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United Performing Arts Fund News
September kicks off the performing arts season, bringing with it the opportunity to be moved by Mahler, inspired by thought-provoking plays and even entertained by giant puppets. Your support through UPAF makes these opportunities right here in our community possible. Thank you. September is also time to sign up for some of the fantastic classes -- for youth and adults alike -- offered by many UPAF Member Groups. Why not try something new and get your own creative juices flowing?
UPAF congratulates Linda Edelstein, our chief operations officer, on her new position as the executive director of MYSO. While we are sad to see Linda go, we are grateful for the seven years she spent at UPAF in a variety of capacities and are glad her remarkable leadership skills will be put to good use at one of our Member Groups.
UPAF also bids adieu to board directors Wade Hobgood, Mark Furlong and the venerable Alex Fraser. Alex has served on the board since 2006 and was board chair in 2009-2010. We thank them all for lending their time and expertise in steering the UPAF ship and keeping it on course.
On another note, UPAF staff and leadership are busy getting ready for the 2013 Campaign and are excited to engage the community in supporting the finest arts organizations our area has to offer.
Now get out there and enjoy a show!
Deanna L. Tillisch
UPAF President and CEO
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TICKET GIVEAWAY!
Featured Performance: Skylight Music Theatre
Avenue Q
Winner of three Tony® Awards including Best Musical and written by the composer of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q is a hilarious adult-themed spoof of Sesame Street. Part flesh (human), part felt (puppets) and packed with heart, Avenue Q tells the story of Princeton, a recent college grad who moves into a shabby NYC apartment in the only neighborhood he can afford, all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that the residents of his building are not your ordinary neighbors. Together, Princeton and his new friends struggle to find decent jobs, stable relationships and a purpose in life, but ultimately they realize the real world isn't so bad after all.
Skylight is thrilled to be opening the season with this laugh-out-loud tale of the ups and downs of life!
Performances will run September 21 through October 14 at Broadway Theatre Center, Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. Wednesday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. All other performances at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit Skylight Music Theatre. Phone number: (414) 291-7800 Click here to win!
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Affiliate Group Spotlight: Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Candide
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and John Latouche
Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
 In one lightning-paced act, the hapless bastard cousin Candide is expelled from home, drafted into the Bulgarian army, brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a fortune, shipwrecked on a desert isle, and separated time and again from his true love Cunegonde, who bears with remarkable dignity a variety of carnal besmirchments by almost everybody. Through it all, Candide remembers the lesson of his dear master Dr. Pangloss: that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
Milwaukee Opera Theatre brings "intimate opera" to a whole new level, staging this masterwork in the simplest of surroundings - ordinary classrooms. Seated at desks and in chairs, the audience will be surrounded on all sides by the tragicomic episodes of Voltaire's Candide.
UW-Parkside - Wednesday, September 26 at 7:30 PM
Rita Tallent Picken Center, Room D184
900 Wood Road, Kenosha, WI 53141
Pius XI High School - Wednesday, October 3 at 7:30 PM
Room 501 (Choir Room)
135 N. 76th Street, Milwaukee WI 53213
UW-Milwaukee - Friday, October 5 at 7:30 PM
Peck School of the Arts, Music Building, Room 320
2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Carroll University - Saturday, October 6 at 7:30 PM
Shattuck Music Center, Room B13
218 N. East Avenue, Waukesha, WI 53186
Tickets: Premium Reserved $25
General Seating $20
Student/Senior $15
Order tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
Seating at these venues is strictly limited - don't wait to reserve!!
Tickets will not be sold at the door for this event (to comply with university policies). One hour
before performances, remaining seats will be released for a suggested donation of $15.
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Sponsor Spotlight:
BMO Harris
Thank you BMO Harris for making our community a better place to live, work and play through your generous investment in the performing arts through UPAF.
We applaud you for: 
- Contributing nearly $2 million dollars over the last five years through workplace and corporate giving to ensure UPAF Member Groups can deliver more than 2,000 live performances of music, dance and theater annually
- Sponsoring UPAF Notable Women, a UPAF affinity program designed to help children succeed through arts education programming
- Sharing talented BMO Harris employees to serve as loaned executives during the UPAF campaign
- Supporting UPAF Ride for the Arts, sponsored by Miller Lite, as the 5 mile Route Sponsor and Ride Team participant
- Hosting the annual Golden Circle Party that helps UPAF thank donors of $3,000 and above.
- Lending the service of Richard Becker, Executive VP and Head of Regional Banking, to the UPAF board of directors
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The performing arts are indispensable to the vitality of our region.
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United Performing Arts Fund
929 N. Water St.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(414) 273-8723 www.upaf.org
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