An Extra-Great Events Series on Tap for 2000-01
Gaelic Storm "Process and Expression" Dedication Ceremony, Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural Recital, Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural Concert, Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts The Live in the Lobby Series An Evening with Collin Raye Bulgari—Authentic Bulgarian Folk Music The Dirty Dozen Brass Band The Capitol Steps Free lecture by Jerry Greenfield Aquila Theatre Their visit includes a workshop on November 9 in the McArdle Theatre. Call 487-3200 for further information. Canadian Brass Nebraska Theatre Caravan Black History Month Series: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Black History Month Series: The Frank Mantooth Quartet with Lisa Henry Black History Month: Georgia Mass Choir The Reduced Shakespeare Company Celtic Fusion 2000–01 Human Relations Keynote Address: "An Evening with Judy Shepard" Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet Kartik Seshadri, Sitarist The Upright Citizen's Brigade Free Lecture by Douglas Adams: "Living in a Virtual World" Frederick Winters, Hypnotist Extraordinaire Parsons Dance Company
Here's the lineup for the 2000–01 Great Events Season. Further details of the individual shows and feature stories about the Rozsa Center will appear in a supplement to the Daily Mining Gazette the week before the gala performances. All events are at the Rozsa Center unless otherwise noted.
Friday, September 22, 8:00 p.m.
Back by resounding popular demand, this traditional and not-so-traditional Irish band, the steerage party band from the movie Titanic, brings great entertainment to MTU.
Lecture by Gunnar Birkerts and George Izenour
Wednesday, October 4, 8:00 p.m.
Free. Open to all.
Gunnar Birkerts and George Izenour, architect and theater designer of the Rozsa Center, talk about their work.
Keynote address by Bill Ivey, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Thursday, October 5, 5:00 p.m.
James Tocco, pianist
Friday, October 6, 8:30 p.m.
Tocco is a brilliant pianist who has performed as a soloist with leading symphony and chamber orchestras and as a recitalist all over the world. Call 487-3200 after September 19 for ticket availability.
The Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, October 7, 8:00 p.m.
One of the leading regional symphony orchestras in the US, its innovative programming and artistic excellence have brought widespread recognition. Call 487-3200 after September 19 for ticket availability.
Monday, October 9, through Friday, October 13, noon
Horner Lobby
Free mini-concerts, refreshments, and tours.
Monday: The Second Story Guys—The Greatest Show on Stilts!
Tuesday: Mariachi Cora
Wednesday: Kausay (traditional music of the Andes)
Thursday: Kweku Ananse and the Sweet Vibrations (African rhythms band)
Friday: Od-Tapo-Imi (steel drums)
Saturday, October 14, 8:00 p.m.
Named "One of Country's Hunks" by Cosmopolitan magazine, four of Collin Raye's hit songs have been ranked in CMT's list of Top 100 Videos of All Time. Call 487-3200 to make reservations for the pre-show dinner, with local band Silverado and a floor show featuring country line-dancers.
Monday, October 23, 8:00 p.m.
These singers, musicians, and dancers from Bulgaria are internationally acclaimed for their superb skill and musicianship.
Saturday, October 28, 8:00 p.m.
A lively fusion of funk, traditional New Orleans-style jazz, pop, and rhythm and blues, the Dirty Dozen swings back into town back by popular demand .
Saturday, November 4, 8:00 p.m.
As popular outside the beltway as they are inside, this Washington-based, wildly funny troupe of former congressional staffers presents an evening of wickedly clever comedy
"Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy, and Free Ice Cream for All"
Monday, November 6, 8:00 p.m.
Together with Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield cofounded Ben & Jerry's Homemade ice cream parlor. Their story of making social responsibility and creative management strengths instead of weaknesses is one of the most talked about success stories in business.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Friday, November 10, 8:00 p.m.
A multi-talented group of actors presents this ageless comedy about the lovesick man with the famously huge nose.
Christmas Show!
Friday, December 1, 8:00 p.m.
Renowned throughout the world, this astonishingly talented quintet is acclaimed for high-spirited, hugely entertaining shows. A terrific way to start the holiday season.
A Christmas Carol
Friday, December 8, 8:00 p.m.
Brimming with the sights and sounds of an old-fashioned Christmas, this splendid musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol never fails to please.
Saturday, February 17, 8:00 p.m.
Since they performed with Paul Simon on his Graceland album, the subtle and distinct harmonies of Grammy Award-winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo have become known worldwide. Singing traditional music of South Africa, they have recorded more than forty albums, performed for dignitaries around the world, and provided the soundtrack for several movies.
Saturday, February 24, 8:00 p.m.
Top flight composer/keyboardist/arranger Frank Mantooth and his quartet team up with acclaimed jazz vocalist Lisa Henry to perform an upbeat, hot jazz event. Their visit includes a jazz clinic on Friday, February 23. Call 487-3200 for further information.
Sunday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Get ready for a soul-stirring, foot-stomping concert from one of the leading gospel choirs in the US. Grammy, Dove, and Stellar nominees, they were featured in the movie The Preacher's Wife, with Whitney Houston.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Saturday, March 17, 8:00 p.m.
These zany guys put the shake back in Shakespeare, performing 37 plays and 154 sonnets, all appropriately Hamletted up and brilliantly abridged.
Saturday, March 24, 8:00 p.m.
Liam Harney, who's been called "the Baryshnikov of Irish dance" and who starred in the London production of Riverdance, leads this dynamic company.
Wednesday, March 28, 8:00 p.m.
Free. Open to all.
Judy Shepard is the mother of Matthew Shepherd, the University of Wyoming student who was murdered in 1998 because of his homosexuality. She is now making the prevention of hate crimes the focus of her efforts. She speaks to audiences nationwide about what people can do to make their schools, universities, and communities safer for everyone.
Friday, March 30, 8:00 p.m.
Free concert
Marimbas, maracas, steel drums, and 97 other instruments provide a wonderful array of musical sounds.
Sunday, April 1, 7:00 p.m.
Grammy Award-winners Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil team up with special guest musicians Cindy Cashdollar (dobro), Darol Anger (fiddle and mandolin), Carl Landry (saxophone), and Sonny Landreth (guitar), for their 25th Anniversary Tour: 2001, A Cajun Space Odyssey.
Friday, April 6, 8:00 p.m., McArdle Theatre
A disciple of the greatest living master of the sitar, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Kartik Seshadri is now one of the most outstanding of the younger representatives of Indian classical music.
Saturday, April 7, 8:00 p.m.
One of the hottest shows on MTV comes to Michigan Tech to perform insanely credible sketches that transform everyday situations into surreal and hilarious nightmares.
Wednesday, April 25, 8:00 p.m.
Douglas Adams, the bestselling author and creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, can make the complex sound simple, the inexplicable seem obvious, and in both cases, vice versa. He is perhaps the only "science satirist" in the world.
Thursday, April 26, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
He's back again by ever-increasing popular demand. A year without Fred at MTU iis unimaginable.
Sunday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.
An audience-friendly company with imagination and a great sense of humor. They're dynamic dancers is mesmerizing. An upbeat, all-round winner of a show.