Weekly Highlights from 3/17-3/23
© 2010 Richard Brodzeller Photography for Florentine Opera Company
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Gary Mullen. Photo courtesy of Milwaukee Theatre.
One Night of Queen, Milwaukee Theatre, 3/18
Over the past 9 years, One Night of Queen has played to sold-out audiences all over the world including the UK, Germany, Holland, France, New Zealand and Australia. Now in their third tour of the USA, Gary Mullen and The Works come to The Milwaukee Theatre with a live concert.
Tickets $20-$40. Showtime 7:30 p.m. Visit the Milwaukee Theatre or call 414-908-6001.
Uprooted’s Marti Gobel. Photo from website.
Beauty’s Daughter, Uprooted Theater, Tenth Street Theatre, 3/18-3/22
Uprooted Theater remounts their inaugural production of Beauty’s Daughter by Dael Orlandersmith. This play chronicles the main character Diane’s escape from Harlem via her poetry. Uprooted co-founder Marti Gobel will be reprising her multiple roles in this one woman show and Artistic Director Dennis F. Johnson will again be directing the piece.
Tickets $10-$15. Visit Brown Paper Tickets for showtimes and ticket information.
Ten Chimneys and the Rep’s Young Artists collaborate on a play reading series. Photo courtesy of website.
Pygmalion, Ten Chimneys & the Milwaukee Rep, Ten Chimneys Foundation, 3/22
Ten Chimneys Foundation launches its 2010 season of programs with their highly-acclaimed collaboration with Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Artistic Internship Program. This series allows audiences to see and hear the next generation of professional actors recreate plays related to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the “golden couple of Broadway.” These young actors read the George Bernard Shaw comedy, Pygmalion, which was famously adapted into My Fair Lady.
Show begins at 7 p.m. Visit Ten Chimneys or all 262-968-4110 for information and reservations.
Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak, Milwaukee Rep, Quadracci Powerhouse Theater, 3/23-4/18
On a stormy winter night, a brash pulp-fiction novelist holes himself up in a deserted Wisconsin summer resort to win a bet. He has wagered that he can write a best-seller in 24 hours, and Slaughter Peak Lodge is the perfect place to get his creative juices flowing. Best of all, he’s got the only key – or so he thinks. It’s not long before his night of perfect solitude unravels into a tangled web of criminal conspiracy, romance, intrigue and murder that could have come straight from one of his novels. Fact and fiction dissolve into mayhem in Joe Hanreddy’s grand finale as artistic director. Based on the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate written by Earl Derr Biggers and the play by George M. Cohan.
Tickets $10-$35. Showtimes vary, so visit the Rep or call 414-224-9490 for more information.
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Women Composer Festival featuring Libby Larsen, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts, 3/16-3/18
The UWM Department of Music hosts a three-day Women Composer Festival in conjunction with a residency with composer Libby Larsen. The composer’s work has been featured across the 2009-2010 season, and two concerts of her work will be performed while Larsen is in Milwaukee. She will offer an informal talk and will participate in several coachings for students who are preparing her works for performance while in residence. Larsen will also join composer Robert Aldridge (in town for the Florentine Opera’s production of Elmer Gantry) in a colloquium. Most of the events listed below are free and open to the public:
Tuesday, March 16:
1-1:50 p.m. – Informal talk with the Song Literature class
Music Building 320
3-3:50 p.m. – Coaching Concert Chorale
Music Building 280
Wednesday, March 17
Noon-1 p.m. – Coaching Wind Ensemble
Zelazo 280
7:30 p.m. – Student Voice Recital – The Music Department’s voice students and their collaborative pianists perform works by Larsen. The composer will introduce the concert.
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
1-2 p.m. – Composing Contemporary Opera, a composition student colloquium featuring Libby Larsen and Robert Aldridge
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
4-5:30 p.m. – Voice Area Master Class
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
7:30 p.m. – Chamber Music Milwaukee Concert – Pre-concert talk with Libby Larsen. Chamber Music Milwaukee joins the Music Department’s celebration of composer Libby Larsen with a concert that features several of her works and one by her mentor, Joan Tower (A Gift).
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Zelazo Center. $15 general/$9 students, seniors & UWM alumni, faculty & staff. Visit PSOA or call 414-229-4308 for more information.
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Elmer Gantry, Florentine Opera, Marcus Center Uihlein Hall, 3/19-3/21
The Florentine boasts the Midwest premiere of Gantry. Based on the satire by American novelist Sinclair Lewis (which was also the basis for an Academy Award-winning film starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons), Elmer Gantry mixes traditional operatic forms with vibrant gospel hymns and ensemble to explore the complex and sometimes conflicted role of religion in American life. This quintessentially American story of love and corruption follows a fraudulent womanizer through both his rise to power and fall from grace in early 20th century rural America.
Tickets $28-$140. Friday performance begins at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Visit the Florentine or call 414-291-5700.
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The Caravan Ensemble. Photo courtesy of website.
Early Music Now presents: Caravan Ensemble’s The Spirit of Sepharad, UWM Helene Zelazo Center, 3/20
This concert traces the 500-year migration of Sephardic music from Medieval Spain across North Africa to the Middle East. Combining music, dance and illuminating projections, these virtuoso performers celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Sephardic/Mizrahi experience that promotes the possibility of coexistence, respect, tolerance and peace among all peoples.
Tickets $12-$42. Concert begins at 5 p.m., Silent Auction and Chocolate Reception begin at 3 p.m. Visit Early Music Now or call 414-225-3113.
Music from the Romantic Era, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, 3/21
The final Sunday concert of the season spotlights Conservatory string faculty in a program featuring the music of Beethoven, Dvorák and Schubert. Featuring JoAnn Haasler, Tatiana Migliaccio & Joseph Ketchum, violins; Laura Rooney & Daniela Pardo, violas; Michael Ferraro & Jared Snyder, cellos; and John Babbitt, bass.
Tickets $3-$5. Concert begins at 3 p.m. Visit the Wisconsin Conservatory or call 414-276-5760.
St. John’s. Photo courtesy of website.
Lenten Meditations, Waukesha Symphony, Victory Chapel at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy, 3/21
The WSO is joined by the Jubilate Chorale and soprano Maria Jette for a Lenten observance of the Joseph Haydn Bicentennial in the Gothic splendor of the Victory Chapel. To mark Haydn’s passing, the orchestra plays his famed Farewell Symphony and his sublime late Mass, the Heiligmesse. Exsultate, jubilate by Haydn’s friend Mozart completes the program.
Tickets $18-$36. Visit the WSO or call 262-547-1858.
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