An Evening with David Sedaris

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W e d n e s day NOV 9 7:30pm

Boston Financial Data Service is pleased to be the VIP Sponsor of An Evening with David Sedaris at the Lied Center of Kansas.

Please join us in the Kemper Foyer for a post-performance book signing by David Sedaris with refreshments provided by the Lied Center Student Association.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Audio description services and recorded program notes are provided through a partnership between the Lied Center and Audio-Reader Network.

Please turn off or silence cellular phones and other electronic devices during performances. Food and drink are not allowed inside the hall.

Cameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited in the auditorium.

Anne Fishbein

Dav i d S e d a r i s NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers.

The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

“Sedaris ain’t the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident” — Whitney Pastorek, Entertainment Weekly “Sedaris has hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation, or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world might actually want and find useful. . .

He’s smart, he’s caustic, he’s mordant, and, somehow, he’s . . . well, nice” — Bill Richardson, Toronto Globe and Mail “Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today” — Chicago Tribune “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.”

— San Francisco Chronicle

David Sedaris is the author Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which became a bestseller.

There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. He was the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.”

His newest book, a collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer), was published in September 2010 and immediately hit the New York Times Bestseller Fiction List.

He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. David Sedaris’s original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ. David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His most recent live album is David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure (November 2009).

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/davidsedaris

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LIV E

PERFORMING ARTS UPcoming Performances THE Suzanne Farrell Ballet

Celebrating George Balanchine’s dance legacy SATURDAY, NOV 12 — 7:30pm Free Additional Activities • Pre-Performance Discussion with Suzanne Farrell on Balanchine’s legacy — 6:30pm • Post-Performance Meet and Greet with artists

ETHEL

String quartet on another level SATURDAY, NOV 19 — 7:30pm Free Additional Activities • Pre-Performance Discussion on the exploration of the classical art of New Music — 6:30pm • Post-Performance Coffee and Conversation

The Celtic Tenors

Songs of the season SATURDAY, DEC 10 — 7:30pm Free Additional Activity • Post-Performance Meet and Greet with artists

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s

SOUTH PACIFIC

An epic musical romance WEDNESDAY, Jan 18 — 7:30pm

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LIV E

PERFORMING ARTS UPcoming Performances

Chiara String Quartet

A musical conversation between friends SUNDAY, JAN 29 — 2:00pm

ELVIS LIVES

The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Event THURSDAY, FEB 2 — 7:30pm

Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra

Traditional music from Shanghai MONDAY, FEB 13 — 7:30pm Free Additional Activities • Pre-Performance Discussion with the Kansas City Traditional Chinese Orchestra — 6:30pm • Post-Performance Meet and Greet with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra

MAMMA MIA!

The smash-hit musical based on the songs of ABBA TUESDAY, FEB 14 — 7:30pm

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A salute to our VIP Sponsors We proudly recognize our Very Important Partners. Not only do our VIP Sponsors offer essential financial contributions, they also provide valuable and enthusiastic promotion of Lied Center performances to their customers, employees and the community.

Their commitment to the performing arts allows us to provide education activities, free school performances and high-quality events each year. We honor our VIP Sponsors throughout the season on our electronic sign and with onstage recognition at their selected performances.

We hope you will also thank them when you visit their businesses. For more information regarding our sponsorship program, contact the Lied Center Director of Development, Megan Poindexter, at 785-864-2788.

Elvis Lives

Open House and Community Arts Festival An Evening with David Sedaris

Mamma Mia! The National Acrobats of China Suzanne Farrell Ballet

FARFALLE (Butterflies)

The Intergalactic Nemesis & Chiara String Quartet The Celtic Tenors

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Herbie Hancock

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AnDa Union & The Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra & Jing Xing Dance Theatre

South Pacific

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A salute to our Media Sponsors

Media sponsors provide important underwriting for Lied Center performances.

Their contributions give invaluable support for advertising, promotions and marketing.

For information on becoming a media sponsor, please call 785-864-3469.

Mnozil Brass

An Evening with David Sedaris

A SALUTE TO OUR VIP SPONSORS

The Intergalactic Nemesis

The University of Kansas and Lied Center of Kansas wish to thank the following individuals and organizations for their generous gifts that made the Lied Center expansion project and Pavilion a reality. We would also like to acknowledge the outstanding work done by the architects, contractors and sub-contractors, whose planning and construction have made our hopes for a high-quality multi-purpose venue come true.

Lied Foundation Trust Christina M. Hixson, Trustee William T. Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank, Trustee

Thank you

KU Endowment Dale Seuferling, Monte Soukup KU Design and Construction Management Warren Corman, Jim Modig, Marion Paulette, Steve Scannell, Bob Rombach, John Eye KU Facilities, Operations and Planning Doug Riat KU Information Technology Patti Fisher, Joey Marchie Helix Architecture + Design Reeves Wiedeman, Bryan Gross, Jacob Palan Mar Lan Construction, LC Gale Lantis, Brian Lantis, Fernando Velilla Acme Floor Company

Kennedy Glass

Acoustical Stretched Fabric Systems

KI-Furnishing Knowledge

Alliance Fire Protection B&B Drywall Company Beran Concrete D.H. Pace Door Services

Lawrence Decorating Service Lawrence Landscape McElroy’s, Inc. MSM Systems

Design Business Interior

MultiVista Construction Documentation

Diamond Everley Roofing

Oliver Electric Construction

Ewell Construction

Precision Masonry

Image Flooring

Professional Services Industries

Henderson Engineers

Prosoco Restoration and Waterproofing

R.D. Johnson Excavating K Building Specialties

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2011-1 2 Friends of the Lied Update

This list includes individuals and businesses that have initiated or renewed their Friends of the Lied membership since the original list was published.

Business Friends Fellow ($2,500+) Bigg’s Barbecue Patron ($500+) The Janssen Clinic of Natural Medicine

You can support the Lied, too!

For more information or to join Friends of the Lied, contact the Lied Center Director of Development, Megan Poindexter, at 785-864-2788 or meganp@ku.edu or go to lied.ku.edu/donate.

The Lied Center is grateful for gifts of all sizes.

We apologize for any errors or omissions.

2011-12 Friends of the Lied Update

INDIVIDUAL Friends Benefactor ($1,000+) Venkata & Neeli Bendapudi Don & Carol Hatton Patron ($500+) Karen & Dennis Christilles Tod & Sidney Sutton Jan & Dale Willey Sponsor ($250+) John W. & Ferry Evans David & Diana Ice Lucy Price Contributor ($100+) Michele Berendsen John & Eliza Bullock George & Gloria Byers Janice & Robert Cobb Richard & Betty Colbert Robert Friauf William Sharp & Sonya Lancaster Adam Pousson Dr. Allan & Margi Ross Sharon Graham & Anthea Scouffas Charles Silvestri Lori Norwood & Doug Stull Forrest & Donna Swall Olive J. Ubel Friends ($50+) Eva S. Alley Cara Nossaman Anderson Jack Winerock & Susan Elkins Karen Hall Mary & Steve Jones Bruce Levine Earl & Dee Anne Waters