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2012-13 Broadway and More Series

The 2012-13 Broadway and More Series includes Smokey Joe’s Café, Clarence Carter, Percy Sledge and Roy C., Cirque Chinois - The National Circus of the People's Republic of China, Cherish the Ladies: A Celtic Christmas, Spamalot, Jim Quick & Coastline, Robert Lee Smith & The Original Tams and The Embers, The Midtown Men, Russian National Ballet: Swan Lake and Of Mice and Men by The Acting Company.

All dates and artists subject to change due to availability.

Smokey Joe's Cafe"Smokey Joe’s Café
Friday, September 28, 2012
 8:00 pm.
Tickets: $30, $25, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff

Smokey Joe's Café is a compelling rock ‘n’ roll musical that encompasses the timeless songs of the inventors of this music genre, Leiber and Stoller. Featuring nearly 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded including hits such as “On Broadway,” “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Stand By Me,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Love Potion #9,” and “Young Blood,” “Yakety Yak,” and “I’m A Woman.” Smokey Joe’s Café transforms classic pop music into compelling musical theatre and each song is a trip down the corridors of American culture.

Smokey Joe’s Cafe represents an extraordinary musical play that ran for more than 2,000 performances on Broadway and was the Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Musical and was nominated for seven Tony Awards.

 

Clarence Carter, Percy Sledge and Roy C.Clarence Carter, Percy Sledge and Roy C.
Friday, October 26, 2012 (Sold out)
8:00 pm                            
Tickets: $25, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff

Clarence Carter’s soulful guitar work intertwined with his sexy lyrics, reminds us that you don't have to be down to sing the blues. Carter’s hit singles “Strokin and Slip Away” both show an artist steeped in the most traditional aspects of Southern music and one of the most modern of all deep bluesmen. Carter's musical approach harkened directly back to acoustic country blues. In Carter's case, love, particularly cheating love, became the great spiritual metaphor.

 Grammy nominated Rhythm and Blues Legend Percy Sledge is best known for his signature love anthem “When A Man Loves A Woman". Sledge’s music spans the ages. He's had a number of chart hits including "Take Time To Know Her," "Warm And Tender Love," "Out Of Left Field, "It Tears Me Up," and "I'll Be Your Everything".

Roy C (born Roy Charles Hammond) is an American southern song singer, songwriter and record executive who got his start in 1958 with his first single “Who’s That Knocking”. Roy C is best known for his hits like "Shotgun Wedding", “Got To Get Enough (of Your Sweet Love Stuff”, and “ Don’t Blame The Man. In 1998, Roy C’s “Love Me, Love Me” hit the big screen on the soundtrack of How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Sponsored by Lumbee Guaranty Bank

 

Cirque ChinoisCirque Chinois - The National Circus of the People's Republic of China
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
 8:00 pm 
Tickets: $25, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff
(Educators Night - Call for discount pricing)

Bring the family to this grand cirque spectacular! The international award-winning acrobats of Cirque Chinois will amaze the whole family with jaw-dropping feats of balance, juggling, flying, contortion, and more.

Direct from Beijing, the National Circus of the People’s Republic of China, performing "Cirque Chinois," was founded in 1953, making it one of the longest running and most distinguished circus troupes in China. The group is especially acclaimed in China because of the unique acts in their program such as Great Teeterboard, Grand Flying Trapeze, Group Contortion, Straw Hats Juggling, Girls’ Balance with Bowls and many other outstanding acts. The Company has won over twenty Gold and Silver medals and various other awards at international circus festivals including the Monte Carlo International Circus Festival.

 

Cherish The LadiesCherish the Ladies: A Celtic Christmas
Thursday, November 29, 2012
8:00 pm
Tickets: $30, $25, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff
Health Care Professionals Night - Call for discount

 “An astonishing array of virtuosity,” The Washington Post, “Expands the annals of Irish music in America…the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” The New York Times.


Add a little spirit of the Isles to your Christmas this year. Cherish the Ladies is one of the most sought-after Irish-American bands in the world. They have grown from a one-time concert concept to an Irish traditional music sensation, literally the most successful and sought-after Irish-American group in Celtic music. Organized by folklorist/musician Mick Moloney and sponsored by the Ethnic Folk Arts Center and the National Endowment for the Arts, they began as a concert series featuring the brightest lights in Irish traditional music. Taking their name from the name of a traditional Irish jig, the group initially won recognition as the first and only all-women traditional Irish band. With their unique spectacular blend of virtuosi instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements and stunning step dancing, this powerhouse group combines all the facets of Irish traditional culture and puts it forth in an immensely humorous and entertaining package.
Sponsored by Mariani's Restaurant

 

Spamalot

Monty Pyton's Spamalot
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
8:00 pm
Tickets: 30, $25, $15 / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff
Military Night - Call for discount pricing

Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot is the outrageous new musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the film classic "Monty Python and The Holy Grail." Based on the Tony Award winning direction of Mike Nichols, with a book by Eric Idle and music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez, Spamalot tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Flying cows, killer rabbits, taunting Frenchmen and show-stopping musical numbers are just a few of the reasons audiences everywhere are eating up Spamalot.
Sponsored by Allen Orthopedic

 

Jim Quick and Coastline, The Tams and Ember

Jim Quick & Coastline, Robert Lee Smith & The Original Tams and The Embers
Friday, April 26, 2013
8 pm
Tickets: $20, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff
Public Service Providers Night - Call for discount

Put on your dancing shoes as Jim Quick & Coastline, Robert Lee Smith & The Original Tams and The Embers call in summertime.  Award-winning Robert Lee Smith & The Original Tams have recorded 10 albums and still play to sellout crowds around the world. The band has a string of hits including "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am," "Lied To Your Daddy", "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"  "Laugh It Off" and “Be Young, "Be Foolish, Be Happy".

The Embers created the soundtrack for endless summers. The South Carolina Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame inductees opened for the Rolling Stones, played the Olympics, President Clinton's inauguration and Pepsi released a commercial performed by The Embers to the title tune of their new CD, "Beach Music".

Artist or in person, Jim Quick is the kind of guy you genuinely want to call a friend. With the charm only a true Southerner can possess, he brings his talent to the stage with a quick-witted, knee-slapping sense of humor coupled with the clear sincerity of his love for his craft. Quick has released more than 11 albums including his newest, DOWN SOUTH. Jim has been a gracious recipient of the Carolina Music Awards “Entertainer Of The Year Award” – nine tim

Sponsored by Trinity Urgent Care And Family Practice

 

 

The Midtown MenThe Midtown Men
Monday, March 25, 2013
8:00 pm
Tickets: $25, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff
Legal Professionals Night - Call for discount

 

 “Superb. Bravo!" - Paul Anka
They took Broadway by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time and now they’re together again! THE MIDTOWN MEN are taking their sensational sound on the road for their third national tour. Bringing to life their favorite "Sixties Hits" from The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Motown, The Four Seasons and more.

This sensational production reunites Four Stars from the Original Cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys. Tony Award winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony Award nominee J. Robert Spencer, star in this one-of-a-kind concert experience celebrating the music that defined the '60s. This marks the first time the principal cast of a high-profile musical has
sky-rocketed as a completely new entity – this is not mimicry or tribute, it’s a true celebration of the music of an era, seven years in the making!

Not A Performance Of, Not Affiliated With the Show Jersey Boys.

 

Russian National Ballet: Swan Lake Russian National Ballet: Swan Lake
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
8:00 pm
Tickets: $25, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff

In the great tradition of grand Russian ballet, the Russian National Ballet Theatre presents a magical production of this beloved fantasy ballet. Since its premiere in 1877, Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" has become one of the most revered of classical ballets.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded in Moscow during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s, when many of the great dancers and choreographers of the Soviet Union's ballet institutions were exercising their new-found creative freedom by starting new, vibrant companies dedicated not only to the timeless tradition of classical Russian Ballet but to invigorate this tradition as the Russians began to accept new developments in the dance from around the world.

In 1994, the legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko was selected by Presidential decree to assume the first permanent artistic directorship of the company.  Ms. Radchenko is the founder of the Russian National Ballet Theatre, and she has focused the Company on upholding the grand national tradition of the major Russian ballet works and developing new talents throughout Russia, with a repertory of virtually all of the great full works of Petipa:  Don Quixote, La Bayadere, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Raymonda, Paquita, Coppelia and La Sylphide, as well as productions of, among others, The Nutcracker, Sylvia, and La Fille Mal Gardee.

 

 

Of Mice and MenThe Acting Company OF MICE AND MEN
Thursday, April 25th
 8:00 pm
Tickets: $25, $20, $15* / $12 child or student
$5 UNCP Student / $15 Faculty or Staff

The best laid plans of mice and men…
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s tale of two drifters is one of the most widely read stories in America. Written as both a novella and a script for a play, Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of two California migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression. George and Lennie have delusions of making enough money to buy their own place. Lennie, a man-child, is a little boy in the body of a man. George is ever cautious of his gentle giant friend, dangerously powerful yet in need of constant reassurance.

Although Steinbeck emphasizes dreams throughout this work, his characters are often powerless, due to intellectual, economic and social realities. Fate is felt most heavily as George is left to face the question of how to deal with Lennie who, although in great danger, dreams only of their future, of their farm—as the sound of destiny bounces off the mountains.

Since its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has launched the careers of some of today’s finest actors—Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson, Patti LuPone, Jeffrey Wright, Frances Conroy, Jesse L. Martin, Hamish Linklater to name a few—while performing 137 productions all across the country. See for yourself what makes The Acting Company the most praised touring repertory theater in America.

 

OTHER TOURING EVENTS MAY BE FOUND UNDER SPECIAL EVENTS.

*$15 seats for each show may be limited visibility (obstructed view), depending on the set up of the stage for each individual show and this is not determined until the stage is set day of show. These seats are in sections 1, 5, 6 & 14.

Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013

 
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