2009-10 Season: “Listen to the Music!”
Center stage series
A Community Christmas with the MCC Singers & Boston Brass
Friday, December 4, 2009 7:30pm
Tickets: $20/15
The MCC Singers, under the direction of Sarah Adams, team up with one of the world’s finest brass ensembles for their annual Christmas celebration. Boston Brass is setting new standards in entertainment. From exciting classical arrangements, to breathtaking vocal harmony, to burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance while treating audiences with a unique musical experience that captivates all ages. The ensemble's lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, bridges the vast ocean of classical formality to delight audiences to an evening of boisterous fun, exciting knowledge and an enthusiastic love of music, deftly exhibited by five brash brass players.
Sponsor: MultiCare with additional support provided by the Partners in Progress Endowment for the Arts
Church Basement Ladies Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:30pm, Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:00pm
Tickets: $30/25
This hilarious musical comedy is a celebration of the church basement kitchens everywhere and the wonderful, unsung women who work there. The script is dead-on, the music is toe tapping, the humor is delicious and the cast includes some of the funniest people we have ever assembled on our stage.
Sponsors: Don & Mary Susan Fishman and G. Herbert Pritchett & Associates
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:30pm
Tickets: main floor $25/balcony $20 Pilobolus Dance Theatre
began in 1971 as an outsider dance company, and quickly
became renowned the world over for its imaginative and athletic
exploration of creative collaboration. Pilobolus has been
featured, with great popularity, on broadcast media: in
2004, CBS’ 60 Minutes; in 2007, the Academy Awards,
and shortly thereafter, The Oprah Winfrey Show; and most
recently on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Sponsor:
Juanita Badgett Performing Arts Endowment
This presentation of Pilobolus Dance Theatre is an American Masterpieces project, supported by the Southern Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council. MetLife Foundation is the official tour sponsor of Pilobolus Dance Theatre.
Paducah Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:00pm
Tickets: $27/22 - Children 12 & under: Half-price The Glema Center is hosting the 2010 Southern Watercolor Society National Juried Exhibit. We will kick off this exhibit by presenting the Paducah Symphony Orchestra in a concert that celebrates the connections between music and visual art. Exhibit Reception begins at 6:30pm.
Sponsor: The Anne P. Baker Endowment for Sustained Excellence in the Arts The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports this performance by the Paducah Symphony Orchestra with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
An Evening with Amy Grant
Friday, April 23, 2010 7:30pm
Tickets: $59/54 Nearly 30 years ago Amy Grant began embracing fans with a heartfelt singer-songwriter style mixing elements of pop, folk and country. Contemporary Christian music's first major crossover success, she has to date earned three multi-platinum albums, six other platinum albums and four more gold albums; scored 10 Top 40 pop singles and 17 Top 40 Adult Contemporary tracks as well as a string of Contemporary Christian chart-toppers, and won six Grammy Awards plus numerous Dove Awards.
Sponsor: Trover Health System with additional support provided by the Partners in Progress Endowment for the Arts
Family Specials
The Children’s Nutcracker – presented by the Children’s Center for Dance Education
Friday, December 11, 2009 7:00pm
Tickets: $12/10 - Children 12 & under: half-price
Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet is performed by children for children. Children’s Center for Dance Education and local dancers celebrate this timeless classic. Auditions for local children will be held Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 2:00pm.
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Winstead with additional support from: Allen & Pam Rudd, Steve & Laurie Cox, and Ralph & Sue Mitchell
Seussical – presented by Theatreworks USA
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:00pm
Tickets: $12/10 Children 12 & under: half-price "Oh, the thinks you can think" when Dr. Seuss's best-loved stories collide and cavort in an unforgettable musical caper! The Cat in the Hat is the host and emcee (and all-around mischief-maker) in this romp through the Seuss classics.
Sponsor: In Memory of Katherine Nisbet by her Grandchildren & Backyard Burgers
First United Bank & Trust Coffeehouse Series
Tickets: $18 general admission seating
Beegie Adair Trio - jazz
Friday, November 6, 2009 7:30pm
Once in a while a musician comes along with impeccable technique, deep understanding of the jazz repertoire, an innate tendency to swing and the rare ability to communicate the heart and soul of a tune to listeners. That musician is Beegie Adair. (say B-G) About her music Adair says, "Falling in love with jazz is like falling in love with a person, except with jazz you never get over it." A sought-after studio musician in her early days, Adair accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash and also worked with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee.
The Brotherhood Singers – a capella gospel/rhythm & blues
Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:30pm
Based out of northern Kentucky, the Brotherhood Singers specialize in the intricate and emotional four-part harmony "jubilee" style pioneered by such legendary groups as the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Golden Gate Quartet and the Soul Stirrers. Additional funding for this performance is provided by the F.O. & Ernestine Baker Diversity Endowment.
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – new roots music
Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:30pm
Musically, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem serves up a jubilant and unabashed mix of traditional, original, and contemporary sounds. Arbo's beautiful, expressive alto is at the helm, with rich four-part harmonies, a 100% recycled drum set, fiddle, guitar, and bass. These artists draw their vintage American sounds and their incisive songwriting from the same deep well. In one show you might hear a pre civil war song from the Georgia Sea Islands sung over a New Orleans style groove or an old Irish fiddle tune with new lyrics, capped with a solo on a South American box drum.
Greg Schaber - blues
Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:30pm
In blues, there are some musicians who are happy to walk in the footsteps of the greats, content to recreate old recordings. Then there are others who, while honoring their musical ancestors, seek to make their own mark. Greg Schaber is firmly among the latter, a strikingly original singer, musician and composer who has found his own, unique voice in the blues. An accomplished, award-winning electric blues guitarist, for the past 15 years, the Kentucky native has increasingly focused his considerable talents on acoustic blues, in styles from deep Delta bottleneck guitar to the lighter, countrified finger picking of the North Carolina Piedmont.
Glema Mahr Chamber Music Series -
Tickets: $18 general admission seating
Trio Micheletti piano, cello, violin
Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:30pm (Date Change)
Trio Micheletti was recently awarded the Grand Prize at the “2009 Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America”. Brazilian cellist André Micheletti joins forces with last season’s audience favorites Canadian violinist Véronique Mathieu and Japanese pianist Jasmin Arakawa.
Diane Earle – piano/ harpsichord
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 7:30pm (New Date)
Dr. Diane Earle is a Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Communication and Fine Arts at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Diane has performed in seven countries and twenty-seven states. Recent performances have included Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, KET (Kentucky Educational Television), and China.
US Bank Community Theatre Series
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon - Dinner Theatre
Thursday – Saturday, November 19-21, 2009 6:30pm
Tickets: $25.00
Brighton Beach Memoirs is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower middle class circumstances. Eugene, the young Neil Simon, is the narrator and central character. His mind is full of fiercely fantasized dreams of baseball and dimly fantasized images of girls. The play captures a few days in the life of a struggling household that includes Eugene's hard working father, his sharp tongued mother, his older and vastly more experienced brother, his widowed aunt and her two young daughters. As Eugene's father says, "If you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't live in this house." It is a deeply appealing play that deftly mixes drama with comedy
PROUD SPONSORSHIP
Madisonville North Hopkins High School Music Department presents Dear Edwina - Book & Lyrics by Marcy Heisler; Music by Zina Goldrich
February 26 & 27, 2010, 7:00pm
February 28, 2010, 2:00pm
Tickets: Adults: $10 - All Students: $5
Thirteen year-old Edwina Spoonapple would do just about anything to be a part of the Kalamazoo Advice-a-palooza Festival. While her siblings both have proof "up on the fridge" of their accomplishments, poor Edwina has nothing. Come and see what Edwina conjures up!
PROUD SPONSORSHIP
Hopkins County Central High School Music Department presents Little Shop of Horrors - Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman; Music by Alan Menken
May 14 & 15, 2010, 7:00pm
May 16, 2010, 2:00pm
Tickets: Adults: $10 - All Students: $5
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
South Pacific - Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
July 16 & 17, 7 :00pm July 18, 2010, 2:00pm
Tickets: $15 Children 12 & under half price
Tickets: $15 Children 12 & under half price
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Come experience the magic of Rodgers & Hammerstein again for the first time! Permanent support for community theatre is provided by the J.B. & Kiel Moore Community Programs Endowment
