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As the most universal form of expression, the arts reflect the society in which we live. The arts tell us about people and the different cultural origins of the world. Without art, the story of humanity cannot be told. This year, our season, your season, seeks to tell that story.
The Warren Performing Arts Center is celebrating our 25th year anniversary. As we celebrate the past we also wish to embrace the future by developing a new Warren Performing Arts Center Society. The goals of this Society are: to raise awareness of the importance of Arts in our community, to create and provide a community of artistic leadership, to promote the Warren Performing Arts Center throughout the Midwest, to educate our youth through the arts, and to lead the Warren Performing Arts Center into the Next 25 years.
We are on the advent of a new era as we look ahead to our future. Please join with us, celebrate with us, and share us with your friends this year as the story of humanity unfolds!
Welcome to your new season,
Matthew Oskay
Director
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| Warren Performing Arts Center Presents |
| 2008-2008 Season Subscriptions |
| Onsale July 24, 2008 |
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Season subscriptions to the 2008-2009 Warren Performing Arts Center Presents will be available July 24th 2008. This year we are offering three different packages with tremendous discounts available. We hope you will join us this year and become a season subscription holder! Available online or contact the box office 317-532-6280 on or after July 14th for your season subscription. Please visit the UPCOMING EVENTS PAGE to see the wonderful shows we are presenting this year!
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| Irving Berlin's "I Love Piano" |
| September 21 2008 @ 4:00 p.m. |
| Reserved Seating | Adults $25.00 | Senior Adults $23.00 |
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I Love Piano is a nostalgic musical journey spanning seven decades of American history as seen through the eyes of Irving Berlin – a man who Jerome Kern described by saying “Irving Berlin has no place in American music…He is American music!” The show tracks the life of a piano with one sour key through four generations of singers and dancers who have performed with and around it.
With over 60 of Berlins enduring and popular favorites, this spectacular new show captures the spirit of America from the Ragtime Rhythms of the early 20th century through the swinging sophistication of the 1920’s and 30’s. From the sentimental songs that inspired a nation during two World Wars to the innocent optimism of the 50’s. Timeless classics, such as “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “Puttin’ On the Ritz,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” do more than define the music of a generation, they define the music of our country. Please join us for this wonderful afternoon of great American music!
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| Adam Pascal "Live in Concert" |
| October 11, 2008 @ 8:00pm |
| Reserved Seating | Adults $20.00 | Students $15.00 |
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"SPECIAL EVENT, ONE EVENING ONLY"
Spend an evening with the original
star of Broadway's RENT and AIDA.
ADAM PASCAL, award-winning original star of Broadway’s RENT and AIDA, as well as the feature film RENT, performs an evening of Broadway songs with his band from a variety of composers old and new, (including Stephen Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jonathan Larson, Jason Robert Brown and more), classic rock
songs from his musical influences
(including The Beatles, Billy Joel, Elton John and Pink Floyd) and original compositions as well. This unforgettable evening with Adam and his band will have both Broadway and rock fans on their feet!
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| The Smothers Brothers |
| November 15th @ 8:00pm | November 16th @ 4:00pm |
| Reserved Seating | Adults $40.00 | Senior Adults $38.00 |
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The WPAC is pleased to present the fantastically funny, world-famous Smothers Brothers. For over four decades the Smothers Brothers have been seen in their own primetime comedy series in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s; made guest appearances on numerous television programs; entertained in countless engagements as headliners in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe; appeared in a hot-selling video; created 12 top-selling albums; and engaged in continuous coast-to-coast concert tours as well as performances. The YoYo Man (Tom) and the Voice of Yo (Dick) travel and appear with the Smothers Brothers in Concert. The contributions Tom and Dick have made to the entertainment world throughout their careers were so highly respected that the Museum of Television and Radio (in New York) produced a retrospective and seminar on their work; an honor not lightly accorded. The entertainment industry honored them with one of its most valuable awards: a star on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame. Please Join us for this wonderful weekend of comedy!
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| National Public Radio "From The Top" |
| December 6, 2008 @ 8:00pm |
| Reserved Seating | Adults $25.00 | Senior / Students $15.00 |
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From the Top showcases pre
collegiate musicians whose stunning individual performances are combined with lively interviews, unique pre-produced segments, lighthearted sketches and musical games. The series captures live on tape performances originating from some of the nation’s finest concert halls, in addition to interviews with such high-profile performers as Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Bobby McFerrin.
Meet the Host:
As host of the most popular classical music radio show on the air today, From the Top (nationally distributed on National Public Radio), Mr. O'Riley works and performs with the next generation of brilliant young musicians, demonstrating to audiences, with humor and a lack of pretension, that these young artists are no different than any other child. An interpreter and arranger of some of the most important contemporary rock music of our time, Chris lives by the Duke Ellington adage, "there are only two kinds of music, good music and bad." His first recording of Radiohead transcriptions, "True Love Waits" (Sony/Odyssey) received 4 stars from Rolling Stone and was as critically acclaimed as it was commercially successful. This Boradcast is sure to leave long lasting memories!
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