The 2009-2010 PAS is underway! Kicking off the season with 100 Years Of Broadway (and two standing ovations) the Series has something for everyone! All events are available for purchase as part of a
discounted subscription package (starting with as few as six events). Single event tickets are available for Fall events through Natalie MacMaster now. 2010 events will be available on a single ticket basis starting on November 30.
The events are as follows:
9.26.09 @ 7:30pm Karla BonoffKarla Bonoff's 1977 debut, Karla Bonoff released by CBS, was an immediate critical success. Containing brilliant self-written songs like Home and Someone To Lay Down Beside Me, Karla's songs and beautiful voice heralded the arrival of a major talent. Her profile was further raised when Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt chose to cover her songs.
10.12.09 @ 7:30pm Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company The renowned folk dance ensemble named after Pavlo Virsky is famous for its bright colors, the unity of content and form and the vivid embodiment of its stage concept. This magnificent artistic group has embraced the beauty of its native Ukraine, the wisdom of its people as well as the folk tradition of humor and optimism.
10.21.09 @ 7:30pm The White Ghost ShiversImagine a smorgasbord of Cab Calloway, circus sideshow, KISS, cabaret, Hee Haw and Robert Johnson served up at Andy Kaufman’s bat-mitzvah. A joyous mixture of the absurd and sublime, the eight-piece ensemble gracefully blends a musical amalgam of Hokum Blues, Hillbilly Swing, Country and Hot Jazz. White Ghost Shivers won best “Novelty” band at the 2007 Austin Music Awards, and placed in six other categories, including best Jazz, Bluegrass, Experimental, None of the Above, Female Vocals(Cella Blue), and Horns(Jonathan Doyle).
11.12-13.09 @ 7:30pm RUNT OF THE LITTER Written and performed by Bo Eason and directed by Larry Moss, RUNT OF THE LITTER opens in the final hour of Jack Henry's lifelong dream, only one thing stands in his way -- his brother. The play looks at what happens to two brothers in a family of over-achievers: when their parents assure their oldest son he is destined for football superstardom, and tell their youngest son he is too small to compete, a line in the family sand is drawn that colors the rest of their lives. Runt of the Litter is, in fact, a semiautobiographical account of Bo Eason's life and career as a defensive back for the Houston Oilers in the 1980s, where he played safety. His determination and killer instincts on the playing field remain the stuff of legend. His brother, Tony Eason was the quarterback who led the New England Patriots to the Super Bowl in 1986.
11.21.09 @ 2pm & 8pm Cirque Le Masque Cirque le masque has captured audiences worldwide with sold out shows and standing ovations and has enjoyed a rich history of productions ranging from NBC live to Atlantic city, Foxwoods Casino, Las Vegas and many more. Cirque Le Masque has achieved the perfect blend of live theatrical entertainment and cutting edge special effects that is pleasing and exciting to audiences of all ages.
12.1.09 @ 7:30pm Natalie MacMaster Christmas ShowWith a talent that remains both raw and wondrously refined, and backed by a band any top musician would be proud of, Natalie MacMaster has grown to become the musical face of Atlantic Canada, and continuously stuns crowds around the globe with her feverish fiddling and mesmerizing step dancing. Her UWP Performance will mark the US DEBUT of her annual Christmas shows that has played to packed houses across her native Canada each year.
2.2.10 @ 7:30pm I Musici de Montréal
I Musici de Montréal is a string orchestra founded 1983 in Montreal. Comprising 15 musicians selected among graduates of McGill University, University of Montreal and Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, I Musici was founded by its conductor, Yuli Torovsky. Although it recorded as an ensemble before it appeared in concert, it gave its inaugural concert 8 November 1984 at Redpath Hall, McGill University.
2.5.10 @ 7:30pm The Matt Wilson Quartet
The innovative and exciting Matt Wilson Quartet will be the featured artists for the annual UWP Jazz Festival. This continues the ongoing partnership started in the 08-09 season with the PAS sponsoring opening night of the festival. Led by percussionist Matt Willson, the quintet strives for an accessible but innovative sound.
2.10.10 @ 7:30pm The Wisconsin Brass Quintet
Founded in 1972, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet is ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. The brass chamber music experience of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet is nationally recognized.
3.6.10 @ 7:30pm The Punch Brothers
They’re like a classical string quintet with bluegrass instrumentation, original songs and varied covers, and they’re very interesting, unique and talented. Chris Thile (pronounced: THEE-LEE rhymes with steely) originally from Nickel Creek is the band leader and mandolin player.
3.7.10 @ 3pm & 8pm Hairspray
Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical-comedy phenomenon takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, as 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad sets out to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams - and even bigger hair! - change the world . . . and still have time to win the boy she loves? This mega-hit is piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance - and enough deliriously tuneful new songs to fill a nonstop platter-party. It's the winner of eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
3.21.10 @ 3pm & 8pm The Wedding Singer
In The Wedding Singer its 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party, until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding he plays as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. Only trouble is Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of the decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. With a brand new score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980’s, The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer just might be the coolest guy in the room.
4.15.10 @ 7:30pm The Blanks (Ted’s Band)
The Blanks, a quartet of friends who like to sing a cappella music. For a few years now they’ve been appearing on the television show Scrubs as 'Ted's Band' where, as luck would have it, they pretend to be a quartet of friends who like to sing a cappella music. They’ve put out a CD, and they do live shows, where you can see them singing TV and movie themes such as "Charles in Charge" and the "Superman March." They also do songs with talking toys, that's right, four grown men who still play with dolls/action figures.
4.25.10 @ 3pm The Chris Norman Ensemble
With flutes, pipes, guitar, mandolin, mandola, harmonium, bass, percussion, drums & vocals, the Chris Norman Ensemble reaches across five centuries of traditional, renaissance and baroque music with a range of energetic programs.At the heart of the group is Chris Norman, whose brilliant and imaginative flute playing has contributed to groups as diverse as the The Baltimore Consort, Skyedance, Helicon, Chatham Baroque, Concerto Caledonia, as well as Hollywood soundtracks and seven solo recordings.
The CFA is hitting the road again!
