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Dixie's Tupperware Party
"Not your grandmother's Tupperware party." -NBC's Today Show
November13-14, 2009
Autorino Great Hall
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August: Osage County
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony® Award for Best Play, Steppenwolf's August: Osage County is a grand , gripping new play that tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch disappears.
Part of The Hartford Financial Services Group Broadway Series
November 17-22, 2009
Mortensen Hall
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- Dixie’s Tupperware Party
Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm - August: Osage County
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Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30pm - Ha! Ha! Hartford
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Friday, November 20 at 8:30pm - MAMMA MIA!
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Tuesday, December 1 at 7:30pm - Breakfast with Santa
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Saturday, December 5 at 8:30am - A Kenny G Holiday
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Sunday, December 13 at 7:30pm - Christmas with the Rat Pack – ...
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Tuesday, December 15 at 7:30pm - The Nutmeg Ballet’s Nutcracker
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Saturday, December 19 at 11:30am - In the Heights
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Tuesday, January 5 at 7:30pm - Disney’s THE LION KING
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Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30pm
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The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder are performing tonight on the Belding stage! Come on out to see what is sure to be a memorable concert from this 14 time Gammy Award Winner!
Source: www.bushnell.org
2009 marks Ricky's 38th year as a professional musician, and this fourteen-time Grammy Award winner continues to do his part to lead the recent roots revival in music. Known affectionately today ...
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Part of The Hartford Financial Services Group Broadway Series
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – Sunday, June 13, 2010
Mortensen Hall
Ticket Prices: $15.00-$72.00
Time: 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
Porgy and Bess is recognized as an American masterpiece, with a story that intertwines pride, prejudice, pathos and passion through a j...azz and blues influenced score. Originally billed as a “Folk Opera,” Porgy and Bess introduced classic Gershwin songs including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” as well as magnificent and enthralling choruses that stunned music and drama critics alike at its premiere in 1935.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – Sunday, June 13, 2010
Mortensen Hall
Ticket Prices: $15.00-$72.00
Time: 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
Porgy and Bess is recognized as an American masterpiece, with a story that intertwines pride, prejudice, pathos and passion through a j...azz and blues influenced score. Originally billed as a “Folk Opera,” Porgy and Bess introduced classic Gershwin songs including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” as well as magnificent and enthralling choruses that stunned music and drama critics alike at its premiere in 1935.
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The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts The Bushnell would like to congratulate Disney’s The Lion King on their 5,000th performance on Broadway last night! Only eight other musicals have ever ran that long on The Great White Way! The Lion King will be here January 27th – February 14th, 2010!
Source: www.broadwayworld.com
Disney's landmark musical event THE LION KING celebrates 5000 Broadway performances on Thursday, November 5 at the Minskoff Theatre. Only eight other musicals have reached this milestone, including Disney's Beauty and the Beast. ...
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Broadway had it's fourth-biggest night last week, The Golden Mullet Awards! Rock of Ages presented this new awards show to honor categories that are usually unrecognized. In January, In The Heights, the show that won "Cast Most Likely to Dance on the Car in a Whitesnake Video," will be at The Bushnell! Congrats to all the winners!
Broadway Buzz | Sieber, Swenson, In the Heights, Rock of Ages Win Big at Golden Mullet Awards | Broa
Source: www.broadway.com
Sieber, Swenson, In the Heights, Rock of Ages Win Big at Golden Mullet Awards on Broadway.com. The most extensive source for photos, videos, interviews and news on Broadway, off-Broadway and London's West End!
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Steve Solomon's My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm STILL in Therapy
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Belding Theater
Ticket Prices: $35.00
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Another installment from Steve Solomon. In this hysterical prequel, we go back with Steve from his baby years with his twin sister right up to the present. We’ll meet: ...Uncle Willie, Stuttering Cousin Bob, Demented Cousin Kenny, Steve’s new therapist, Cousin Sal (and Sal’s parole officer) and a myriad of astounding characters we know, love and tolerate from our own families.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
Belding Theater
Ticket Prices: $35.00
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Another installment from Steve Solomon. In this hysterical prequel, we go back with Steve from his baby years with his twin sister right up to the present. We’ll meet: ...Uncle Willie, Stuttering Cousin Bob, Demented Cousin Kenny, Steve’s new therapist, Cousin Sal (and Sal’s parole officer) and a myriad of astounding characters we know, love and tolerate from our own families.
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Time:7:30PM Saturday, May 1st
Location:The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
We are thrilled to welcome bluegrass superstar Ricky Skaggs to The Bushnell tomorrow night, along with Kentucky Thunder, a group of musicians he considers one of the best he's ever worked with...
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Looking for a good laugh and somewhere to put your leftovers? Well, Dixie Longate can help you with both! The party The Today Show called “Not your grandmother’s Tupperware party!” will be here next weekend! What are your Tupperware secrets?
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Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now join Dixie as she travels the country throwing ...
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Part of The Hartford Financial Services Group Broadway Series
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 – Sunday, April 25, 2010
Mortensen Hall
Ticket Prices: $15.00-$82.00
Time: 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
“Simply wonderful! Beguiling theatrical magic!” hails the New York Post for the breathtaking new production of Rodgers & Hammerstei...n’s South Pacific. A stunning reinvention produced by Lincoln Center Theater, South Pacific swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. The beloved score’s songs include “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame.” USA Today cheers, “Gorgeous! South Pacific doesn’t just float; it soars!”
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 – Sunday, April 25, 2010
Mortensen Hall
Ticket Prices: $15.00-$82.00
Time: 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
“Simply wonderful! Beguiling theatrical magic!” hails the New York Post for the breathtaking new production of Rodgers & Hammerstei...n’s South Pacific. A stunning reinvention produced by Lincoln Center Theater, South Pacific swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. The beloved score’s songs include “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame.” USA Today cheers, “Gorgeous! South Pacific doesn’t just float; it soars!”
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Time:7:30PM Tuesday, April 20th
Location:The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Isn't it great when Broadway can make dreams come true? The Make-A-Wish foundation of Orange County and Inland Empire put on a star-studded concert called "Broadway Wishes" to benefit children with life-threatening medical conditions. Click the link below to see a video of the concert.
Source: losangeles.broadwayworld.com
On Saturday, October 24, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire, a non-profit organization dedicated to granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, ...
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder are going to be here on Friday! Ricky has won a total of 14 Grammy Awards, including the award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2009. What's your favorite kind of music?
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2009 marks Ricky's 38th year as a professional musician, and this fourteen-time Grammy Award winner continues to do his part to lead the recent roots revival in music. Known affectionately today ...
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Belding Theater
Ticket Prices: Free
“Planting the Seed of Hope” Bring the whole family for some silly, FREE fun. Past activities have included DJ dance party, fun balloon creations, juggling, instrument petting zoos, make-your-own buttons and special appearances of local favorite mascots. Visit www.bushnell.org for more information.
Time:10:00AM Saturday, April 17th
Location:The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Special Advance Student Rush Offer for August: Osage County! $20 tickets for any performance in Orchestra or Front Mezzanine seating! Come to The Bushnell Box Office, call 860-987-5900, or go online to get tickets and use the code STUDENT20.
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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony® Award for Best Play, Steppenwolf's August: Osage County is a grand , gripping new play that tells the story of the Westons, a large extended ...
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Part of the Robinson & Cole Family Series
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Belding Theater
Ticket Prices: $12.00 for children, $18.00 for adults
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Ebbet’s Field, Brooklyn, New York, 1947. Before a crowd of 26,623 Americans, an African-American baseball player suits up in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform and takes second bas...e. On that day, despite hisses, walkouts and even death threats, Jackie Robinson heroically breaks the “color” barrier for the National Baseball League and forever changes the world of sports!
Appropriate for: Grades 4 and up
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Belding Theater
Ticket Prices: $12.00 for children, $18.00 for adults
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Ebbet’s Field, Brooklyn, New York, 1947. Before a crowd of 26,623 Americans, an African-American baseball player suits up in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform and takes second bas...e. On that day, despite hisses, walkouts and even death threats, Jackie Robinson heroically breaks the “color” barrier for the National Baseball League and forever changes the world of sports!
Appropriate for: Grades 4 and up
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Time:7:00PM Tuesday, April 6th
Location:The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Greater Hartford Arts Council Ever dream of working in front of the camera or behind the scenes in film and television? New England Film and Television Expo, Sat, 11/7 10am-4pm The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Presenters will include Industry Experts from NY & Boston Talent Agents, NY & Boston Casting Directors, Film Directors, Voice Over Producers and Radio & TV Broadcasters.
Source: www.newenglandfilmandtvexpo.com.
If you have always wanted to be on the big or small screen or if you want towork behind the scenes in film and TV, then get your tickets today by callingThe Bushnell box office at 860.987.5900 or buy your tickets online at www.bushnell.org
November 2 at 4:45am
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Boo! at The Bushnel is tomorrow! Come celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday at this fun and FREE event!
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Boo! at The Bushnell is a conference to celebrate the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe and to explore the evolution of the horror genre in theater, literature, and film.
