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In this issue:
Dianne Reeves
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 8:00pm
Tickets: $32/26/18, UW-Madison students $10
Presenting Partner: Madison Jazz Society
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Dianne Reeves: Making the Red Scare more Enjoyable,
One Song at a Time
If you’re from Wisconsin, at some point or another,
you’ve probably felt a slight tinge of embarrassment at the mention of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He’s the guy who went around accusing
everyone and their mother of being a filthy Communist. Well, we can thank him for something: George Clooney’s film Good Night,
and Good Luck, which introduced us to the jazz songbird Dianne Reeves.
Reeves will round out the 2006-2007 Isthmus Jazz Series with
her multi-octave voice and mighty improvisational powers. “Sultry, savvy, unique, adventurous, with a range that flies off the Richter, she's
the hottest thing in jazz,” praises the New York Observer.
This versatile songstress has worked with Wynton Marsalis and
the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. She also won four Grammy awards.
Wondering about her work on the Good Night, and Good
Luck album? “It’s what we all need after a hard day at the office, or after a long day of confrontation with Senator
Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee anti-Communist hearings,” says All About Jazz. Hey, I think
we’d all add ourselves to the Hollywood Ten if we knew we could come home and listen to Dianne Reeves at the end of the day.
Lauren Zink
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Nikolais Dance Theater
Performed by Ririe Woodbury Dance
Company
Friday, February 23,
2007, 8:00pm
Tickets: $36/28/18, UW-Madison
students $10
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Colors, Sounds, Costumes,
Dance: Ririe Woodbury Brings Alwin Nikolais back
Thirty years ago, dance and multimedia master Alwin Nikolais
spent five weeks on the UW-Madison campus, working with the dance, art, music and theater departments to create “Aviary,” a new work
performed to a packed Wisconsin Union Theater. The residency was documented in a fascinating hour-long Wisconsin Public Television
special.
Now Joan Woodbury, Nikolais associate of 44 years and
Artistic Co-Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, returns with her company to present four of his revolutionary dances. Woodbury is a
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Program alumna who studied with Nikolais, and is an artist-in-residence in the Dance Program this year.
Entrusted with the artistic legacy of Nikolais, the RWDC
line-up includes “Tent,” a piece combining theater and dance with magical lighting and Nikolais’ electronic score. Other
favorites from the Nikolais repertory include “Noumenon Mobilus,” “Mechanical Organ,” and “Tensile
Involvement.”
An American modern dance legend, Nikolais became known for
visually-amazing, multi-media dance. His works are a complete theatrical experience, with their own sound, lighting, choreography and
costumes, all designed by the master himself.
The UW-Madison Dance Program, which is celebrating its
80th anniversary, partners with the theater in presenting this amazing retrospective concert. The Dance Program is hosting a series of events leading up to the concert, designed to contextualize its history and relationship to Nikolais and other modern
dance greats. For more information about these events, go to http://www.dance.wisc.edu/.
Esty Dinur
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Main Box Office has moved to Park
Street
Come one! Come all! Come to our new box office! That is right,
the main box office has moved to Park Street on the west side of the building, directly across from Helen C. White Hall/College Library. We are
pleased to say that it is accessible by wheelchair.
The box office hours are still the same: Monday through Friday:
11:30 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday: noon to 5:00 pm. The phone number also remains the same: 608-262-2201. And as always, you can order tickets online any
time at http://www.uniontheater.wisc.edu/.
The lakeside box office is still located in the lobby of the
Wisconsin Union Theater and is open on performance evenings starting one hour before curtain time until one half hour past curtain time.
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Parking Suggestions for Upcoming Events at the
Theater
The following events take place on the same night as the State
Wrestling tournament at the Kohl Center, but fear not, parking can be found:
Nikolais Dance Theater on Friday, February
23rd
Marc Bamuthi Joseph—Hip Hop Theater on
Saturday, February 24th
We recommend the following options and suggest that you give
yourself some additional time to park. Click here for a
parking map.
The UW Grainger Hall (UW Lot 7) parking garage
is open daily after 5:00 pm for a $3.50 pay-on-entry fee; enter from Brooks Street, between University Avenue and W. Johnson, turn right after
entering and proceed to the booth attendant at the gated area.
UW Lot 46, on the northeast corner of W.
Johnson and Lake Streets, has 4- and 10-hour meters available to the public on weekends and after 5:00 pm weekdays ($1 per hour).
Mark the parking pass line in the order form and we’ll
send passes for Helen C. White parking lot (UW Lot 6) along with your tickets. Only available to subscribers and season patrons,
quantities are limited. The lower section of this lot is open to the public as an 8-hour metered lot ($1 per hour).
For more options, click here.
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Newsletter staff
Editor: Esty Dinur
Proof-reader & Technical Advisor: Heather Good
Layout Designer: Claire Weissenfluh
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Joshua Bell, violin, with Jeremy Denk,
piano
Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:00pm
Tickets: $46/38/28, UW-Madison students $10 (a very limited
number of student tickets still remaining)
Presenting Partner: Suzuki Strings of Madison
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Violin Superstar and Brilliant Pianist to Grace the
Stage
It is no wonder that tickets to see violin extraordinaire,
Joshua Bell, along with the brilliant young pianist, Jeremy Denk, are practically flying full speed out of the box office window! Bell, with an
Oscar, an Emmy, and a Grammy under his belt, has been named “one of the most gifted violinists around” by US News and
World Report. Now in his thirties, Bell has recorded 30 albums and has performed with the world’s leading symphony orchestras and
conductors. Accompanied by Denk’s piano, Bell’s golden sounds will leave you with a taste of enlightenment.
Bell and Denk will be performing pieces by Schumann,
Beethoven, and John Corigliano. (For complete program,
click here). When Corigliano accepted an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film The Red Violin, he jubilantly proclaimed
“Joshua plays like a god.”
Don’t delay. Only some 150 tickets remain. To purchase
tickets to Joshua Bell, which the AP calls “pure bliss,” click here.
Claire Weissenfluh
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Rails Across Russia: St. Petersburg to the Russian Pacific
with Mary Lee & Sid Nolan
February 5-6, 2007, 7:30pm
Tickets: $10, UW-Madison students $5
Pre-Film Buffet Dinner: $14
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All Aboard for Russia!
Come on board with us, as travel adventure film gurus Mary Lee
and Sid Nolan take us on an unforgettable 8,500 mile epic ride across Russia.
The film follows the same eastward movement as the expansion of
Russia when the czars were creating this vast land empire! Our journey will begin at the palaces of St. Petersburg and the busy streets of Moscow and
stretch across the vast and varied land of Siberia. Near the end of the journey, we’ll reach the Pacific at the port city of Vladivostok and
see the Kamchatka Peninsula, a land of nomadic reindeer herds and magnificent volcanoes.
Where else can you take an 8,500 mile trip for only $10 ($5 for
UW-Madison students)? Be sure to indulge in the pre-film white linen Russian buffet dinner for only $14. To buy tickets, click here.
Claire Weissenfluh
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Hip Hop Theater Performance
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Youth Speaks Finals, 7:00 pm
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 8:30 pm
Tickets: $22, UW-Madison students $10
Presenting Partners: Youth Speaks Wisconsin & UW Arts
Institute
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Snap your Fingers for Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Youth
Speaks
You don’t have to be a beatnik to appreciate this night
of poetry. Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Broadway veteran and National Poetry Slam Champion, will be bringing his very unique brand of hip hop theater right
here to the Wisconsin Union Theater. Bamuthi Joseph combines theater, West African and tap dance, spoken word, poetry and live music to create a
performing experience all his own.
The prince of poetry Marc Bamuthi Joseph has been featured on
Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry on HBO and was presented at the first International Spoken Word Festival. In other words, he’s
kind of a big deal.
Bamuthi Joseph is director of Youth Speaks, an organization
that inspires the next generation of writers through nurturing and developing young voices. It promotes positive social dialogue across
boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture and sexual orientation. He will be opening his stage to Madison’s own youth poetry champions
in the Youth Speaks Finals prior to the show. Berets optional.
Lauren Zink
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So long,
farewell, Auf wiedersehn, adieu!
Hello. I’m Lauren Zink, the
student intern marketing maven of the Wisconsin Union Theater for the past year. We’ve probably never met, but if you have ever read this
e-newsletter, you have read my words. Well, as the soap opera says, like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives, and my grains of
sand here at the Wisconsin Union Theater have run out. Next semester you will have a new marketress (I’m keeping the title, darn it!) to
entertain you. As for myself, I will be (finally!!) finishing up my time here at UW-Monetarily Exhausting, and moving somewhere else—my only
prerequisite for a new home city being no blistering winters.
I am truly proud to have been a part
of the greatness that is the Wisconsin Union Theater. I firmly stand by the fine programming we have always presented to you, our inviting atmosphere,
our diverse audiences, even that Lunar Landing artwork that hangs in the lobby. Okay, well, probably not the Lunar Landing piece, but I really am
delighted and impressed by those other things!
A warm thank you to you and your
patronage, a bear hug to the WUT staff for making this place feel like home, and a giant thumbs up to Mother Nature for making my last winter in
Wisconsin the least torturous one I’ve ever had. I guess this is the end, so now, I must say, adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and
yieu!!
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From the Archives
Back in 1999 when Joshua Bell performed here, he wrote
“Thanks! You were the highlight of our tour. All best,” signed Joshua Bell. We expect him to feel the same way this time around
too!
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