Fox Riverside PAC Announces 2012 Winter/Spring Schedule of Shows

The Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside has announced its initial line-up of shows for the Winter/Spring of 2012! And they are in order of appearance….

Saturday, January 7, 2012
Riverside County Philharmonic
“All Aboard the Orient Express”

As you celebrate the New Year, travel aboard the famous train known as the Orient Express. This journey will follow the path of the train from Istanbul to Paris, via Budapest and Vienna, blending the exotic cultures of Europe and Asia – from the waltzes of Johann Strauss and the Turkish Janissary music of Weber to the Hungarian folk music of Bartok and can-can of Offenbach. For more information, please visit http://thephilharmonic.org/concerts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 7:30 PM
“MythBusters: Behind the Myths Tour”
Starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage

“MythBusters: Behind the Myths,” promises to be a fantastical evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking
video and behind-the-scenes stories. For the first time ever, fans will join Jamie and Adam on stage and assist in their mind-blowing and mind-twisting approach to science.

"MythBusters: Behind the Myths" brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience. The show is on a 28-city national tour that begins in Modesto, California on January 6, 2012. One of the Discovery Channel’s most highly regarded and watched series, “MythBusters” is now in its ninth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, “MythBusters” mixes scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style of explosive experimentation – and the supporting or de-bunking of urban myths that we live with day to day.
Adam and Jamie have become spokespersons at large for applying science to real life – most recently as hosts of the Discovery Channel special “"iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World,” and have appeared on numerous shows including “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Good Morning America,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “The Colbert Report,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” “Countdown with Keith Olberman,” and many more. They were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Fear And/Or Sanity and have received the Young Artist Award for inspiring young people in the interest of science. “MythBusters” has been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where their appearances have sold-out four years running.
Adam and Jamie serve as guest editors for Popular Mechanics and were featured on the cover of the September 2009 issue. That same year, they were inducted as honorary members into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. They are Honorary Lifetime Members of the California Science Teachers Association and were named Honorary Engineers and Honorary Members of the Francis Crowe Society at the University of Maine. Adam and Jamie produced and starred in an H1N1 Public Service Announcement for the White House, and were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend using 500 schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.
They appeared as themselves in the movie Darwin Awards and have made several cameos on other TV shows, including CSI. And In 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.

Friday, January 20, 2012 - 8:00 PM
NEW SHANGHAI CIRCUS

New Shanghai Circus - Considered to be China's most celebrated acrobatic company, the performers of the New Shanghai Circus have stunned audiences everywhere they perform. Celebrating the exotic wonders of China while showcasing dramatic interpretation of ancient dances, the show combines extraordinary and inventive feats of strength and skill, control and balance. Bring your family to the show that presents a line-up of favorite acts such as Diablo (Chinese Yo-Yo), Bicycle Tricks, Pole Climbing, Plates Spinning, Human Top, Chair Stack and more!

Saturday, January 28 - 8:00 PM
The MatchMaker

Tamera Hill's The Matchmaker! A romantic comedy stage play starring Chaz Shepherd from the hit sitcom, "The Game" & the TV Movie "The Temptations," also Apollo Legend & BET host Comedian Lester Barrie, Brian Hurst, from "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," and Gospel Recording Artist Yvette Williams. The Matchmaker promises to cause a colossal explosion of laughter from the drama of bringing two people together, while sending a strong message "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF LOVE!"

Friday, February 3, 2012 – 8:00pm
Colbie Caillat

Listening to All of You, the third and most intriguing release from Colbie Caillat, is like turning a page of a book you’ve savored for two chapters only to be surprised and delighted by what awaits in Chapter 3. This is, first of all, definitely and unmistakably a Caillat gem. Those qualities that burst from the first notes of her 2007 debut Coco like bouquets of sonic joy, and flowered in 2009’s Breakthrough, emanate from every track on All of You. But now they bloom with a richness of emotion and insight that comes only when a gifted artist can channel lessons learned into her music. She has sung the national anthem on the kickoff to the 2011 NFL season and performed at the Nobel Peace Concert in Oslo. She and her original music have been featured in commercials for cotton and in ABC Family Channel’s “25 Days of Christmas,” whose theme song she wrote and arranged. Her embrace has stretched to include work for honorable causes including the Surfrider Foundation, Save the Music and the Humane Society, for which she has recently become a spokesperson.

Friday & Saturday, February 17 - 18, 2012
(3 Shows) Evenings: 8:00pm - Sat Matinee: 2:00pm
BROADWAY SERIES!
RING OF FIRE
THE Johnny Cash MUSICAL

From the heart of Johnny Cash comes this musical show about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and rededemption, home and family. A cast of multi-talented performers takes you on a journey into the world of Johnny Cash created in his songs. RING OF FIRE features 38 of the the music legends songs such as Country Boy, A Thing Called Love, Five Feet High and Rising, Daddy Sang Bass, Ring of Fire, I Walk The Line, I've Been Everywhere and The Man in Black.

Tuesday, February 24 - 8:00pm
Natalie Cole with Symphony Orchestra

Eight-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole returns to the stage with a Symphony Orchestra and her band on February 24. The daughter of jazz and pop legend Nat "King" Cole has forged a successful career doing R&B contemporary and Jazz based pop!

Her seminal multi-platinum album Unforgettable…With Love, sold more than 8 million in the USA alone: winning six Grammy's including Album and Record of the Year. Cole's 2009 album, Still Unforgettable, won two Grammy's, one for traditional Pop Album and Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocalist. In 2010, she released a Christmas Album, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, which found Cole teaming up with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:00 PM
Gilbert and Sullivan’s
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Opera A La Carte presents The Pirates of Penzance – An exciting treat is in store for local audiences when the national touring company Opera A LA Carte, acclaimed as the foremost Gilbert and Sullivan touring repertory company in the country, stages “The Pirates of Penzance”. Directed by noted British Gilbert and Sullivan scholar and artist Richard Sheldon, this production has won outstanding acclaim.

Saturday, February 25 – 8:00pm
One Night of Queen
By Gary Mullen & The Works

One Night of Queen is a stunning live concert recreating and celebrating the music of Queen, performed by Gary Mullen and The Works with fantastic staging, lighting and effects, this show will rock you—guaranteed! Gary Mullen and his band The Works are the most in demand Queen Tribute Show in the world, delivering the look, the sound and the showmanship of arguably the greatest live band of all time. The Show Goes On from Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liege, Montreux and on to the USA in 2012 where they take the stage at the Fox in February. For more information, please visit http://www.garymullenandtheworks.com.

Saturday, March 3 – 5:00pm & 8:00pm (2 Shows)
Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby is one of the most popular personalities in America, honored by the Kennedy Center for his lifelong contributions to American culture and recipient of The Presidential Medal of Freedom in July 2002, America’s highest civilian honor.
His TV comedy show hit series, The Cosby Show, is one of the most popular programs in the history of Television, garnering 29 Emmy nominations with six wins, six Golden Globe nominations with three wins and ten People’s Choice Awards. His comedy has a point of reference annd respect for the trappings and traditions of the great American Humorists!

Saturday, March 10 – 7:30pm
Riverside County Philharmonic
“Music Among Friends” - Cellist: Gary Hoffman

Two of the most important Romantic composers, Brahms and Dvorak, were friends, and their friendship influenced both men. Brahms’ monumental yet pastoral 3rd Symphony, like many of his other compositions, is actually very intimate and personal in nature.

Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is one of the most famous and beloved compositions for that instrument. Join Tomasz and two of his musical friends, the world-renowned cellist Gary Hoffman and the young American composer Mark Kilstofte (whose work “News Flash” will be played), as they share with you an evening of musical conversations!

Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 8:00pm
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
With Special Guests
Big Papa and The TCB

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a contemporary swing revival band from southern California. Their notable singles include "Go Daddy-O", "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)", and "Mr. Pinstripe Suit". The band played the Super Bowl xxIII half-time show in 1999.

The band was originally formed in Ventura, California, in 1989 by leader Scotty Morris. The band was named Big Bad Voodoo Daddy after Scotty Morris met blues guitar legend Albert Collins at one of the latter's concerts. "He signed my poster 'To Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy'," Morris explains. "I thought it was the coolest name I ever heard on one of the coolest musical nights I ever had. So when it came time to name this band, I didn't really have a choice. I felt like it was handed down to me."

After playing in punk and alternative rock bands during the 80s, including False Confession, part of the Oxnard, California Nardcore scene, Scotty Morris founded Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with Kurt Sodergren. The band launched two CDs, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Watchu' Want for Christmas? under their own label (Big Bad Records) before getting their big break when their songs "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)","I Wan'na Be Like You" and "Go Daddy-O" were featured in the soundtrack of the 1996 comedy-drama Swingers. From there, they were signed by Capitol Records.

With Capitol, the band released Americana Deluxe, This Beautiful Life, and Save My Soul. The band has continued their tours, performances and album releases. The band had appeared at the 1999 Super Bowl half-time show and the 2006 Capital One Bowl, and also served as the house band for ESPN's ESPY Awards for a few years. The band created a version of the opening theme for the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, which was used for the 1999–2000 season.

Over the last few years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has played numerous Pops programs of American symphony orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony. They created a new song for the movie The Wild, and recorded a song for Disney's Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation Special. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy also performed on the hit television show Dancing with the Stars, and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote their album How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway, a collection of their renditions of Cab Calloway songs in April 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.bbvd.com.

Big Papa and The TCB, hailing from the Inland Empire, are a swing band known for their song “Go Big Papa!” which has been used in the national television ad campaign by Papa John’s Pizza for the past two years and has been licensed for a third. It even appeared during the Super bowl! The band also has recently had two songs appear in the hit A&E TV Series, Breakout Kings.
Big Papa and The TCB has also garnered several awards including “Best Song” and “Best Blues Album” at the 2008 Inland Empire Music Awards. Additionally, they were nominated for Best Swing in the 2008 Orange County Music Awards.
Formed in 2006, Big Popa and The TCB have taken audiences by storm, “Resurrecting Cool” all across the western USA with their mixture of jump, blues, rock and swing. They have shared the stage with blues legends Robert Cray, Johnny Winter, Tommy Castro, Coco Montoya, Fabulous Thunderbirds and many other notable recording artists

Sunday, April 15 – 2:00pm
The Young Americans – 50th Anniversary Show!

Young Americans is a non-profit organization and performing group based in Southern California. First founded in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson, the group is credited with being the first show choir in America, mixing choreography with choral singing. While experiencing national television exposure early on, The Young Americans now teach music to students in the United States and other parts of the world as advocates of music education in their International Music Outreach Tours. The group has approximately 200 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 from nearly every US state and several other countries! www.youngamericans.org

Friday, April 27 – 8:00pm
Benise “En Fuego”

International guitar sensation, Benise and his Emmy Award Winning cast, return with a new Fiery World Music and Dance Spectacular. En Fuego! Hailed by the LA Times as “The Latin Riverdance,” Benise’s En Fuego! takes us on an unprecedented and epic adventure through Spanish Flamenco, Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Argentinean Tango, Indian Bollywood, Parisian Waltz, African Drumming, and more…!

While taking on an ever changing stage, the show features world class musicians and dancers handpicked from a global pool of some of the most brilliantly diverse talent to be found. Traditional Flamenco Dancers, Broadway performers and renowned soloists previously featured with the likes of Madonna, Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin, have all joined forces to make up Benise’s female dancers – The Gitanas. Benise will also be joined with a host of musical guest stars including violin sensation, Karen Briggs.

Friday and Saturday, May 11–12, 2012
3 Shows: Evenings 8:00pm; Sat. Matinee 2:00pm

Broadway Series!

MISS SAIGON

A classic love story is brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In MISS SAIGON, Alain Boublil and Claude- Michel Schönberg (the creators of Les Misérables), along with Richard Maltby, Jr., bring Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon.

A McCoy Rigby Production / FX Arts Presentation

Saturday, May 19 – 7:30pm
Riverside County Philharmonic
Pianist: Roman Rabinovich

All three composers on tonight’s program were heroes to their people. Beethoven’s revolutionary spirit and his bold compositions, such as the Overture to Fidelio, made him a hero to the Viennese people, to the ideals of Romanticism and to the world. His funeral was attended by an estimated 20,000 people.

The first time the name Finland was ever mentioned in print was at the world premiere of one of the symphonies of Sibelius. His country was new, and he became a hero and spokesman for it. His 2nd Symphony is one of his most famous works, and it brings to mind images of the grandness and beauty of the Finish landscape. Considered at times hero of the people (and at others an enemy of the state) by the communist regime, Prokofiev was one of the most imaginative composers of his time, creating a new, unique musical language that captured the passionate voice of old Russia in the new ridiculous Soviet world. We will be joined by internationally renowned pianist Roman Rabinovich, who will perform Prokofiev's rarely heard and fiendishly difficult 5th Piano Concerto - one of the wildest and most virtuosic piano pieces ever written.

Friday & Saturday, June 29 – July 1
4 Shows: Eves 8:00pm; Sat./Sun Matinees 2:00pm

Broadway Series!
Cathy Rigby is PETER PAN

Cathy Rigby flies again in New York and across America, recreating her Tony Nominated role for Best Actress as Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up!

“PETER PAN sparkles with Fairy dust! Rigby has mastered the singing, dancing and aerial shenanigans, but has also gotten to the core of the boy who wouldn’t grow up.” – The Washington Post

A McCoy Rigby Production / FX Arts Presentation

FOR TICKETS AND PRICING INFORMATION:

Tickets for Broadway shows, Mythbusters: Behind The Myths Tour and The Matchmaker are currently on sale.

All other 2012 show tickets will begin to go on sale on Monday, December 5, 2012.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster or at the Fox Performing Arts Center Box Office which is located at 3801 Mission Inn Avenue.
The Box Office is open Monday -Friday from Noon to 6:00 PM, Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM and on all show days from
10:00 AM to Show Time. The Box Office Phone number is: 951-779-9800.

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