DESCRIPTIONS & FLIERS
Jersey Boys*
Victoria Theatre Association • Schuster Center
“Too good to be true!” raves the New York Post for JERSEY BOYS, the 2006 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide–all before they were 30! JERSEY BOYS, winner of the 2006 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album and most recently, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
* High School Only
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Wicked
Victoria Theatre Association • Schuster Center
Back by “Popular” demand. Entertainment Weekly calls WICKED “the best musical of the decade,” and when it first played Dayton in 2010, it broke box office records. Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy® and three Tony® Awards, WICKED is Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon and was just named “the defining musical of the decade” by The New York Times. WICKED is the story of the witches of Oz a thrilling reimagining of the classic story adored by millions around the globe.
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Les Misérables
Victoria Theatre Association • Schuster Center
Dream the dream. Cameron Mackintosh presents a brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical, LES MISÉRABLES, with glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records wherever it goes. The New York Times calls this LES MISÉRABLES “an unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish.” NY1-TV proclaims “musical theatre fans can rejoice: Les Miz is born again.”
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La Bohème
Dayton Opera • Schuster Center
Puccini’s beautiful score has made this poignant tragedy the most performed and most popular opera in the world. LA BOHÈME has been the best first opera, the best date opera, and, for many, the best opera. The passion, beauty and fragility of young love come vividly to life in Puccini’s masterpiece that has enchanted generations of opera-lovers. This is an opera to be seen again and again!
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Romeo and Juliet
Dayton Opera • Schuster Center
This universal story has been adapted in countless plays and films, in popular culture and in dance, but perhaps no medium better expresses the love, longing and ultimate tragedy of this fated pair than Gounod’s supreme opera. Sweeping romanticism from beginning to untimely end!
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Wizard of OZ with Orchestra
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra • Schuster Center
Ever wonder why Dorothy, her three faithful companions, the Wicked Witch and the Wizard seem as fresh, real and endearing as the day this magical film hit the theaters in 1939? Mark it down to the combination of brilliant casting, the advent of color movies, a wonderful script adaptation of a beloved children’s story, a landmark performance from a singer who would go on to make musical history, and, above all, the music and lyrics of Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg. It was the perfect union of these factors and many others that produced a motion picture that has defined the concept of “timeless.” Don’t miss this wonderful blend of Hollywood’s best with the live sound of a full orchestra.
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Music of Queen – A Rock & Symphonic Spectacular
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra • Schuster Center
With over four decades of music and 18 number one albums to their credit, Queen is recognized as one of the most influential British rock bands of all time. The year 2008 saw the creation of a new show: MUSIC OF QUEEN – A ROCK & SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR. It features a full rock band and stars from the London West End smash hit musical “We Will Rock You”. With over seventy performers on stage this is one of the biggest rock shows on earth, featuring: “A Kind of Magic,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “We Are The Champions,” “Somebody To Love,” “Who Wants To Live Forever,” “Killer Queen,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “I Want It All,” and many more. In fact, you’ll hear all of Queen’s classic hits.
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Sons of Russia
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra • Schuster Center
Three magnificent Russian works make up a varied April classical program. Jessica Hung, DPO Concertmaster, takes the solo spotlight for the Prokofiev Concerto. Rimsky-Korsakov’s celebratory overture opens the evening and the intense Pathétique closes.
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Caroline or Change
The Human Race Theatre Company • The Loft Theatre
It’s America in 1963, with the turmoil of the JFK assassination and the civil rights movement. In a Jewish household in Louisiana, the divorced African-American maid and the eight-year old family son have their own worries and relationship. Virtually sung-through, in styles ranging from Motown to Yiddish Klezmer, CAROLINE OR CHANGE brings together the incredible talents of Kushner (Angels in America) and Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) to create a multi-Tony-nominated show that is about both major issues of the nation and personal issues of the household, and how they interact.
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Gem of the Ocean
The Human Race Theatre Company • The Loft Theatre
Each of the ten plays in the late August Wilson’s famed “Pittsburgh Cycle” covers a different decade of the 1900s in an urban African-American neighborhood, and Gem, while the next-to-last written, is the first chronologically. It’s set in 1904, an age when slavery no longer exists but oppression remains all too real, and where the problems of the residents seem overwhelming. At the core of the story is Aunt Ester, whose 285 years of life include a journey to America on a slave ship, and who uses her experiences to bring moral guidance to new generations.
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The Haunted Series: Jekyll and Hyde/Sleepy Hollow
Dayton Ballet • Schuster Center
Dayton Ballet’s new Artistic Director, Karen Russo Burke begins the season with a haunting world premiere of SLEEPY HOLLOW. In addition, HYDING INSIDE returns with its critically acclaimed depiction of man’s inner struggle between good and evil. Loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, HYDING INSIDE explores the depths of the human psyche in this thrilling and mystifying story.
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The Nutcracker
Dayton Ballet • Schuster Center
Infused with a splash of Dayton history, Dayton Ballet’s annual production of THE NUTCRACKER has become a cherished holiday tradition for countless families and friends in the Miami Valley. Over 100 local children participate alongside the Dayton Ballet Company, sharing the beloved story of a young Virginia “Jinny” Weiffenbach (Kettering), a magical nutcracker, scurrying little mice and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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Hairspray
Wright State University • Festival Playhouse in the WSU Creative Arts Center
It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire – to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her newfound power to vanquish the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network – all without denting her ‘do! Don’t miss HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As The New York Times says, “If life were everything it should be, it would be more like HAIRSPRAY. It’s irresistible!”
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The Phantom of the Opera
Wright State University • Festival Playhouse in the WSU Creative Arts Center
Far beneath the majesty and splendor of the Paris Opera House, hides the Phantom in a shadowy existence. Shamed by his physical appearance and feared by all, the love he holds for his beautiful protégée Christine Daaé is so strong that even her heart cannot resist. Wright State’s production will mark the regional premiere of the show that continues to captivate audiences all over the world after more than 10,000 performances. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mesmerizing score along with jaw-dropping scenery and breathtaking special effects, magically combine to bring this tragic love story to life.
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Familiar Crossings
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) • Centennial Hall at Stivers School for the Arts
Nationally acclaimed and Dayton–based visual artist Bing Davis will collaborate with world-renowned DCDC for this special concert event. Long before “collaborations” became a buzzword among performing arts organizations, Mr. Davis partnered with DCDC when company founder Jeraldyne Blunden was at the helm. Continuing an innovative tradition, Mr. Davis and DCDC will come together again to create an exciting amalgam of dance and visual art.
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Genticorum
Cityfolk • Centennial Hall at Stivers School for the Arts
The fast-rising Canadian band Genticorum is a Québécois acoustic power trio with a distinctive sound that is at once both ancient and modern—what Sing Out calls “a very full and glorious noise, both instrumentally and vocally.” The charismatic young group (Pascal Gemme, Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand, Yann Falquet) has captivated audiences in 15 countries with its fresh take on traditional European and North American folk music that combines precise and intricate fiddle and flute work, songs sung in French, gorgeous vocal harmonies, energetic foot percussion and the characteristic and irrepressible joie de vivre that’s at the heart of Québécois music.
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Wizard of OZ (Muse Machine Musical)
Muse Machine • Victoria Theatre
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