2 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Over the course of the Gallagher-Bluedorn’s 10 years, this performance has become a family tradition, the Minnesota Ballet in the perennial favorite, The Nutcracker. Joined by many local dancers, the Minnesota Ballet will bring the holiday spirit to life once again with the story of Little Clara, the young girl who received the Nutcracker as a gift, and her enchanted dream of Princes and Princesses, Sugarplums, and Toy Soldiers. Tchaikovsky's romantic score, the colorful scenery, lush period costumes, and skillful ballet performances make The Nutcracker a must-see for the holiday season.. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $36, $31, $26, $23, $17; UNI Student: 50% off; Youth: A BUCK A KID!
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Over the course of the Gallagher-Bluedorn’s 10 years, this performance has become a family tradition, the Minnesota Ballet in the perennial favorite, The Nutcracker. Joined by many local dancers, the Minnesota Ballet will bring the holiday spirit to life once again with the story of Little Clara, the young girl who received the Nutcracker as a gift, and her enchanted dream of Princes and Princesses, Sugarplums, and Toy Soldiers. Tchaikovsky's romantic score, the colorful scenery, lush period costumes, and skillful ballet performances make The Nutcracker a must-see for the holiday season.. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $36, $31, $26, $23, $17; UNI Student: 50% off; Youth: A BUCK A KID!
6 pm, Davis Hall, GBPAC Coordinated by UNI School of Music Voice Division, this evening of song will feature student vocalist performances. . Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
8 pm, Graham Hall, Russell Hall Coordinated by UNI School of Music professor of horn Yu-Ting Su and professor of cello Jonathan Chenoweth, students will offer a chamber music concert.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
8 pm, Davis Hall, GBPAC Coordinated by UNI School of Music professor Rebecca Burkhardt, orchestra students will offer winter concert.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
8 pm, Davis Hall, GBPAC The Northwind Quintet will offer a winter recital, featuring UNI School of Music faculty artists Tom Barry, oboe, Amanda McCandless, clarinet, David Rachor, bassoon, and Yu-Ting Su, horn.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
7:30 pm, Great Hall, GBPAC The UNI Varsity Men's Glee Club will offer their highly anticipated holiday concerts. These sell-out events feature the Glee Club men performing holiday favorites and beautiful winter songs.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is ticketed. For tickets, call (319) 273-4TIX.
2:30 pm, Great Hall, GBPAC The UNI Varsity Men's Glee Club will offer their highly anticipated holiday concerts. These sell-out events feature the Glee Club men performing holiday favorites and beautiful winter songs.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is ticketed. For tickets, call (319) 273-4TIX.
7:30 pm, Great Hall, GBPAC The UNI Varsity Men's Glee Club will offer their highly anticipated holiday concerts. These sell-out events feature the Glee Club men performing holiday favorites and beautiful winter songs.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is ticketed. For tickets, call (319) 273-4TIX.
8 pm, Davis Hall, GBPAC UNI School of Music faculty artist Dmitri Vorobiev will present a piano recital with repertoire to be announced. . Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
7:30 pm, Great Hall, GBPAC A perfect way to celebrate the holidays. Come join the UNI School of Music choral ensembles (UNI Singers, Concert Chorale and Women’s Chorus) and the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra in celebrating the joys of the season. Enjoy holiday favorites and majestic, winter-inspired works.
. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is ticketed. For tickets, call (319) 273-4TIX.
7:30 pm, Great Hall, GBPAC The New Horizons Band will offer its winter concert. Under the direction of Diana Blake, the New Horizons Band features musicians 55 and older who travel from all over Iowa.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
7 pm, Bengtson Auditorium, Russell Hall The UNI Children's Choir will offer their winter concert under the direction of Michelle Swanson.. Contact: Caroline Boehmer; email: caroline.boehmer@uni.edu; phone: (319) 273-2028. Tickets/Registration: This event is free and open to the public.
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Get an early start on your "holiday mood" when Mannheim Steamroller brings their Christmas tour for the first time to the Gallagher-Bluedorn. Started by former adman Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller's signature sound is where classical and modern-day rock, acoustic and electronic music meet. Celebrate the spirit of the season with the "18th century rock band" that has become one of the most popular and best-selling acts in the last 30 years.
Sponsored by: Simpson Furniture, Struxture Architects, Larry K. Fox and Associates, and Friends of the Gallagher-Bluedorn. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $66, $60, $52, $42, $32; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
8 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Considered scandalous when it premiered a century ago with its provocative "Dance of the Seven Veils," Richard Strauss' adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play has not lost its ability to shock. Set in Biblical times, this erotically charged opera centers on a tangled triangle: the persecuted John the Baptist, a lecherous King Herod and the monarch's pathologically seductive stepdaughter, Salome.
Founded in 1998 by Daniel Kleinknecht, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre presents two to three operas each season as well as several special events. International artists as well as American artists are featured singers in their productions.
Sponsored by: UNI’s College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: 34, $27, $20, $17, $12; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
2 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Considered scandalous when it premiered a century ago with its provocative "Dance of the Seven Veils," Richard Strauss' adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play has not lost its ability to shock. Set in Biblical times, this erotically charged opera centers on a tangled triangle: the persecuted John the Baptist, a lecherous King Herod and the monarch's pathologically seductive stepdaughter, Salome.
Founded in 1998 by Daniel Kleinknecht, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre presents two to three operas each season as well as several special events. International artists as well as American artists are featured singers in their productions.
Sponsored by: UNI’s College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: 34, $27, $20, $17, $12; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center The musicians founded the Fauré Piano Quartet in 1995 taking on his name out of appreciation for the composer's two piano quartet pieces. It did not take the quartet long to win top prizes and awards for their interpretations at prestigious international chamber music competitions including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the Parkhouse Award in Great Britain.
"There is no such thing as perfection, but the Fauré Piano Quartet is dangerously close to challenging this notion. The group's success is each member's inborn musicianship, the sense of friends making music together sublimely and perceptively, and the musicians' collective ability to say so much in the most natural way. The Fauré Quartet has been beautifully recorded too, with a mix of immediacy, space and judicious balance between the foursome who play as equals and who care deeply about what they do and about each other." - ClassicalSource.com
Sponsored by: UNI’s College of Humanities & Fine Arts and Friends of the Gallagher-Bluedorn.. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $34, $27, $22, $20, $17; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth 20% off
3 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Imagine a visual sculpture of human bodies or a configuration of dancers so entangled you can’t count them. For nearly four decades, the Pilobolus dance troupe has been acclaimed for a non-traditional but powerful set of skills with which to make dances. Pilobolus has evolved into a unique American arts organization of international influence, dubbed by the New York Post as “the most popular modern dance company in the country.” With notable appearances in commercials, on the Academy Awards and innovative theatrical productions that result in die-hard dance fans, Pilobolus makes modern dance accessible and fun for all.
“The purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis . . . one image merges into another, organically, poetically, inexplicably.” – The New York Times. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $36, $33, $29, $27, $22; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: A BUCK A KID!
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center The number one and official tribute show for Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper! John Mueller's Winter Dance Party is an authentic re-creation of the final tour by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Presented 50 years after the fateful crash, this world famous act is the only show in existence endorsed by the Holly, Valens and Richardson estates! Each live concert performance includes over two hours of unbridled, high voltage entertainment featuring all hit songs of the 50's era: That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Rave on, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, and many, many more.
Sponsored by: Trapp Realtors, Simpson Furniture, Holiday Inn and Friends of the Gallgher-Bluedorn. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $37, $34, $31, $28, $25; UNI Student: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
2 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Bring the entire family to this show that will fill you with inspiration! Winner of two Grammy Awards, the Soweto Gospel Choir was formed to celebrate the unique and inspirational power of African Gospel music. The 26-person choir, under the direction of David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer, draws on the best talent from the many churches in and around Soweto. This choir is dedicated to sharing the joy of faith through music with audiences around the world.
Sponsored by: John Deere and UNI’s Center for Multicultural Education. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $32, $27, $24, $21, $17; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
2 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama of an elderly woman taking stock of her life while facing her inevitable passing. Multiple performances through March 7.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14.00 Regular/Free for UNI students
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Shakespeare’s iconic romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers falling victim to family hatred and cruel destiny comes alive on the Gallagher-Bluedorn stage. Swords clash, everlasting love is promised, and a treacherous sleeping potion is swallowed in this sorrowful tale, considered the greatest love story of all time. Evoking the lyricism of Shakespeare’s sonnets, Romeo and Juliet embodies the brief joy of passion and ecstasy felt by these two young lovers before their heartrending fate. This stunning work is performed by the award-winning theater ensemble, The Acting Company.. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $32, $27, $22, $17, $12; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: A BUCK A KID!
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Much more than a concert, In the Mood presents a retro 1940's musical featuring singers, dancers and the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra. The music and the arrangements are as authentic as it gets. This was a time that all America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music. In the 1940's, the combination of up-tempo big band instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope and prosperity. This was the time when the music moved the nation's spirit!
Sponsored by: Community National Band and Friends of the Gallagher-Bluedorn. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $42, $37, $27, $22, $17; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth 20% off
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit 2004 Tony Award® winner for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!”
ADULT HUMOR, COMIC VULGARITIES AND LANGUAGE. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
Sponsored by: Holiday Inn and Rock 108. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $47, $42, $37, $32, $27; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit 2004 Tony Award® winner for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!”
ADULT HUMOR, COMIC VULGARITIES AND LANGUAGE. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
Sponsored by: Holiday Inn and Rock 108. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $47, $42, $37, $32, $27; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7:30 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit 2004 Tony Award® winner for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!”
ADULT HUMOR, COMIC VULGARITIES AND LANGUAGE. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
Sponsored by: Holiday Inn and Rock 108. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $47, $42, $37, $32, $27; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
10 am, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
7 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center San Jose Taiko has mesmerized audiences for three decades with the powerful and propulsive sounds of the taiko drum. Inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, San Jose Taiko performers express the beauty and harmony of the human spirit though the voice of taiko.
"By playing Japanese-American music we honor our cultural roots. We draw from a traditional source, yet still express ourselves as Americans. By sharing our music we take pride in our heritage, and hope to encourage others to have pride in their own cultural backgrounds."
Sponsored by: UNI’s Center for Multicultural Education. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $10 all zones; UNI Students: $5 all zones; Youth: A BUCK A KID!
7 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
2 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Celebrate 10 years of exciting international entertainment at the Biggest Birthday Bash the Cedar Valley’s ever seen! Featuring music for every taste that will amaze, inspire and get your feet stomping…delectable foods to tempt your palate…whimsical surprises…and a most unique birthday cake! Dust off your dancing shoes and join the fun!. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-4849. Tickets/Registration: $100 per person
2 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
3 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Once every four years, the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition invites a select few young pianists to compete for significant awards. Since 1962, this esteemed piano competition has honored Van Cliburn, who was only 23 years old in 1958, when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow – at the height of the Cold War. Continuing the tradition, the Cliburn Competition Silver Medal winner, selected on June 7, 2009, will perform on the Great Hall stage. The complete 13th Van Cliburn Competition, including the final award announcement, is available online at www.cliburn.org.
Sponsored by: UNI’s College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $32, $22, $20, $17; UNI Students: 50% off; Youth: 20% off
7 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
10 am, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
2 pm, Strayer-Wood Theatre The amusing adventures of Mr. Toad and his friends explore the very human conditions of greed, obsession, morality and friendship in a story that will speak to the whole family. Multiple performances through April 25.. Contact: Strayer-Wood Theatre; email: strayer-wood@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-6381. Tickets/Registration: $14/$12/$10/$5/Free for UNI students
7 pm, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center The Gallagher-Bluedorn’s 10th anniversary year concludes with the 10th Crème de la Crème concert. Scheduled performers include: Bonnie Koloc, singer/songwriter; Jeff Brich and John Hagen, tenors; Kui-Im Lee, organ; UNI Faulty String Soloists; Brass Ensemble; David Lang, euphonium; A Slice of Jazz from Cedar Rapids Washington High School; and The Five Grands.. Contact: Janelle Darst; email: gbpac@uni.edu; phone: 319-273-3660. Tickets/Registration: Adults: $15; Youth: $5
