The Four Tops News

This week, the Cornelia Street Cafe will be hosting several musical acts, including Four-handed Fantasies with Jed Distler, The Zozimos Quartet, and much more. For more information and a complete calendar listing, visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts presents a diverse week of folk, jazz, Motown, celtic, and country-blues, August 17th-22nd.

Ravinia celebrates opera with Mozart's Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by James Conlon and joined by all-star casts as well as members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Both operas will be presented in the Martin Theatre and will receive two performances, Così on Aug. 5 and 7 and Figaro on Aug. 6 and 8. Cosi fan tutte features 'one of America's finest artists and singers' (New York Times), mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, portraying Despina; Grammy Award winning soprano Ana Maria Martinez, who last appeared at Ravinia with Plácido Domingo at the festival's 2007 Gala, as Fiordiligi; Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, who recently appeared as Veronica Quaife in The Fly at L.A. Opera, making her Ravinia debut as Dorabella; Russian baritone Rodion Pogosov, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut playing Papageno in the 2004 production of Die Zauberflöte, portraying Guglielmo in his festival debut; and Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu, who made his US debut singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at LA Opera, conducted by Conlon and directed by Woody Allen, appearing as Ferrando in his festival debut.

Das Deutsche Theater, 1896 eroffnet, wahrt mit seiner uber hundertjahrigen Geschichte bis heute, und heute mehr denn je, die Tradition des Unterhaltungstheaters. 113 Jahre ist natu?rlich ein stattliches Alter, da ist es auch ganz normal, dass es an der einen oder anderen Stelle mal knackt, oder sprichwortlich mancherorts der Putz etwas bro?ckelt. Und wo der Mensch - der die- ses biblische Alter natu?rlich gar nicht erreichen kann - dann gerne mal den plastischen Chirur- gen bemu?ht, braucht ein Geba?ude die Handwerker.

Steven Janicki, Executive Director of the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts, is pleased to announce the 2010-2011 Performing Arts Season with 25 sensational shows.

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

Disco diva and Grammy Award winner, Thelma Houston, will once again grace the Teatro ZinZanni fabled spiegeltent as the legendary hostess from February 4 - May 16. She will appear in a new version of Hearts on Fire, a show that ran some eighteen months ago to great critical and audience acclaim, and which will span the celebratory month of March, which marks the Teatro ZinZanni's 10th anniversary in San Francisco

The Four Tops, whose meteoric rise to fame began with their 1964 Motown hit 'Baby I Need Your Loving,' bring their soulful songs to The Orleans Showroom, May 7, 8 and 9.

The Four Tops, whose meteoric rise to fame began with their 1964 Motown hit 'Baby I Need Your Loving,' bring their soulful songs to The Orleans Showroom, May 7, 8 and 9.

The Four Tops, whose meteoric rise to fame began with their 1964 Motown hit 'Baby I Need Your Loving,' bring their soulful songs to The Orleans Showroom, May 7, 8 and 9.

Celebrating 50 years of Motown, the New Cardiff Theatre will close its production of DANCING IN THE STREETS on May 1st. The production began performances at the theatre on April 26th, for a limited engagement.

BROTHERS OF SOUL, starring Nathan Daniels, Franklin Martin, Denzil M. Williams and Reginald S. Manus plays TUESDAYS to SATURDAYS from 30th MARCH to 24th APRIL 2010

Erst vor kurzem begeisterte Ron Williams als Gaststar der Show „The Blues Brothers' im Deutschen Theater das Publikum. Mit der „Sweet Soul Music Revue' kehrt der Entertainer, Schauspieler, Moderator und Sänger nun im September für vier Abende zurück auf die Bühne im Theaterzelt in Fröttmaning. Und neben der Moderation des Abends übernimmt er in dieser großen Revue über die unvergessenen Stars des Soul-Sounds natürlich auch den Part von Ray Charles, dem er seit vielen Jahren mit dem gleichnamigen Musical ein eindrucksvolles Denkmal setzt.

The Four Tops, whose meteoric rise to fame began with their 1964 Motown hit 'Baby I Need Your Loving,' bring their soulful songs to The Orleans Showroom, May 7, 8 and 9.

BROTHERS OF SOUL, starring Nathan Daniels, Franklin Martin, Denzil M. Williams and Reginald S. Manus plays TUESDAYS to SATURDAYS from 30th MARCH to 24th APRIL 2010

MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to announce L'Stubbs, opening for Will Downing at Sound Board on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

BROTHERS OF SOUL, starring Nathan Daniels, Franklin Martin, Denzil M. Williams and Reginald S. Manus plays TUESDAYS to SATURDAYS from 30th MARCH to 24th APRIL 2010

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to announce L'Stubbs, opening for Will Downing at Sound Board on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

This week, we are taking a trip to the West End, analyzing the cast recordings of the two biggest new musical hits on the boards, both based on successful and very music-centric films, SISTER ACT and PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT, and both showcasing songs in a seriously 70s soul/funk/disco style. We will go from the soaring sonorous heights of Heaven to the dungeon-like depths of musical Hell with these two entries...