- Madison Scouters for Equality to hold vigil
- Trinity Ministries welcomes everyone!
- On the Road to Marriage Equality by Perfect Harmony Men's Chorus
- Proud Theater to hold joint performances of all 3 Wisconsin chapters
- Queer Shorts 8!
- Disability Pride Madison Kick-Off Event!
- Fair Wisconsin Statement on Minnesota Senate Vote for Marriage Equality
- Meghan Roed joins Law Center for Children and Families as new associate
Young Auditorium (Whitewater) Announces 20th Anniversary Season
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The 2012-13 Season marks Young Auditorium's 20th year of bringing "artstanding" performing arts to the region! Season tickets are on sale now.
The 2012-13 Young Auditorium Season is as follows:
The Secret Garden - Missoula Children’s Theatre
Saturday, August 18, 2012 – 2:00 pm
$13/$11/$9
Bring your children or grandchildren to be a part of The Secret Garden, an original Missoula Children’s Theatre musical that is a joyful story of hope, celebration and all good things in life. Mistress Mary Quite Contrary journeys from India to her uncle’s home in England. Along the way she befriends hilarious Canadian Geese and colorful Giant Bugs that Rock! She learns to appreciate everything around her, including the Moor Animals and the helpful Fireflies. Soon the garden blooms again with love and nurturing, and so do the 50-60 local children that participate in the wonderful week of auditions, rehearsals and performance with Missoula Children’s Theatre. Auditions, Monday, August 13, 4-6 pm Ages 5-18. Call Shannon (262) 472-1432 for more information.
Young Auditorium & Cultural Affairs Presents
Delhi 2 Dublin & Rana Santacruz
Thursday, September 13, 2012 • 7:30 PM
FREE - Tickets Required
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.delhi2dublin.com/
www.ranasantacruz.com/html/
Combine Indian drums and sitars of the subcontinent with driving Irish fiddle and toe-tapping Celtic progressions, while keeping the dynamics fluid with bhangra world beat soundscapes and you’ve got
Delhi 2 Dublin. Their music is a fusion of Delhi and Dublin, a mix of Bhangra, hip hop and Celtic – performed with electric sitar, Celtic fiddle, electronic mixing, reggae, Punjabi and English vocals and Indian percussion. Take a wild and borderless trip with their global sounds!
Rana Santacruz kicks off the evening with Mexican Ranchero music, a joyful combination of horns, stringed instruments, banjo and accordion with peppy vocals. "Rana Santacruz . . . runs a wildly eclectic gamut from rancheras to rock, bluegrass to mariachi, nueva cancion to Irish music."
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Thursday, September 27, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19 – UW-W Students FREE – Tickets Required
Rooted in a deeply held commitment to create music out of the rich textures of African American legacy and traditions, Sweet Honey In The Rock possesses a stunning vocal prowess that captures the complex sounds of Blues, spirituals, traditional gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants, Hip Hop, ancient lullabies, and jazz improvisation. Sweet Honey’s collective voice, occasionally accompanied by hand percussion instruments, produces a sound filled with soulful harmonies and intricate rhythms.
Hotel California – A Salute to the Eagles
Saturday, October 6, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
Music is the soundtrack to our lives and The Eagles music has scored the memories of so many. Hotel California reproduces the sound of The Eagles studio recordings and brings the energy and magic of their music to life! Five multi-talented music industry professionals bring you a classic sound that transcends the boundaries of Rock, R&B and Country in A Salute to the Eagles.
Bramblett Chamber Series & Cultural Affairs Present
Turtle Island Quartet - Have You Ever Been...?
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:30 pm
$24
SoundBites – 6:30 pm - Bramblett Reception
http://turtleislandquartet.com
Turtle Island Quartet will be performing the innovative program Have You Ever Been? – The music of Jimi Hendrix and David Balakrishnan. Through their exploration of jazz, classical, American vernacular and world music styles, the Turtle Island Quartet (TIQ) has taken its audiences on a journey through many musical genres, eras, and places. Now the two time GRAMMY®-winning quartet ventures to Electric Ladyland, tackling works by legendary guitarist, songwriter and performer Jimi Hendrix, inspired by Hendrix’s music and TIQ founder David Balakrishnan’s new composition Tree of Life. This is not your Papa’s starched string quartet program; TIQ has a definite wow factor!
Vince- The Life and Times of Vince Lombardi
Starring John Pinero
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 16 & 17, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
Dinner - Oct 16 only in Kachel Center 6 pm
Packer Fans this is your show! John Pinero is Vince Lombardi! The legendary coach’s spirit and fire live on in this amazing one-man-play. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote, “This is the stage incarnation of Vince Lombardi, brought to you with impeccable care by actor John Pinero,” and the Green Bay Press Gazette declared, “Vince packs a lot into less than two hours. Pinero did his homework, and then some.” Be inspired by this amazing story!
Cultural Affairs & Contemporary Issues Present
Cyrano de Bergerac – Aquila Theatre
Tuesday, October 23, 2012- 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.baylinartists.com/artist/
Unrequited love is one of the most devastating ailments especially when you have one huge problem – your nose! Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is one of the most famous romantic adventures in world literature. Cyrano secretly loves the beautiful Roxanne, but feels unworthy of her due to his huge nose, so instead helps the handsome Christian woo her with eloquent courtship, love letters and poetry. See how this heart wrenching, funny and poignant tale unfolds!
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
Cultural Affairs Presents
Taming of the Shrew – Aquila Theatre
Wednesday, October 24, 2012- 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.baylinartists.com/artist/
The battle of the sexes heats up in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew when Petruchio sets out to marry and tame Katherina. The beautiful younger sister Bianca cannot marry until after Katherina does, and given her temper and acerbic wit all suitors are frightened off. That is until Petruchio comes along. When the dust settles it’s up to you to decide who tamed whom? “. . . eclectically entertaining. . .” –The New York Times
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
Cultural Affairs & Contemporary Issues Present
The Secret History of Love – Sean Dorsey Dance
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
Post Show Q & A
From 1920’s speakeasies to outrageous 1940’s love affairs, from police raids to passionate love letters, from personal ads to the internet, the love that dared not speak its name emerges from buried history into an explosive full-bodied dance. After two years of extensive archival research and recorded oral history of interviews with LGBTQ elders, the award-winning Sean Dorsey has created a full-length production entitled The Secret History of Love. “. . . words and gestures drenched with the kind of raw honesty that’s made Dorsey an artistic force to reckon with” - SF Weekly
The presentation of The Secret History of Love was made possible by the MetLife Community
Connections Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Major
support for NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Cultural Affairs Presents
Luna Negra Dance Theater
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$32/$25/$19
SoundBites 6:30 pm
Luna Negra Dance Theater serves as a springboard for Latino artists to express their stories and bring new life to their cultural communities. Avoiding the stereotypes and folkloric representations, Luna Negra creates energetic, powerful, and passionate contemporary Latino dance, reflecting the immense cultural shift that is shaping 21st century America. Their repertoire includes works from acclaimed contemporary Latino choreographers: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Fernando Melo, Gustavo Ramírez, Eduardo Vilaro, and Edgar Zendejas. “Exquisite movement, poems of heart felt complexity.” – Chicago Tribune
Golden Dragon Acrobats
Thursday, November 15, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19 - Youth 17 & under $14.50/$12.50/$9.50
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.artfegan.com/artist-
Some things are best left to the experts . . . so don’t try this at home! The Golden Dragon Acrobats perform traditional acrobatics from twenty-five centuries ago featuring dazzling costumes, traditional dance, ancient and contemporary music with breathtaking skill and beauty. Give your kids something exciting to text their friends about . . . after the show! “Good old-fashioned razzle-dazzle. . . Ripples of amazement all the way to the back row. . .” –The Dallas Morning News
Mid-Life Vices – Four Bitchin’ Babes
Saturday, November 17, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
www.sroartists.com/artists/
The Babes, four multi-talented gal pals, each a brilliant writer-musician-comedienne, share the stage filling it with luxurious harmonies and sophisticated (never blue) stand-up comedy, creating an amazing evening of raucous delight. This show is a celebration of "Whine, Women, and Song!" Mid Life Vices, hysterically journals the lives of this Baby Boomer generation. In Babe fashion, the girls use their musical wacky viewfinder to honor the quirks and habits of men and women who (like the Babes) refuse to act their age! All in stunning 4-part harmony!
Gala Holiday Concert
Saturday, December 1, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Silent auction 7:00 – end of intermission
$15/ $10 (over65/under 18 and UW-W students)
Add $2/ticket night of performance
Dinner – 6 pm Kachel Center
The holiday season begins with the UW-Whitewater Music Department’s annual Gala Holiday Concert. A showcase of nearly all of the Department’s ensembles and small groups – this concert benefits the music student scholarship fund. The program provides a variety of holiday sounds from Gospel to Jazz with popular classical favorites. Arrive early to enjoy the small student ensembles perform throughout the lobby and the Fern Young Terrace or to bid on items in the silent auction.
A Leahy Family Christmas
Saturday, December 8, 2012 – 7:30 pm
$38/$29/$19
Dinner – 6 pm Kachel Center
Very few things put one in a festive holiday mood like Leahy! These eight talented brothers & sisters sing, dance, and play a mix of their favorite Celtic medleys and traditional Christmas Carols that put everyone in a merry mood for the season. Leahy has won numerous awards in Canada including Junos for Best New Group, Best Country Group and Best Instrumental Album, they opened for Shania Twain on her inaugural tour and they were the subject of an Oscar winning documentary The Leahys: Music Most of All.
The Nutcracker
The Dance Factory
Saturday, December 17, 2012 – 2 & 7 pm
$18/$16/$14
Tchaikovsky’s most famous ballet is performed annually at Young Auditorium by the accomplished dancers from The Dance Factory. Each season the most talented local dancers create the magical dream world of giant mice, sugarplum fairies and more as they tell the story of Clara, Herr Drosslemeyer, the Nutcracker Prince and the delightful enchanting characters inhabiting the Kingdom of Sweets. Bring the family to this delightful holiday tradition.
Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music
Saturday, January 26, 2013 – 1 & 7 pm
FREE –Tickets Required
www.singalonga.net/worldwide/
Calling all Nuns, Goat herders, Hills, Alps, Baronesses, Brown Paper Packages Tied up with String or any of your favorite things! Get ready to yodel in Whitewater! This is your chance to sing-a-long to the most successful movie musical of all time. Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music is not just a chance to see the classic movie on the big screen in magnificent Technicolor and glorious cinemascope. It’s a major audience participation event with subtitles for all the songs. Sing along with Julie! Wave your Edelweiss! Dance in the gazebo with Liesl! Bark at Rolf! Snuggle up with Gretel and join in choruses of My Favorite Things!
Cultural Affairs Presents
A Chorus Line
Thursday, January 31, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$46/$36/$25
Dinner 6 pm Kachel Center
In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for - with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It's the one opportunity to do what they've always dreamed -- to have the chance to dance. This is the touring Broadway production of A Chorus Line, winner of 9 Tony Awards including “Best Musical” and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the musical for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put it all on the line. Come see what it takes to become “One Singular Sensation!”
Horizons Family Series Presents
The Tortoise Versus The Hare
Missoula Children’s Theatre
Saturday, February 2, 2012 – 2:00 pm
$13/$11/$9
It begins by auditioning local youth and ends in one amazing week with an hour long musical adaptation of The Tortoise Versus The Hare. The annual race between the Reptiles and the Mammals is about to take place and we see there is more than sporting rivalry between the brown and green animals. Loyalties to the specific colors create a real animosity until a tiny bunny is lost in the wilds of Tornado Gulch. Color is forgotten as the mammals and reptiles join in search and the wisdom of the old tortoise reminds the cocky hare that “color is just a color – it’s just decorated skin.” Catch this new twist on a classic tale!
AUDITIONS: MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013 AT 4 PM, AGES 5-18, 262-472-1432
As You Like It - The Acting Company
Thursday, February 14, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.cami.com/?webid=2014
Do you find Shakespeare difficult to read or understand? Well that’s probably because it was meant to be live on stage . . . the way to understand Shakespeare is to see it performed, by one of the most praised touring companies in America – The Acting Company. “All the world’s a stage” … one of Shakespeare’s most famous quotes comes from As You Like It, and is a metaphor of love; its power, madness, danger, humor and reflection. On one level it is a diverting amusement. On a deeper level, it is a journey of discovery, in which the characters gain knowledge of themselves and the world. Come see Shakespeare the way it was meant to be seen – live – on stage!
Ballet Folklórico Quetzalli de Veracruz
Monday, February 18, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.sroartists.com/artists/
Learn about our friends south of the border in Veracruz, Mexico through this colorful and exciting cultural exchange. Veracruz is the birthplace of the world famous La Bamba and this performance will bring together the dances, traditional costumes and live authentic music performed by Tlen-Huicani. The music is performed on the “harpa jarocha” (folk harp) and other stringed instruments. Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli de Veracruz proves why they are one of the Mexico’s most popular exports! "With a veteran company of dancers and musicians, Quetzalli offers up a "heady rush of tapping heals, dazzling costumes and insistent rhythms!" - Kansas City Star
Cultural Affairs Presents
Masters of Motown
Saturday, February 23, 2013 – 7:30 pm
29/$25/$19
If you love the soulful sounds of Motown this is the show for you! Here your favorite hits from the Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles , Four Tops, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Jackson Five, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Commodores and more. Check out the smooth moves and incredible harmonies all backed by a live band. Masters of Motown will take you back to the sounds of the 60’s.
Horizons Family Series Presents
Martha Speaks
Sunday, February 24, 2013 -3:00 pm
$15/$13/$9
www.theatreworksusa.org/show_
If your children or grandchildren are fans of the PBS Kids TV series Martha Speaks then they will love this performance. Martha is an amazing dog who ate some alphabet soup and suddenly was able to speak! This provides all sorts of fun for the family especially when Martha wins a radio trivia contest and an all-expense-paid trip for everyone. But there is that rule about “no dogs allowed.” See how this clever story turns out. Martha Speaks is the adorable musical based on the book series by Susan Meddaugh.
*THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY – Will be on hand to talk about adopting pets and if available will bring homeless pets to meet! www.hsjc-wis.com
Bramblett Chamber Series Presents
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$22
SoundBites 6:30 pm - Bramblett Reception
www.minneapolisguitarquartet.
Classical guitar music is profoundly soothing and when masters like The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet perform, it is like a balm for the soul. Their program includes pieces by Astor Piazzolla, Claude Debussy, David Crittenden, Peter Maxwell Davies, Stephen Funk Pearson, Jeff Lambert, Henry Purcell, Joaquin Rodrigo and Alberto Ginastera, an incredible mix of classical, contemporary, and Latin music. A veritable feast for the senses! “Technically perfect, they were also caught up in the spirit of each piece” - St. Louis Post Dispatch
Take Me Home: The Music of John Denver
Saturday, March 9, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$29/$25/$19
www.alkahestartists.net/www/
The music of John Denver has always felt like a breath of fresh Colorado air. Jim Curry’s amazing tribute show will perform John Denver hits including Rocky Mountain High, Annie’s Song, Country Roads and more. You will be amazed at the voice and special quality that Jim Curry has on stage; he even looks like John Denver. A warm and wonderful evening of music and memories waits. "It was a heavenly evening of beautiful music, a shining tribute to John Denver, one of which I believe Denver himself would salute."
-The Sanford Herald
Cultural Affairs Presents
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$19/$15/$9
Members and UW-Whitewater Students Free – Tickets Required
Imagine a hilarious send up of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan language at the hands of brilliant improvisational minds who allow the audience to provide the premise for the play. It sounds impossible but not for this outrageous band of improvisers extraordinaire. The Onion states: “The Company can go profound and poetic, or it can roll in the muck with the groundlings, so neither laughter nor amazement is short in supply.”
Cultural Affairs Presents
Mozart Requiem - Wisconsin Chamber Choir with Orchestra
Sunday, April 14, 2013 – 3:00 pm
$20/$18/$15
SoundBites 6:30 pm
www.wiscsonsinchamberchoir.org
Voices lifted in song can stir the soul, and the Wisconsin Chamber Choir with Orchestra has a reputation for soul stirring performances - this one features the Mozart Requiem. The forty member Wisconsin Chamber Choir will be joined by the thirty member UW-Whitewater Chamber Choir under the baton of artistic director and conductor Robert Gehrenbeck. The accompanying full orchestra will be comprised of members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. Come hear great voices and orchestra performing incredible works in our acoustically wonderful venue.
Our Town – UW-Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department
Starring John McGivern
Sunday, April 21, 2013 – 2:00 pm
Luncheon 12:30 pm Kachel Center April 21 only
Monday, April 22, 2013 – 7:30 pm
$19/$17
SoundBites 6:30 pm
Wisconsin native Thornton Wilder’s Our Town features Emmy Award winning actor John McGivern in the role of the Stage Manager. The production is led by the UW-Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department and directed by Professor James Butchart. Our Town explores the traditional, rural American community through the budding romance of Emily Webb and George Gibb. The subtleties of daily life and family bring profound meaning to the larger questions of love, marriage, death and eternity This Pulitzer Prize winning play and Wilder’s masterpiece is an American treasure that should not be missed.
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Sound Bites
NEVER TOO YOUNG SERIES
Never Too Young is an exciting new series for families with young children. Performances are educational, entertaining, and engaging for all ages. For these performances your child is never too young! Children and parents are encouraged to interact with the artists. Family-friendly prices, informal seating, concessions, and a new children’s play area make Never Too Young performances an affordable family afternoon at the theatre!
Creatures of the Night - David Stokes
Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 3:00 pm
Adults $5/ Children 2-11 $3/under 2 free
Fern Young Terrace
When it gets dark new and interesting creatures come out of hiding. Learn about the Creatures of the Night, owls, bats, coyotes, skunks and more! Join award winning David Stokes, a naturalist, teacher and fun guy, for songs, stories, wiggles, and riddles as he teaches you about creatures that only come out at night! Have fun as you interact with live animals and learn about nighttime sights and sounds!
Rumpelstiltskin – ArtReach: The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati
Sunday, February 10, 2013 – 3:00 pm
Adults $5/ Children 2-11 $3/under 2 free
The Kachel Center
www.thechildrenstheatre.com/
Fun with fairytales is in store with this one! Is your name Harry or Sam? Or could it be Rumpelstiltskin? Help retell this classic tale of the miller's daughter, her boastful father, a handsome prince, and the ability to spin straw into gold. Discover the magic and wonder of one of the world's best loved fairytales. As audience members, you will have an opportunity to interact with the actors and explore the set.
Pint Size Polkas – Uncle Mike’s Music & Dance Program
Sunday, March 10, 2013 – 3:00 pm
Adults $5/ Children 2-11 $3/under 2 free
The Kachel Center
Put on those kiddie dancing shoes and get ready for the happiest music on earth – Polka Music! Have fun learning about the alphabet, jobs, and keeping clean while dancing to the snappy beat of Uncle Mike’s Polka music. Children learn the Chicken Dance, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, get to wear hats and play Guess Who Wears That Hat? You’ll play Name That Polka using children’s classics, and sing-a-long to Uncle Mike’s catchy polka songs!
To receive a 2012-13 Season brochure please call (262) 472-2222 and join our ArtsENews e-mail newsletter on-line at www.uww.edu/youngauditorium. Purchase tickets via phone, on-line, or in person. The Greenhill Center Box Office is located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts near Barnett Theatre- 930 West Main Street; this is the main ticket office. There are two 30 minute parking meters located near the entrance for easy access near the disabled parking area. Summer hours are M-F 9:30 am – 4:00 pm. For further information call 262-472-4444.
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