2024 Convos Holiday Gifts Buying Guide
Purdue Convocations offers a diverse lineup of performances for Spring 2025, making it easy to give unique holiday gifts to friends and family. Here’s a curated guide with something for everyone on your holiday gift shopping list.
Spring 2025 Events
Powerful Black Storytelling:
Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones: Excerpts in Concert
January 21, 2025, at 7:00 pm
Loeb Playhouse / FREE (tickets required)
Experience excerpts from Terence Blanchard’s acclaimed opera – the first Black opera performed at The Met – blending jazz and classical elements to tell the powerful story based on Charles M. Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones. This FREE gift to the community is the featured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Event presented by Purdue’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, powered by Purdue Convocations.
Iconic jazz band playing the classics:
Mingus Big Band
January 24, 2025, at 8:00 pm
Loeb Playhouse
Celebrate the legacy of jazz legend Charles Mingus with this dynamic ensemble, renowned for their energetic performances. Featured headliner of the 2025 Purdue Jazz Festival.
Hit Broadway musical with inspiration from the New Orleans French Quarter:
Hadestown
February 6, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Elliott Hall of Music
Hadestown intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
Broadway hit based on the classic 90s movie:
Pretty Woman: The Musical
February 20, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Elliott Hall of Music
Based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, Pretty Woman springs to life with a powerhouse creative team led by two-time Tony Award®-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde) and features an original score by Grammy® winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance (“Summer of ’69”, “Heaven”).
Shakespeare’s classic tale presented by 5 Actors From The London Stage:
Hamlet
February 28 – March 1, 2025, various times
Loeb Playhouse
A fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, exploring themes of revenge, madness, and political intrigue.
The musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake:
Chicago
April 3, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Elliott Hall of Music
A universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen.
Celebrate 300 years of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons:
Les Arts Florissants with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Violin
April 10, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Loeb Playhouse
Baroque superstars Les Arts Florissants are joined by fast-rising violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte in “Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300,” commemorating the work’s original publication in 1725. The program frames these iconic masterpieces afresh, setting them alongside music Vivaldi would have known in Venice and compositions which were in turn inspired by his bold vision.
Great Holiday Gifts: Tickets, Gift Subscriptions, and Gift Cards
During November and December, Friends of Convos receive 1 BONUS Priority Seating Point for every $50 in gift cards purchased—a win-win! BUY NOW
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Single Tickets: Purchase individual tickets for any of the above performances to delight friends or family with a specific show.
PICK5+ Subscription: For those who appreciate variety, consider the PICK5+ package, which offers savings when selecting five or more shows.
Gift Cards: Allow recipients to choose their preferred performances by gifting a Purdue Convocations gift card. Friends of Convos receive 1 Bonus Priority Seating Point for every $50 gift card purchased through December 31, 2024. BUY NOW
- Gift Cards should be treated as CASH
- They must be picked up and redeemed at the Stewart Center Box Office ONLY
- NOTE: to ensure your gift is ready for the holidays, please VISIT or CALL the box office by December 19, 2024 / Phone 765-494-3933
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Holiday Gifts are Easy with Purdue Convocations
Online: Visit the Purdue Convocations Tickets page to buy tickets or gift cards.
By Phone: Call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 6 pm (10 am – 4 pm during summer and Purdue breaks).
NOTE: To ensure PAPER TICKETS or GIFT CARDS are ready for the holidays, please VISIT or CALL the box office by 4PM, Thursday, December 19, 2024.
In Person: Stop by the Stewart Center Box Office at 128 Memorial Mall, West Lafayette, IN.
For the most current information on events and ticket availability, please refer to the Purdue Convocations Events page.