Carnival Center Announces Fall 2007 Season!

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CARNIVAL CENTER ANNOUNCES
FALL 2007 SEASON:
"IT'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT, SO MAKE IT YOUR OWN"

Patrons can select their own season from an exciting array of attractions that
include Seraphic Fire singing Messiah, Motown giants The Four Tops and The
Temptations, Broadway legend Patti LuPone, and Brazil's first-rate contemporary dance company Deborah Colker.

Early buyer benefits include priority seating, bigger discounts on bigger
purchases, and parking incentives.

Carnival Center for the Performing Arts announced its Fall 2007 season, offering early ticket buyers the ability to choose their own season, lock in priority seating, get free parking vouchers and save up to 20% on ticket prices depending upon the number of tickets being purchased.

"Carnival Center Presents" Fall 2007 season represents the global mix that is Miami - a colorful and exciting representation of Latin, Middle Eastern, European, Caribbean and African Diaspora traditions – and, at the same time, features the brightest local artists, from the beloved Seraphic Fire singing Messiah to the world premiere of two works by South Florida artists that were commissioned and developed by the Center's Miami Made commissioning program," said Justin Macdonnell, Carnival Center artistic director.

THE SHOWS
Patrons who buy tickets now to the "Carnival Center Presents" Fall 2007 season can select from a wide variety of spectacular performances from around the world and from our own backyard, including musical legends Patti LuPone, The Four Tops and The Temptations in concert; the jazzy sabor latino of Omar Sosa & the Afreecanos Quartet and Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band; Calypso @ Dirty Jim's, a special gathering of the world's top Calypso musicians in a U.S. premiere presentation; the majestic all-male Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow; the return of the hit kid's show Mad Science: Newton's Revenge; the song-and-dance hootenanny of "Playhouse Disney" favorite Dan Zanes and Friends; and, on the heels of last season's Merce in Miami celebration, the international modern dance phenomenon from Brazil Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker.

The Fall 2007 lineup in the Center's Studio Theater, where all tickets are $25, features the return of The Classical Theatre of Harlem for back-to-back runs of Romeo and Juliet and Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death.Jazz royalty Freddy Cole and his Quartet transform the Studio Theater into the coziest jazz club in Miami with their smokey, romantic sounds, and three homegrown works will make their world premiere – Octavio Campos' provocative dance-theater meditation on sex, lies and death-wish eroticism, The Bugchasers; Marc Joseph's Haitian-and-hip-hop flavored play Refugee; and Jason Freeman's groundbreaking interactive musical work Flock.

The ride continues around the world with a trip to India through the traditional song and dance of Musafir;a post-modern take on the ancient myth of medEia from the Netherlands; the Stomp-meets-Riverdance one-man dance spectacular Tapeire, starring Ireland's James Devine and multi-platinum selling fiddler Ashley MacIsaac; and, from France, Théâtre du chapeau's Mano a Mano draws audiences into a hilarious off-kilter universe created by two brilliant (and mostly silent) performers.

The Center's Fall 2007 season culminates with an end-of-the-year holiday celebration featuring a warm and witty Christmas show by the fabled jazz quartet Manhattan Transfer and the Carnival Center debut of Seraphic Fire singing Messiah.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

• Buy 6-11 tickets to 3 or more shows and receive 10% off and priority seating.  Buy before June 1 and get 1 FREE self-parking voucher.
• Buy 12-17 tickets to 3 or more shows and receive 15% off and priority seating. Buy before June 1 and get 2 FREE self-parking vouchers.
• Buy 18-24 tickets to 3 or more shows and receive 20% and priority seating. Buy before June 1 and get 3 FREE self-parking vouchers.

Valet and self-parking vouchers can be pre-purchased through the Box Office at the time of ticket purchase. Self-parking options include the Omni Performing Arts Parking Garage and four other conveniently located Carnival Center-authorized lots. Visit www.carnivalcenter.org for map and directions.

To purchase tickets, call (305) 949-6722, visit www.carnivalcenter.org or go the to Carnival Center Box Office.

The Carnival Center Box Office is open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; Sundays beginning at noon when there is a performance scheduled; and two hours before every performance.

Tickets for individual performances are not available at this time.

CARNIVAL CENTER PRESENTS FALL 2007 CALENDAR

OCTOBER

kids and families
Mad Science
Don't Try This at Home II: Newton's Revenge
The hit kid's show of Carnival Center's 2006-07 season is back by popular demand. Watch out for the gravity-powered ping-pong ball launcher! Take cover during the sling-shot challenge! Get out of the way of the catapult's range! As entertaining as it is educational, Newton's Revenge is a spectacular stage show that explores the zany side of science while demonstrating that the laws of physics are part of everyday life.
Oct. 4 @ 9 & 11:30 a.m.
$8
Knight Concert Hall

intimate jazz
Freddy Cole Quartet
A member of America's royal family of singers, Freddy Cole doesn't apologize for sounding like his brother, Nat "King" Cole, but he has forged a smoky, romantic and easy sound that's all his own, in the process becoming one of this country's truly great interpreters of jazz. In truth, his phrasing is far closer to that of Frank Sinatra or Billie Holiday than that of his brother. "Freddy Cole has an impeccable sense of swing... he is, overall, the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive," said The New York Times. For this engagement, the audience will be seated at tables, transforming the Center's Studio Theater into a cozy jazz club.
Oct. 5 @ 7 & 9 p.m.
Oct. 6 @ 7 & 9 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

dance
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker
Rota
With a repertory of boldly staged works, performed by a group of dancers hailed for their stunning athleticism, Brazil's Deborah Colker Dance Company has become an international phenomenon. For its only U.S. appearance this season, the company brings to Miami the acclaimed Rota, an epic exploration of gravity and space, amusement parks thrills, and the force that makes the world go round. Dominating the stage is an enormous rotating contraption, resembling the giant Ferris wheel of childhood dreams. With a thrilling sense of the danger inherent in this spectacle, the audience watches dancers twist, turn, climb, and fall in a wondrous display of death-defying split-second timing and fearless energy.
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker is exclusively sponsored in Brazil by Petrobras and Ministério da Cultura.
Oct. 5 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 6 @ 8 p.m.
$75, $65, $45, $35, $25
Ziff Ballet Opera House

pop
Patti LuPone in Concert
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
The magnificent Broadway diva Patti LuPone makes every song she sings and every role she plays her very own. As the original Evita on Broadway, she won a Tony Award and became a huge star. In last season's acclaimed revival of Sweeney Todd she received raves for her conniving pie-baker Mrs. Lovett. In between, she became a popular TV mom on "Life Goes On," dazzled theater audiences with star turns in Anything Goes at Lincoln Center, Sunset Boulevard in London, and Passion, Candide, and Gypsy at the annual Ravinia Festival. Her concerts are sensationally theatrical evenings of songs, and for her Carnival Center debut, she'll perform, accompanied by a pianist, one of her best: "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda," a thrilling compilation of Broadway gems from musicals that include Hair, Bye, Bye Birdie, Funny Girl, West Side Story, Peter Pan and, of course, Evita.
Oct. 7 @ 8 p.m.
$85, $75, $55, $35
Knight Concert Hall

theater
The Classical Theatre of Harlem
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Directed by Alfred Preisser
Following their triumph last season in King Lear, here's another chance to see the dynamic and unique theater company in two of their most powerful, radically different productions.

Romeo and Juliet, the most famous romantic tragedy of all times, is now set in contemporary Harlem. While this staging is infused with the immediacy of hip-hop and the violence of contemporary racial tensions, Shakespeare's divine poetry is kept intact, adding an additional shocking layer to the culture clash that tears these young lovers apart. 
Oct. 11 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 12 @ 10 a.m. & 8 p.m.
Oct. 13 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
by Melvin Van Peebles / Directed by Alfred Preisser
Melvin van Peebles' lusty and gutsy '70s musical about life on the mean streets of a sprawling urban ghetto, peopled by down-and-out junkies, whores and their pimps, crooked cops, death-row inmates, drag queens, lovers, and dreamers. The original Ain't Supposed to Die… was a huge hit, garnered seven Tony Award nominations, and turned the notion of a Broadway musical right on its head. "Without it, Russell Simmons would never have gotten to Def Poetry Jam," says the Village Voice.  For this engagement, the audience will be seated at tables in the style of a theater cabaret. Adult themes.
Oct. 17 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 18 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 19 @ 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m.
Oct. 20 @ 2 & 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

Latin jazz
Omar Sosa & the Afreecanos Quartet & Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band
This is a night of delicious sabor latino as two great musicians and their bands come together for a sizzling session. One of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today, Omar Sosa is a composer, arranger, producer, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader who "mixes his Cuban roots with tastes of bebop, free jazz, even hip-hop and electronica, into a strikingly fresh and spicy modern stew " (all about jazz). Also on the menu: Jerry Gonzalez and The Fort Apache Band, one of the most influential modern Afro-Caribbean jazz groups of the past 30 years, renowned for blending complex Latin rhythms with impeccable jazz improvisations. Together, they add up to a five-star Latin jazz feast, sabroso y espléndido.
Oct. 13 @ 8 p.m.
$60, $45, $30
Knight Concert Hall

pop
The Four Tops and The Temptations 
Nine great vocalists…two legendary groups…one memorable evening! Together, The Four Tops and The Temptations helped define the Motown sound with an endless succession of Top 10 hits and #1 singles during the 1960s and 70s. Today, they perform to standing-room-only crowds around the world, delighting old and new fans alike. And now you can enjoy their smooth, distinctive harmonies and fluid, fine-tuned choreography as The Tops and The Tempts perform live – together on the same stage. You'll be transported back in time as you listen to chart-topping classics like The Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" and "Reach Out, I'll Be There," or The Tempts' "My Girl" and "Just My Imagination." Get ready, 'cause here they come!
Oct. 19 @ 8 p.m.
$75, $65, $50, $35, $25
Ziff Ballet Opera House

theater
Miami Dade College Cultura del Lobo and Carnival Center present
The Bugchasers  – World Premiere
A world premiere dance-theater meditation on sex, lies, and death-wish eroticism, co-commissioned by Carnival Center and Miami Dade College from South Florida's Octavio Campos. Today, sex is different. There are new questions, new answers, new lies. The BugChasers draws attention to the dream of the perfect body ruined by the realization of our own mortality. "Bug Chasers," young men who seek to become HIV positive, is just one of the Miami subcultures explored in this new, unsettling work.
Warning: This performance is not recommended for a first date. Adult themes.
Oct. 25 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 26 @ 8 p.m.
Oct. 27 @ 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

NOVEMBER

world music
Musafir
The word "Musafir" means "wanderer" in Farsi, and appropriately, the concert Musafir takes you on a musical journey through the Thar Desert of Rajasthan in western India and southeastern Pakistan, the original home of the wandering gypsies. Once you reach this vast region, where one of the most vibrant and evocative music cultures in the world flourishes, you will see choreography that is equal parts dance and acrobatics, and hear a rich and heroic sound, at once joyful and melancholic, played by an ensemble of Indian folk musicians and Hindustani classical artists on indigenous flutes, strings, cymbals and drums of various shapes and sizes. Let the dancers and musicians of Musafir take you to a foreign land; you'll feel the splendor and hear the heart of Rajasthan.
Nov. 2 @ 8 p.m.
Nov. 3 @ 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

kids and families
Dan Zanes and Friends
Dan Zanes throws a song-and-dance hootenanny for 21st-century kids and their families. As seen on "Playhouse Disney," the show is filled with irresistible tunes and danceable beats drawn from a wealth of musical traditions. Soon the whole audience is singing along, and dancing in the aisles, discovering that everyone can make all kinds of exuberant music…with family, friends, and neighbors. It's easy, it's fun, and it brings people together. "The band's live shows create the happiest concert vibe since Woodstock. With a lot less drugs and mud" (New York Magazine).
Nov. 3 @ 2 p.m.
$15
Knight Concert Hall

theater
Refugee – World Premiere!
Marc Joseph's new work is a Haitian-and-hip-hop flavored play with song-and dance interludes, about fleeing home in search of freedom and adapting to a strange new land called Miami. A "Miami Made" Carnival Center commission, Refugee is a stirring tale—at once terrifying and bleak, but full of hope, inspiration, and triumph. Ludovic, a singer of protest songs, escapes the political oppression of his native Haiti, only to find indifference, confusion, hostility and loneliness on U.S. shores. It's a personal story that Joseph himself has lived, but one that millions of Americans can call their own.
Nov. 8 @ 8 p.m.
Nov. 9 @ 8 p.m.
Nov. 10 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Nov. 11 @ 2 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

choral music
Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow
An ensemble of 12 male voices provides a richly majestic, eerie and transcendental musical experience. The group's concerts encompass two styles of immense creativity in Russian music: chants and prayers from the early 16th-century orthodox church and authentic close-harmony arrangements of Russian folk songs. Their repertory also includes works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. Founded in the last decade of the Soviet government, the choir spent years decoding manuscripts of then-forbidden religious music. Since 1989, they have given the first performances of many works buried in obscurity for centuries.  Their great musicological achievements have earned them a glorious place in the history of choral music, but it is the sheer beauty and intensity of the choir's singing that has won them great acclaim and devoted fans throughout the world.
Nov. 8 @ 8 p.m.
$50, $40, $30, $20
Knight Concert Hall

world music
Calypso @ Dirty Jim's
Relive the Golden Age of Calypso as it was heard at the hippest nightspot in Trinidad, a waterside hangout called Dirty Jim's Swizzle Stick Club. People went there to listen to the great calypso interpreters, admire the limbo dancers, and sip on the swizzle cocktails. The fabled club is only a memory now, but much like The Buena Vista Social Club brought many great Cuban musicians back onto the international stage, Calypso @ Dirty Jim's  brings together the world's top Calypsonians—The Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, and others—performers who have put this music on the map. They're back with a beat and ready to party—and you're invited. 
Nov. 10 @ 8 p.m.
$65, $55, $45, $30
Knight Concert Hall

theater
medEia
A theatrical event from the experimental Dutch theater company Dood Paard, this is a compelling, post-modern take—in English—on the ancient myth of Medea, the princess who first forsakes her home and family to marry Jason (of Golden Fleece fame), is then betrayed by him, subsequently banished to another land, and finally driven to an unimaginable act of horrifying revenge. An avant-garde collective working without a director, Dood Paard has  re-imagined the tale, basing it on multiple versions ranging from Euripides to Pasolini, with three actors not only playing all the roles but also offering commentary on the action (in the style of a Greek chorus) as the piece moves to its anguished finish.
Nov. 15 @ 8 p.m.
Nov. 16 @ 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m.
Nov. 17 @ 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

DECEMBER

dance and world music
James Devine's Tapeire — Driven by Rhythm
"The fastest tap dancer in the world," James Devine has created Tapeire as an entirely new kind of Irish dance show—raw, passionate, and funky—for an entirely new generation of dance lovers. Think Stomp with a Celtic brogue. Envision a dancer simultaneously tapping and suspended in the air and you get Tapeire. Tapeire fuses tribal rhythms, vocals, and percussion with music by multi-platinum selling artist Ashley MacIsaac, the most celebrated Cape Breton fiddler in the world. It all adds up to an exhilarating and fast-paced spectacle.  "If hip-hop did tap, this would be it. It's pure beat box with feet" (The Herald, UK).
Nov. 29 @ 8 p.m.
Nov. 30 @ 8 p.m.
Dec. 1 @ 2 & 8 p.m.
Dec. 2 @ 2 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater

contemporary music
Flock
In Flock, you, the members of the audience, will play a central role in creating a ground-breaking world premiere event, along with computers, electronic transmitters, and a quartet of saxophones, that coolest of all cool musical instruments. A "Miami Made" Carnival Center commission, Flock is designed by composer Jason Freeman to make new connections between composers, performers, and audiences, while the piece takes off in a new direction every night, each time a new flock of spectators becomes part of the three-way collaboration. This is your chance to participate in the process of making art; you will be amazed at how entertaining that can be.
Dec. 6 @ 8 p.m.
Dec. 7 @ 10 a.m. & 8 p.m.
Dec. 8 @ 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater
Additional support for Flock has been provided by the Georgia Tech Foundation and the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.

comedy
Mano a Mano
Laughter prevails when two clowns who communicate with whistles, traditional mime, and anarchic body language engage in a mano a mano with the audience: hilarity ensues, everyone's a winner.  With the help of the audience and a healthy dose of improvisation, Théâtre du chapeau's G. Lacouture and P. Berthierm, two sublime practitioners of the "new clown" school, create an off-kilter universe with three delightful pantomimes: a visit to a dentist from hell, a tango lesson full of surprises, and a wild and crazy aerial show.   
Dec. 20 & 21 @ 8 p.m.
Dec. 22 @ 2 & 8 p.m.
$25
Studio Theater
Cultural Service-Embassy of France in the U.S./Miami Chapter-Consulat Général
For more information on Education and Outreach events visit: www.carnivalcenter.org/education

jazzy pop
Manhattan Transfer
Christmas Concert
Musical accompaniment by Florida Classical Orchestra
The fabled jazz vocal quartet transform the Knight Concert Hall into a cheerful and swinging holiday resort with their warm and witty Christmas show featuring beloved songs of the season. Nostalgia rules at a Manhattan Transfer Christmas show, with classics such as "White Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas," complemented by the naughty but nice "Santa Baby," the witty "Merry Christmas Baby," the smooth "Sleigh Ride," and the wishful-thinking "Let It Snow, Let It Snow." No matter what your holiday mood, Manhattan Transfer's thrilling improvisational style, compelling personalities and sensational sense of rhythm guarantee that you'll have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Dec. 20 @ 8 p.m.
$75, $65, $40, $30
Knight Concert Hall

choral music
Seraphic Fire and Carnival Center present
Seraphic Fire Sings Messiah
Hallelujah! Messiah, the most enduringly popular choral work of all time, becomes a part of Carnival Center's end-of-year holiday celebration in 2007. Rejoice! South Florida's most celebrated choir, Seraphic Fire, makes its Carnival Center debut with orchestra in Handel's masterful synthesis of religious fervor, musical magnificence, and ecstatic joy. The voices of this young ensemble have been compared to a choir of angels.  How perfect, then, to hear Seraphic Fire sing one of man's most heavenly creations.
This performance of Messiah is made possible in part through the generous support of Williamson Cadillac Hummer.
Dec. 21 @ 8 p.m.
$50, $40, $30
Knight Concert Hall

To purchase tickets, call (305) 949-6722, visit www.carnivalcenter.org or go the Carnival Center Box Office. For groups of 15 or more, call (786) 468-2326.

The Carnival Center Box Office is open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; Sundays beginning at noon when there is a performance scheduled; and two hours before every performance.

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