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MEDIA CONTACT: Judy
Moore at (847) 491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu
September 16, 2003
September/October 2003 Theatre/Dance Calendar
Northwestern University theatrical and dance productions are held
in facilities in the Theatre and Interpretation Center, 1949 Campus
Drive, Arts Circle, Evanston campus, or as noted below.
The 2003-04 Mainstage season of Northwestern University is generously supported
by the Sara Lee Foundation.
This season, an eight-show 2003-04 Mainstage Season subscription package includes
Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” (Oct. 31-Nov. 9); the musical “Footloose,” (Nov.
14 -23); Irving Berlin’s musical revue “American Vaudeville,” (Jan.
30-Feb. 8); Luigi Pirandello’s drama “Six Characters in Search of
an Author,” (Feb. 13-22); “Danceworks 2004,” (Feb. 27-March
7); Barry Kornhauser’s family play “This is Not a Pipe Dream,” (April
15-18); “The Birds,” (April 23-May 2), a comedy by Aristophanes;
and “The Dybbuk” (May 14 -23), Tony Kushner’s adaptation of
Joachim Neugroschel’s “A Dybbuk.”
A season subscription is priced at $127 for the general public; $110 for senior
citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $63 for full-time students.
Single tickets are also available.
For more information or to order tickets by phone, call the Theatre and Interpretation
Center box office at (847) 491-7282.
Online ticket sales for Northwestern Mainstage productions also are available
through TicketWeb.com by going to the Northwestern Theatre and Interpretation
Center Web site at http://www.tic.northwestern.edu/tickets.html and clicking
the TicketWeb icon.
SPECIAL RETURN ENGAGEMENT
“Pop-Sical,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.
26; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, Ethel M. Barber
Theatre, 30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston campus. Award-winning director Dominic
Missimi’s hit summer
musical “Pop-Sical” has been scheduled for a brief return fall engagement.
A cast of 30 singers and dancers will perform some of the most popular music
ever created for the Broadway stage. Tickets are $24 for the general public;
$20 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $11 for full-time
students. (Note, “Pop-Sical” can be added to a 2003-04 season subscription
package for an additional $10 to $20).
2003-04 MAINSTAGE THEATRE SEASON
“The Real Thing,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31; 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 1; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6; 7:30 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 7; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, Ethel M. Barber
Theatre, 30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston campus. Winner of the 1984 Tony Award
for Best Play and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival, Tom Stoppard’s “The
Real Thing” is an engaging backstage comedy about an articulate and romantically
idealistic playwright whose second wife is trying to merge worthy causes with
her art as an actress. Tickets are $17 for the general public; $15 for senior
citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $9 for full-time students.
SPECIAL DANCE EVENT
“FLATT OUT!” 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, Josephine Louis Theatre, 20
Arts Circle Drive, Evanston campus. The evening will consist of dances that are
recreations of original choreography that Ernie Flatt did for television and
theatre. They will be performed by Lara Teeter and Northwestern Music Theatre
and Dance Program students with special guest appearances by Carl Jablonski and
Bobbi Bates – two original members of the Ernie Flatt Dancers on “The
Carol Burnett Show.” The program includes dances that were on “The
Gary Moore Show,” video montages of Flatt’s career, and live tributes
from some of Chicago’s most respected choreographers. The project is part
of a larger effort to preserve the important work of Ernie Flatt as a choreographer
in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Tickets are $25. To order tickets, call the Theatre
and Interpretation Center Box Office at (847) 491-7282.
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