Douglas Anderson News

PATRICK Fitzsimmons has a thing for birthdays. His fourth album was 'Live: The Birthday Shows' recorded at his annual birthday parties in New Jersey.

The Middlebury Community Players present THE MUSIC MAN 11/19-29 Book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, Directed by Douglas Anderson, Musical Direction by Lindi Bortney

PATRICK Fitzsimmons has a thing for birthdays. His fourth album was 'Live: The Birthday Shows' recorded at his annual birthday parties in New Jersey.

Starting on the street with little more than a guitar and washboard, the Brooklyn-based quartet The Wiyos has won international acclaim for its repertoire of vintage American music, covering everything from 1930's Tin Pan Alley to classic blues and jump tunes.

Opera is exciting, passionate, spectacular - and expensive. 'We're constantly complaining that young people aren't being exposed to opera,' says THT executive director Douglas Anderson, 'but a primary reason is the high ticket price. We wanted to do something about that.'

The second broadcast from London's famed National Theater comes to Middlebury's Town Hall Theater on October 1 - and it happens to be the hottest ticket in London these days.

Starting on the street with little more than a guitar and washboard, the Brooklyn-based quartet The Wiyos has won international acclaim for its repertoire of vintage American music, covering everything from 1930's Tin Pan Alley to classic blues and jump tunes.

The second broadcast from London's famed National Theater comes to Middlebury's Town Hall Theater on October 1 - and it happens to be the hottest ticket in London these days.

Tickets for the fourth season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's popular, award-winning series of live transmissions in movie theaters around the world, are now on sale at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater.

Middlebury's Town Hall Theater is offering an expanded slate of classes that will bring the performing arts - and much more - to people of all ages.

Casting has been announced for the Las Vegas production of Disney's THE LION KING. The eagerly awaited sit-down production will leap onto the Mandalay Bay Theatre stage with preview performances May 5, and celebrate its official opening May 15. It will join the seven other highly successful companies of THE LION KING currently running all over the world, including New York, London, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo and Fukuoka, as well as the North American National Tour. Tickets will go on sale to the public March 14.

The Ailey School comes to Jacksonville! Mr. Tracy Inman, Co-Director of the Junior Division at The Ailey School (The Official School of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) in New York City, will visit Jacksonville, April 13-15, 2009.

Casting has been announced for the Las Vegas production of Disney's THE LION KING. The eagerly awaited sit-down production will leap onto the Mandalay Bay Theatre stage with preview performances May 5, and celebrate its official opening May 15. It will join the seven other highly successful companies of THE LION KING currently running all over the world, including New York, London, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo and Fukuoka, as well as the North American National Tour. Tickets will go on sale to the public March 14.