Tri-C Presents Performing Arts Series: 2013-2014 Season

Performing Arts Series 2013-2014 season

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ARTS, EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT CONCERT SERIES

Tri-C Presents

The 2013-14 season features a host of musical, dance and theatrical events that reflect the College’s mission in the performing arts and its vision for community involvement.

Throughout the season, students interact with local and national artists through lectures, master classes and workshops. Students in Tri-C’s Creative Arts classes who are pursuing careers in related industries will benefit from access to professional artists working in their fields. And the artists who visit create works that reflect our world, highlighting contemporary issues and current events, connecting the classroom and curriculum.

Our Showtime Matinee series, made possible by the Harry K. and Emma R. Fox Foundation, enables young people to enjoy fine performing arts events at no cost to them.

SEPTEMBER EVENTS New York Voices Saturday, Sept. 28 | 7:30 p.m.

Mainstage Theatre Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium 2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Admission: $20 216-987-4444 www.trictickets.com The New York Voices celebrated their 25th anniversary in music during 2013. The Grammy Award winning vocalists are known for their closeknit voicings, inspired arrangements and unparalleled vocal blend.

The Voices also made it possible for students from Northeast Ohio high school vocal ensembles to learn from their expertise during a Saturday afternoon workshop.

www.tri-c.edu/creativearts

OCTOBER EVENTS Theater Series

The Exonerated Tri-C Eastern Campus Studio Theatre 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills

Opens Oct. 18 Performances at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 Tickets available only at the door Box Office: 216-987-2438 What effect does it have on a person to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerge from death row to try to reclaim what’s left of their lives. Director Brian Zoldessy, a Tri-C faculty member, brings the stage play to life.

Theater Series

The Glass Menagerie Tri-C Metro Campus Studio Theatre 2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Opens Oct. 25 Performances at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 ($5 for Tri-C students with valid ID) Box office: 216-987-4211 www.trictickets.com Tennessee Williams’ poetic masterpiece, a four-character memory play based on Williams’ recollections of his mother and sister. The play is an exquisite family drama anchored by the aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, who hopes her son Tom will fulfill her dreams of finding her daughter the perfect gentleman caller.

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OCTOBER EVENTS Classical Piano Recital Series

Daniel Gortler Sun. Oct. 26 | 2 p.m.

Cleveland Museum of Art Gartner Auditorium 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland

Admission: Free Acclaimed Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler has delighted audiences and critics with his memorable performances around the world, receiving praise for technical mastery and musical ingenuity. Gortler has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He performs fantasies by Mozart and Schumann.

NOVEMBER EVENTS Theater Series

Twelfth Night Tri-C Western Campus Theatre 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma

Opens Nov. 8 Performances at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 Box office: 216-987-5536 | www.trictickets.com Shakespeare’s classic comedy is a wild romp of mistaken identity, drunken revelries, practical jokes and star-crossed lovers. Director Robert Ellis sets this classic tale in the wildest of places, the Wild West.

Classical Piano Recital Series

Antonio Pompa-Baldi Sunday, Nov. 24 | 2 p.m.

Cleveland Museum of Art Gartner Auditorium 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland

Admission: Free Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a career that extends across five continents.

A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and is a long-time favorite of Cleveland audiences. www.tri-c.edu/creativearts

JANUARY EVENTS Classical Piano Recital Series

Magalhāes and Schumann Piano Duo Sunday, Jan. 26 | 2 p.m.

Cleveland Museum of Art Gartner Auditorium 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland

Admission: Free The Magalhães-Schumann duo, best known as TwoPianists, already has left an indelible mark on the musical world. Luis Magalhães and Nina Schumann formed the partnership in 1999 when they met at the University of North Texas. Now based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, TwoPianists has become one of the finest chamber music groups on African soil. This marks the duo’s first appearance in our series.

THE SONG IS YOU!

Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Music of Jule Styne Sunday, Jan. 26 | 3 p.m.

Mainstage Theatre Tri-C Metropolitan Campus 2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Admission: $20 216-987-4444 or www.trictickets.com Jule Styne wrote more than 1,500 songs and some of the best scores in the history of the musical theater: Gypsy. Funny Girl. Peter Pan. Bells Are Ringing.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Musical Theatre Project’s presentation will feature an afternoon dedicated to his music, using a talented cast of regional professionals including Tri-C music faculty member Joe Hunter, all led by Bill Rudman.

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FEBRUARY EVENTS Concert Series

Motown in Motion

by Eisenhower Dance

Saturday, Feb. 1 | 8 p.m.

Tri-C Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center Admission: $20 regular

$15 seniors

$10 students 216-987-4444 www.trictickets.com

This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, which is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Ohio Arts Council.

Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, the Motor City’s premier dance company, will celebrate the music that made Motown famous with a playful, humorous and wonderfully theatrical evening of dance and music – Motown in Motion. This visual salute to the tunes that made Motown Records famous includes Tri-C music and dance students as well as those from Cleveland area dance studios. The performance is presented in conjunction with the College’s Diversity Series.

Concert Series

Cole Porter Radio Hour (Two Performances!)

Huntington Playhouse 28601 Lake Road, Bay Village

Friday, Feb. 28 | 8 p.m.

(Open dress rehearsal available at 2 p.m. by registration only)

The Alcazar Hotel 2450 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights

Saturday, March 1 | 8 p.m.

Admission: $20 regular/$15 seniors/$10 students 216-987-4444 | www.trictickets.com Return to a simpler time, when tight harmonies and witty, sophisticated lyrics sprang forth from a radio in every home. The Cole Porter Radio Hour is backed by well-known melodies from Cole Porter’s beloved musicals such as Anything Goes and Kiss Me Kate.

In addition, the concert will feature unique, new arrangements of the songwriter’s greatest hits (including Night and Day, reputed to have been written at the Alcazar) interspersed with humorous, dramatic and poignant vignettes by professional actor Rob Johansen, along with a Tri-C faculty ensemble of local professional musicians and up-and-coming regional vocalists, including pianist Joe Hunter. www.tri-c.edu/creativearts

MARCH EVENTS The Song Is You!

Fiddler on the Roof: Behind the Musical

Dance Series

EQUINOX: Tri-C Dance Meets Hip-Hop

Sunday, March 9 | 2 and 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 21 | 8 p.m.

Tri-C Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center

Mainstage Theatre Tri-C Metropolitan Campus

4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills

Admission: $26/$22 TMTP Members: $21/$15 NOTE: Tickets available through The Musical Theater Project box office.

Call 216-245-8687 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of America’s greatest musicals, conceived by four brilliant artists: Jerome Robbins, Joseph Stein and the songwriting team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Hear all of the songs and the back story behind the creation of this great musical.

2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Admission: $10 216-987-4444 | www.trictickets.com In a wonderful collaboration with the Progressive Arts Alliance, student dancers from Tri-C’s three main campuses will present an evening that celebrates the College’s Center of Excellence in Contemporary Music.

Guest choreographer Tony Fresh joins DJ Rob Swift for a thrilling night of energy, balance and grace.

Concert Series

Bobby McFerrin Saturday, March 29 | 8 p.m.

Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare Admission: $50, $35, $20 216-241-6000 | www.trictickets.com The 10-time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin has broken all the rules, blurring the distinction between pop music and fine art, goofing around barefoot in the world’s finest concert halls, exploring uncharted vocal territory, inspiring a new generation of a cappella singers and the beatbox movement. This special concert includes a partnership with area high schools that allows a portion of the ticket proceeds to benefit students at Tri-C. This will allow us to continue to attract the best and brightest talent to master classes, preparatory programs and collegiate programs in popular and jazz music.

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APRIL EVENTS Theater Series

The Catch Tri-C Metro Campus Studio Theatre 2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Opens Friday, April 4 Performances at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10; $2 for Tri-C students with valid ID Box office: 216-987-4211 www.trictickets.com Gary has separated from his wife and moved into a small apartment in Oakland, Calif. His father, who suffers from severe diabetes, has moved in as well.

Yet Gary is full of the optimism of reuniting with his wife. Seeing money as the big issue in saving his marriage, he hatches a plan to win a bunch by catching “the home run” ball hit by Barry Bonds.

The Catch is a heartwarming play about family, and especially the bond between father and son.

Theater Series

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Tri-C Eastern Campus Studio Theatre 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills

Opens Friday, April 11 Performances at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 Tickets available only at the door Box Office: 216-987-2438 A hilarious homage for Shakespeare lovers, haters and everyone in between as three actors frantically attempt to perform the entire canon – all 37 plays!

– in 97 minutes. This is Shakespeare as written

by Reader’s Digest, acted by Monty Python and performed at the speed of The Minute Waltz.

www.tri-c.edu/creativearts

APRIL EVENTS Concert Series

Sweet Honey in the Rock Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium 2900 Community College Ave., Cleveland

Fri. April 11 | 8 p.m.

Tickets: $35, $30, $15 216-987-4444 www.trictickets.com Challenge and change are the themes underlying the 40-year career of the revered female African-American a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the course of creating its adventurous and diverse mixture of blues, African, jazz, gospel and R&B music, 23 vocalists have passed through the group. It was formed as a quartet in 1973 by Bernice Johnson Reagon at a workshop at the D.C. Black Repertory Theater Company in Washington. The group’s Northeast Ohio visit will include community-based workshops.

MAY EVENTS Dance Series

The Art of STEM: A Dance Showcase Tri-C Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills

Friday, May 9 | Noon to 1 p.m.

Performing Arts Center Admission: Free

With support from the Harry K. and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation

Tri-C joins with the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning to produce a high-energy dance showcase, all connected to science, technology, engineering, the arts and math. This performance combines required curriculum with real-life examples of athleticism, motivation, teamwork and the human spirit as we celebrate the union of dance and education in a thrilling new way. Four local professional dance companies will be featured.

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VISITING ARTISTS SERIES Outstanding programs and unique learning opportunities have earned Tri-C the designation of Center of Excellent in Music. At Tri-C, students in Music and Recording Arts Technology programs benefit by learning from instructors who practice their art. In addition, Tri-C is proud of the many ways it brings students together with internationally acclaimed artists working at the top of their game for workshops, master classes and meet-and-greet opportunities. Among the highlights of the 2013-2014 year: 9/28 9/30

New York Voices high school choral group workshop Diana Krall and Tommy LiPuma master class and conversation 10/23 Harry Connick Jr. after-concert conversation with Tri-C creative arts students 11/13 Javon Jackson master class 1/18 Janis Siegel master class for high school and Tri-C students 3/29 Bobby McFerrin open dress rehearsal for high school and college musicians 4/10-11 Christian McBride workshops during the Tri-C JazzFest DownBeat education days

JUNE EVENTS SAVE THE DATES June 26-28, 2014

PlayhouseSquare and Star Plaza For all-festival pass, visit www.tri-cjazzfest.com or call 216-987-4049 Individual tickets go on sale Feb. 28, 2014 Tri-C JazzFest celebrates its 35th anniversary by moving out of April showers into sunny June.

In keeping with tradition, the JazzFest lineup will boast a variety of internationally acclaimed artists. At 12 ticketed, indoor concerts, fans will enjoy two big bands, three outrageous bassists, two bands led by women, two unique vocalists and Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music. The free outdoor stage at Star Plaza will cover music of all genres, and the audience will move freely in and out of the Hanna, Ohio and Palace theatres. The festival kicks off Thursday night with the Sean Jones Quartet and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra performing with Christian McBride. Other artists include Eddie Palmieri, John Scofield, Trombone Shorty, Marcus Miller, Dave Koz, Gregory Porter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Eliane Elias, Raul Mídon, Jamey Haddad and Ernie Krivda’s Fat Tuesday Big Band.

New this year is the festival pass, which offers the best deal on the best seats.

Passholders get preferred seating to the nine shows that are most important to them, and general admission (seating as available) to the remaining three.

Check the website for news and information, and follow us on Facebook at Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland and on Twitter @TriCJazzFest. www.tri-c.edu/creativearts

TICKET INFO Tickets:

online at www.trictickets.com phone at 216-987-4444 216-241-6000

(for PlayhouseSquare events) In person: Tickets may be purchased at the door one hour before performances

Tri-C Presents policies and information Payment: For your convenience, you may purchase tickets with the following credit cards: MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover.

No checks. $5 off for groups of 10 or more; call 216-987-4444 All artists and programs are subject to change.

Fees: For events at PlayhouseSquare, a $3Â per order fee will be charged and a 1.5% processing fee will be charged.

We cannot be responsible for tickets purchased through unauthorized third parties. Tickets cannot be replaced if lost or stolen. All ticket sales are final. No refunds or exchanges will be made unless a performance is canceled by the artist or by Tri-C Presents. Refunds are made only to the original purchaser at the point of purchase. Will-call tickets will be released only to the person who bought the tickets; a valid photo ID will be required. Use of cameras, audio, video and digital recorders, paging devices and cell phones are prohibited in the theaters. Patrons using these items may be asked to leave the theater without being given a refund. Patrons who arrive after the show begins may be asked to wait until there is a break in the act before being seated. Children under age 2 are not permitted in the theater. At designated shows, children of all ages are welcome. However, everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age. Patrons with disabilities should call to purchase tickets so we may accommodate special needs. Food and beverages are not permitted in the theater.

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Support for Tri-C Presents is made possible with additional support from The Cohen Community Foundation, The Harry K. and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation, The Murphy Foundation, The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation.

Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts 2900 Community College Ave. Room 109 Cleveland, OH 44115

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Cleveland, Ohio Permit No. 3675

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