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ONCE

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Center for the Performing Arts
"Once" written in a script font and an illustration of the head and fretboard of a guitar promote the Broadway musical.

ONCE

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Event Description: 

Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience.

42nd STREET

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Center for the Performing Arts
A showbiz-inspired light display spells out 42nd Street while a cityscape behind the words depict New York City.

42nd STREET

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Event Description: 

The quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, 42nd STREET is the song and dance fable of Broadway with an American Dream story that includes some of the greatest songs ever written, such as “We’re in the Money,” “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” “Dames,”

Bria Skonberg Quintet

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Center for the Performing Arts
Jazz musician Bria Skonberg, with a look of excitement, holds a trumpet in her right hand and pumps her left fist in the air.

Bria Skonberg Quintet

Date: 
7:30 pm Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Event Description: 

“If Louis Armstrong and Doris Day could somehow be the same person, they’d be Bria Skonberg,” writes a reviewer for The Wall Street Journal.

Roomful of Teeth

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A male singer on the left sticks his tongue out at a female singer on the right in a promotional photo for vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

Roomful of Teeth

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, November 17, 2016
Event Description: 

Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice.

Warsaw Philharmonic

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Center for the Performing Arts
Piano soloist Seong-Jin Cho looks to the left.

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Jacek Kaspszyk, music and artistic director
Seong-Jin Cho, pianist

Date: 
7:30 pm Friday, October 28, 2016
Event Description: 

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, which last performed at Penn State in 2008, returns for its fourth United States tour—this time under the baton of Music and Artistic Director Jacek Kaspszyk. The orchestra, “a highlight of the year.

Odd Squad LIVE!

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
An illustration of the TV show's official agent badge design promotes the live-action show "Odd Squad Live!"

Odd Squad LIVE!

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Event Description: 

Attention Odd Squad fans: there is oddness in your town, and Ms. O needs you to help solve it. Team up with brand new agents Orion and Oleanna in this live, interactive adventure. With help from Ms.

Pilobolus

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Center for the Performing Arts
A promotional photo depicts the silhouette of a female dancer wearing a dog mask striking a pose in front of a moon-like light.

Shadowland by Pilobolus

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Event Description: 

Created by famed dance company Pilobolus, Shadowland is a first-of-its-kind performance combining legendary modern dance with high-energy, fast-paced multimedia, merging front-of-screen choreography with projected images and moving screens of different sizes and shapes. 

Lewis and Pizzarelli

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Center for the Performing Arts
Jazz musician Ramsey Lewis plays the piano in a tuxedo.

Straighten Up and Fly Right:
The Nat King Cole Tribute

featuring Ramsey Lewis and John Pizzarelli

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, October 13, 2016
Event Description: 

Nat King Cole broke the pop barrier with his smoky, smooth vocals, stringing along a huge number of solid hits right after his first, “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” soared up the charts in 1943. As a vocalist, he was called “the best friend a song ever had,” but he was a jazz performer at heart.

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