Leontyne Price was the first performer on it. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater danced on it. And 'Les Misérables' performed 216 shows on it, breaking the record for number of engagements at one theater stage - 11. After hosting 25 years of performances, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is retiring its original stage floor and renovating it this summer.
The producers of the upcoming national tour of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: THE MUSICAL, with Melissa Gilbert as Ma, today announced a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit international organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to the poor and needy. The announcement was made at a Habitat build-site in the South Bronx at which Melissa Gilbert and fellow cast members helped Habitat volunteers build the seven-story complex which will house 12 families.
Josh Young presents Cutting-Edge Composers, A New Generation of Musical Theater Songwriters
Notoriously scandalous British playwright Sarah Kane radically reworks Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust in the highly anticipated production of Red Letter Theater's Phaedra's Love, a brutal dark comedy exploring the themes of obsession, desire, and honesty. First debuted at the Gate, London in 1996, this regional premiere is directed and designed by Red Letter Theater Artistic Director David Hanzal, and features a host of some of the Twin Cities' favorite actors plus some wonderful new faces.
Theater Latté Da has announced its 2009-2010 season, which includes collaborations with the Ordway Center in St. Paul, and the Guthrie and the Hennepin Theatre Trust in Minneapolis.
Josh Young presents Cutting-Edge Composers, A New Generation of Musical Theater Songwriters
Susan Claassen, who stars as legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head in ?A Conversation With Edith Head? will be appearing in California in June. Following her engagement in London last summer, Ms. Claassen began her US tour by opening the 16th season at Houston?s Theater LaB with a sold out 5-performance engagement. Her US tour also included appearances in Tucson at the Invisible Theatre, at Arizona?s Tubac Center of the Arts, and, most recently, at the 35th Annual Symposium of the Costume Society of America in Tempe and Phoenix, AZ where she, once again, received rave review's. Symposium attendee Nena Ivon, Manager, Special Events, Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, said: ?A Conversation With Edith Head was outstanding and a fitting finale to the symposium?.
The Colony Theatre Company presents the first production of its historic 35th anniversary season, the musical sensation, 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS, written by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt and directed by Tom Frey. 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS will preview on Wednesday, June 17; Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19 at 8:00pm and will open on Saturday, June 20 at 8:00pm and continue through Sunday, July 26 at The Colony Theatre, 555 North Third Street (at Cypress) adjacent to the Burbank Town Center.
An all-star ensemble of performers will dance their way across the Ordway stage in a new production of 'Singin' in the Rain,' opening June 16 on the Ordway main stage. The production features some of the region's brightest talent including Michael Gruber as Don Lockwood, Christina Saffran Ashford as Kathy Selden, Tony Vierling as Cosmo, Austene Van as Lina Lamont, Richard Ooms as R.F. Simpson, and Claudia Wilkens as Dora Bailey.
Susan Claassen, who stars as legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head in ?A Conversation With Edith Head? will be appearing in California in June. Following her engagement in London last summer, Ms. Claassen began her US tour by opening the 16th season at Houston?s Theater LaB with a sold out 5-performance engagement. Her US tour also included appearances in Tucson at the Invisible Theatre, at Arizona?s Tubac Center of the Arts, and, most recently, at the 35th Annual Symposium of the Costume Society of America in Tempe and Phoenix, AZ where she, once again, received rave review's. Symposium attendee Nena Ivon, Manager, Special Events, Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago, said: ?A Conversation With Edith Head was outstanding and a fitting finale to the symposium?.
Ms. Gilbert's new book Prairie Tale: A Memoir by Simon & Schuster was released this week and the acclaimed actress had a book sigining at the Time Warner Center Borders on Wednesday June 10th.
The following is the June and July calender listing for the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.
The Colony Theatre Company presents the first production of its historic 35th anniversary season, the musical sensation, 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS, written by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt and directed by Tom Frey. 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS will preview on Wednesday, June 17; Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19 at 8:00pm and will open on Saturday, June 20 at 8:00pm and continue through Sunday, July 26 at The Colony Theatre, 555 North Third Street (at Cypress) adjacent to the Burbank Town Center.
For the ninth consecutive year, the Ordway celebrates art by bringing the finest international and local artistic offerings to Minnesota during the 2009 Flint Hills International Children?s Festival, May 26 ? May 31, 2009.
Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the Pittsburgh premiere of 8-TRACK, The Sounds of the 70's, which runs May 21 through September 27 at the CLO Cabaret. Put on your leisure suit, flowered shirt, platform shoes and halter top and boogie on down for 10 years of ground-breaking music, including hits such as 'Brick House,' 'Lady Marmalade,' 'Best Of My Love,' 'Car Wash,' 'Stayin' Alive,' 'Y.M.C.A.,' 'The Hustle,' 'I Will Survive' and many, many more. Tickets are available at pittsburghCLO.org or by calling 412-456-6666.
An all-star ensemble of performers will dance their way across the Ordway stage in a new production of 'Singin' in the Rain,' opening June 16 on the Ordway main stage. The production features some of the region's brightest talent including Michael Gruber as Don Lockwood, Christina Saffran Ashford as Kathy Selden, Tony Vierling as Cosmo, Austene Van as Lina Lamont, Richard Ooms as R.F. Simpson, and Claudia Wilkens as Dora Bailey.
Minnesota now has the chance to experience not one, but two productions of 'Grey Gardens,' the quirky story of two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The HBO non-musical movie premieres on the cable channel tomorrow and the regional premiere of the Broadway hit, co-produced by Ordway and Park Square Theatre, continues its run at the Ordway through May 17.
Six individuals and one foundation were recognized for their contributions to arts education at the annual Ordway Center Liaison Appreciation Event on April 24, 2009. The event honored the work of these and other artists who have furthered the mission of Education and Community Engagement programming at the Ordway.
Two-time Tony Award winners NATHAN LANE (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and BEBE NEUWIRTH (Chicago, Sweet Charity) will star as Gomez and Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. Produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will open on Broadway Thursday, April 8, 2010 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. Previews will begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins November 13.
Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the Pittsburgh premiere of 8-TRACK, The Sounds of the 70's, which runs May 21 through September 27 at the CLO Cabaret. Put on your leisure suit, flowered shirt, platform shoes and halter top and boogie on down for 10 years of ground-breaking music, including hits such as 'Brick House,' 'Lady Marmalade,' 'Best Of My Love,' 'Car Wash,' 'Stayin' Alive,' 'Y.M.C.A.,' 'The Hustle,' 'I Will Survive' and many, many more. Tickets are available at pittsburghCLO.org or by calling 412-456-6666.
