RAIN - A Tribute To The Beatles Tuesday, October 13 Tickets: AA, A $60; B, C $50 8:00PM
Entertainment Stimulus Plan:
Use the password “RINGO” to receive a $10 discount per ticket. Tickets may be purchased by calling 815-726-6600 online or through all Ticketmaster outlets.
FROM ED SULLIVAN TO ABBEY ROAD! – They look like them and they sound just like them! “The next best thing to seeing The Beatles,” raves the Denver Post. All the music and vocals are performed totally live! RAIN covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multimedia, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups. “A thrilling bit of time-warping nostalgia…Boomer Heaven!” raves The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Uncanny! RAIN are a quartet of fine musicians in their own right…as The Beatles, they triumph!” cheers the Boston Herald. “An adoring Valentine to The Beatles,” declares the Washington Post. Sing along with your family and friends to such Beatlemaniac favorites as “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude,” “My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Come Together” and “Can’t Buy Me Love.”
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance Friday, October 30 Tickets: AAA, A $60; B, C $50 8:00PM Described by the New York Post as “fascinating, rewarding
and above all, entertaining,” and by the Los Angeles Times
as “a showpiece extravaganza,” Lord of the Dance is a
mesmerizing blend of traditional and modern Celtic music
and dance. The story is based upon mythical Irish folklore as
Don Dorcha, Lord of Darkness, challenges the ethereal lord
of light, the Lord of the Dance. Battle lines are drawn,
passions ignite and a love story fueled by the dramatic
leaps and turns of dancers’ bodies begins to build against
a backdrop of Celtic rhythm. The action is played out over
21 scenes on a grand scale of precision dancing, dramatic
music, colorful costumes and state-of-the-art staging and
lighting.
Cirque Dreams Illumination Wednesday, December 16 Tickets: AA, A $55; B, C $45 8:00PM From the creators of the groundbreaking BROADWAY HIT Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy comes an all new journey of nighttime dreamers whose imaginations are ignited within a landscape of towering buildings and infinite possibilities. Created and Directed by Neil Goldberg, Cirque Dreams Illumination has been hailed as “Dazzling!...a reason to stand up and cheer” by the New York Daily News. Audiences of all ages will marvel and experience a journey of city dwellers who reinvent everyday objects, balance beyond belief, delicately dangle from wires, leap tall buildings and redefine the risks of flight in an array of astounding occurrences that transform the ordinary into extraordinary. An international cast of world-class acrobats, athletes, musicians and one of a kind artists populate this imaginative, colorful metropolis and breathe life into over 100 inventive costumes, an original musical score, and magical sights that transform the landscape of a city into thrills and disbelief. Cirque Dreams Illuminationis sure to live up to the Cirque Dreams brand of notoriety as hailed “jaw dropping and family friendly” by the Los Angeles Times and “The grandest circus spectacle east of Vegas” by New YorkMagazine.
Cabaret - Winner of 12 Tony Awards Saturday, January 23 Tickets: AA, A $50; B, C $40 8:00PM “Wilkommen!, Bienvenue!, Welcome!”, sings the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club through painted lips, as the people of 1929 Berlin join him. Whatever your troubles, you will forget them at the Cabaret. Sally Bowles, a middle-class lass from Chelsea , London , is working as a singer at Berlin ’s Kit-Kat Club and trying her best to live the thrillingly decadent life which the city is supposed to offer. Into her orbit comes Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer, and Sally soon moves in to join him in his room in the boarding house run by Fraulein Schneider. Their fellow lodgers include the cheerful whore, Fraulein Kost, and the gentle, graying fruiterer Herr Schultz. As the clouds gather, Sally, now pregnant by Cliff, is still determined to show the world what a good time she is having and she will not or cannot hear the noises of Nazism around her. But the others can.
Songs include: It Couldn’t Please Me More, Wilkommen, Cabaret, Don’t Tell Mama and Two Ladies.
Hairspray- Best Musical Winner! 8 Tony Awards 2003 Wednesday, March 3 Tickets: AA, A $55; B, C $45 8:00PM It's 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire - to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her newfound power to vanquish the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network - all without denting her 'do! Don't miss HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As The New York Times says, “If life were everything it should be, it would be more like HAIRSPRAY. It’s irresistible!”
