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San Francisco Conservatory of Music Ute and William Okay. Bowes, Jr. Middle / Mark Cavagnero Associates

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:16:23 +0000

San Francisco Conservatory of Music Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center / Mark Cavagnero Associates

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Text description provided by the architects. Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the city’s performing arts district, the Ute & William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) was designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates (Cavagnero) as a “vertical campus” that incorporates student housing, dining, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, performance spaces, and a radio station all under one roof.

The Center is named in honor and recognition of the $46.4M gift from the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, which marks the largest capital gift ever made to a music school; the Foundation’s namesake was a longtime SFCM supporter and trustee. Walking distance to SFCM’s Ann Getty Center at 50 Oak Street, the Conservatory’s home since 2006, the Bowes Center creates housing for up to 420 students. The building also includes 27 rent-stabilized apartments, which upgrade and replace existing units from the site’s previous building for its prior tenants.

Cavagnero’s design emphasizes openness, engagement, and light through its exterior of white and transparent glass. Filled with the sights and sounds of music, the Bowes Center invites passersby at this active intersection to see performances through floor-to-ceiling windows in its ground-floor jewel-box Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall. The top two floors glow like a beacon at night, with floor-to-ceiling windows, the 200-seat Barbro Osher Recital Hall, flexible event space, and roof terrace offering unparalleled views of City Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, the War Memorial Opera House, and other landmarks.

Building on the firm’s innovations in the design of SFJAZZ, Cavagnero’s design for Bowes achieves the transparency of a glass exterior while exceeding its rigorous acoustic requirements. To achieve a cohesive design language, while meeting its high acoustic demands—which change from floor to floor, with a mix of performance, practice, recording, and residential spaces throughout its twelve stories, and are made more complex by the neighboring Van Ness Avenue —the Cavagnero team designed a custom curtainwall system that integrates all acoustic requirements into one seamless envelope. Collaborating with Kirkegaard Associates, Tipping Structural Engineers, and curtainwall fabricator CS Erectors, Cavagnero pushed the boundaries of glass’s capacity to perform at high acoustic levels. The design utilizes double-glazed walls and a floating structural slab to isolate noise and vibration transmission from the street while maintaining transparency in the performance spaces. The double-glazed system also provides a sustainable element to the design, creating an additional thermal buffer.

On the Bowes Center’s second level, the Center for New Media features studio space, lesson rooms, and critical listening rooms for students participating in the Conservatory’s Technology and Applied Composition Program. Capitalizing on the school’s location in the performing arts district, and proximity to Silicon Valley, the program prepares classically trained composers to score the film and video games. The center is also used by students in SFCM’s Roots, Jazz, and American Music Program, created in partnership with SFJAZZ. Classrooms, keyboard labs, a black box technology hall and a recording studio for all SFCM students are located in highly acoustically controlled spaces below ground levels. Floors three through 11 hold one, two, and three-bedroom housing units, each acoustically isolated for practicing. One floor is dedicated to housing San Francisco Ballet Students as an extension of the Conservatory’s unprecedented partnership with the nearby SF Ballet.

Project Description. A “vertical campus” that incorporates affordable student housing, dining, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, performance spaces, faculty offices, and a radio station under a single roof, the Bowes Center is designed to enable students to create, learn, and share music in an integrated, collaborative environment. Named in honor and recognition of the $46.4M gift from the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, the Bowes Center doubles the school’s square footage and features state-of-the-art teaching facilities and three new performance halls.

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Porchlight Music Theatre Presents PORCHLIGHT REVISITS THE APPLE TREE

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:59:33 +0000

Porchlight Music Theater began its ninth season of Chicago’s “lost” musicals series with Porchlight Revisites The Apple Tree, book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book and music by Jerry Bock with additional material by James Coopersmith.

Each of the three musical stories in The Apple Tree is directed by a different person, Frankie Leo Bennett+ (The Diary of Adam and Eve), Jamal Howard+ (The Lady or the Tiger?), and Laura Savage* (Passionella) with musical direction by David Fiorello+.

Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree was presented for three performances only Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, Dec. 8 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Street. Three-show discounted Porchlight Revisits subscriptions are available and single tickets to Porchlight Revisits

Chicago’s finest music theater talents dust off these treasures and escort audiences into the world of the art of music theater’s past for a limited run. In addition to productions from days gone by, each Porchlight Revisits includes the Behind the Show Backstory, an entertaining and informative multimedia presentation, created and hosted by Artistic Director Michael Weber+, introducing the evening’s production including the show’s creative history, juicy backstage stories and much more.

The 2022 – 2023 Porchlight Revisits season begins with The Apple Tree from the songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me. This witty, tuneful and charming piece that was Tony nominated for Best Musical is made up of three miniatures: The Diary of Adam and Eve, a quirky, touching spin on the tale of the world’s first couple, adapted from Mark Twain’s short stories; The Lady or the Tiger?, a 1960’s rock and roll fable set in a mythical kingdom, which explores the fickleness of love and Passionella based on Jules Feiffer’s offbeat Cinderella story about a chimney sweep who dreams of being a “glamorous movie star.”

Additional Porchlight Revisits in the 2023 – 2023 season includes Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera, Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 , a complement to Porchlight’s Mainstage Cabaret, this special event production is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable 1951 play that became the inspiration for the musical Cabaret and Porchlight Revisits Two by Two, Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, May 25 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Peter Stone based The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets. Porchlight Revisits Two by Two tells the story of Noah, the flood and its aftermath with touches of modern themes including the environment and the differences from generation to generation.

The cast of Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree includes Jonah Cochin+ (Adam/ensemble); Maddison Denault* (Princess Barbara/ensemble); Susan Hofflander* (Snake/ensemble); Shea Hopkins+ (Flip/The Prince/ensemble); Ruchir Khazanchi+ (Captain Sanjar/ensemble); Michael Mejia^ (balladeer/ensemble); Leah Morrow* (Ella/Passionella/Ensemble); Emma Rosenthal* (Narrator/ensemble) and Ciarra Stroud* (Eve/ensemble).

The Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree creative team includes Frankie Leo Bennett+ (director, The Diary of Adam and Eve), Jamal Howard+ (director/choreographer, The Lady or the Tiger?), and Laura Savage* (director, choreographer, Passionella); David Fiorello+ (music director), Rachel Sypniewski* (costume designer); Rachel West* (lighting designer), Matthew R. Chase+ (sound designer); Alden Vasquez+ (stage manager); Emily Marrazzo+ (assistant stage manager); Kevin Vilchez* (assistant stage manager); Majel Cuza* (production manager) and Michael Weber+ (artistic director).

Photo Credit: Oni Wright

Ruchir Khazanchi, Maddison Denault and Michael Mejia

Ciarra Stroud, Jonah Cochin and Susan Hofflander

Shea Hopkins, Leah Morrow, and Emma Rosenthal

The cast of PORCHLIGHT REVISITS THE APPLE TREE

Director and Choreographer Jamal Howard, THE LADY OR THE TIGER?, Director Frankie Leo Bennett, THE DIARY OF ADAM AND EVE and Porchlight Artistic Director Michael Weber

David Fiorello, Justin Akira Kono, Cara Strauss, Greg Strauss

David Sabbagh, Emily Marrazzo, Alden Vasquez, Jordan Large and Abbey Nettleton

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Forged and Inventive Workforce Introduced For Porchlight Music Theatre’s THE APPLE TREE

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:06:17 +0000

Porchlight Music Theater begins its ninth season of Chicago’s “lost” musicals series with Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree, book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book and music by Jerry Bock with additional material by James Coopersmith.

Each of the three musical stories in The Apple Tree is directed by a different person, Frankie Leo Bennett (The Diary of Adam and Eve), Jamal Howard (The Lady or the Tiger?), and Laura Savage (Passionella) with musical direction by David Fiorello. Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree is presented for three performances only Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, Dec. 8 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Street.

Three-show discounted Porchlight Revisits subscriptions are available and single tickets to Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree are $52 at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org or by calling the Porchlight Music Theater box office at 773.777.9884.

Now in its ninth season, Porchlight Revisits celebrates the rarely seen musical gems of Broadway, off-Broadway and beyond and is the ticket to go behind the scenes with an introduction to the luminaries who created the greatest musicals of all time and an opportunity to discover a new ‘old’ favorite all in one big show. Chicago’s finest music theater talents dust off these treasures and escort audiences into the world of the art of music theater’s past for a limited run. In addition to productions from days gone by, each Porchlight Revisits includes the Behind the Show Backstory, an entertaining and informative multimedia presentation, created and hosted by Artistic Director Michael Weber, introducing the evening’s production including the show’s creative history, juicy backstage stories and much more.

The cast of Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree includes Jonah Cochin (Adam/ensemble); Maddison Denault (Princess Barbara/ensemble); Susan Hofflander (Snake/ensemble); Shea Hopkins (Flip/The Prince/ensemble); Ruchir Khazanchi (Captain Sanjar/ensemble); Michael Mejia (balladeer/ensemble); Leah Morrow (Ella/Passionella/Ensemble); Emma Rosenthal (Narrator/ensemble) and Ciarra Stroud (Eve/ensemble).

The Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree creative team includes Frankie Leo Bennett (director, The Diary of Adam and Eve), Jamal Howard (director/choreographer, The Lady or the Tiger?), and Laura Savage (director, choreographer, Passionella); David Fiorello (music director), Rachel Sypniewski (costume designer); Rachel West (lighting designer), Matthew R. Chase (sound designer); Alden Vasquez (stage manager); Emily Marrazzo (assistant stage manager); Kevin Vilchez (assistant stage manager); Majel Cuza (production manager) and Michael Weber (artistic director).

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San Francisco’s Castro Theatre to be reworked into dwell music venue, new partnership with One other Planet Leisure

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:51:39 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The historic Castro Theater in San Francisco’s Castro District announced Wednesday that it is partnering with Another Planet Entertainment and transforming into a live music venue.

APE has plans to significantly improve the sound, lighting, production, HVAC and the theatre’s trademark mark.

RELATED: Keanu Reeves shares SF highlights during ‘Matrix Resurrections’ film premiere at Castro Theatre

Bay Properties Inc. is the owner of the Castro Theatre.

“After operating the Castro Theater for nearly a hundred years, we have chosen to partner with Another Planet Entertainment for the next evolution of our historic theatre,” said Chris Nasser Padian, Bay Properties vice president. “Another Planet is an ideal partner, as they have a rich history with the City and in rehabilitating historic venues. Bay Properties is excited that the partnership with APE will continue the legacy of the Castro Theater and Castro neighborhood.”

The grand reopening is set for 2023, according to the SF Chronicle.

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San Francisco’s oldest music competition returns after flood

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:28:21 +0000

May 31, 2022

An image from the Stern Grove concert series.

Courtesy of Stern Grove Festival

San Francisco music festivals don’t get much more beloved than Stern Grove.

Now in its 85th year, the free summer concert series has been a staple in the Bay Area, but its status was put in jeopardy last year after a flood severely damaged the park grounds. Thankfully, renovations are nearing completion, and the reopening party is going to be one to remember.

The June 12 kickoff features two historic Bay Area acts — rap legend Too $hort and prolific horn section Tower of Power — both of whom were originally scheduled to perform for the 2021 season finale. The rest of the lineup was announced in unconventional (and accidental) fashion with an advertisement on Muni.

Traditionally, the Stern Grove concerts were first come, first served. As a result, attendees would arrive in the early morning hours to secure a parcel of grass for picnic blankets and coolers. That changed with the pandemic, which led the organizers to launch an online reservation system. Tickets are still free, and go on sale 12 days before each show, with additional tickets released throughout the week prior to the event.

Ticket reservations will open for the June 12 event at 2 pm at Stern Grove’s website.

Dan Gentile is the culture editor at SFGATE. He moved to San Francisco from Austin, TX where he worked as a vinyl DJ and freelance writer covering food and music. His writing has been featured in Texas Monthly, American Way, Rolling Stone, Roads & Kingdoms, VICE, Thrillist and more. Email: Dan.Gentile@sfgate.com.

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Downtown San Francisco’s revival plan wants greater than dwell music and lightweight projections

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:08:54 +0000

If you want a handy guide to the small-scale interventions that are in vogue these days for urban America — from parklets to pop-ups to cultural programming — a newly released “action plan” for downtown San Francisco is a valuable place to start.

If you also want a document that offers a realistic blueprint for bringing the city’s Financial District back to life, keep looking.

That’s the challenge in trying to gauge the merits of the often-inventive Public Realm Action Plan released this week by Downtown SF, a business nonprofit that provides services to 43 blocks stretching from Jackson Square south past Market Street almost to the Embarcadero.

It’s a smart assessment of how streets and outdoor spaces in the tower-studded terrain could evolve in coming years. It also concedes that, 28 months after we were all told to go home and shelter in place to ward off the coronavirus, barely half of the district’s workforce has returned to their offices.

A pedestrian walks past a building for lease inside a sunken public plaza surrounding One Bush Street at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in San Francisco.

Jessica Christian/The Chronicle

And that’s the problem: what frames negative perceptions of the Financial District right now is empty storefronts and mostly vacant high-rises, not the lack of shady trees or lunchtime concerts.

To their credit, the people behind the plan acknowledge that their vision to activate dormant sidewalks is just one piece of a much larger puzzle.

“This is not going to solve all the issues downtown; we know that,” said Claude Imbault, deputy director of the nonprofit. “This is a tool to start the conversation.”

The plan draws heavily on what’s known in planning circles as tactical urbanism, where the aim is to jump-start an area’s potential with small enticements rather than wait for large-scale investments. The idea is that plenty of people working and living nearby are eager to explore the civic landscape, if they have a reason to do so.

A pedestrian walks past a staircase leading to a sunken public plaza surrounding One Bush Street at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in San Francisco.

Jessica Christian/The Chronicle

Of the six areas targeted by Downtown SF as potential spots to focus on short-term, the so-called Market Oasis gives a taste of what upgrades are envisioned — and the challenge of pulling some of them off.

The oasis would transform the north side of Market between Sansome and Front streets, a concentrated dose of what sets the Financial District apart from other neighborhoods. Ignore the vacant storefronts, look up instead, and the 29-story Shell Building thrusts skyward with 1920s aplomb directly across from One Bush St., 20 stories of bespoke midcentury modern.

For history buffs there’s the Mechanics Monument, a muscle-bound iron celebration of labor by sculptor Douglas Tilden from 1901. The shell of a 1910 banking temple holds one of the district’s most prominent privately owned public spaces, which are required by the city in new commercial development projects.

The action plan would enliven the scene via “an improved experience of significant public spaces” — one that would include colorful tables and chairs, planters filled with flowers and trees, light projections at night and lunchtime concerts or other events throughout the week.

As for the zone’s prominent but empty retail spaces, including a circular pavilion rising from the sunken plaza at One Bush, it’s suggested that a “buzzy lunch spot” could go into one, while “a collection of short-term pop-ups” could fill another. The pavilion is envisioned as holding “a highly visible downtown destination.”

An empty walkway leads through a sunken public plaza surrounding One Bush Street at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in San Francisco.

Jessica Christian/The Chronicle

But the plan is vague on how this happens, much less spell out where the money might come from to jazz things up. The goal instead is to take the plan and its pilot projects — starting with Leidesdorff Street, a short alley that ends at the Transamerica Pyramid — to gauge what interest there might be from building owners and public agencies.

Even if workers were clocking in upstairs at pre-pandemic numbers, there’s no guarantee that “Market Oasis” would magically blossom. The plan envisions a string of buoyant spaces within two short blocks, including the sunken moat-like plaza and the city-owned Mechanics Plaza on the east side of Battery Street, where Tilden’s sculpture resides. There are only so many workers to go around — you can imagine one or two spaces coming alive, but not all of them at once, on an ongoing basis.

So, what happens when the novelty fades? The city’s Public Works department freshened up Mechanics Plaza back in 2014, replacing tattered wooden benches with bright metal street furniture while adding stands for people to recharge cell phones or fill their water bottles. The vitality ebbed within a few years. When I stopped by Monday, a grand total of one person was eating lunch on a granite block next to an empty planter.

The plan’s creators acknowledge that while snappy designs and short-term pop-ups can generate buzz, they aren’t enough.

People eat lunch at the foot of a statue inside Mechanics Plaza along Market Street in San Francisco.

Jessica Christian/The Chronicle

“Whatever we do has to be a campaign,” said Laura Crescimano, whose Sitelab Urban Studio crafted the plan for Downtown SF with John Bela and Fehr & Peers. “These things happen in layers. People want to go to ‘a thing’ that’s a series of things.”

Ultimately, the value of the “action plan” might be as a tool kit to draw on, whether in the Financial District or other commercial districts.

“I appreciate the thoughtful approach they’ve taken … it’s a wonderful resource,” said Kate Sofis, director of the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Her office has the task at City Hall of finding ways to revive the larger downtown scene. “Some of the things they want to do are exactly the things we want to do.”

San Francisco’s Financial District won’t be returned to its bustling heyday by a more humane concept of public space. But small moves can add up — and with luck, some of the ideas offered by Downtown SF will help to move things along.

John King is The San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic. Email: jking@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron

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I’m not certain why this ABC10 ‘authentic’ makes use of creepy music to create an ominous tone relating to individuals merely shifting across the SF Bay Space

Fri, 13 May 2022 08:53:20 +0000

I do not know much about the San Francisco Bay Area, but I do not remember a time when 1) San Francisco wasn’t being ruined somehow 2) commutes in and around the SF Bay Area didn’t cause heads to spin or 3) everyone around San Francisco didn’t like those people moving into their suburb. Sacramento is a suburb of ‘The Greater Bay Area.’ big deal

From watching this report I learned that remote working lets more people work from locations they like, rather than being forced to live someplace they do not like in order to be close to their place of work. Happy people sound great to me. I also learned that Sacramento is suffering from the same problems of homelessness and affordability as every other major metropolis in the US.

Why the music?

Image: Screen grab

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San Francisco’s Castro Theatre to be remodeled into reside music venue, new partnership with One other Planet Leisure

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:49:58 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The historic Castro Theater in San Francisco’s Castro District announced Wednesday that it is partnering with Another Planet Entertainment and turning into a live music venue.

APE has plans to significantly improve the theater’s sound, lighting, production, air conditioning and branding.

RELATED: Keanu Reeves shares SF highlights during ‘Matrix Resurrections’ movie premiere at Castro Theater

Bay Properties Inc. owns the Castro Theatre.

“Having operated the Castro Theater for almost a hundred years, we have decided to partner with Another Planet Entertainment for the next development of our historic theater,” said Chris Nasser Padian, vice president of Bay Properties. “Another Planet is an ideal partner as they have a rich history with the city and the restoration of historic venues. Bay Properties is delighted that the partnership with APE will continue the legacy of the Castro Theater and the Castro District.”

The grand reopening is scheduled for 2023, according to the SF Chronicle.

We’re excited to announce a new development – after operating the Castro Theater for nearly a hundred years, we’re teaming up with our friends at @apeconcerts to bring you world-class entertainment and the next evolution of our historic theatre.https: //t. co/3iqSWuTCvJ

— Castro Theater (@Castro_Theatre) January 19, 2022

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music Opens New Performing Arts Heart on Van Ness Avenue – CBS San Francisco

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 05:28:17 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – City guides, school staff and students celebrated the Bowes Center of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Friday with a first look at the venue and facilities, plus a special performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

“This is an incredibly artistic city compared to where I come from, it’s unimaginable,” said Jess Konye, a technology and applied composition student at SFCM. “When I came back everything is different now. The space means that I can go to school anytime and whenever I want, and that makes me a better musician. “

The Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts is 165,000 square feet and rises several floors above Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. More than $ 130 million has been raised for this project.

“One of the biggest challenges we face in San Francisco is making housing affordable,” said San Francisco Mayor, London Breed. “This project offers students the chance to be housed and not worry about whether or not they have a roof over their heads while they try to study and protect their craft.”

It will host around 400 students, including Konye, who says having access to practice rooms at any time of the day will help her grow as a student in a way she never could before living here. Balancing her schedule and school commitments was a challenge, and she eventually left town during the pandemic.

“We didn’t want to be an obstacle for people who wanted to bring their families with them to hear and experience music,” said SFCM President David Stull.

The venue will offer 90 percent of its concerts to the public for free. The acoustics in the event hall on the 11th floor eliminate all noise from the busy streets below.

“The Bowes Center was built with the future of audio and composition in mind, and the facilities here really support that mission,” said Taurin Barrera, executive director of the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program.

TAC and the facilities used by SFCM students include new studios to help students become composers of the 21st century, Barrera said. Your skills will help them work on films, video games, and new media. In addition to music composition, you will also learn computer programming and other technical skills.

“The students had tears in their eyes when you hear how it sounds in this room, when you hear your own music recorded, you really feel the power of the sound in the studio,” he said.

Yo-Yo Ma performs at the Bowes Center. (CBS)

Yo-Yo Ma performed for the audience on Friday morning and spent part of his day working with students in a master class in the afternoon. He said he was impressed with the clarity he heard from his performances at the venue, and also how this will help students find their own creativity.

“If there’s one thing I love about what an institution like the San Francisco Conservatory can do with this new space – the Bowes Center – is create a safe space,” he said.

Located near other arts organizations in the Civic Center that work with the school, the Bowes Center helps students connect and collaborate with other artists in the city. The principals say they want the character of San Francisco to be present throughout the venue, including city hall views from the performance hall and rooftop.

“We can be rooted in the community, interact with the community, interact with the musicians there in these rooms,” Konye said. “I think for me as a student this really means the beginning of a new era for music here at the Conservatory.”

An open day for the public with guided tours and performances throughout the day is planned for February 12, 2022.

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Porchlight Music Theatre Pronounces 2021

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:04:50 +0000

Das Porchlight Music Theatre hat seine Rückkehr zu Live-Auftritten mit seiner 27. Saison angekündigt, die die Spielzeiten 2021-2022 Mainstage, Porchlight Revisits und New Faces Sing Broadway umfasst. Einzeltickets und verschiedene Abonnementoptionen für die Mainstage und Porchlight Revisits sind ab Montag, 23. August um 12 Uhr auf PorchlightMusicTheatre.org oder telefonisch unter 773.777.9884 erhältlich.

“Aufgewachsen in Waynesboro, Virginia (einer kleinen Stadt am Highway 81), habe ich eine ganz andere Beziehung zu Pump Boys und Dinettes. Die Verbindung von Gemeinschaft und Werten trifft mich wirklich. Heute haben sich die Zeiten geändert und die Menschen haben sich verändert, aber nicht das Gemeinschaftsgefühl”, sagte Daryl Brooks+, Direktor von Pump Boys & Dinettes. „Als Porchlight mich bat, bei Pump Boys Regie zu führen, wurde mir klar, dass es an der Zeit war, die Vielfalt nicht nur in den Leuten, sondern auch in der Musik zu zeigen! Diese Show wird auf Schritt und Tritt ein Stück Trost und Aufregung sein, genau wie ein Stück von der Zitronen-Baiser-Torte meiner Oma!”

Blues in the Night Regisseur/Choreograph Kenny Ingram+ sprach über die Produktion von 2022 und sagte: „Ich bin dankbar, mit Porchlight Music Theatre als Regisseur/Choreograph von Blues in the Night zusammenzuarbeiten. Wir nähern uns dieser Produktion mit Realismus und freuen uns darauf, das Publikum zu gewinnen.“ auf einer fröhlichen Fahrt, die zwei Teile der ‘Nacht’ beinhaltet. Es gibt diese 23-Uhr-Seite, wenn du deine Hände hochwerfen, schreien und eine Lektion lernen willst, und dann die 4-Uhr-Seite, wenn dich die Wahrheit so sehr trifft, dass du dich fast nicht bewegen kannst und du vielleicht nur noch weinen willst. Wir möchten, dass das Publikum all diese Emotionen spürt und es herausfinden lässt, auf welcher Seite der Nacht sie stehen?“

“Es ist immer eine Freude, wieder in meinem künstlerischen Zuhause, dem Porchlight Music Theatre, zu sein”, sagte die Direktorin von Spring Awakening, Brenda Didier*. „Besonders toll finde ich, dass Spring Awakening im Frühling, einer Zeit der Wiedergeburt und Entdeckung, uraufgeführt wird. Spring Awakening ist seit seinem Debüt im 19. Jahrhundert ein wichtiges Werk und hat als brillantes Musiktheater seine eigene Wiedergeburt erfahren. Ich kann es kaum erwarten die vielen Fans und das neue Publikum der Show, um unsere Interpretation ihrer kraftvollen Musik und Themen zu erleben.”

Im Folgenden finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung aller drei Serien mit detaillierten Informationen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, einschließlich Ausführungs- und Eröffnungsdaten usw., die sich unten befinden.

Die Mainstage-Saison 2021 – 2022

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Eine der am längsten laufenden Shows in der Geschichte des Chicagoer Theaters ist ein Country-Fried-Phänomen, gefüllt mit zehenklopfender Musik auf Gitarre, Klavier, Bass und ein oder zwei Küchenutensilien vom 30. Oktober bis 12. Dezember.

Blues in der Nacht

Die für den Tony Award nominierte Felicia P. Fields* in der Hauptrolle erzählt die Geschichte von drei romantischen Höhen und Tiefen durch die ikonischen Songs einiger der größten Blues-Künstler aller Zeiten, darunter Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Harold Arlen und andere, 15. Januar – Februar 27., 2022.

Frühlingserwachen

Der Gewinner von acht Tony Awards, darunter das beste Musical. Porchlights Inszenierung dieser eindringlichen und provokanten Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über 130 Jahre hinweg wird Sie vom 23. April bis 29. Mai 2022 begeistern.

Die Porchlight-Revisits-Saison 2021 – 2022

Porchlight Revisits feiert die verlorenen musikalischen Juwelen des Broadways und Off-Broadways und ist Ihr Ticket, um hinter die Kulissen zu blicken, mit einer Einführung in die Koryphäen, die die größten Musicals aller Zeiten geschaffen haben, und einer Gelegenheit, einen neuen “alten” Favoriten in einem zu entdecken große Show. Chicagos bestes Musiktheatertalent entstaubt diese Schätze und führt das Publikum für eine begrenzte Auflage in die Welt der Broadway-Vergangenheit. Neben Produktionen aus vergangenen Tagen beinhaltet jedes Porchlight Revisits die Behind the Show Backstory, eine unterhaltsame und informative Multimedia-Präsentation, erstellt und moderiert von Artistic Director Michael Weber+, die die Produktion des Abends mit der kreativen Geschichte der Show, saftigen Backstage-Geschichten und vielem vorstellt mehr.

Die achte Staffel von Porchlight Revisits beinhaltet:

Frauensinn (1985)

Begleiten Sie die Little Sisters of Hoboken in diesem himmlischen Musical, das seit mehr als 30 Jahren Theaterbesucher weltweit beglückt und sechs Fortsetzungen, drei Spin-offs und ein TV-Special mit “Golden Girl” Rue McClanahan als “Mother Superior” hatte, November 17 und 18.

Vorbeigehen seltsam (2008)

Von LA über Amsterdam nach Berlin jagt ein junger Musiker in diesem mit den Tony and Drama Desk Awards 2008 ausgezeichneten Rockmusical voller gefühlvoller Texte und Leidenschaft am 16. und 17. Februar 2022 jugendliche Träume.

Der Apfelbaum (1966)

Vom Songwriting-Team hinter Fiddler on the Roof und She Loves Me besteht dieses witzige, melodische und charmante Musical aus drei musikalischen Miniaturen und wurde am 18. und 19. Mai 2022 für Tony als bestes Musical nominiert.

Die New Faces Sing Broadway-Saison 2021 – 2022

New Faces Sings Broadway wurde 2016 eingeführt und wurde schnell zu einem der beliebtesten Angebote von Porchlight. Dieser klangvolle, publikumsinteraktive Abend wird von einem beliebten Chicagoer Musiktheaterstar moderiert und bietet eine Gruppe aufstrebender lokaler Talente. Die Show ist eine Reise vom Anfang bis zum Ende einer bestimmten Musiksaison am Broadway, gespickt mit Bildern der Ära in einer Multimedia-Präsentation, Quizspielen (mit Preisen!), Mitsingen und mehr. Verpassen Sie nicht die diesjährige Saison, um die beste Musik der “Hit-and-Miss”-Produktionen zu erleben, die eine Musical-Saison am Broadway ausmachten, die in einer intimen und eleganten Kabarett-Umgebung präsentiert wird.

Neue Gesichter singen Broadway 1947

Winter 2022

Mit Songs von Broadway-Shows wie Brigadoon, Finian’s Rainbow, High Button Shoes und mehr.

Neue Gesichter singen am Broadway 1971

Frühjahr 2022

Mit Hits von Broadway-Shows wie Follies, Jesus Christ Superstar, 70, Girls, 70 und mehr.

Neue Gesichter singen JETZT am Broadway (2022)

Sommer 2022

Mit Songs aus Shows, die JETZT am Broadway laufen.

Elaine Cohen und Arlen Rubin sponsern großzügig New Faces Sing Broadway.

Die vollständige künstlerische Leitung der Produktion, die Schauspieler und der Ort werden zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt veröffentlicht.

Die Saison 2021 – 2022 des Porchlight Music Theatre umfasst in chronologischer Reihenfolge:

HAUPTBÜHNE

Pump Boys & Dinettes

30. Oktober – 12. Dezember

Presseabend: Donnerstag, 4. November um 19 Uhr

Erstellt von Pump Boys und Dinettes (John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Tony-Gewinner Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel und Jim Wann)

Regie Daryl Brooks+

Musik unter der Regie von Robert Reddrick+

Choreographiert von Rueben D. Echoles+

Die 27. Staffel von Porchlight beginnt mit einem Stopp im Double Cupp Diner für Pump Boys & Dinettes, einer der am längsten laufenden Shows in der Geschichte des Chicago Theatre und einem Country-Fried-Phänomen voller Musik auf den Zehen auf Gitarre, Klavier, Bass und einem Küchenutensil oder zwei! Diese Essecke in North Carolina ist Ihr Zuhause abseits der Autobahn und liegt direkt gegenüber der Tankstelle. Geführt von Prudie und Rhetta Cupp, geliebten Schwestern, die immer mit einer Tasse Joe, einem Stück Kuchen, einem hausgemachten Lied und einem “Willkommen zurück!” Die New York Times sagte: “Es feiert nicht nur den Wert der Freundschaft und die einfachen Freuden des Lebens, es verkörpert sie.”

Porchlight besucht Nunsense erneut

17. und 18. November

Buch, Musik und Text von Dan Goggin+

Regie Michelle Lauto*

Musik unter der Regie von Kailey Rockwell*

Choreographiert von Jenna Schoppe*

Porchlight Revisits startet mit diesem himmlischen Musical in die Saison 2021-2022. Begleiten Sie die Little Sisters of Hoboken zu einer gesunden Varieté-Show, um Notgelder für das Kloster zu sammeln. Nachdem 52 der Nonnen ein vorzeitiges Ende von Schwester Julia – Kind Gottes Vichyssoise erfahren haben, müssen die überlebenden Schwestern die Spendenaktion werfen, um ihre Beerdigungen zu bezahlen. Dieser lustige Streifzug hat Theaterbesucher weltweit seit mehr als 30 Jahren gesegnet und hatte sechs Fortsetzungen, drei Spin-offs und ein TV-Special mit “Golden Girl” Rue McClanahan als “Mother Superior!”

HAUPTBÜHNE

Blues in der Nacht

15. Januar – 27. Februar 2022

Presseabend: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2022 um 19 Uhr

Entworfen von Sheldon Epps

Mit der Musik von Bessie Smith, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Gordon Jenkins, Alberta Hunter und anderen

Regie und Choreografie von Kenny Ingram+

Choreographierte Assistenz von Ariel Dorsey*

Mit Tony Award-nominierte Felicia P. Fields*

Der Blues ist eine der ursprünglichen Kunstformen Amerikas und Chicago war die Heimat einiger der größten Blues-Interpreten aller Zeiten. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht in den späten 1930er Jahren in einem geschichtsträchtigen Hotel im Süden von Chicago verwebt diese für den Tony Award nominierte Feier die Geschichten von drei Frauen, die ihre Höhen und Tiefen der Romantik durch die ikonischen Lieder von Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox, Ida Cox und andere.

Neue Gesichter singen Broadway 1947

Winter 2021

Regie Tommy Novak^

Mit Songs von Brigadoon, Finian’s Rainbow, High Button Shoes und mehr.

Porchlight Revisits: Passing Strange

16. und 17. Februar 2022

Songtext und Buch von Stew+

Musik von Heidi Rodewald* und Stew+

Regie: Donterrio Johnson+

Choreographiert von Terri K Woodall

Von LA über Amsterdam bis Berlin jagt ein junger Musiker jugendlichen Träumen und spiritueller Klarheit vor einem wechselnden Hintergrund von Orten und Bekanntschaften, während er gegen seine konservative Erziehung rebelliert. Dieses Hit-Rock-Musical voller gefühlvoller Texte und Leidenschaft debütierte 2008 am Broadway mit großem Erfolg und gewann sowohl den Tony als auch den Drama Desk Award.

HAUPTBÜHNE

Frühlingserwachen

23. April – 29. Mai 2022

Presseabend: Donnerstag, 28. April 2022 um 19 Uhr

Musik von Duncan Sheik+

Buch und Text von Steven Sater+

Nach dem deutschen Theaterstück Frühlingserwachen aus dem Jahr 1891 von Frank Wedekind

Regie und Choreografie von Brenda Didier*

Musik unter der Regie von Justin Akira Kono+

Die Produktion von Porchlight, Gewinner von acht Tony Awards, darunter das beste Musical, wird Sie mit einer über 130-jährigen Geschichte begeistern! Vor dem Hintergrund eines repressiven und provinziellen Deutschlands des späten 19. Augen von drei Teenagern. Eindringlich und provokant zelebriert dieses bahnbrechende amerikanische Musical eine Reise von der Jugend bis ins Erwachsenenalter mit einer Kraft, einer Eindringlichkeit und einer Leidenschaft, die Sie nie vergessen werden.

Porchlight Revisits: Der Apfelbaum

18. und 19. Mai 2022

Musik von Jerry Bock

Songtext von Sheldon Harnick

Buch von Bock und Harnick mit Beiträgen von Jerome Coopersmith.

Regie: Keely Vasquez*, Sawyer Smith^ und Bethany Thomas*

Musik unter der Regie von Linda Madonia*

Das Songwriting-Team hinter Fiddler on the Roof und She Loves Me hat dieses witzige, melodische und charmante Musical kreiert, das für Tony als bestes Musical nominiert wurde. Bestehend aus drei musikalischen Miniaturen: “The Diary of Adam and Eve”, eine skurrile, berührende Version der Geschichte des ersten Paares der Welt, adaptiert aus Mark Twains Kurzgeschichten; “The Lady or the Tiger?”, eine Rock’n’Roll-Fabel aus den 1960er Jahren, die in einem mythischen Königreich spielt und die Unbeständigkeit der Liebe erforscht; und “Passionella”, basierend auf Jules Feiffers schräger Cinderella-Geschichte über einen Schornsteinfeger, der davon träumt, ein “glamouröser Filmstar” zu werden. Der Apfelbaum ist der perfekte Abschluss unserer “Lost Musicals”-Saison.

Neue Gesichter singen am Broadway 1971

Frühjahr 2022

Regie Frankie Leo Bennett+

Mit Songs von Follies, Jesus Christ Superstar, 70, Girls, 70 und mehr.

Neue Gesichter singen JETZT am Broadway (2022)

Sommer 2022

Mit Songs aus Shows, die JETZT am Broadway laufen.

Pronomenschlüssel: + (er/ihm/sein); * (sie/sie/ihre); ^ (sie, sie, ihre)

ÜBER PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATER ALS Ruth Page ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Das Porchlight Music Theatre ist stolz darauf, Mitglied der lebendigen Community des Ruth Page Center for the Arts und Artist In-Residence zu sein. Im Mittelpunkt des Programms des Ruth Page Center for the Arts steht das Artists In-Residence-Programm, das Organisationen auf der Suche nach einer Heimatbasis unterstützt, während sie ihre künstlerischen und organisatorischen Fähigkeiten erweitern oder erweitern. Das Zentrum ist bestrebt, Tanz- und andere darstellende Künstler zu fördern und zu unterstützen, um den Austausch und die Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der künstlerischen Gemeinschaft zu ermöglichen. Das Ruth Page Center for the Arts ist ein Ziel für hochwertige darstellende Künste, das einer breiten Gemeinschaft unabhängig von Rasse, Geschlecht, Alter, Bildung oder Behinderung zugänglich ist. Als Inkubator künstlerischer Energie und Exzellenz setzt das Ruth Page Center for the Arts die Vision seiner Gründerin, der legendären Tanzikone Ruth Page, fort, eine Plattform für die Entwicklung großartiger Künstler und deren Verbindung mit dem Publikum und der Gemeinschaft zu sein.

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