illusion (7:30 pm)
2/9 Pinkalicious (11 am/1:30 pm/4 pm)
2/13 Green Day’s American Idiot
2/14 Forbidden Broadway
2/15 Jim Brickman: The Love Tour
2/21 Michael Bolton
2/22 Sarah Chang
2/27 Deepak Chopra (7:30 pm)
2/28 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (7 pm)
March 2014
3/1 Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1 pm/7 pm)
3/3 Charlotte’s Web (4 pm)
3/7 Tangos: Stars of Forever Tango
3/8 Golden Dragon Acrobats (3 pm/7:30 pm)
3/9 Hanover Wind Symphony (3 pm)
3/13 The Irish Rovers
3/14 Cesar Millan Live
3/18 Starlight on Stage (7:30 pm)
3/19 Rock of Ages
3/20 Spyro Gyra
3/21 Puppet Up!
3/22 Natalie Merchant
3/25 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (4 pm)
3/27 Keb’ Mo’
3/28 Tao: Phoenix Rising
3/29 Jim Belushi and the Chicago Board of Comedy
April 2014
4/2 Are You My Mother? (4 pm)
4/8 ErthTM: Dinosaur Zoo (4 pm)
4/11 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
4/12 Broadway Showstoppers
4/13 The Ugly Duckling (1:30 pm/4 pm)
4/17 Rich Little: Jimmy Stewart & Friends
4/25 The Ten Tenors “On Broadway”
4/26 Drew Carey
4/27 Sid the Science Kid (1:30 pm/4:30 pm)
May / June 2014
5/1 MOMIX: Botanica
5/2 Bring It On
5/4 Joan Rivers (7 pm)
5/9 Tap Factory
5/10 Tito Puente, Jr.
5/15 Neil Sedaka
5/16 Manhattan Comedy Night
5/17 NJ Ballet: Ballet on Broadway
5/18 NJ Ballet: Cinderella (1:30 pm/4 pm)
6/6 Richard Nader’s Doo Wop Show