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Celebrity Series of Boston
Presents
An Evening with Christine Ebersole
on Saturday, January 26, 8pm
at Sanders Theatre

(Cambridge) Celebrity Series of Boston will present An Evening with Christine Ebersole on Saturday, January 26, 8pm at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Media Partner is 89.7 WGBH.

Tickets start at $30 and are available online at www.celebrityseries.org, by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. or at the Sander Theatre box office, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

This is the Celebrity Series of Boston debut for Christine Ebersole.

Christine Ebersole, has captivated audiences throughout her career, from the Broadway stage to television series and specials, films, concert appearances, and recordings. Ms. Ebersole received her second Tony Award in 2007 for Leading Actress in a Musical for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. She also received the Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Drama League Award for Performance of the Year, for her performance.

Other memorable New York stage performances include her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the smash hit revival 42nd Street, Steel Magnolias, On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Camelot, Dinner at Eight (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Best Man, and the recent revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

Ms. Ebersole has appeared in many hit movies, including Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie Rich, Black Sheep, Dead Again, Folks!, Ghost Dad, True Crime, My Girl 2, Mac and Me, and Confessions of a Shopaholic. She can be seen in the upcoming blockbuster, The Big Wedding, slated for release in April 2013. Ms. Ebersole has an extensive list of television credits as well, including recent appearances on Retired at 35, Royal Pains, Ugly Betty, Law and Order SVU, Boston Legal, Samantha Who, and Will and Grace. Christine can be seen shortly in the new Vince Vaughn produced television show for TBS, Sullivan and Son.

In concert, Ms. Ebersole has appeared in numerous halls throughout the country. Most recently, she performed in the concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall. Previously, Ms. Ebersole participated in the Opening Night Gala of Carnegie Hall’s 118th Season. She appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in their tribute to Leonard Bernstein. After making her debut with the Boston Pops several years ago, she returned to Boston’s Symphony Hall and Tanglewood to star as Desiree Armfeldt in a concert version of A Little Night Music with the Boston Pops. In televised concerts, she has often appeared on PBS, including her star turns in Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and the Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty. In December 2010 she performed for the second time on the Kennedy Center Honors.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
The Celebrity Series has been bringing the very best performers–from orchestras and chamber ensembles, vocal and piano music, to dance companies, jazz, and more–to Boston’s major concert halls for 74 years. The Celebrity Series of Boston believes in the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts to enrich life experiences, transform lives and build better communities. Through its education initiatives, the Celebrity Series seeks to build a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience–on stages, in schools, at home– everywhere. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. receives generous support from; Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; The Little Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Foley & Lardner LLP; The DeMoulas Foundation; The John S. and Cynthia Reed Foundation; The Matisse Foundation; The Peabody Foundation; Charlesbank Capital Partners; PTC, The D.L. Saunders Companies & Boston Park Plaza Hotel, LLC; Massachusetts Cultural Council; New England Foundation for the Arts.
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WHAT: Betrayal
WHERE: Huntington Theatre Company
WHEN: Now through December 9, 2012
TICKETS: (617) 266-0800

WHAT: Oberon’s Winterbloom
WHERE: OBERON is located at 2 Arrow Street at the corner of Mass Ave. in Harvard Square.
WHEN: Friday Dec. 14 7PM and 10 PM
TICKETS: 617-547-8300 or online at http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/winterbloom

WHAT: Memphis

WHERE: Colonial Theatre
WHEN: December 11-23
TICKETS: Office 1-866-348-9738 or www.BroadwayInBoston.com
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WHAT: The Nutcracker
WHERE: Boston’s Opera House
WHEN:Nov. 23-Dec. 30
TICKETS: www.bostonballet.org

WHAT: Boston Holiday Pops
WHERE: Boston Symphony Hall

WHEN: December 5-24 Company Holiday Pops Dec. 12 Vanessa Williams
TICKETS: Fundraiser companies call 617-638-9272.
www.bostonpops.org or 617-266-1200

WHAT: BROADWAY MUSICALS: A Jewish Legacy
WHERE: Channel 2 PBS GREAT PERFORMANCES

WHEN: January 1, 2013 9:30 PM

Tickets: FREE!

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BRILLIANT BUZZ NOVEMBER 19

Who would have thought that our cold climate would be a hotbed for the creative arts?
Besides Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (BTW, his film Argo is a great suspense thriller and almost true), we have Brad Falchuk who created TVs Glee, Jeff Bader who is the NBC president of programming and so many more of our young ones who heeded the call to “go west young man.”

Books are not far behind. Did you read Defending Jacob? It’s a real page turner that takes place in Newton…and Suzy Duffy who wrote the successful chick flick WELLESLEY WIVES? She’s almost finished her fictional take on… Newton Neighbors. There must be something in the food.


Now on to the theatrical buzz.
The HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY presents a timely play, Petraous and Schwartenagger aside, it aptly called Betrayal. It is about a couple of couples who are best friends and …well you get the rest. The play is Pinter’s minimalistic approach to a complex subject and based on one of his many affairs. The actors behave with British reserve as they endure the emotional toll of the plot. It will keep you talking long after.
A first rate production that all takes place in one act. Pinter does not go forward with the plot nor backward. He moves us a little forward, a little backward, keeping us on our toes. Betrayal is theatrical art.
Maria Atkin, acclaimed British director, has an interesting back story . When just a young actress she was directed by the Nobel Prize Laureate playright Harold Pinter. Check it out, it is terrific theatre.

Leave it to American Repertory Theatre to challenge our perceptions of traditional holiday offerings. This time in the spirit of the holiday, they have given us a new tradition of friendship and music. Four singer/songwriters who have been touring together as Winterbloom since 2008, bring us together for the holidays. You will hear songs old and new in Hebrew, Tibetan and German while enjoying Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and family related themes. You;ll laugh, you’ll sing, you;ll feel sentimental you’ll be together.

I am so happy that the 112 year old Colonial Theatre will be reopening. So who cares if the new name takes up this entire report . It is now called… Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre. By the time you read the marquee the play will be over. They reopen with the 2010 multiple Tony award winning musical…MEMPHIS. It was written by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan.
Broadway in Boston does it again by bringing up top notch touring companies.
MEMPHIS takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated 50’s, where a young white DJ named Huey Calhoun fell in love with everything he shouldn’t – rock and roll and an electrifying black singer. MEMPHIS is an original story about the cultural revolution that erupted when his vision met her voice, and the music changed forever.

WHAT? They’ve changed our beloved Nutcracker? Yes, it’s true Artistic Director and choreographer Mikko Nissinen commissioned award-winning designer to conjure up new sets and a total of nearly 350 new costumes. To quell our nerves, Nissenen promises that“This reinvented production will remain the holiday classic that audiences know and love, but the experience will be enhanced exponentially.” I am so glad that they kept the Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky music. We are nervous but we will go to see it and let you know.

Since1974 when Arthur Fielder started the THE BOSTON HOLIDAY POPS, we have had the Pops as a must see destination. But as with all arts organizations, they need funds so they are presenting in addition to holiday season their 29th annunal “ A COMPANY CHRISTMAS AT POPS.” Special guest artist, is VANESSA WILLIAMS, singer , TV actress and former Miss America.

And now, drumroll please, I know that it is shameless gratuitous promotion, but I have been working on a documentary for over 3 years called BROADWAY MUSICALS, A Jewish Legacy.
It will be aired on PBS GREAT PERFORMANCES Jan 1 at 9:30 PM. I hope that you can stay up long enough to watch or DVR it. Let me know what you think.
For the BUZZ this is Barbara Brilliant.

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JUANJO MENA LEADS BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN AMERICAN PREMIERE OF FINNISH COMPOSER KAIJA SAARIAHO’S CIRCLE MAP, FOR ORCHESTRA AND ELECTRONICS, A BSO CO-COMMISSION, NOVEMBER 1-6 AT SYMPHONY HALL

CIRCLE MAP WAS COMMISSIONED BY SIX ORCHESTRAS IN SIX DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
GOTHENBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ORCHESTRE NATIONALE DE FRANCE,
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA, AND STAVANGER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

PROGRAM ALSO FEATURES GIL SHAHAM IN BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S RARELY PERFORMED
VIOLIN CONCERTO, AND MR. MENA LEADS BSO IN DVOŘÁK’S SYMPHONY NO. 7

Performances to take place Thursday, November 1, Saturday, November 3, and
Tuesday, November 6, at 8 p.m., and Friday, November 2, at 1:30 p.m.

Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in four concerts Thursday, November 1-Tuesday, November 6, with a program featuring the American premiere of influential Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map, for orchestra and electronics, a BSO co-commission. Violinist Gil Shaham, a frequent guest with the orchestra, joins the BSO for Benjamin Britten’s rarely performed Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Dvořák’s darkly majestic Symphony No. 7, which bespeaks both his love for his native Bohemia and the influence of his mentor, Johannes Brahms.

Circle Map was commissioned by six orchestras in six different countries, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Netherlands), the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway). The world premiere took place in Amsterdam on June 22, 2012 by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki. The BSO’s upcoming American premiere of Circle Map follows a performance of the work by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra on September 28.

For complete programs, ticket information, photos, and artist bios, click here: https://www.box.com/s/bdc46390a330b3d7eba0.

PROGRAM DETAILS
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map, a new work for orchestra and electronics organized around text by the 13th-century Persian poet and theologian Rumi, receives its American premiere to begin the program. Saariaho, known for her exotic, unique sense of musical color, treats the recorded sounds of the spoken text as musical material, using electronics to modify and isolate aspects and textures of the voice and weave them together with the live orchestral performance. The poems featured in Circle Map include Rumi’s “Morning Wind”; “Walls closing”; “Circles”; “Days are sieves”; “Dialogue”; and “Day and Night, Music.” The BSO’s relationship with Ms. Saariaho goes back to October 19-21, 2000, when the orchestra first performed her Château de l’âme, five songs for soprano, eight female voices, and orchestra. The BSO also performed her 2001 composition, Nymphéa Reflections on April 20-25, 2006, and gave the world premiere performance of her Notes on Light for cello and orchestra, a BSO 125th anniversary commission, February 22-27, 2007.

Sharing the first half of the program is Britten’s Violin Concerto, dating from 1939, the first work the English composer completed after emigrating to the United States. A pacifist, Britten was deeply disturbed by the gathering storm in Europe, and this concerto is flavored with a sense of impending and inevitable tragedy. Despite the darkness of its character, Britten was very happy with the work, calling it “without question my best piece” upon its completion.

In January 1884, Dvořák traveled to Berlin to attend a performance of the Symphony No. 3 by his close friend and musical mentor Brahms. The inspiration gained from that experience, along with a commission from London later that year, became the impetus for his own Symphony No. 7. Reflecting Dvořák’s inner turmoil at the recent loss of his mother and the outer conflict of Bohemia’s rising nationalism, the Seventh is the composer’s darkest, most severe work. But it is also one of his greatest, and Dvořák was desperately proud of it, telling his publisher that it contained “not one superfluous note,” and writing to a friend that “wherever I go I can think of nothing else. God grant that this Czech music will move the world!”

JUANJO MENA
Juanjo Mena made his BSO debut at Tanglewood on July 31, 2010, when he filled in for James Levine and led the BSO in a program of Berg, Strauss, and Mahler. He made his Symphony Hall debut on October 13-18, 2011, on a program including Bartók’s The Wooden Prince and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, featuring soloist Yo-Yo Ma.

Juanjo Mena is one of the most renowned Spanish conductors on the international circuit. He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao (1999- 2008) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (2007- 2010). He is now Principal Guest Conductor of the Bergen Filharmoniske Orkestra (2007- 2013) and Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011- 2012 season. He has conducted prestigious Orchestras in Europe and Asia, as the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, BBC Scottish Symphony, RAI Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi or Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. His brilliant career in America has led him to conduct the Symphonic Orchestras from Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, Indianapolis and Baltimore, among others. Juanjo Mena frequently collaborates with the best Spanish orchestras. Among his future engagements, he will conduct Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Yo-Yo Ma. He has also been invited to conduct the Denmark Radio Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orquesta Nacional de España, Prague Symphony, Sao Paolo Symphony, and Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya.
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Kaija Saariaho is a prominent member of a group of Finnish composers and performers who are now, in mid-career, making a worldwide impact. Born in Helsinki in 1952, she studied at the Sibelius Academy with the pioneering modernist Paavo Heininen and, with Magnus Lindberg and others, she founded the progressive ‘Ears Open’ group. She continued her studies in Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber, at the Darmstadt summer courses, and, from 1982, at the IRCAM research institute in Paris. At IRCAM, Saariaho developed techniques of computer-assisted composition and acquired fluency in working on tape and with live electronics. This influenced her approach to writing for orchestra, with its emphasis on the shaping of dense masses of sound in slow transformations. Significantly, her first orchestral piece, Verblendungen (1984), involves a gradual exchange of roles and character between orchestra and tape. And even the titles of her next, linked, pair of orchestral works, Du Cristal (1989) and …à la Fumée (1990) suggest their preoccupation with color and texture. In opera, Saariaho has had outstanding success. L’Amour de loin, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf based on an early biography of the twelfth-century troubadour Jaufré Rudel, received widespread acclaim in its premiere production directed by Peter Sellars at the 2000 Salzburg Festival, and won the composer a prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Adriana Mater, on an original libretto by Maalouf, mixing gritty present-day reality and dreams, followed, again directed by Sellars, at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in March 2006. Emilie, an opera and monodrama for Karita Mattila had its premiere in Lyon in March 2010. Saariaho’s vocal works include Château de l’âme (1996), Oltra mar (1999), the song-cycle Quatre instants (2002), and La Passion de Simone, portraying the life and death of the philosopher Simone Weil, formed part of Sellars’s international festival ‘New Crowned Hope’ in 2006-07. Saariaho’s awards include the Grawemeyer Award, the Wihuri Prize, the Nemmers Prize, and the Sonning Prize. In 2015 she will be the judge of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award.

GIL SHAHAM
A regular guest artist with the BSO since his debut with the orchestra at Symphony Hall in 1992, Gil Shaham last appeared with the BSO during Tanglewood 75th Anniversary season last summer during the John Williams’ 80th Birthday Celebration on August 18 and performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the BSO and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos on August 19. He last appeared at Symphony Hall on October 2-4, 2008, performing Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with the BSO and conductor André Previn.

Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time, combining flawless technique with inimitable warmth and a generosity of spirit. He is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and he regularly gives recital and ensemble appearances on the great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals. Shaham continues his long-term exploration of “Violin Concertos of the 1930s,” which comprises performances at some of the most well-established concert venues with the world’s greatest orchestras. In January 2012, he begins the year performing Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony. He tackles Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto in February with the New World Symphony and fills out the rest of the season giving performances of the Hartmann, Berg, and Stravinsky concertos with the orchestras of New York, London and Atlanta, respectively. In October, Shaham brings Brahms’s Violin Concerto to Carnegie Hall with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and later in the season he reprises the concerto with the orchestras of San Francisco, Boston and Delaware. This fall also sees Shaham exploring several of Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin on a US recital tour. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, including bestsellers that have appeared on record charts in the US and abroad. These recordings have earned prestigious awards, including multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice.

TICKET, SPONSORSHIP, AND OTHER PATRON INFORMATION
TICKET INFORMATION
Subscriptions for the BSO’s 2012-13 season are available by calling the BSO Subscription Office at 888-266-7575 or online through the BSO’s website (www.bso.org).

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
October 8, 2012

(BOSTON) – From October 19 to November 17, SpeakEasy Stage will proudly present the Boston premiere of the acclaimed rock musical BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON.

Featuring a book by Alex Timbers, and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON recreates and reinvents the life of ‘Old Hickory’ from his humble beginnings on the Tennessee frontier to his days as our seventh Commander-in-Chief. Using an anachronism-filled emo-rock score, the show tells the story of America’s first maverick president, who kicked British butt, shafted the Indians, and smacked down the Spaniards, all in the name of these United States.

Norton Award–winner Paul Melone will direct the Boston premiere production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. Melone, who is also the company’s General Manager and Production Manager, has SpeakEasy credits that include Reasons to be Pretty; Adding Machine: A Musical; The Little Dog Laughed; Fat Pig; The Moonlight Room; Our Lady of 121st Street; and The Shape of Things.

Music director Nicholas James Connell, choreographer Larry Sousa, and fight choreographer Angie Jepson round out the creative team.

Gus Curry and Mary Callanan headline an exceptional Boston cast that includes Brandon Barbosa, Samil Battenfeld, Ryan Halsaver, Tom Hamlett, Amy Jo Jackson, Diego Klock-Perez, Michael Levesque, Evan Murphy, Josh Pemberton, Ben Rosenblatt, Alessandra Vaganek, and Brittany Walters. Mr. Curry, who made his Boston- area debut this past summer in the Gloucester Stage production of Carnival, will star as Andrew Jackson in the SpeakEasy production. Ms. Callanan, who is returning to the Boston stage after two years on the road with the national touring company of Mamma Mia, will play The Storyteller.

The SpeakEasy design team includes Eric Levenson (scenic), Elisabetta Polito (costume), Jeff Adelberg (lighting), and Eric Norris (sound) and Natalie Kearns (props). Amy Spalletta is the Production Stage Manager, and Katharine Clanton is the Assistant Stage Manger.

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON will play from Oct. 19 – Nov. 17 in the intimate Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St. in Boston’s South End.

Ticket prices start at $25. There are discounts for students and seniors. Persons under age 25 are $25 at all times. Student rush tickets are $14, and go on sale one hour before curtain, limit one per valid student ID. . For tickets or more information, the public is invited to call 617-933-8600 or visit www.SpeakEasyStage.com.

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Production History

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON was developed by the New York-based experimental theater company Les Freres Corbusier, whose Artistic Director is Alex Timbers, one of the show’s creators. After workshop productions in August, 2006 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and May, 2007 at the New 42nd Street Studios in New York, Center Theatre Group picked up the show for a Los Angeles run in January, 2008 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

In May, 2009, the Public Theater in New York presented a concert version of the show, and then brought it back for a full production in March, 2010. This Off-Broadway version won the show an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical.

In September, 2010, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON moved to Broadway with many of the Off-Broadway cast reprising their roles, including Benjamin Walker as Andrew Jackson. The Broadway production garnered numerous award wins and nominations, including Tony Award nominations for Best Book and Best Scenic Design, a Drama Desk win for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music. The Broadway production ended its Broadway run in January, 2011.

Performance Schedule: October 19 – Nov 17, 2012
Wed., Thurs. at 7:30PM; Fri at 8PM; Sat. at 4PM & 8PM; Sun. at 3PM

Run Time: 100 minutes without intermission

Ticket Prices: Tickets Start at $25. Students & Seniors : $5 off at all times.
Age 25 and Under: $25 at all times.

Student Rush: $14 with valid college ID, at the box-office only, one hour
before curtain, subject to availability.

Box Office: 617-933-8600; www.BostonTheatreScene.com

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
presents
Chaim Potok’s

THE CHOSEN
Adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok
From the novel by Chaim Potok
October 19 – November 17, 2012

Performances begin Friday, October 19, 8pm
“An engrossing and intelligent adaptation. A rich, satisfying, and thought provoking entertainment.”
– Talkin’ Broadway

CREATIVE TEAM:
Directed by Daniel Gidron

Scenic Design, Brynna Bloomfield
Costume Design, Mallory Frers
Lighting Design, John Malinowski
Sound Design, Dewey Dellay
Floor Projections, Martin Mendelsberg

FEATURING:

Charles Linshaw* Reuven Malter
Zachary Eisenstat Young Reuven
Joel Colodner* Reb Saunders
Will McGarrahan* David Malter
Luke Murtha Danny Saunders

*Member of Actors Equity Association (AEA) ** United Scenic Artists (USA-Local 829)

WHEN: October 19 – November 17, 2012
Wednesdays, Thursdays – 7:30pm
Wednesday matinees – 2pm, October 24, November 14
Fridays – 8pm
Saturdays – 3pm & 8pm
Sundays – 3pm

Post-show talkbacks: Sundays, October 21, November 4 after 3pm performance
Press opening: Sunday, October 21, 3pm
VIP Opening: Wednesday, October 24 – 7:30pm (post-show reception with cast and crew — open to all ticket holders)

WHERE: The Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116

TICKETS: $25 – $58.
Seniors – $5 off regular price.
Student rush – $10.
Group rates available.

Box Office: 617-585-5678
website: lyricstage.com

ABOUT THE CAST:

Joel Colodner* (Reb Saunders) last appeared at The Lyric Stage in My Name Is Asher Lev. In the Boston area he has appeared in Three Viewings (New Rep), Mrs.Whitney (Merrimack Rep), Light in the Piazza, The Wrestling Patient (SpeakEasy Stage), Henry I, parts 1 & 2, The Duchess of Malfi, King John, Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Regional: How I Learned to Drive (off-Broadway), The Rainmaker (The Guthrie), Streamers, Comedians, Hamlet (Arena Stage), and The Seagull (Pittsburgh Public Theatre). He was in the original cast of the musical Is There Life After High School? (Hartford Stage) and was in the revival of Arthur Miller’s An American Clock (Mark Taper Forum). He has guest starred in numerous series including LA Law, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, and Remington Steele, and played a host of doctors and lawyers (mostly) in TV movies. He played Bart Walker, a psycho-cardio-interno-gynecologist on the daytime serial Texas.

Zachary Eisenstat (Young Reuven) returns to The Lyric Stage after appearing in Superior Donuts and Big River last season. After earning a degree in Engineering from M.I.T., he spent a few years working on Wall St. and watching theatre. Now, he works in theatre. Recent area credits include Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Play about the Baby (Exquisite Corps) and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Now!). He also performed in Matchmaker, Matchmaker I’m Willing to Settle (2011 NY Musical Festival) and took the stage for a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

Charles Linshaw* (Reuven Malter) is making his Lyric Stage debut. Previous Boston credits include Experiment America 2012 (A.R.T/Huntington/ICA), work at The Nora Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gloucester Stage, The Publick Theatre, Matilda Productions/Factory Theatre, and the Boston Theatre Marathon, and staged readings and workshops for the A.R.T., Huntington Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, The Nora Theatre, and Fresh Ink Theatre. New York credits: Classic Stage Company, Twilight Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival, HERE Arts Center, PS 122, Gene Frankel Underground, and many readings. M.F.A. from Columbia University. Dialect/vocal coach for Photograph 51 (Nora Theatre). Part-time faculty at Northeastern University. Previously, guest lecturer at Brandeis University. Voiceover work for Frontline on PBS, including A Death in Tehran, The Confessions, and Rules of Engagement. Recent on-camera work includes several indie films and a Bruins commercial. Proud, long-time member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Charles dedicates his performance to the memory of his father, Michael A. Linshaw and Rabbi Emil Hager.

Will McGarrahan* (David Malter) returns to The Lyric Stage where he performed in The Temperamentals, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, November, Souvenir, and Dirty Blonde. Other local credits include Next Fall, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reckless, Some Men, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Five By Tenn, Company, The Last Sunday in June, Elegies: A Song Cycle, Ruthless!, A Class Act, A New Brain (SpeakEasy Stage), The Wind in the Willows. Happy Days (Gloucester Stage), Nine Circles (Publick Theatre and Gloucester Stage), A Moon for the Misbegotten, Buried Child (Nora Theater), and The Wrestling Patient (SpeakEasy Stage/Boston Playwrights/40 Magnolias). Will worked as an actor, singer and pianist for many years in Seattle before moving to Boston’s South End in 2001.

Luke Murtha (Danny Saunders) is making his Lyric Stage debut. Recent area credits include The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), Gross Indecency, Arcadia (Bad Habit Productions), Polaroid Stories (Heart and Dagger/Boston Actor’s Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Stoneham Theatre), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Happy Medium Theatre), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Nora Theatre Company). He appeared in the film Fresh Water, which was screened at Rhode Island International Film Festival, and The Sounds of Blades in Rotation, which was screened at Woods Hole Film Festival and Big Apple Festival. He received a B.A. in English with a concentration in Theatre Performance from Fitchburg State University in 2011. He hails from Westminster, MA and currently lives in Jamaica Plain.

Daniel Gidron (Director) returns to The Lyric Stage where he previously directed Or, Communicating Doors, The Complete History of America (abridged), The Under­pants, Dying City, November, and Groundswell. He was born in Israel to a theatrical family and acted at the Habimah National Theatre, and in many radio plays. In Israel, he directed Peace Peace and There Is No Peace (Habimah National Theatre); his adaptation of Amos Oz’s Late Love (Haifa Municipal Theatre); The Good Soldier Schweik (Idan Theatre); Endgame featuring a cast of Arabs and Jews (Beit Lessin); The Zoo Story and The Dumb Waiter in Arabic (HaGeffen Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and the world premiere ofAnton Shammas’ Wash Your Face, O Moon(Al-Midan Arab Theatre);and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Beersheva Municipal Theatre). Directing credits in the U.S. include Absurd Person Singular, The Fantasticks, (Peterborough Players); Broadway Bound, Cantorial, Beau Jest, The Sisters Rosensweig, Social Security, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Old Wicked Songs (Jew­ish Theatre of New England); Camping with Henry and Tom(Worcester Foothills Theatre); Amsterdam(La Mama ETC); City Preacher (ACT Roxbury/Boston Center for the Arts); The Loman Family Picnic (Gloucester Stage Company); Visiting Mr. Green (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Underpants, The Foreigner, Unnecessary Farce, Stonewall’s Bust (Mountain Playhouse, Jennerstown, PA); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (New Repertory Theatre); Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Mid­summer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Now!). He directed Menotti’s The Consul (Opera Boston), Michel Tremblay’s Bonjour la, Bonjour (Brandeis University, U.S .premiere) and Albertine, in Five Times(Nora Theatre Company). Daniel directed Annette Miller in the world premiere of William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony (Shakespeare & Company and Tremont Theatre; IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards, Best Solo Performance). He is Associate Director of the Nora Theatre Company, where he has directed over 20 productions including Bed and Sofa, Mere Mortals, The Unexpected Man, Smelling a Rat, the world premiere of Richard McElvain’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, How I Got That Story, Full Gallop (also for Shakespeare & Company), Buried Child, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Cherry Orchard, The Caretaker, The Lady with All the Answers, Hysteria, and Silver Spoon. Upcoming projects include Arabian Nights and Photograph 51.A Fulbright scholar, he earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. (Acting/Directing) from Brandeis University where he also taught for 18 years. He currently teaches at UMass Boston.

Brynna Bloomfield (Set and Projection Design) returns to The Lyric Stage where she designed The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Goat, The Lisbon Traviata, and Never the Sinner. Elsewhere in the Boston area, Brynna has designed productions for the Nora Theater, SpeakEasy Stage, Act Roxbury, Emerson College, and Shakespeare and Company. She is also a professional mask maker, and is on the faculty at Emerson College, where she teaches mask making and design. Brynna is a founding member of Israeli Stage. She received her M.F.A. from Brandeis University and is a member of USA Local 829. She wishes to thank her community in Sharon for generously offering use of their personal shtenders in this play.

Martin Mendelsberg (Floor Projections) is an artist, graphic designer, and typographer who has exhibited internationally in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, and the United States. His work is represented in permanent collections at Yale University, The New Zealand National Gallery, The Victoria University School of Architecture, The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersberg, FL, The Mizel Museum in Denver, CO, and the Govett–Brewster Contemporary Art Museum in New Zealand. His next major exhibit opens April, 2014 at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI. Holocaust Portfolio. Martin’s Hebrew typefaces are distributed by Masterfont, Ltd. In Tel Aviv, Israel. www.HolocaustPortfolio.org/

Mallory Frers (Costume Design) returns to The Lyric Stage after designing Superior Donuts, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Broke-ology, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Shipwrecked!, Speech and Debate, and The Year of Magical Thinking. as well as this past summer’s Lyric First Stage productions of Coriolanus and As Thousands Cheer. Her recent credits include Hounds of the Baskervilles (Central Square Theatre), and Measure for Measure (UMASS Lowell). She has also had the pleasure of designing for the last three seasons for the A.R.T/MXAT Institute at the American Repertory Theatre. She has served as the wardrobe supervisor for Emerson Stage and is a graduate of Emerson College where she earned her B.F.A. in Design Technology.

Dewey Dellay (Composer/Sound Design) returns to The Lyric Stage having designed for My Name Is Asher Lev, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Fully Committed. Dewey won Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Design for his music and design on The Women (SpeakEasy Stage), 9 Parts of Desire and Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage), and an IRNE Award for Best Sound Design on Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage). For television he has composed music for National Geographic’s China’s Mystery Mummies; Discovery Channel’s Miami Jail, and his music is heard on America’s Spookiest Places, Date Patrol, and national commercials. Dew

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA OPENS 2012/13 SEASON

WITH AN ALL-NEW PRODUCTION OF

PUCCINI’S MADAMA BUTTERFLY

November 2 – 11, 2012

High resolution photos available on request

(BOSTON – Oct. 3, 2012) Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens its 2012/13 Season with a new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Nov. 2 – 11, 2012, starring soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut in her signature role of Cio-Cio San. (Press night is Nov. 2. Please reply to this email with requests.) Performances take place at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre (265 Tremont St., Boston) with evening performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. and matinees at 3 p.m. Tickets, starting at $30, are on sale now at blo.org. For more information, call 617-542-6772.

Madama Butterfly, one of Puccini’s most compelling works, fusing soaring musical lyricism with deep psychological and emotional depth, opens the 2012/13 Season on a passionate note with a brand new look at one of the most devastating love stories ever told on the opera stage. Directed by Lillian Groag (Agrippina, 2011; Idomeneo, 2010) and conducted by Andrew Bisantz (Tosca, 2010), the production stars soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut as Cio-Cio San, a role for which she has received widespread critical acclaim and which Opera News recently declared her “signature role.” The new BLO production features new scenery by renowned designer John Conklin that evokes a delicately beautiful traditional Japanese setting, in which the tragic tale of love destroyed by a clash of cultures unfolds. A young geisha turns her back on all she has known and experienced and recreates herself in search of a new path, an escape, and a way towards love. She destroys herself in the process. The psychology of Cio-Cio San is shown through scenes of visionary insight and moments of frozen beauty that reveal her obsessions, her delusions, her fragility, and her endless capacity for passion and love. Tenor Dinyar Vania makes his BLO debut as Lieutenant Pinkerton. Mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, seen recently in Opera Boston’s Béatrice et Bénédict, makes her debut as Suzuki, while baritone Weston Hurt debuts as Sharpless.

Boston Lyric Opera opens its new season on strong fiscal footing. In June, BLO surpassed its 2011 record for the most contributed funds in its history, with over $5 million raised last fiscal year. Three hundred fifty new donors helped push BLO well over its goal.

Performance Schedule:
Friday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 4, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 11, 3 p.m.

RELATED EVENT

Signature Series: Broken Blossoms

Explorations on Madama Butterfly

Western artists at the turn of the last century were mesmerized by Japanese culture. Enjoy performances and readings of works by Puccini, Stravinsky, Pound, and the Belasco play that became the opera’s source. Immerse yourself in the beauty, ambiguity, and sometimes disturbing complexities of the Western perception of Japanese aesthetics.

These provocative preludes to the operas in BLO’s season take place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and employ a variety of art forms such as film, visual arts, theater, and music in one imaginative presentation. The Signature Series is enjoyed by opera fans as well as people who are simply curious.

Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, The Museum of Fine Arts

Program at 2 p.m., Remis Auditorium

Reception at 3 p.m., Bravo Restaurant

$18 – BLO subscribers, MFA members, seniors and students

$22 – Non-Members

Add $50 for reception with BLO presenters and performers

To purchase tickets visit the MFA’s website here, or contact Heather Coulter at hcoulter@blo.org or 617-542-4912 x229.

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Upcoming

NEW OPERA ANNEX PRODUCTION
Feb. 6, 7, 9, 10m, 2013
Artists For Humanity EpiCenter, 100 West 2nd Street, Boston

CLEMENCY – North American Premiere
New BLO production
Co-commissioned by BLO, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Scottish Opera; and Britten Sinfonia
Sung in English
Music by James MacMillan │Libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts

Preceded by
HAGAR’S LAMENT
Sung in English
Music by Franz Schubert │Text by Clemens August Schücking ___________________________________________

COSÌ FAN TUTTE
New BLO production
Sung in English with projected titles
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart│Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
March 15, 17m, 20, 22, 24m, 2013
Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
New BLO production
Sung in German with projected English translation
Music and libretto by Richard Wagner, after an episode in Heine’s Memoiren des von Schnabelewopski
April 26, 28m, May 1, 3, 5m, 2013
Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is New England’s largest opera company. Founded in 1976, BLO is recognized for its artistically excellent productions of a diverse repertoire that entertain and inspire audiences and feature emerging operatic talent. BLO produces four productions each season: three at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre in Boston and an Opera Annex production in a found space. BLO’s programs are funded, in part, by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. blo.org.

ENGLISH CONDUCTOR BRAMWELL TOVEY LEADS CONCERT PERFORMANCES OF GERSHWIN’S PORGY AND BESS SEPTEMBER 27-29

Performances to take place Thursday, September 27, Friday, September 28,
and Saturday, September 29, at 8 p.m.

Reprising one of the highlights of Tanglewood 2011, English conductor Bramwell Tovey, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a distinguished cast of soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus present three performances September 27–29 of George Gershwin’s great American masterpiece, the blues-and-jazz-inflected Porgy and Bess, a view of African-American life in the South Carolina fishing community of Catfish Row during the 1920s. The cast for these concert performances is headlined by Alfred Walker and Laquita Mitchell in the title roles and also includes sopranos Alison Buchanan, Angel Blue, and Marquita Lister; mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann; contralto Gwendolyn Brown; tenors Calvin Lee, Jermaine Smith, and Chauncey Packer; and baritones Gregg Baker, Patrick Blackwell, John Fulton, Robert Honeysucker, and Leon Williams.

For complete programs, ticket information, photos, and artist bios, click here: https://www.box.com/s/bdc46390a330b3d7eba0.

Scullers Jazz Club
At DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Boston
400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA, 02134

September 4, 2012
For immediate release:
October- December, 2012
Updated List of shows

Show times are 8pm & 10pm, Tuesday through Saturday and 4pm & 7pm on Sunday (unless otherwise indicated).
Tickets on sale now through Scullers Box Office at 617-562-4111
Online at www.scullersjazz.com
OCTOBER

Tuesday, October 2
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show Times: 8pm
BOB WOLFMAN
http://bobwolfman.com/
TRANSITION with Kenwood Dennard on drums, James Cammack on Bass and Ferdi Argenti on keys. “Simply one of the best guitarists in the U.S. today!” ~ Boston Globe

Wednesday, October 3
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
AARDVARK JAZZ ORCHESTRA
http://www.aardvarkjazz.com/
Praised for “exuberance, imagination and sheer brio” (Jazz Review UK), The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra kicks off its historic 40th season.
The October 3rd show will celebrate the release of Aardvark’s 11th CD, “Evocations”

Thursday, October 4
Show: $25
Dinner & Show: $65
Show times: 8pm only
DAVE SAMUELS & CARIBBEAN JAZZ PROJECT
http://www.dsamuels.com/
Dave Samuels/vibes and marimba, Lincoln Goines/bass, Arturo Stable/percussion, Oscar Feldman/alto and soprano saxes, Vince Cherico/drums

Friday-Saturday, October 5-6
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
ELIANE ELIAS
http://elianeelias.com/
New CD Release “Swept Away”
Multi-GRAMMY® Award nominee, Brazilian pianist/singer/composer/arranger Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots and her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive compositional and piano skills.

Wednesday, October 10
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show time: 8pm
DONNY McCASLIN
http://www.donnymccaslin.com/
Latest release “Casting for Gravity”. “He’s a versatile player who moves easily between inside and outside musical zones . . . There’s a fluidity and grace to his playing even when he’s pushing at envelopes.” Josef Woodard for JazzTimes

Thursday, October 11
Show: $25
Dinner & Show: $65
Show time: 8pm
STEVE KUHN with Gadi Lehavi as opening act
http://stevekuhnmusic.com/
http://forward.com/articles/142234/israeli-piano-prodigy-takes-jazz-world-by-storm/
This esteemed pianist is joined by a 15 year old Israeli piano prodigy Gadi Lehavi who is already being compared to jazz great Herbie Hancock.

Friday, October 12
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show time: 8pm & 10pm
LORETTA LAROCHE “JEST & JAZZ”
http://www.lorettalaroche.com/
Loretta LaRoche, International stress management & Humorist with Kenny Wenzel and his trio; Chris Taylor on the keyboards, Peter Kontrimas on bass and Gene Roma on drums, in her all new show combining mirth, music and mayhem!

Thursday, October 18
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show time:8pm & 10pm
DAN HICKS
http://www.danhicks.net/
Singer-songwriter Dan Hicks is truly an American original. Since the early 1960s, Hicks has deftly blended elements of Swing, Jazz, Folk and Country music to create the appealing sound he sometimes calls “Folk Jazz”.

Friday, October 19
Show: $28
Dinner & Show: $68
Show time: 8pm & 10pm
KARRIN ALLYSON
http://www.karrin.com/
“She’s been described as a “musician’s musician,” and for once the overused term actually makes sense – a complete performance by a complete artist – one of the jazz world’s finest.” – Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times.

Tuesday, October 23
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
ATHENE WILSON
http://www.athenewilson.com/
Three time Boston Urban Music Award winner, she is a consummate professional who performs private and public events for a variety of clients and venues including clubs, festivals, corporate and organizational events.

Wednesday, October 24
Show: $22
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
MARIA TECCE
http://www.mariatecce.com/
This Boston-born performer began her musical career not in the US but in Europe and over the last few years has steadily gained critical and public recognition for both her performing and writing.
Maria has a passion for folk songs of other countries in their original languages and has a repertoire of Spanish, Italian, French, and Polish songs.

Thursday-Friday, October 25-26
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
KURT ELLING
http://kurtelling.com/
New CD “1619 Broadway – The Brill Building Project”
With this new album, Elling celebrates a legendary legacy outside the jazz world.
1619 Broadway – The Brill Building Project
honors a locale that the London Telegraph called “the most important generator of popular songs in the Western world.” Even for the ceaselessly inventive Elling it’s a hugely unexpected step, and one guaranteed to further solidify his reputation for bold innovation and superb craftsmanship.

Saturday-Sunday, October 27-28
Show: $40
Dinner & Show: $80
Show times: 8pm &10pm /Saturday
4pm & 7pm/Sunday
SPYRO GYRA
http://www.spyrogyra.com/
From the samba rhythms and Caribbean feel of their early hits to the latest album, they have made it a point to embrace the music of the places they have visited. Their new album, A Foreign Affair, is ready to take you around the world from the Caribbean to South America, and even to South Africa, India and Japan.

Tuesday, October 30
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
MOZIK PRESENTS JOBIM WITH SPECIAL GUEST REBECCA PARRIS
Lead by Brazilian pianist Gilson Schachnik and drummer Mauricio Zottarelli, the tight quintet features an international cast of highly-regarded musicians: Brazilian guitarist Gustavo Assis-Brasil, Russian flutist Yulia Musayelyan and Argentine bassist Fernando Huergo round out the group.

Wednesday, October 31
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
NEC – SINGERS & SONGWRITERS
New England Conservatory talent showcase.

NOVEMBER

Thursday-Friday, November 1-2
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show time: 8pm & 10pm
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY
http://www.acoustic-alchemy.net/
For nearly 25 years, Acoustic Alchemy has pushed the limits of the acoustic guitar’s potential by embracing a spectrum of musical styles ranging from straightahead jazz to folk to rock to world music and beyond. In the two and a half decades since their earliest recordings – despite a tragic setback in the late 1990s and the inherent challenges of the 21st century music industry – the group has assembled and sustained a vast and loyal following that stretches well beyond their U.K. origins.

Thursday, November 8
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $70
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
RICHARD ELLIOT
http://www.richardelliot.com/
Richard Elliot’s new CD “In the Zone”, a grooving, funked up, horn-splashed collection that finds the energized-as-ever tenor saxophonist paying homage to the pioneering instrumental artists of his formative years (’70s-early ’80s) whose brilliance and musical innovations inspired his own.

Friday, November 9
Show: $25
Dinner & Show: $65
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
GRACE KELLY
http://www.gracekellymusic.com/
Fourth year in a row named to “Alto Saxophonist Rising Star”
list in the Annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll Aug 2012

Tuesday, November 13
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show time: 8pm
INTERNATIONAL STRING TRIO
http://www.internationalstringtrio.com/
The trio’s repertoire includes classical, jazz, popular and world music (Italian, French, Russian, Jewish, Spanish, Latin American, Gipsy and Irish).

Wednesday, November 14
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show time: 8pm
YOKO MIWA
http://yokomiwa.com
“Pianist Yoko Miwa displays unpretentious melodies, elegant phrasing, and the lyrical sensibility of a jazz poet.”
-Jazziz Magazine

Thursday-Friday, November 15-16
Show: $38
Dinner & Show: $78
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
NAJEE
http://www.najeemusic.com/landing-page/
A quadruple threat who is equally adept on soprano, tenor and alto saxophones and flute.

Tuesday, November 20
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
LYDIA HARRELL and LovelySinger
http://www.lovelysinger.com/
Boston vocalist and voice instructor.
In early 2012, she was selected to record a Bob Marley tribute album by Sony Music Latin, which is expected to be released in the Fall/Winter of 2012!

Friday-Saturday, November 23-24
Show: $40
Dinner & Show: $80
Show time: 8pm & 10pm
ARTURO SANDOVAL
http://www.arturosandoval.com/
Arturo Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and sooth you with a luscious ballad; with equal power and grace…

Tuesday, November 27
Show: $20
Dinner & Show: $60
Show times: 8pm
INTRODUCING ALBARE
The band features Albare on guitar, Hendrik Meurkens on harmonica, Phil Turcio on piano, Phil Rex on bass and Pablo Bencid on drums.
“My band is a tribute to the human spirit of adventure. There are African, Middle-Eastern and South-European flavors on the new release and in the band along with diverse sounds, melodies and rhythms. All of it is interwoven and fused with the jazz heritage,” Albare says.

Wednesday, November 28
Show: $25
Dinner & Show: $65
Show times: 8pm
BILL & BO WINIKER – PART 2
http://www.winikermusic.com/

DECEMBER

Sunday, December 2
Show: $35
Dinner & Show: $75
Show times: 4pm
MICHAEL DUTRA “STRICTLY SINATRA”
http://www.strictlysinatranow.com/
Christmas Show!!

Tuesday-Wednesday, December 4-5
Show: $40
Dinner & Show: $80
Show times: 8pm & 10pm
A PETER WHITE Christmas with Mindi Abair & Rick Braun
http://www.peterwhite.com/
Peter White leads an all star lineup featuring Rick Braun and Mindi Abair playing dazzling arrangements of your favorite holiday songs. It will be a treat for the holiday season!

Thursday, December 6
Show: $22
Dinner & Show: $62
Show time: 8pm
BOBBI CARREY & WILL MCMILLAN
http://www.bobbicarrey.com/
After five sold-out shows at Scullers, critically acclaimed vocalists, Bobbi Carrey & Will McMillan, return with their newest show, “Mostly Mercer,” celebrating one of the most acclaimed and prolific composers, lyricists, singers, and businessmen.

Friday-Saturday,
December 28-29
Show: $38
Dinner & Show: $78
Show times: 8pm $ 10pm
REGINA CARTER
http://www.reginacarter.com/
NEW CD “REVERSE THREAD”
Preeminent violinist and a MacArthur Fellow — a recipient of what is commonly known as the “genius grant”

OUR NEW YEARS EVE EVENT WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FALL OPEN HOUSE AT MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON CELEBRATES THE FENWAY ALLIANCE
OPENING OUR DOORS 11TH ANNIVERSARY WITH CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

Activities Include Hispanic Heritage Month Short Film Festival; the New Michael C. Ruettgers Gallery for Ancient Coins;
and Performances by the Boston Conservatory and the Anikai Dance Theater

BOSTON, MA (September 6, 2012)––The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will welcome visitors to its annual Fall Open House on Monday, October 18, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. In conjunction with the Celebrations Around the World theme, the Museum will present the Hispanic Heritage Month Short Film Festival, which highlights contemporary Spanish short films. Visitors can also visit the new Michael C. Ruettgers Gallery for Ancient Coins, the first gallery dedicated to coins at a major US art museum. Explore the five hundred ancient Greek and Roman coins from the Museum’s world-renowned collection on one of several iPads stationed throughout the gallery. Additionally, this family-friendly free day will include performances by the Boston Conservatory, the Anikai Dance Theater, DJ Berbere, as well as family art-making activities in the galleries and tours. Full schedule and details listed below.

SCHEDULE OF FREE FALL OPEN HOUSE ACTIVITIES

SPECIAL EVENTS

Hispanic Heritage Month Short Film Festival
1 p.m. & 3 p.m., Alfond Auditorium
An energetic and poignant collection of short films spans generations and countries to share the breadth of excellent contemporary Hispanic films coming from renowned international venues such as the Los Angeles Film Festival and South by Southwest Film Festival.

Boston Conservatory of Music presents MuzikoMonda
11 a.m. & 2 p.m., Remis Auditorium
As a world-renowned institution for educating undergraduate and graduate students, the Boston Conservatory fosters musicians from around the world. Enjoy a performance of world music featuring percussion, harp, and strings by the truly international ensemble, MuzikoMonda.

Anikai Dance Theater
11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., Edward H. Linde Gallery 168
ANIKAI Dance Theater will present a new, choreographed piece commissioned specifically for the MFA’s Fall Open House. Performed by Boston-based Wendy Jehlen and her team of captivating dancers, the performance weaves many world dance traditions into the structure of a “tillana,” a dance of celebration and ecstasy from the Bharata Natyam repertoire.

DJ Berbere
2 – 4 p.m., Calderwood Courtyard (Rain Location: Edward H. Linde Gallery 168)
DJ Berbere is Jonah Rapino, member of world-renowned Ethiopian funk collective Debo Band, one-third of silent film score performers Devil Music Ensemble, violinist, DJ, singer, and composer. As a resident of Jamaica Plain, Rapino is pushing the boundaries of what a DJ can be as he samples and loops from Middle Eastern, African, and Eastern European underground records and tapes. On top of this framework is Jonah’s innovative violin and vocal synthesis. The end product of DJ Berbere shows his American upbringing but highlights the international village of 21st-century Boston.

ART-MAKING ACTIVITIES—Drop in from 10: a.m. – 4 p.m.

Rangoli Designs
Druker Family Pavilion 159
Celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, and design your own Rangoli to welcome visitors into your home.

Silver Embossing
Koch Gallery 250
Find inspiration in silver objects that were once used during celebrations around Europe. Emboss your very own silver vessel or plate design.

Drawing in the Galleries
Gallery 207
Visit Juno, a Roman goddess, to get drawing tips and ideas from an artist as you sketch in the gallery.

Passport to the Americas
Sharf Visitor Center
Pick up your Passport for an adventures in the Art of the Americas Wing. Travel through each floor of the Wing with activities and fun facts.

Art Connections
Sharf Visitor Center
Pick up an Art Connections card exploring “Celebrations” around the world.

TOURS —Available throughout the day

Introduction to the Museum Collection Tours
Participants meet at the Sharf Visitor Center
*Spanish Language tour will take place at 2 p.m.; ASL tour will take place at 1:30 p.m.; Feeling for Form Tour will take place at 2:30 p.m.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is recognized for the quality and scope of its encyclopedic collection, which includes an estimated 450,000 objects. The Museum’s collection is made up of: Art of the Americas; Art of Europe; Contemporary Art; Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa; Art of the Ancient World; Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; Textile and Fashion Arts; and Musical Instruments. Open seven days a week, the MFA’s hours are Saturday through Tuesday, 10 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.; and Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 9:45 p.m. Admission (which includes one repeat visit within 10 days) is $25 for adults and $23 for seniors and students age 18 and older, and includes entry to all galleries and special exhibitions. Admission is free for University Members and youths age 17 and younger on weekdays after 3 p.m., weekends, and Boston Public Schools holidays; otherwise $10. Wednesday nights after 4 p.m. admission is by voluntary contribution (suggested donation $25). MFA Members are always admitted for free. The Museum is closed on New Year’s Day, Patriots’ Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. For more information, visit www.mfa.org or call 617.267.9300. The MFA is located on the Avenue of the Arts at 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.

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