Indigo Girls - Opening Nights

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

INDIGO GIRLS MAY 1, 2024

CHANGING THE LIVES THAT CHANGE THE WORLD

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Shanquell Dixon, Doctor of Medicine, 2022

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WELCOME FROM THE INTERIM DIRECTOR

Welcome to the final offering of the Opening Nights 2023–24 Season. It’s a fitting tribute to the excellent women performers who grace our stages as we opened the season with Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin and now close with the Indigo Girls.

Our plan moving forward into the 2024–25 Season is to initiate the season with the same quality as occurred during this year and close on an equally strong note.

Beyond the opening and closing of the season, is distinction throughout, with performances of both established and emerging artists in multiple genres of artistic eminence.

While all artists will agree that a stage setting with solid technically proficient staff, good lighting, quality acoustics and vibrant

volunteer corps are vital to their concerts, nothing competes with a solidly engaged audience. That’s where the traction of live performance occurs, through the synergy of the artist and the audience.

Please accept my thanks for your support of our program and your attendance throughout the year at performances that attracted your involvement with Opening Nights. We couldn’t provide the prominence of talent within our offerings without you.

With gratitude,

Michael Blachly Interim Director, Opening Nights

THEATRE TCC! 2023-24 SEASON COME JOURNEY WITH

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

By Ray Bradbury

When the carnival comes to town, two boys unearth the terrifying and horrible secrets that lurk within Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show and learn the consequences of wishes, as a sinister and evil force is at work in Green Town, Illinois.

October 12-14 at 8 p.m.

October 20 & 21 at 8 p.m.

October 22 at 2 p.m.

The Shape of Things

By Neil Labute

A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friend’s engagement crumbles, unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships.

November 16-18 at 8 p.m.

December 1 & 2 at 8 p.m.

December 3 at 2 p.m.

Legally Blonde

Book by Heather Hach

Music and Lyrics

By Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin

The ultimate tribute to girl power, Legally Blonde will take you from the UCLA sorority house to the Harvard halls of justice with the timely coming-of-age story of Broadway’s brightest heroine.

April 4-6 at 8 p.m.

April 12 & 13 at 8 p.m.

April 14 at 2 p.m.

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Indigo Girls

Released in 1989, Indigo Girls’ eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history. Over a thirty-five-year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, the GRAMMY®-winning duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray has recorded 16 studio albums (seven gold, four platinum, one double platinum), sold over 15 million records, and built a dedicated, enduring following.

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“...music so compelling with its wide swerves between gentle, lovelorn balladry and the anguished yawps of activist souls...”

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“We joke about being old, but what is old when it comes to music? We’re still a bar band at heart,” says Saliers. “We are so inspired by younger artists and while our lyrics and writing approach may change, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25-years-old.”

On their 16th studio album, Indigo Girls tell their origin story. Look Long is a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. They chronicle their upbringings with more specificity and focus than they have on any previous song cycle. “We’re fallible creatures shaped by the physics of life,” says Saliers. “We’re shaped by our past; what makes us who we are? And why?”

Produced by John Reynolds (Sinéad O’Connor, Damien Dempsey) and recorded in the countryside outside Bath, England at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, these eleven songs have a tender, revealing motion to them, as if they’re feeding into a Super 8 film projector, illuminating a darkened living room. “When We Were Writers” recounts the flying sparks and passion Saliers felt as a young college student when the duo first

started performing together. “Shit Kickin’” is a nuanced love letter to Ray’s Southern heritage. “I’m a little bit left of the ‘salt of the earth’ / That’s alright, I’ll prove my worth,” she sings.

Amidst our often-terrifying present, Look Long is a musical balm for those of us in search of a daily refuge, an hour or two when we can engage with something that brings us joy, perspective, or maybe just calm.

“People feel lost in these political times,” explains Saliers. “Let’s lament our limitations, but let’s also look beyond what’s right in front of us, take the long view of things, and strive to do better. As time has gone on, our audience has become more expansive and diverse which gives me a great sense of joy.” Crowd singalongs that often overpower the band itself are a trademark of Indigo Girls concerts. The duo has returned to the road and amphitheaters across the country are once again filling with the sound of those collective voices raised in song. The phenomenon epitomizes the sense of community and celebration that defines Indigo Girls’ music. As one bar band once put it, “We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains…we go to the Bible, we go through the work out.” For millions, they go to the Indigo Girls. On Look Long they’ll find a creative partnership certain of its bearings, forging a way forward.

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