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In This Issue:
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Quality Entertainment for the Holidays!
“Geez,” you think, “what can
I get for the holidays for this truly special person who knows quality when s/he sees or hears it?”
Here’s an exciting offer, available only
to our enewsletter readers. Buy a Wisconsin Union Theater gift certificate for at least $36—and we’ll give you something too:
a free pair of tickets to any one of our Travel Adventure Film Series this season!
Buy the present that will be greatly appreciated,
and enjoy a free movie with someone you like. Can’t beat that now, can you?
Order this special offer of $36 or more by phone,
608-262-2201, or fax, 608-265-5084. A processing fee of $2.50 per gift certificate will be added. Or do it in person at the box office for no
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Brentano String Quartet
Friday, November 17, 2006 ●
8:00pm
Tickets: $34/24/18, UW-Madison Students
$10
Pre-Concert Dinner $27
Presenting Partner: Independent String Teachers
of Madison
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Don’t Miss your Chance for
Love!
Brentano String Quartet, named after
Beethoven’s mysterious “Immortal Beloved,” has been courting classical music audiences around the world since 1992, and their
November 17th concert will have you falling in love with them too. The quartet will win your heart with selections by Franz
Josef Haydn, Bela Bartók and Johannes Brahms.
Even The New York Times is head over
heels for Brentano: “The Brentano String Quartet is something special…their music-making is private, delicate and fresh, but by its
very intimacy and importance it seizes attention.”
Perhaps the only heart-breaking thing about this
performance is that it must end, but don’t let that deter you. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all!
Lauren Zink
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Waverly Consort Holiday Program
Friday, December 8, 2006 ● 8:00pm
Tickets: $34/28/18, UW-Madison Students $10
Pre-Concert Dinner $27
Presenting Partner: Madison Early Music Festival
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‘Tis the Season for Waverly Consort
‘Twas 17 days before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was
stirring except for Waverly Consort. That’s right, on December 8th, this 13-member ensemble will captivate their audience beyond
all movement with their performance of The Christmas Story, a favorite since its debut in 1980 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Consort, a pioneer in early music revival, will spellbind audiences with their
almost operatic show featuring both solemn and festive music, processions and simple gestures to dramatize the Biblical narrative.
Don’t be naughty and miss what The Chicago Tribune calls “one of
the joys of the season.”
Lauren Zink
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above: Bruce Ehlinger on left with other conference attendees
Look out
Hollywood, Here Comes Bruce!
Recently our very favorite Operations Manager,
Mr. Bruce Ehlinger, left our beloved WUT and ventured all the way to sunny California for the League of Historic American Theatres’
Conference. I would hardly believe it myself, except for the fact that pictures have surfaced.
As you may have heard, the Student Union
Initiative passed, and if it doesn’t get overturned in the appeals process, we will be undergoing some much-needed major renovations here at
the Wisconsin Union Theater. The conference provided him with insights on how to approach renovating our unique historical theater and, better yet,
kept Bruce in another state for a few days. When he came back, he brought with him 85 stacks of conference notes.
The actual process of renovating this theater
will probably be as unpredictable as…well, backstage on a show night. If these walls could talk, they’d tell you great stories about
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and Itzhak Perlman and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Louis Armstrong and Martha Graham.
It’s not what the walls have to say that worries us so much as what we will find behind these chatty room dividers:
asbestos, pipe configurations crazier than anything found in a Dr. Seuss book, possibly even the approximately 2.4 million pens that keep
disappearing from my desk.
So I guess the moral of the story is that
we’re now relying on Bruce to provide all the answers. We’re doomed.
Lauren Zink
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Newsletter staff
Editor: Esty Dinur
Layout Designer: Claire Weissenfluh
Technical Advisor: Heather Good
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Eddie Palmieri and His Latin Jazz Band
Saturday, December 2, 2006 ●
8:00pm
Tickets: $32/26/18, UW-Madison students
$10
Presenting Partners: Madison Jazz Society and
PANA
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Better Late than
Never:
Eddie Palmieri, The King of Latin Jazz,
Plays Madison
If the walls of this theater could
talk they'd tell you great stories about Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins...but not Eddie Palmieri, "the reigning king
of bona fide Latin jazz" according to the Boston Globe.
Despite a career spanning 50 years of jazz and
salsa band leading experience, this giant has never before performed in Madison. But we bear good news. Palmieri and his seven-piece band will bring
all that (Latin) jazz to the Wisconsin Union Theater--and the dancing will continue at the Rathskeller after the show with a Madison favorite, The
Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Sextet.
Born in Spanish Harlem, Palmieri debuted at
Carnegie Hall at the mere age of 11. After a brief switch to the timbales, Palmieri rediscovered his true love, the piano. "I'm a frustrated
percussionist, so I take it out on the piano," he explained.
Palmieri boasts a 32-title discography and eight
Grammy Awards, including the "Best Latin Jazz Album" in February 2006. He was awarded the Harlem Renaissance Award in 2005, was featured in the PBS
series "Legends of Jazz" earlier this year and was recognized by the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico and the New York State Assembly. The
Smithsonian Institution recorded him for its catalog of the National Museum of American History.
Tickets for this second performance in the
Isthmus Jazz Series are selling fast! Buy yours here.
Esty Dinur
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Amazing Australia with Grant
Foster
Monday & Tuesday, November 27-28, 2006 ●
7:30pm
Tickets: $10, UW-Madison students
$5
Pre-Film Buffet Dinner $14
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The Wonder Down
Under
Take an Australian adventure without putting a
hole in your pocket! Join New Zealand’s most acclaimed filmmaker, Grant Foster, on November 27th and 28th, as he takes
you on his four month-long camera safari to the “wonder down under.”
Dive in the Great Barrier Reef, the largest
living thing on earth; see Sydney, its Opera House and unforgettable harbor; visit Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide; get really close to koalas,
kangaroos and jumping crocodiles; walk amid the Olgas, the most ancient mountains on earth.
Foster’s outstanding cinematography will
leave you with a deep appreciation of this amazing continent.
As always, a scrumptious and plentiful buffet
dinner will be served before the film for only $14. To order tickets for the film and dinner, click here.
Claire Weissenfluh
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Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 ● 7:30pm
Tickets: $32, UW-Madison Students Free!
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Take Flight With Jeffrey Siegel’s
“Schubert: On Wings of Song”
Jeffrey Siegel, keyboard extraordinaire, will have you feeling as free as a bird with
his performance of works by Schubert, one of music’s most lyrical composers. This lofty show will feature Six Waltzes, Impromptu in C Minor,
The Trout, Impromptu in D Minor and Sonata in A Major.
Says Yoheved Kaplinsky, chair of the Piano Department at the
Juilliard School, “Jeffrey Siegel is that rare artist who can combine a superb
performance with an illuminating, inspiring, educational experience. Keyboard Conversations are truly a treasure that will delight music lovers
everywhere.” And we here at Wisconsin Union Theater hope that this bird will never change.
Lauren Zink
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next season!
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(and enter a raffle to win a free
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Meet Our Staff: Jason
Whittle
(and his secret crush,
revealed!)
How long have you been working as a stagehand
here? What other positions have you worked for at the Theater?
I’ve been working here since the fall
semester of my sophomore year in college, way back in 2001. I started as a stagehand and after a while became a projectionist as well. Now I’m
one of the team of lead stagehands.
What do you like the most about your
job?
There are a bunch of things I like. Number 1, I
think, has to be the people. When I first started, the crew here became my solid group of friends. I also like that the theater is different than any
other job. There’s something new to do with each shift. Getting to meet and watch all of the acts we get on our stage is a big plus as
well.
What has been your most memorable experience at
the Theater?
Every year I look forward to HUMO. Humorology is
a lot more work than most people realize but it’s a lot of fun too. I also remember stepping onto the stage during a dance performance and
having a bunch of drumsticks thrown at me (it was part of the choreography but it made me nervous, obviously.)
Have you had any funny or unusual encounters with
performers?
There was a performer once who developed a
mini-crush on me but we won’t get into that.
What do you like to do when you aren’t
working here?
I like to eat out, cook, read, watch movies, and
just hang out.
Claire Weissenfluh
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From the Archives
Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, “with a
voice like a gift from heaven” (NYT), dazzled audiences 43 years ago on November 15 and 16, 1963. Her first show was reviewed by The Capital
Times, which declared that her performance of Schubert’s “Die Forelle” was “Miss Schwarzkopf at her best. The lyric
and delicate phrasing, joy and sadness competing, and she sang it to perfection.”
Claire Weissenfluh
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