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The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A bearded, big-eared, larger-than-life puppet depicts the play’s title character.

Dallas Children’s Theater presents
The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)
Adapted for the stage by David Wood
from the novel by Roald Dahl

Date: 
7:30 pm Friday, April 8, 2016
Event Description: 

In the much-beloved tradition of Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda), we join two misfits on an unforgettable odyssey. For a young orphan “human bean,” the sight of a giant outside her window is terrifying.

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
NETworks presents Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the smash hit Broadway musical.

NETworks presents
DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Event Description: 

We really want you to be our guest for the show. But we only have single and obscured-view seats remaining for sale. So please phone the Arts Ticket Center, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 814-863-0255, for information about availability and for purchases.

Billy Childs

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
The musician wears oblong-shaped glasses and looks into the camera with a serious expression.

Billy Childs
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
Featuring Becca Stevens and Alicia Olatuja

Date: 
7:30 pm Friday, February 5, 2016
Event Description: 

Pianist and composer Billy Childs received a 2015 Grammy nomination for best jazz vocal album for his Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nyro died before her 50th birthday.

Solid Soul

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Staples looks to the right with an open-mouthed smile.

Mavis Staples
and Joan Osborne
Solid Soul

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Event Description: 

Grammy Award-winning legend Mavis Staples teams up with multi-platinum recording artist Joan Osborne on the highly anticipated national tour Solid Soul.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Will Grove-White and founder Kitty Lux pose with their different-sized ukuleles while sitting in chairs.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Event Description: 

Sixteen million minutes. One billion seconds. Thirty years. As of June 2015, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain had clocked sixteen million minutes of ukulele action. By September 2016, the orchestra will have been active for one billion seconds.

Wynton Marsalis

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Marsalis, wearing a shirt, vest, and tie, looks into the camera.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis

Date: 
7:30 pm Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Event Description: 

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis has performed at Eisenhower Auditorium more than any other combo since the Center for the Performing Arts was founded in 1985.

Alfredo Rodríguez Trio

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
The Cuban pianist, posed in front of a splash-painted artwork, looks to the right.

Alfredo Rodríguez Trio

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, September 24, 2015
Event Description: 

Cuban-born pianist Alfredo Rodríguez, educated in the classical conservatories of Havana, is influenced as much by Johann Sebastian Bach and Igor Stravinsky as he is by Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, and Keith Jarrett.

Soul Rebels

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
College of Arts and Architecture
Erion Williams holds his tenor saxophone and gestures to the camera.

The Soul Rebels

Date: 
4:00 pm Sunday, September 20, 2015
Event Description: 

The life of the party? That would be The Soul Rebels, an eight-piece brass band that blends funk and soul with elements of hip-hop, jazz, rock, and pop to evoke the atmosphere of a dance club.

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