Ticket Center at Clinton House News
April/May 2008
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Greetings!
Isn't spring great? Just when I think winter season is theatre season (it's just so cozy in the Kitchen), spring arrives and wow, it's theatre season. The Hangar is getting ready to roll on another amazing season, both IC and Cornell are wrapping up another great year of peforming arts, only to get started on another and before you know it, we'll be gearing up for season announcements and Light in Winter! Sorry. I don't really want to rush the year either...particularly with what's in store for this spring and summer. And what's in store is a lot...this is the biggest newsletter yet! So, If you're looking to head out and see what's going on in Ithaca, now that most of it seems to have thawed, take a look at all the great events coming soon...
Tickets for all events are available at the Ticket Center at Clinton House at 116 N. Cayuga St. in downtown Ithaca, by calling 607.273.4497 or online at Ithacaevents.com.Ticket Center Hours
M-F 10am-5:30pm
Sat. 10am-5:30pm (Closed from 2-3)
Sun. 12pm-5pm
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UPCOMING SHOW
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4/18-4/20, EXPATRIATE,Kitchen Theatre Counter Culture
4/18-4/27, Pirates of Penzance, Running to Places
4/23, Tashi, Ithaca College School of Music
4/25, Jazzfest,Cornell Dept. Of Music, Bailey Hall
4/26-5/11, Scoot, Sizzle and Slide,Kitchen Theatre Family Fare
4/27, Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit,Music's Recreation
4/27, Rongovian Embassy 35th Anniversary Party, Rongovian Embassy
5/03, Elijah,Ithaca Community Chorus
5/03, Highwoods String Band,Rongovian Embassy
5/09, Mother Daughter String Band, Special Mother's Day Event
5/09-5/11, A Sensation Novel, Cornell Savoyards
5/10, April Orchestral,Cayuga Chamber Orchestra
5/16-5/18, 48-Hr. Playwriting Marathon, Kitchen Theatre Kitchen Sink
5-16-5/21, MayFest, Cornell Department of Music
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OuttaSight Events Brings Bruce Cockburn to Kulp
Bruce Cockburn's recording career spans nearly four decades and thirty-three
albums, twenty of which have achieved gold or platinum status in his
native Canada.
From tumbling, guitar-driven rock and roll to subtle acoustic creations,
Bruce Cockburn's performances run the gamut of stylistic approaches
including jazz, blues, reggae, and world music. He is a performer
who masterfully moves his audience through a range of emotions, at
once inspiring them to dance and next inspiring them to think.
His ability to distill political
events, spiritual revelations and personal experience into rich, compelling
songs has made him one of the world's most celebrated artists.Meanwhile, Cockburn's songs have been covered
by such diverse artists as Jerry Garcia, Barenaked Ladies,
Maria Muldaur, Anne Murray, and Jimmy Buffet.
"My songwriting is an attempt to take what I've experienced and what
I think is true and distill it into something that is entertaining,
then throw it out to people and say 'Maybe you can use this too.' In
some ways it makes me the focal point for like-minded people. . . They
hear the songs, and all of a sudden there's a kind of community." May 17, 2008 8PM Kulp Auditorium Tickets on sale here or by calling 607.273.4497
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Norm Johnson
"With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling," IC Theatre brings you the jealous gods,
foolish mortals, puckish faeries, and earnest players of one of Shakespeare's best loved and most
accessible comedies. Once the threshold of Athens' gates is crossed, the edges of dream and
fantasy are blurred. Love potions and the forest's magic play with the minds and hearts of these
beloved characters and allow us to fear, laugh and dream along with them.
Showtimes
Preview: Tuesday, April 15, 8 p.m.
Opening Night: Thursday, April 17, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 18, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 19, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 20, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, April 22, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 23, 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 25, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Purchase Tickets Online here or call 607.273.4497. | |
The Kitchen Theatre's Cooking Up Something for Everyone!
Playwright/performer Lenelle Moïse (Purple, Nia, Womb-Words, Thirsting) returns to the Kitchen with her brand-new piece, EXPATRIATE.
EXPATRIATE is a new musical drama which combines
dialogue, dream sequences, dance and live music for an exploration of race,
friendship, addiction, art and fame. Written by Lenelle Moïse, directed by
Tamilla Woodard, and starring Karla Mosley and Lenelle Moïse, this exciting
piece was developed at The Culture Project and is having its world premiere at
the Kitchen Theatre Company. Read more here.
April 18, 19 &20
Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 4PM Tickets onsale online here or call 607.273.4497. 
Scoot or slide on over to the Kitchen for some sizzling Family Fare!
Family Fare never fails to thrill audiences of all ages, and this last production of the season will not disappoint.Rachel Lampert
has gone back to her choreographer roots and teamed up with composer SallyLamb to produce this
wonderful new dance play. Twelve dancers and four musicians tell a magical story
without words, filling the Kitchen with music and movement. Read more here.
Dancers: Meredith Conroy, Charlie Forray, Erin Hilgartner, Clint Hromsco, Chunmei McKernan, John X. Miller, Stephen Nunley, Sarah Olsen, James Potter, Ofer Ravid and Erin Rieger Musicians: Christopher Morgan Loy, Piano Ryan Allen-Parrot, Cello Adam Butalewicz, Clarinet Lesley Greene, Flute Runs weekends 4/26-5/11. Call 607.273.4497 for tickets or order online here. | |
Tashi- 30 Year Reunion at Ithaca College
Tashi-an ensemble formed in 1973 to perform Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet
for the End of Time"-will give the final performance in the Ithaca
College Concerts year-long season "Legends" on Wednesday, April 23. The
concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen
Center for Music. A pre-concert lecture will be given by assistant
professor of music theory Rebecca Jemian at 7:30 p.m. in room 2105 in
the Robert A. Iger Lecture Hall in the Whalen Center.
Tickets available online here.
Read more here.
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5 Dancers, 9 Musicians and An Ox on the Roof
Music's Recreation mounts a fun, fantastical, spirited, dance-enhanced
production of Darius Milhaud's "Le Boeuf sur le toit" (The Ox on the Roof)
in which early Brazilian samba meets modern dance & Brazilian carnival
music from the early 1900's meets contemporary composition.
A great event for the whole family!
Read more about Music's Recreation here.
Buy tickets online here or call 607.273.4497.
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ICC Sings Mendelssohn's Elijah
Join the Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers on May 3 at 8PM (at St. Paul's Methodist Church) as they sing Mendelssohn's Elijah (in English), with 4 professional soloists and an orchestra!
It's sure to be a night of beautiful music and amazing local talent.
Purchase your tickets online here.
Read more about the Ithaca Community Chorus here.
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Cornell Savoyards Bring Murder, Mystery and Mirth!
In celebration of the 62nd Annual Edgar® Awards for mystery
writing, The Cornell Savoyards present A
Sensation Novel (book by W.S. Gilbert, music by Michael Nash and Arthur
Sullivan, adapted by Ithaca native Melissa Snyder) on May 9-11, 2008, at the Andrew
Dickson White House, an atmospheric Victorian mansion built on the Cornell
University campus in 1871, the same year A
Sensation Novel was written.
A Sensation Novelis a biting satire of the Victorian "sensation" genre of mystery novels
popularized by such authors as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Arthur
Conan Doyle. It hilariously combines crime, romance, the supernatural, lively
music, and bizarre plot twists that would make Agatha Christie's eyes cross!
The Cornell Savoyards have been delighting Ithaca audiences since 1953. The group was
formed to perform and promote the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and
related works. Over the years its membership has included students, faculty, and
staff from Cornell and Ithaca College; and members of the greater Ithaca community. Tickets onsale now online here and at the Ticket Center at Clinton House. 607.273.4497
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Please keep the feedback coming...we do love to hear from you!
Until next time...
Enjoy the show!
Jennifer Brown
Ticket Center at Clinton House
jen@artspartner.org
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Jazzfest, Then Mayfest...Cornell Department of Music Celebrates!
17TH ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Paul
Merrill, director
"A Tribute to Miles and Gil"
with featured guest artist WALLACE
RONEY
The seventeenth annual Jazz
Festival features guest trumpeter Wallace Roney as artist-in-residence.
Heralded by the New York
Times as an "improviser who loves
complicated almost mathematical lines and who performs with catlike grace," Roney holds the distinction of being the
only trumpeter Miles Davis ever personally mentored.
The Grammy award-winning trumpeter joins the
CU Jazz Ensemble II and the Central New York Jazz Orchestra on Friday night to
present Birth of the
Cool, a collection of songs recorded
by Miles Davis for Capitol Records in 1949-50. The music featured Gil Evans'
innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music-a major development
in post-bebop jazz.
The festival comes to a close on
Sunday night when Roney and the CU Jazz Ensemble I perform Gil Evans'
Sketches of Spain, a successful blending of jazz and classical music
recorded by Miles Davis and musicians in 1959-60..
Thursday, April 24 The festival begins at the Carriage House Café's Hay Loft with the
Appel, Bissett and Trommer Jazz Combos, as well as Jazz Voices, led by Lauri
Keegan. [free]
Friday, April 25 Cornell University Jazz Ensemble II and the Central New York Jazz
Orchestra present selections from Birth of the Cool, featuring guest trumpeter Wallace Roney. Bailey
Hall. General $12; Students
$6.
Saturday, April 26 Ithaca College Alumni Big Band performs in honor of Steve Brown,
professor of jazz studies (retiring). Ford Hall at Ithaca College. 8:15 p.m.
[IC event, free]
Sunday, April 27 Cornell University Jazz Ensemble I plays Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain with guest trumpeter Wallace Roney. The Gussman
Jazz Combo opens. Bailey Hall. General
$12; Students $6.
Tickets available
at
www.BaileyTickets.com, in person at
the Ticket Center at Clinton House (607 273-4497), and at the
door.
Next up...Mayfest...
This spring festival offers intimate chamber music concerts in Barnes Hall and at the Carriage House Cafe's Hayloft.A
lively combination of classics, newer works, and jazz are presented by
internationally renowned guests, Cornell music faculty, and select
student performers, as well as works written just for us by Cornellians
Steven Burke and Chris Gendall.
Check out more information here.
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Cayuga Chamber Welcomes Very Special Guests!
Join the CCO for its final concert of the year...the year of the search!
SATURDAY, MAY 10th, 2008, 8:00 PM
Ford Hall, Ithaca College
With CCO Music Director Candidate: 
Philip Ryan Mann MOZART: Don Giovanni Overture, K.527 TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33 KOPYTMAN: Kaddish for cello and string orchestra. MOZART: Symphony No. 35, K.385 in D Major (Haffner)
Also with acclaimed Cellist
Amit Peled
Israeli
cellist and internationally acclaimed soloist, Amit Peled will perform
in a fitting conclusion to this
exciting year
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Pirates in Newfield
See some of Tompkins County's most talented midde school stage performers in Gibert and Sullivan's much loved comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance.
Join pirates, maidens,orphans, comical cops and "the very model of a modern Major-General" in this tale laden with love stories, landlubbers, and lingual larks.
You'll sing along, you'll laugh, and best of all, you'll support a great group of talented youth!
April 18-20, 25-27 at Newfield High School
Call 607.273.4497 now for tickets or order them online here.
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Say Thanks to Mom with the gift of Music
Join the Mother and Daughter String Band on May 9th for the first of 3 Mother's Day Weekend concerts.
The Mother-Daughter
Stringband is:
Lyn Hardy & Abby Newton and their daughters Ruth
Ungar Merenda & Rosie Newton. Fiddles, cello, guitar, National steel
ukelele, banjo and lots of great singing on old and new folk
repertoire.
This Mother's Day, these four women will be joining
forces for a very special weekend of concerts. They'll be singing great
mother-daughter harmonies and playing old-time, celtic and contemporary tunes they love. Tickets available online here or by calling 607.273.4497 |
Rongo Promises Rocking Good Time
We all know that in this area, restaurants and bars sometimes seem to come and go...and sometimes they go...and come back again, and again...they're just that great!
So why not stop in and catch the Rongovian Embassy's 35th (that's right, 35) Anniversary Party as a Trumansburg staple!
Join Larry Hoppen of Orleans and Joe Bouchard of Blue Oyster Cult, and many more special guest for what's sure to be a huge event on April 27th! Read More about it here.
And just a week later, join the Highwoods String Band on May 3. Their innovative sound, combining
authentic renditions of the tunes and songs from bygone days with the
driving power of the competition-oriented string music of the '70s,
knocked the old-time world on its ear and provided a brand new model
for the stringband revival.It was written that "more than any other
band of their time, they were responsible for drawing a legion of
new,young fans into old-time music by the force of their musicianship
and the fact that they were having such a good time at it." Read more here.
Tickets on sale now online and at the Ticket Center at Clinton House. 607.273.4497
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Hangar Season Promises Plenty!
This summer, the Hangar Theatre has an extraordinary and diverse collection of stories, for
both young and old, to present on their stage! Mainstage features include: brilliantly-crafted, complacency-rattling
plays, boot-stomping musicals, hilarious comedies as well as a groundbreaking regional premiere, a
one-person critically-acclaimed hit, an Irish classic, a beloved Rodgers and
Hammerstein American treasure, and an Obie-winning rock musical. And, to top it all off, they've made room for a
special limited engagement-- a side-splitting, uproarious Off-Broadway comedy you
won't want to miss. KIDDSTUFF is equally
exciting with classic tales, gut-busting slapstick and fantastical penguins!
And, if you're looking for provocative late-evening entertainment, check out the
talented Lab Company's cutting edge performances at the Wedge. Single tickets go on sale MAY 1, 2008!
MAINSTAGE
The Overwhelming
No Child...
Bad Dates (special engagement not a part of
subscriptions)
Oklahoma!
Playboy of the Western World
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
KIDDSTUFF
The Kid Who Talked to Penguins
Pinocchio
Reeling
Charlotte's Web
Les Misérables(School Edition)
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