BELLS ARE RINGING and More Set for BCCM's 2015-16 Season

BCCM is back ...better than ever... with a 2015-16 season full of fun and great music!

Coming in September! at the Heinen Theatre

BELLS ARE RINGING

Remember, if you can, a time before cell phones and the internet... a time when "Madmen" roamed the earth and expected their telephone answering girls to make sure they didn't miss any important messages. Meet Ella and the whole crew from Susanswerphone along with their, shall we say, interesting... no, a better word might be zany, clientele, and you have BCCM's 2015 concert musical-- the delightful Bells Are Ringing!

Written by the legendary team of Betty Comden and Adoph Green, with music by Jule Styne at his best, Bells Are Ringing opened on Broadway on November 29, 1956, and ran for just shy of a thousand performances, much to the delight of everyone who loves great musical comedy. (It was nominated for four Tony Awards and won two.)

Bells Are Ringing is a hilarious slice of the mid-Twentieth Century world lost to voice mail and texting. Go back in time with us for all the fun.

Bells Are Ringing runs Thursday, September 17, 2015, through Sunday, September 20, 2015 The Heinen Theatre, 3517 Austin (in Midtown) Five performances only! Season subscriptions on sale now. On-line or by phone at 713-645-6484. Individual tickets go on sale July 1, 2015.

THE CABARETS

BCCM will round out the 2015-16 season with cabaret evenings at the Performance Centre of the Ensemble Theatre, featuring the music of two of the Great American Songbook's most storied songwriters.

In February 2016 (3 performances-specific dates to be announced), BCCM will present Heart and Soul, a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael. In some circles, Hoagy Carmichael was as well known as an actor as he was as one of the America's best composers of popular music. He appeared in fourteen major motion pictures, and sang at least one of his songs in each. His most famous role was in the Academy Award-winning The Best Years of Our Lives in which his character teaches a veteran who had lost both arms in the war to play Chopsticks on the piano with his prostheses. Carmichael's winning personality made him popular on the screen and later on television, but it was music that was at his core. When he wasn't writing his own words, he collaborated with some of the Twentieth Century's best lyricists, including Johnny Mercer and Frank Loesser. His legacy includes such timeless hits as Stardust, Georgia On My Mind, The Nearness of You, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Skylark, and Heart and Soul.

In May 2016 (3 performances-specific dates to be announced), BCCM will return to the music of George Gershwin. Embraceable You will focus on the songs Gershwin wrote in the 1930s before his death from a brain tumor at the tragically-young age of only 39. The catalogue he left behind can only make one long for more and imagine the magnificence of the music he would have written had he lived. Among the songs he wrote in his last years were But Not for Me, Bidin' My Time, I Got Rhythm, Of Thee I Sing, Who Could Ask for Anything More, You Can't Take That Away from Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Our Love is Here to Stay, and of course, Embraceable You.

Get your BCCM 2015-16 season tickets now and assure yourself of the best tables for the cabarets. Season tickets range from $65 to $90 per person and are available on-line now.

And finish out THIS season with RIDIN' HIGH: Cole Porter in the 1930s, May 16-18 at the Performance Centre of the Ensemble Theatre.

Join your host, the witty and sophisticated Joel Sandel, musical director Rob Landes and your favorite BCCM cabaret stars for a jaunt through the 1930s and the unforgettable music of the great Cole Porter!

$25 per person. Buy Your Tickets on-line or call 713-465-6484.

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