Center for the Performing Arts 2005-2006 tickets go on sale Sept. 8
September 20, 2005
Individual-performance tickets for Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma!, Sir James Galway, The Banjo Summit featuring Béla Fleck and the other 24 events in the Center for the Performing Arts 2005ˆ2006 season go on sale Thursday, Sept. 8, to the general public. The season of professional touring musical theater, classical music, dance, drama, jazz/new age music, world/roots music and family presentations takes place September through April in Eisenhower and Schwab auditoriums on the Penn State University Park campus.
To buy tickets, visit www.cpa.psu.edu or phone 814-863-0255. Outside the local calling area, dial 1-800-ARTS-TIX. Tickets are also available at Eisenhower Auditorium, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; Penn State Tickets Downtown, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; HUB-Robeson Center Information Desk, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays; and Bryce Jordan Center, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The season includes two performances each of the touring Broadway musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie and Oklahoma!. In addition to Fleck, The Banjo Summit features pickin‚ greats Seamus Egan (leader of the band Solas), Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka and Buddy Wachter.
Classical music enthusiasts can hear flutist and conductor Galway with the Polish Chamber Orchestra and flutist Lady Jeanne Galway, pianist and conductor Philippe Entremont with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Brass, Tokyo String Quartet with pianist Joan Panetti, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, Aulos Ensemble, baritone Keith Phares, Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Beaux Arts Trio.
The Billie Holiday tribute Billie & Me features Grammy® Award winners Dianne Reeves and Rita Coolidge plus Joan Osborne, Fontella Bass and Rokia Traoré. Other jazz concerts include the Maria Schneider Orchestra, winner of the 2005 Grammy® for best large ensemble recording, plus singer Stacey Kent and the Marian McPartland Trio, Jazz at Lincoln Center‚s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O‚Farrill and the Windham Hill Winter Solstice Tour featuring Barbara Higbie, Liz Story and Tracy Silverman.
Dance performances include the physical spectacles of Los Angeles-based Diavolo, Spain‚s Ballet Flamenco José Porcel, North Carolina Dance Theatre in The Nutcracker and Moscow‚s Russian National Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty.
L.A. Theatre Works, the country‚s leading radio theater company, performs The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial with a cast starring Edward Asner, James Cromwell and Marsha Mason. The play, based on the transcripts of the famous 1925 Scopes trial about the teaching of evolution versus creationism, is presented in a radio-theater format. The Civilians, one of downtown Manhattan‚s most admired new theater companies, performs Gone Missing. Equal parts documentary and musical cabaret, Gone Missing explores the impact of losing people and things.
Family-friendly performances include Japanese drummers Wadaiko Yamato, Dallas Children‚s Theater in The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fair(l)y stoopid Tales, Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co., and The Pipes, Drums and Highland Dancers of the First Battalion, The Black Watch, and the Band of the Welsh Guards.
CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 2005-2006 EVENTS
Performances are in Eisenhower Auditorium unless indicated as being in Schwab Auditorium (SA).
Artists, programs, dates and times are subject to change.
Tokyo String Quartet and Joan Panetti, pianist
7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 22 (SA)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 27
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 28
Diavolo
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 12
Philippe Entremont, pianist and conductor, with the Munich Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 26
David Finckel, cellist, and Wu Han, pianist
7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 3 (SA)
Ballet Flamenco José Porcel
7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 10
Wadaiko Yamato
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 15
Billie & Me
Featuring Fontella Bass, Rita Coolidge, Joan Osborne, Dianne Reeves and Rokia Traoré
Musical direction by Terri Lyne Carrington
8 p.m. Friday, November 18
The Nutcracker
North Carolina Dance Theatre
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 29
The Pipes, Drums and Highland Dancers of the First Battalion, The Black Watch,
and the Band of the Welsh Guards
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 11
Windham Hill Winter Solstice Tour
Featuring Barbara Higbie, Liz Story and Tracy Silverman
8 p.m. Saturday, January 21
Aulos Ensemble
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 24 (SA)
Maria Schneider Orchestra
8 p.m. Friday, January 27
L.A. Theatre Works
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Starring Edward Asner, James Cromwell and Marsha Mason
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 7 (SA)
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 8 (SA)
Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co.
2 p.m. Sunday, February 12
Oklahoma!
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 15
7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 16
Keith Phares, baritone
2 p.m. Sunday, February 19 (SA)
Canadian Brass
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 22
Sir James Galway, flutist and conductor, with the Polish Chamber Orchestra
and Lady Jeanne Galway, flutist
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14
An Evening with Stacey Kent and the Marian McPartland Trio
7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16
Gone Missing
The Civilians
8 p.m. Saturday, March 18 (SA)
HMS Pinafore
Carl Rosa Opera
8 p.m. Saturday, March 25
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fair(l)y (stoopid) Tales
Dallas Children‚s Theater
2 p.m. Sunday, March 26
Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30 (SA)
The Sleeping Beauty
Russian National Ballet
8 p.m. Friday, March 31
Jazz at Lincoln Center‚s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O‚Farrill
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5
The Banjo Summit
Featuring Béla Fleck, Seamus Egan, Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka and Buddy Wachter
8 p.m. Saturday, April 8
Beaux Arts Trio
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20 (SA)
Contact: Laura Sullivan (814) 863-6379