2011-2012 SEASON

AstonishingARTS + ENTERTAINMENT + VALUE

From the Staff

We invite you to become a VIP Donor Preferred seating...VIP receptions...Green Room Donor Lounge...and transforming lives through the arts. It’s a great investment in your community!

Your donation is invested back into the community and campus through lower ticket prices, arts education and enriching entertainment.

Enjoy the perks of being a VIP Donor! • $500+ Levels: Four Back Stage Passes

to special Donor Events, like the VIP Meet and Greets our donors enjoyed with Bill Cosby and Wynton Marsalis.

• $250-$499: Two Back Stage Passes to special Donor Events.

• $100-$249: Access to the Preferred Seating Section when you purchase tickets to Family Weekend comedian Jeff Dunham, Chi of Shaolin, or Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

• $60-$99: Access to the Green Room Donor Lounge at all Hall Auditorium events.

• Donors of all Levels Receive: • Special VIP Donor Name Tag Ribbons at our Wine Tasting

Benefit Gala & Auction. • Name or business listed in all Performing Arts Series

programs and on our website. • Recognition at the Annual Donor Appreciation Performance

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Astonishingly AffordableJoin us for our 76th year of entertaining and enriching the community. Explore the tremendous variety and metropolitan quality while enjoying the small-town prices.

Students and Youth Get Half OffFor more than a decade, we’ve tried to make our events affordable for students and families to attend. Just another way to encourage

learning through the arts!

The Pick 5 Deal is the best way to save

Here’s how it works: Purchase 5 tickets—1 ticket to 5 shows, 5 tickets to 1 show or any combination of tickets that adds up to a multiple of 5—and get $5 off each Adult ticket, $4 off each Senior Citizen ticket and $3 off each Student/Youth ticket. It’s that easy. Just visit the Miami University Box Office in Shriver Center or call 513-529-3200.We look forward to seeing you at our shows!

Patti Hannan

Liberatore, director

David Sheldrick,

assistant director

Pate Rudolph,

administrative assistant

The Jungle BookMissoula Children’s TheatreThird Annual Summer Workshop & Performance, Hall AuditoriumAug. 15-19 Workshops & Rehearsals7:00 p.m., Friday, Aug. 19Public PerformanceAll tickets $5Sponsored by the Oxford Chamber of Commerce and the Talawanda-Miami Partnership

Following last summer’s hit of Robinson Crusoe, this summer up to 60 local kids will again have their chance to work with the professional actors/directors from the renowned Missoula Children’s Theatre. Don’t miss this fun week of musical theatre! Each day, the participants will do fun workshops, crafts and rehearse, getting ready to perform this full-scale musical on Friday night.

Registration begins June 1 on a first come, first served basis in each age group. Last year’s camp filled up quickly so be sure to register early. Each camper gets two performance tickets. Registration form and details online: www.muohio.edu/PerformingArtsSeries/Missoula

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Jeff Dunham8:30 p.m., Friday, September 23Millett HallAll Tickets $40 Includes box office service fees; other fees may apply. Miami Community Pre-sale May 21-June 30Public on-sale July 1

Jeff Dunham’s new show Identity Crisis kicks off Family Weekend with a brand new addition to his comedic crew of puppets. Join Walter the Grumpy Retiree, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, the beer-fueled redneck Bubba J, the manic purple creature Peanut and meet the new guy. Dunham has sold out every show since last Fall, so buy your tickets early during the Miami Community Pre-sale!

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Béla Fleck and the FlecktonesThe Original Line-up7:30 p.m., Friday, April 20Millett Hall$20 Students/Youth $30 Adults, $50 All Floor Seats, Gold Circle

Sponsored by the Baymont Inn & Suites and Kona Bistro In collaboration with Miami Hamilton and Middletown Artist Series

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the extraordinary original line-up of Béla Fleck’s incredible Grammy Award-winning quartet: pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy, bassist Victor Wooten, percussionist Roy “Futurerman” Wooten and banjoist Fleck. While all manners of genres come into play—from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances—the result is an impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable.

Seventh Annual Ginx Peck Memorial Organ ConcertHeather MacPhail, organist4:00 p.m., Sunday, October 16Oxford United Methodist Church14 n. Poplar St.FREE

Come celebrate the tremendous talent of the beloved late assistant director of the Performing Arts Series. Ginx Peck lent her inimitable warmth and wisdom to the Series for 23 years and impeccable organ abilities to the Methodist Church for even more. Join us in paying tribute to this remarkable woman

Menahem Pressler, piano7:30 p.m., Saturday, October 22Hall Auditorium$9 Students/Youth $17 Seniors, $18 Adults $6 Students/Youth, $13 Seniors, $13 Adults

Reeder Visiting Artists Fund

Sponsored by Jerome Conley and the Western College Alumnae Association

Media Partner: 90.9 WGUC

With a career that spans over 5 decades, this legendary pianist continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Born in Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 to Israel. A founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Pressler earned a reputation as one of the world’s most revered chamber musicians. The 2011 recipient of the International Classical Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, Mr Pressler has taught at Indiana University for almost 60 years.

“�Menahem�Pressler’s�joyous�pianism––technically�faultless,�stylistically�impeccable,�emotionally�irrepressible––is�from�another�age�and�is�a�virtually�forgotten�sensibility.��He�is�a�national�treasure.”��–Los�Angeles�Times

Chi of Shaolin: The Tale of the Dragon7:30 p.m., Thursday, november 3Millett Hall $12 Students/Youth, $23 Seniors, $24 Adults $9 Students/Youth, $19 Seniors, $19 Adults Sponsored by the Baymont Inn & Suites, Center for American and World Cultures and Kona Bistro

Through intricate weapon exhibitions, incredible displays of the legendary Gung Fu and Wushu Martial Arts and edge-of-your-seat action, Chi of Shaolin tells the tale of a Thief’s transformation. After his efforts to steal a prized Chinese relic fails and he’s left for dead, the Thief is discovered by a compassionate Shaolin Monk, who brings him to the Shaolin Temple. His quest for healing is a powerful dramatic tale fused with Shaolin warrior skills, spellbinding acrobatics and amazing circus talent.

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Avner the EccentricExceptions to Gravity7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27Gates-Abegglen Theatre Center for Performing Arts$7 Students/Youth, $13 Seniors, $14 Adults

$4 Students/Youth, $9 Seniors, $9 Adults

Cromer/Flory Artist-in-Residence In collaboration with the Department of Theatre

A master of the art of physical comedy, Avner weaves a spell of poetic simplicity in a show of hilarious predicaments that has audiences eating out of his hand. Best of all, there are no age, gender, or language barriers—Avner makes everyone laugh.

“�I�laughed�for�2�solid�hours.�The�show�only�lasted�an�hour�and�a�half.”��––Joel�Siegel�ABC-TV

I Musici de MontrealFeaturing Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 27Hall Auditorium$9 Students/Youth, $17 Seniors $18 Adults

$6 Students/Youth, $13 Seniors, $13 Adults

Sponsored by Gil & Joyce Gordon and the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Media Partners: 88.5 WMUB, 91.7 WVXU

Come see the music, come hear the art. The centerpiece of this towering program features the Mussorgsky classic in a production traveling with the award-winning film of choreographed surreal paintings by Natasha Turovsky. The original paintings by Victor Hartmann that inspired Mussorgsky are lost.

Now his music has inspired the art—15 intriguing paintings that have been digitally animated and choreographed to the music and projected above the orchestra. A feast for the senses!

The RivalryL.A. Theatre WorksSusan Albert Loewenberg, producing director 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7Hall Auditorium$9 Students/Youth, $19 Seniors, $20 Adults $6 Students/Youth, $15 Seniors, $15 Adults Cromer/Flory Artist-in-Residence Sponsored by Kona Bistro and the Western College Alumnae Association Media Partners: 88.5 WMUB, 91.7 WVXU

Equality. State’s rights. America’s future. In the 1858 Illinois Senate race, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas embarked on a series of debates. Their epic clash of ideas and oratory forged a future President and a nation. A local race quickly became the focus of a divided country, whose future was on the line.

The Rivalry raises difficult questions of values and rights that remain unresolved in American government and society: race, social and economic inequity, states’ rights and the “proper” role of the federal government. “Evocative,�inspiring�and�stirring�theatre…”�––The�New�York�Times

Doktor Kaboom!3 p.m., Saturday, nov. 19Hall Auditorium$5 Students/Youth $9 Seniors, $10 Adults Sponsored by Kona Bistro, Jim & Kathy Squance & Family, and the Talawanda-Miami Partnership

Meet Doktor Kaboom!, a zany, brainy scientist who thinks nothing is more fun than mixing up a cool scientific experiment...then blowing it up! Creatively blending theatre arts with the wonders of scientific exploration, Doktor Kaboom! keeps his crowds riveted and rolling with laughter. Join Kaboom! For spectacular (and often successful) science experiments designed to involve, excite, educate, and entertain.

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and Save!$5 off each Adult ticket$4 off each Senior ticket$3 off each Student/Youth ticket

Purchase 5 or more tickets to any regular Performing Arts Series performance in one order and get up to $5 off each ticket!

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: Purchase 5 tickets in any combination and get $5 of each Adult ticket, $4 off each Senior Citizen ticket and $3 off each Student/Youth ticket. You can mix and match shows and prices, for example, 2 Adult + 3 Student/Youth=Pick 5 Price for each eligible ticket.

Jeff Dunham, Missoula Children’s Theater, Doktor Kaboom!, and Béla Fleck tickets aren’t eligible for the Pick 5 discount, but you can use those full-price tickets to meet your minimum of 5 tickets to get the discount on other shows if you order them at the same time.

Become a VIP DonorMake a gift in support of the 2011-12 season and receive these great perks: • $500+ LEVELS: Four Back Stage Passes to special

Donor Events, like the VIP Meet and Greets our donors enjoyed with Bill Cosby and Wynton Marsalis this last season.

• $250-$499: Two Back Stage Passes to special Donor Events.

• $100-$249: Access to the Preferred Seating Section when you purchase tickets to Family Weekend comedian Jeff Dunham, Chi of Shaolin, or Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

• $60-$99: Access to the Green Room Donor Lounge at all Hall Auditorium events.

• DOnORS OF ALL LEVELS RECEIVE: • Special VIP Donor Name Tag Ribbons at our

Wine Tasting Benefit Gala & Auction • Name or business listed in all Performing Arts

Series programs and on our website. • Recognition at the Annual Donor Appreciation

Performance

Pledge now, Pay MonthlyJust let us know your total donation, and have it charged to a credit/debit card, drafted from your bank account or deducted from your Miami paycheck. Just $10 a month makes a big difference to us.

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Ragamala Indian Dance in Sacred Earth7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 1Hall Auditorium$9 Students/Youth, $17 Seniors $18 Adults

$6 Students/Youth $13 Seniors, $13 Adults

Sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures and The Knolls of Oxford Funded in part by the National Dance Project Media Partners: 88.5 WMUB, 91.7 WVXU

Experience transcendence. With magical grace, Ragamala dances the ancient temple art form, Bharatanatyam. Performed against a vivid backdrop of painted prayers, Warli paintings, on a stage covered with ephemeral Kolam rice flower drawings, Ragamala’s Sacred Earth transforms the stage into a sacred space. The stunning dancers give physical form to the spiritual expression of the Warlis and Kolams, illustrating the ephemeral nature of our existence and celebrating the ongoing, ever-renewing cycle of life.

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Missoula Children’s Theatre Performance 7:00 p.m., Fri., Aug. 19, Hall Auditorium

Menahem Pressler, piano7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 22, Hall Auditorium

Chi of Shaolin: Tale of the Dragon7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 3, Millett Hall

Doktor Kaboom! 3:00 p.m., Sat., Nov. 19, Hall Auditorium

Avner the Ecentric7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 27, Gates-Abegglen Theatre, Center for Performing Arts

The Rivalry L.A. Theatre Works 7:30 p.m., Tues., Feb. 7, Hall Auditorium

I Musici de Montreal / Pictures at an Exhibition 7:30 p.m., Tues., March 27, Hall Auditorium

Ragamala Dance: Sacred Earth7:30 p.m., Sun., April 1, Hall Auditorium

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