UIS Sangamon Auditorium

These days there may be lots of rockers make kid-friendly records, but there is only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressible enthusiastic performer who rocks just as hard for kids as he does grown-ups. Perma-grin on his face and lime green Chuck Taylors on his feet – even at the Grammies! – his traveling circus of catchines...s known as Ralph’s World is equally loved by cool-seeking parents as it is by children, fortunate to be living in an era where their music both rocks and respects their intelligence and curiosity.
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“Wilkommen!, Bienvenue!, Welcome!”, sings the Emcee of the Kit-Kat Club through painted lips, as the people of 1929 Berlin join him. Whatever your troubles, you will forget them at the Cabaret. Sally Bowles, a middle-class lass from Chelsea, London, is working as a singer at Berlin’s Kit-Kat Club and trying her best to... live the thrillingly decadent life which the city is supposed to offer. Into her orbit comes Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer, and Sally soon moves in to join him in his room in the boarding house run by Fraulein Schneider. Their fellow lodgers include the cheerful whore, Fraulein Kost, and the gentle, graying Herr Schultz. As the clouds gather, Sally now pregnant by Cliff, is still determined to show the world what a good time she is having and she will not or cannot hear the noises of Nazism around her. But others can.Read More

The Moscow Festival Ballet was founded in 1989 when legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet Sergei Radchenko sought to realize his vision of a company which would bring together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies in an independent new company within the framework of ...Russian classic ballet. The company of 50 dancers will perform selections from some of the greatest ballets of all time – The Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade, Carmen, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Don Quixote, and many more!Read More