Weidner Center for the Performing Arts

Sensuous and sophisticated, the tango inhabits a world where everything can be said with the flick of a leg, the tug of a hand, the tap of a foot and the arch of an eyebrow. Created and directed by Luis Bravo, FOREVER TANGO was voted Best Touring Musical by Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle in San Francisco where it pla...yed an unprecedented 92 weeks at the Theatre on the Square and has returned season after season. Truly an international event, FOREVER TANGO was also awarded the coveted Simpatia Prize at the 1996 Spoleto Festival in Italy.

FOREVER TANGO features fourteen world-class tango dancers, one vocalist and an on-stage eleven piece orchestra, including the instrument of the tango, the bandoneon, in an evening that celebrates the passionate music and dance of Argentina. The dances, performed to original and traditional music, are the result of collaboration between each couple and director/creator Bravo. "The tango is a feeling that you dance," says Bravo, "a story you tell in three minutes. It's passionate, it's melancholic. It's tender, violent. You dance it with somebody - but it is so internal, you dance it by yourself. More than just a dance, the tango is music, a drama, a culture, a way of life."

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Mature Audience - Lisa Lampanelli is comedy’s loveable queen of mean! Best known for her show-stopping performances on the Comedy Central “Roasts” of Flavor Flav, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner and Jeff Foxworthy, Lisa Lampanelli - Comedy’s “Lovable Queen of Mean” - is a no-holds-barred insult comic who masterfully w...orks her audience while maintaining an inherent likeability that steals the hearts of her fans. Hailed as a cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen, Lampanelli has perfected the ability to make people laugh at their own stereotypes and differences, which has won her accolades from coast-to-coast.

She recently joined the ranks of comic greats and added her first ever one-hour HBO comedy special, "Long Live the Queen," to her resume, with a CD and DVD of the special to follow. In addition, her first book, "Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat and Freaks," will hit bookstore shelves on September 15, 2009.

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