Category: 2017-18 Season

Songs of Freedom, April 5, 2018 Loeb Playhouse

Program Notes: Songs of Freedom

Under the direction of Grammy Award-winning drummer, Ulysses Owens Jr., the 1960’s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. To effectively deliver this vast repertoire, the program features vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, and Joanna Majoko.

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Promotional image for The Wizard of Oz at Elliott Hall of Music on April 28, showing ruby slippers on a yellow brick road, surrounded by green fog, with the title in gold letters.

Click your heels three times…The Ruby Slippers

Each pair of ruby slippers is estimated at a value of $1.5 million, making them the most expensive Hollywood memorabilia known. They have been dubbed by some as "The Holy Grail" of all Hollywood nostalgia.  Despite their incredible fame, the...
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Four actors dressed as the Scarecrow, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz smile and walk arm-in-arm on a colorful stage with an orange sunburst background, capturing the magic of the Wizard Of Oz movie.

The Phenomenon of The Wizard Of Oz

"For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return...
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Orlando Consort, Feb. 23, St. Thomas Aquinas

The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)

Program for Orlando Consort: Voices Appeared Silent Cinema and Medieval Music The Passion of Joan of Arc February 23, 2018 / St. Thomas Aquinas VOICES APPEARED: SOUND AND VISIONS BY DONALD GREIG Voices Appeared is Jeanne d’Arc’s gnomic explanation of...
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A stylized grand piano on an orange background with scattered piano keys. The lid features the text: A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder, inspired by Darko Tresnjak’s vision, in decorative fonts.

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”

When the Tony Awards were handed out in June of 2014, the stylishly comic musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, took home four trophies, including the biggest: Best Musical. “It was the most incredible thing,” says author Robert...
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Two actors in period costumes from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder raise mugs joyfully on a decorated stage, while a third actor stands as bartender behind a bar set with shelves of bottles in the background.

Q&A with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” writers Steven Lutvak and Robert Freedman

https://live-convocations.pantheonsite.io/event/gentlemans-guide-love-murder/ I just wanted to talk to you about the whole process of putting Gentleman’s Guide up on Broadway and winning the Tony Award.  As they say in Sound of Music, let’s start at the very beginning.  How did you...
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A group of actors in elaborate period costumes pose dramatically around a dinner table on stage, all with surprised expressions and raised hands, in a scene from A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder, directed by Darko Tresnjak.

Q&A with “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder” director, Darko Tresnjak

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the show and I think it’s quite safe to say that a great deal of the success of the show is in the staging and just the absolute fun of it. Why don’t we start with...
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Five people perform onstage in vintage-style clothing, suggesting a civil rights movement–themed performance. Black-and-white mugshots of young men appear behind them, evoking the Freedom Riders as guitar, upright bass, and vocals fill this family matinee.

“Freedom Riders” family matinee explores one of the most critical chapters of the civil rights movement

Freedom Riders is the newest play from Mad River Theater Works. It explores valiant and courageous personalities behind one of the most critical chapters in the history of the civil rights movement, the freedom riders.

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Jiji, guitar

Program Notes: Jiji, guitar

Jiji is an award-winning guitarist from South Korea. Her repertoire includes classical sonatas and electronically tinged soundscapes from her own works as a performer and DJ.

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wild Up: Future Folk

Pre-Concert Reflection: wild Up’s FUTURE FOLK

What is folk music? Purdue instructional developer Daniel Guberman discusses the evolution of folk from Lomax’s field recordings to the instant gratification of the 21st century.

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wild Up band

What’s your FUTURE FOLK name?

wild Up creates a communal concert of sound/noise/experience by merging the old-world with the modern era. What does FUTURE FOLK mean to you?

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Sally Bowles and cast from Cabaret

Behind the scenes of Cabaret

Learn how the talented actors & musicians in Cabaret are one in the same. Go behind the scenes first, then reserve your seat at the Kit Kat Club January 11.

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