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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
ASU Gammage just announced their 2012-<br />
2013 Broadway season. This upcoming season is<br />
proving to be one of the biggest seasons coming<br />
to Gammage. The 2012-2013 Broadway season<br />
will have seven productions coming to the ASU<br />
Gammage plus three special engagement productions<br />
that will be coming to town. The 2012-2013<br />
Broadway season will include:<br />
“Anything Goes” - The passengers on this luxury<br />
cruise include an evangelist turned nightclub<br />
singer, a gangster disguised as a minister, hopeless<br />
romantics and stowaways. The sparkling Cole Porter<br />
songs include “I Get a Kick” “You’re the Top,”<br />
“Friendship” and “Easy to Love.” “Anything Goes”<br />
will be at ASU Gammage from November 13-18,<br />
2012.<br />
“The Addams Family” – Concerns teenage<br />
daughter Wednesday falling in love with the normal<br />
boy next door, Lucas Beineke. In this original<br />
story, the famously macabre Addams Family is put<br />
to the test when outsiders come to dinner that will<br />
change the family forever. “The Addams Family”<br />
will be ASU Gammage from December 11-16,<br />
2012.<br />
“Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan” - Cathy Rigby takes<br />
flight in an all new production of PETER PAN.<br />
The New York Times says “Rigby still carries off<br />
the flights, fights and acrobatics that make PE-<br />
TER PAN audiences mesmerized. “PETER<br />
PAN is filled with timeless magical moments and<br />
a captivating hook. The legend you thought you<br />
know, is now the adventure you never dreamed<br />
Gammage presents...<br />
AZ Opera & MIM team up<br />
PHOENIX - Arizona Opera and the Musical<br />
Instrument Museum (MIM) will present a<br />
brand-new music series, “Arizona Opera Presents,”<br />
which will kick off with a performance on Sunday,<br />
May 6, 2012, at 2 p.m. at the MIM Music Theater.<br />
“Arizona Opera Presents” will feature breathtaking<br />
performances by featured artists from Arizona<br />
Opera productions as well as the company’s Marion<br />
Roose Pullin Resident Artists.<br />
“Arizona Opera is thrilled to be collaborating<br />
with MIM on this series,” said Scott Altman,<br />
General Director of Arizona Opera. “Through this<br />
partnership, Arizona Opera and MIM will bring<br />
dynamic live performances to the Phoenix area,<br />
celebrating opera and phenomenal vocal talent in<br />
one of the most acoustically stunning buildings in<br />
the Southwest.”<br />
Founded in 1971, Arizona Opera is a professional<br />
opera company that produces fully-staged<br />
opera performances, concerts, in-school touring<br />
productions, and educational and outreach pro-<br />
By Joseph A. Gaxiola<br />
possible. “Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan” will be at ASU<br />
Gammage from January 8-13, 2013.<br />
“War Horse” - The drama recounts the adventures<br />
of a horse as he moves from life on a farm<br />
into the battles of World War 1. It’s also the story<br />
of a friendship put through the toughest tests.<br />
Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael<br />
Morpurgo tells this moving and powerful story of<br />
survival on the Western Front. Utilizing puppetry,<br />
scenic elements, music and movement, the epic<br />
comes to life in a breathtakingly original production.<br />
“War Horse” will be at ASU Gammage from<br />
February 5-10, 2013.<br />
“Memphis” - What happens when a 1950’s<br />
Memphis DJ with white listeners decides to play<br />
African-American music? Is Memphis ready for it?<br />
Is America? The story was inspired by the legendary<br />
DJ Dewey Phillips and the music that became<br />
known as “rock ’n’ roll.” A music-loving mixed-race<br />
By J. Ursone<br />
grams that reach over 55,000 schoolchildren and<br />
adults annually. It is one of the few companies in<br />
the United States to serve multiple cities (Phoenix<br />
& Tucson).<br />
“MIM is committed to developing productive<br />
partnerships with organizations that bring many<br />
different genres of music to life in our intimate,<br />
acoustically superb Music Theater,” said Bill De-<br />
Walt, MIM President and Director. “Partnering<br />
with Arizona Opera is a natural step for MIM<br />
because of the organization’s long, rich history in<br />
bringing great opera to our state.”<br />
MIM enriches the world community by collecting,<br />
preserving, and making accessible high-quality<br />
musical instruments, images, and music from<br />
every country in the world. MIM celebrates our<br />
world’s diverse musical cultures and fosters global<br />
understanding by offering guests an incomparable<br />
interactive experience, a welcome and fun environment,<br />
dynamic programming, and exceptional<br />
musical performances.<br />
couple struggles to survive during the early Civil<br />
Rights era in Memphis. “Memphis” will be at ASU<br />
Gammage from March 5-10, 2013.<br />
“Flashdance – The Musical” - Set in Pittsburgh,<br />
USA, Flashdance The Musical tells the story of<br />
18-year old Alex, a welder by day and “flashdancer”<br />
by night, whose dream is to obtain a place at the<br />
prestigious Shipley Dance Academy. According to<br />
press materials, this musical about holding on to<br />
your dreams and love against all the odds features<br />
a score that includes “Maniac,” “Manhunt,” “Gloria,”<br />
“I Love Rock and Roll” and the Academy Awardwinning<br />
title track “Flashdance -What a Feeling.”<br />
“Flashback – The Musical” will be at ASU Gammage<br />
from April 30, 2013 – May 5, 2013.<br />
“Sister Act” - When disco singer Deloris Van<br />
Cartier is placed in protective custody in a dying<br />
convent, her unique brand of funk comes face-toface<br />
with the traditions of the church. Based on the<br />
<strong>Touch</strong>stone Pictures motion picture Sister Act,<br />
written by Joseph Howard and features a disco-inspired<br />
score by Alan Menken with lyrics by Glenn<br />
Slater. “Sister Act” will be ASU Gammage from<br />
June 25-30, 2013.<br />
The three special engagements coming to ASU<br />
Gammage will be; “Les Miserables” - September<br />
11-16, 2012 , “Donnie and Marie Christmas in<br />
Arizona” – November 27 2012 – December 2,<br />
2012, and “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” – April<br />
9-14, 2013.<br />
Tickets for all seven ASU Gammage Broadway<br />
Season start at $118.<br />
The first performance on May 6 will feature<br />
Arizona Opera’s Marion Roose Pullin Resident<br />
Artists performing Act III from Werther, a oneact<br />
Menotti opera, and arias and ensembles by<br />
Donizetti,<br />
Contact: Matt Erikson Public Relations Manager<br />
Arizona Opera, (602) 218-7321 merikson@<br />
azopera.org<br />
Rossini and Verdi. Tickets for this performance<br />
range from $15-$35, and are available by phone at<br />
602-266-7464 or online at azopera.org.<br />
Performances for the 2012/13 season will take<br />
place on the following dates (programs to be determined):<br />
September 30, 2012; October 17, 2012;<br />
December 2, 2012; January 10, 2013; March 14,<br />
2013; and April 11, 2013.<br />
Tickets will be available through both Arizona<br />
Opera and MIM. Arizona Opera’s box office can<br />
be reached at 602-266-7464 or online at azopera.<br />
org. MIM’s box office can be reached at 480-478-<br />
6000 or online at theMIM.org.<br />
40 | Issue #93 | April 2012 | ntouchaz.com news / politics / business / opinion
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