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NUNSENSE!
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| 8 |
| 10:00 am |
Georgetown Palace Theater
January 8-February 7, 2010
Featuring our 2007 Cast of NUNSENSE!
The sequel to the international hit musical NUNSENSE takes place approximately six weeks after the first “benefit performance.” (It could easily be subtitled “the rest of the story.”) The same five nuns are back on stage at Mt. Saint Helen’s School for what is billed as a “Thank You Program” for their supporters. Since their first time out was such a success, they have decided that they should stick to their successful variety show formula. This time they are forced to work around the set dressing of “The Mikado”!
The Star
| Jan |
| 30 |
| 7:00 pm |
Austin Lyric Opera @ The Long Center
January 30-February 7, 2010
Like the star for which the piece is named, Emmanuel Chabrier’s The Star is a musical sparkler of an operetta. Its light, diverting tunes and witty, bantering dialogue represent the very essence of “opéra bouffe,” a mid-19th-century genre created by Offenbach that was meant to entertain. The humor of the spoken text and the musical numbers is both broad and sharply sly. The use of parody and satire – especially in the numbers that poke fun at class mores and manners alternates with outrageous slapstick. You might say that The Star is a Gallic counterpart to those delightful operettas being played during the same era on the other side of the English Channel, penned by a duo named Gilbert and Sullivan. But its finely-spun melodies and sensual, lighter-than-air orchestration place it in a class well above similar comic works.
MARSHALL FORD SWING BAND TO RELEASE DEBUT STUDIO CD
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MARSHALL FORD SWING BAND TO RELEASE DEBUT STUDIO CDCountry- & Jazz-Flavor Originals, Old-Time Tunes, Full-Blown Talent
Fill Band’s IT’S ABOUT DAM TIME
February 18, Dan’s Silverleaf, Denton*
February 19, The All Good Café, Dallas*
February 20, Saxon Pub, Austin*
February 26, Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, Spicewood
February 27, Dosey Doe, The Woodlands*
March 6, Auslander Biergarten, Fredericksburg*
March 8, Sam’s Burger Joint, San Antonio*
March 11, The Continental Club, Austin
March 26, Camp Street Café, Crockett
April 9, Central Market North, Austin
May 29, The Cain Center, Athens, Texas
* CD release shows
