December - Providence Performing Arts Center

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P PAC PAT R O N S ,
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Lobby Flat Screens Available
Although patrons make every effort to be on time for events out of respect for
the performers and other theatregoers, sometimes traffic or weather problems
intervene and late arrivals occur. Patrons may view the beginning of a show
on the flat screens in the PPAC lobby - this will enable latecomers to watch the
show until the theatre is re-opened to allow them into the show.
Just a reminder that touring companies set the policy for allowing those who arrive past curtain time in
to the theatre; PPAC must ask those patrons to wait until the approved time to re-open the doors. If at
all possible, please plan ahead to arrive early and relax before the show begins. Thank you!
Collections continue through
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, December 7-12.
Directions to Providence Performing Arts Center:
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ARTS Scholarships 2011 applications available online
at www.ppacri.org
11 – 16 In the Heights
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At the VMA: NBC’s Last Comic Standing Live Tour
at 7:30P
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At the VMA: Skinnygirl Night Out: A Conversation
with Bethenny Frankel at 8P
From Worcester/Western Massachusetts:
Take 90 East to Exit 10A (Worcester/Providence,
Routes 146/20) which will lead to Route 146 South
(Providence).Take Route 146 South and merge on
95 South in Providence. Follow directions for
“From Points North.”
Atwells
Exit 21
Exit 21
5
Rt. 19
Chestnut St.
Empire St.
Broadway
From Points South, or from Route 195:
Take 95 North to the Broadway exit #21. Turn left. At
the next traffic light turn left and proceed through 2
traffic lights and at the 3rd traffic light turn left onto
Broad Street which becomes Weybosset Street.
Rt. 95
Rt. 95
Richmond St.
PROVIDENCE
PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER
Mathewson St.
Weybosset St.
Plan ahead for January...
From Points North: Take 95 South to the
Atwells Avenue exit #21. Go straight through 4 traffic
lights and turn left at the 5th traffic light onto Broad
Street which becomes Weybosset Street.
Broad St.
FOR GENEROUSLY DONATING TO
TOYS FOR TOTS DURING THE RUN OF THE
RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR®!
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Dorrance St.
GPS coordinates: 41˚ 49’16.73”N 71˚ 24’44.73”W
Accessibility Services are available through the House Manager’s desk in the Grand Lobby and through the
Box Office. Services include assistive listening devices and wheelchair accessible seating. Upon request,
sign-interpretation will be scheduled for Saturday 2P Broadway Series shows; call the Box Office for more details.
The Providence Performing Arts Center is a smoke-free facility. Patrons who wish to smoke may do so outside
under the marquee at scheduled intermissions.
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PROVIDENCE PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER
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Thursday, December 16 at 7:30P
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PPAC reserves the right to limit quantities on special offers, discounts or promotions and tickets for special offers
are subject to availability and may be available for selected performance dates, times, and seat locations only.
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Attire: Although there is no formal dress code,
PPAC patrons typically wear smart casual clothing.
Photo by Craig Schwartz
see inside
for details!
FYI
PPAC/VMA’s
Holiday Sale is
on Saturday,
December 4!
Sponsored by
December 7 – 12, 2010
Mamma Mia!
Happy Holidays
to All!
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Festival Ballet’s The Nutcracker
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John D. Butler
Gabriella DiGiacinto Caprio
The Hon. Donald L. Carcieri
The Hon. David N. Cicilline
Scott C. Connolly
Darren Corrente, Esq.
Richard E. DiChiaro
Thomas P. Fay
Robert G. Flanders, Jr., Esq.
The Hon. Gordon D. Fox, Esq.
Gary E. Furtado
Jay Howell
The Hon. Patrick Kennedy
Lowell W. Kinch
Cynthia Laughlin
Barbara S. Lavine
Paul A. MacDonald
Lori Merola
William D. Moore
Terrence P. Moran
George H. Nee
The Hon. Joseph R. Paolino, Jr..
Gary M. Penfield
Jo-Ann Ragosta
The Hon. Jack Reed
Thomas J. Rossi
David Salit
Stephen Shechtman, Esq.
James Skeffington, Esq.
Robert F. Stoico
Donald R. Sweitzer
Zeno Trabucchi
Gregory Troy
Susan Weiner
Stanley Weiss
John Hazen White, Jr.
William A. White
William K. Wray
Trustee Representatives
Deborah Brayton
Beverly Najarian
Raymond D. Simone
George Zainyeh
2010/2011 Contemporary Classics
Series Media Sponsor
At the VMA: WGBH presents:
A Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan at 7:30P
Administration Fax: (401) 421-5767 • Emails may be sent via www.ppacri.org
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Treasurer
To Contact the Administration Office: (401) 421-2997
2010/2011 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS SERIES
The Lincoln Center Theater Production of
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC
Ellen Barnes
Secretary
Group Sales Hours: M - F, 9A - 5P
Group Sales Fax: (401) 421-5767 or email: [email protected]
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7 - 12 To Order for Groups (20 or more): (401) 574-3162
Thomas A. Tanury
Second Vice Chairman
would like to thank the following sponsors:
Sponsored by
Mark T. Ryan, Esq.
First Vice Chairman
THE PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Details inside; Box Office window and phones open
9A-2P; online sales 9A - midnight.
Joseph W. Walsh, Esq.
Chairman
220 Weybosset Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903-3783
PPAC/VMA Holiday Sale
December 28, 2010 – January 2, Sponsored
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BOX OFFICE
Regular Box Office Hours are Monday – Friday, 10A – 5P; Saturday, 10A – 2P; and
through curtain time(s) on show days. Call the PPAC Box Office at (401) 421-ARTS to
Order Tickets to all VMA Shows and PPAC Shows, Subscriptions, and Gift Certificates.
Box Office Fax: (401) 351-7827
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Please note that all ticket prices are subject to change.
PPAC prices include a $3 per ticket restoration fee;
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December
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Photo credit: MAMMA MIA! North American Tour 2010 by Joan Marcus.
IN PERSON at the PPAC/VMA Box Office: 9A – 2P
BY PHONE: Call (401) 421-ARTS(2787) 9A – 2P
ONLINE: Discounted prices in effect online from 9A until midnight on
December 4 at ppacri.org or vmari.com - please enter the code SNOW to access.
PPAC SPECIALS
Festival Ballet’s
“The Nutcracker”
December 17 - 19
Wanda Sykes
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:30P
Tickets are $68 - $41; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket
restoration charge.
Madagascar LIVE!
April 8 – 10, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 4P & 7P
Rodgers & Hammerstein's
South Pacific
Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater
December 7-12
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7:30P
Mamma Mia!
VMA
December 28, 2010 – January 2, 2011
In the Heights
January 11 – 16, 2011
Riverdance
NBC’s Last Comic Standing
Live Tour
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 7:30P
Festival Ballet Presents: “Carmen”
February 4 – 6, 2011
Just added!
March 13, 2011 at 7P
Girls Night: The Musical
Next to Normal
Byron Stripling & A Tribute
to Louis Armstrong
March 22 – 27, 2011
April 15 – 17, 2011
West Side Story
April 2, 2011 at 8P
Festival Ballet Presents:
“Sleeping Beauty”
December 28, 2010 –
January 2, 2011
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ MAMMA MIA!,
the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA,
returns to PPAC just in time for the holiday season!
Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a
small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, is about to let
go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited
her two lifelong best girlfriends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie and wealthy, multi-divorcée
Tanya - from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly
invited three guests of her own.
On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three
men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24
chaotic hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full
of possibilities.
Sponsored by
Tickets are $71 - $44; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration charge.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
at 7:30P
The seventh
season of NBC's
Emmy-nominated
competition
series "Last
Comic Standing"
– hosted by Craig
Robinson (NBC's
"The Office") aired this summer on NBC. As with previous
seasons, talent scouts in Los Angeles and
New York watched performances from
aspiring and professional comedians to find
the contestants. Each week America voted
for the funniest comics until there was one
left. The live tour features the five finalists:
winner Felipe Esparza along with Tommy
Johnagin, Roy Wood, Jr., Myq Kaplan, and
Mike DeStefano.
Please note that Craig Robinson will not
appear at the VMA.
Tickets are $36.
Skinnygirl Night Out:
A Conversation with
Bethenny Frankel
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 8P
Join Bethenny Frankel, best-selling
author and star of “The Real
Housewives of New York” and
“Bethenny Getting Married?” for an
evening of sass and fabulous fun.
Frankel’s wit, wisdom, and humor
first came to national attention
due to the success of her
appearances on multiple television
shows, including “Bethenny Getting Married?” which
premiered in June with the highest ratings in Bravo
TV history. Her knowledge and passion for healthy
living has led her to regular columns in Health
Magazine and OK! Magazine, along with authoring
best-selling books such as Naturally Thin and The
Skinnygirl Dish. She’s a sought-after guest on
national news and entertainment television, where
she brings her expertise and irresistibly candid and
funny take on life.
Tickets are $35.50 and $29.50; a limited number
of VIP tickets are available for $75 and include a
post-show meet and greet with Bethenny.
MRS. B.A. (SYLVIA) DARIO
RECEIVES FOUNDERS AWARD
Mrs. B.A. Dario (seated) accepts the Founders Award from PPAC
Chairman Joseph W. Walsh, Esq. to the applause of Gala patrons.
Mrs. B.A. (Sylvia) Dario was honored at the
2010/2011 Annual Gala with the Providence
Performing Arts Center’s Founders Award.
The Founders Award was created by
PPAC’s Board of Trustees and recognizes
individuals who have significantly
contributed to the preservation and
development of the Theatre.
CONGRATULATIONS,
BILL BRACKETT,
FOR 20 YEARS AT PPAC!
PPAC colleagues surprised Technical Director
Bill Brackett during tech week of the Radio
City Christmas Spectacular.® Thank you,
Bill, for all of the dedicated service that you
have devoted to PPAC!
L to R: Norbert H. Mongeon, Jr., Director of Finance & Programming;
Bill Brackett, Technical Director; Gary Memi, Radio City Christmas
Spectacular® Associate Producer; Alan J. Chille, General Manager.
THE WORLD-FAMOUS RADIO CITY ROCKETTES®
BRING CHRISTMAS CHEER TO PROVIDENCE
Radio City Rockette Jennifer Fait teaches children at
Bradley Hospital how to do a strut kick on Veterans Day.
Photo credit: Caitlyn DiPompo
Monty Python’s SPAMALOT
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 8P
Visit www.vmari.com or call (401) 421-ARTS for a
complete listing of VMA shows. Please note that
all ticket prices include a $2 per ticket facility fee.
For a complete gallery of pictures from the 2010/2011 Annual Gala, please visit www.ppacri.org/PPACGALA
Photo credit: P.J. Prokop
February 1 – 20, 2011
Thursday, December 16 at 7:30P
Tickets are $61 - $48; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration charge.
DECEMBER
Photo credit: Bill Murphy
Disney's
The Lion King
A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
The producers of IN THE HEIGHTS announced at the end of October that the show would
have its final Broadway performance on Sunday, January 9. Even though it won’t be on
Broadway anymore, you can see it right here in Providence, beginning on Tuesday, January 11.
NBC’s Last Comic Standing
Live Tour
Imagination Movers
PPAC BROADWAY
IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington
Heights neighborhood. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and
pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you,
and which ones you leave behind.
AT THE
Photo credit: MAMMA MIA! North American Tour 2010 by Joan Marcus.
Can’t decide
on a show?
Give a PPAC/
VMA gift
certificate!
Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two
couples – U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy
Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat – and how their happiness is threatened by
the realities of war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many to be the finest musical ever
written, the score’s songs include such classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That
Man Right Outa My Hair,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame,”
“This Nearly Was Mine” and “A Wonderful Guy.”
Sponsored by
The New York Times called IN THE HEIGHTS “an
exuberant, animated shrine to the importance of family
ties and being faithful to where you come from” and
TIME Magazine said, “IN THE HEIGHTS represents
change on Broadway. It’s contemporary, heartful and full of hope.”
Photo credit: Caitlyn DiPompo
Save 20%
on selected
seating and
performances
for these
shows.
The Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Rodgers &
Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC won seven 2008
Tony Awards,® including Best Musical revival. The
first National Tour of SOUTH PACIFIC is receiving
high praise from across the country; the Charlotte Observer said, “Sharp, pointed and direct with
boisterous humor and sweeping emotions, this production won’t let us forget that we don’t know
SOUTH PACIFIC as well as we think, and how topical it remains.”
Showcase
January 11 – 16, 2011
Photo credit: Shane Photography
ONE DAY ONLY – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4!
BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 9A!
December 7 – 12, 2010
COMING IN
THE PPAC/VMA HOLIDAY SALE!
January 2011
Photo by Peter Coombs
Marquee Events
DECEMBER
Radio City Rockette Mary Cavett shows hosts Elizabeth
Hopkins and Patrick Little how to make an “Eye-High
Pecan Pie” on the Fox Providence Rhode Show.
April 26 – May 1, 2011
The Aluminum Show
Sponsored by
AT THE
May 20 – 22, 2011
Sponsored by
Come to PPAC on Saturday! The first 50 people to purchase South Pacific on December 4 in person at the box office will
receive a commemorative South Pacific Review Book! Enter-to-win a beautiful Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer toy courtesy
of Build-A-Bear Workshop (Providence Place Mall store), and tickets for upcoming shows; no purchase necessary.
Enjoy cheese samples from Cabot Cheese, and discount coupons from Cabot, Build-A-Bear Workshop and more!
•Seamus Egan from Solas
•Robbie O’Connell from the Clancy Brothers
•Heidi Talbot, former singer of Cherish the
Ladies
•Natalie Haas, Celtic cellist, along with
violinist Hanneke Cassel, join contemporary
ensemble Beoga members Eamonn Murray
(percussion) and Sean Graham (guitar/
accordion).
Tickets are $68 - $30.
Radio City Rockettes Jennifer Fait (left) and Laura Danelski (right)
pose with Child Life Specialist Linda Goodale before visiting
children at Hasboro Children’s Hospital on Veterans Day.
Tom Antonaccio (center) from the Providence VA Medical Center
presents Laura Danelski (left) and Jennifer Fait (right) with a
Certificate of Appreciation after visiting veterans on Veterans Day.
Photo credit: Caitlyn DiPompo
Sponsored by
The line-up for this year’s A CHRISTMAS CELTIC
SOJOURN WITH BRIAN O’DONOVAN includes:
•Chico Hoff, bassist
•Chris Stout and Caitriona McKay, harp and
fiddle duo
•Kieran Jordan, Boston-based Irish dance
performer
•Amanda Cavanaugh, traditional Irish fiddler
•Caitlin nic Gabhann, concertina player
•Harney Academy of Irish Dance from
Walpole, MA
Photo credit: Caitlyn DiPompo
No adjustments or refunds on prior purchases; may not be combined
with any other discount or special offer. Discounted tickets are subject
to availability. Golden Circle seating and Saturday evening performances
excluded for PPAC Broadway Shows, other restrictions may apply.
Gift certificate purchases are not available at the discounted rate.
WGBH PRESENTS: A CHRISTMAS CELTIC SOJOURN WITH BRIAN O’DONOVAN Thursday, December 16 at 7:30P
Camels Snickers & Muffin enjoy a lunch time treat as Radio City
Rockettes Amber Cameron Miller and Raley Zofko look on.