May 23, 2013
Theater, Dance, & Opera
The Ann Arbor area plays host to several community and semi-professional theater companies, with new shows going up every month. Ballet, modern, and traditional dance concerts abound, along with musical theater productions from Broadway to grand opera.
Wednesday
June 2012
“Frankenstein”: University Musical Society.
June 6 & 7. Tape-delayed live broadcast of the National Theatre (London) production, directed by Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle, of Nick Dear’s drama. Based on Mary Shelley’s suspenseful masterpiece, this deeply disturbing gothic tale of a creature created by an audacious medical student and then cast out into a hostile world resonates with contemporary concerns about scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development, and the nature of good and evil. Recommended for ages 15 and older. Stars Jonny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch.
7 p.m., Michigan Theater. Tickets $22 (Michigan Theater members and UMS donors, $18; students, $12) in advance at the Michigan League and ums.org , and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538 or (800) 221-1229. [map
“In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)”: Performance Network Professional Season.
Every Thurs.-Sun., June 14-July 15. Suzi Regan directs the Michigan premiere of Sara Ruhl’s 2010 Tony-nominated comedy about Victorian gender roles and female sexuality. A physician finds success when he begins to treat his female patients' “hysteria” with the recently invented vibrator, but when his young wife breaks into his office to try the device for herself, erotic and emotional chaos erupts. Cast: John Seibert, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Milica Govich, Rusty Mewha, Patrick O'Connor Cronin, and Kron Moore.
7:30 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), 2 p.m. (Sun.), & 3 p.m. (June 30 & July 14), Performance Network, 120 E. Huron. Preview tickets: whatever you can afford to pay (June 14), $22 & $24 (June 15, 17, & 21), and $30 & 32 (June 16). June 22 opening night tickets: $39 & $41 includes reception. After June 22: $27 & $29 (Thurs.), $32 & $34 (Fri. & Sun.), $25 & $27 (Sat. matinee), $39 & $41 (Sat. eve.). $3 discount for seniors age 60 & over. Tickets available in advance at performancenetwork.org & by phone, and at the door. $10 student discount in advance, half-price student tickets at the door only. For reservations, call 663-0681; to charge by phone, call 663-0696. [map
Thursday
June 2012
12:10 p.m.
Gifts of Art: U-M Hospitals.
Every Thurs. Performances by area musicians and dancers. Choral Connection. Cellist Suzanne Smith. Modern Dance by People Dancing & Friends. June 7: High-energy blues by The Bluescasters. June 14: Western swing, classic country, boogie-woogie, and rock ’n’ roll by the Cadillac Cowboys. June 21: Calypso and other island music by the Gratitude Steel Band. June 28: Jazz by Dave Sharp & Friends. 12:10 p.m., U-M Hospital lobby, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr. (off Fuller). Free. 936–ARTS. [map
“Nunsense”: Encore Musical Theatre Company.
Every Thurs.-Sun, May 20-June 10. This Dexter-based professional company presents Dan Goggin’s wacky musical about a convent in crisis. A cadre of bingo-playing nuns returns to the convent to find that 52 of their sisters have been killed by tainted soup. After burying only 48, the sisters run out of money and decide to whip up a talent show to raise cash and finish the job. Hidden talent emerges as the nuns show off some soft shoe, storytelling, and singing of such songs as “Just a Coupl'a Sisters,” “Holier than Thou,” “So You Want to Be a Nun,” and others. Cast TBA.
7 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), & 3 p.m. (Sat., Sun., & June 7), Encore, 3126 Broad St., Dexter. $18 on Thurs., $32 (members & seniors, $29; groups of 10 or more, $26) on Fri. & Sat. eve., & $28 (members & seniors, $25; groups of 10 or more, $22) for matinees. Tickets available at theencoretheatre.org and at the door. 268-6200. [map
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”: Shakespeare in the Arb (U-M Residential College/Nichols Arboretum).
June 7-10, 14-17, & 21-24. U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs students and local actors in Shakespeare’s high-spirited farce, which features Shakespeare’s best-loved comic character, the charming yet roguish knight Falstaff, who schemes to charm his way into the hearts and purses of 2 ladies who decide to beat the portly braggart at his own game. The action moves from spot to spot within the Arb, and director Mendeloff takes special care to make the shifting environments an active force in the performance. Bring a blanket or portable chair to sit on; dress for the weather. Note: 6:30 p.m., meet at the Peony Garden entrance at 1610 Washington Heights. $20 (students with ID & youth age 18 & under, $10; seniors age 62 & older, $17; Friends of Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, $15; kids under age 5, free) at the gate only. Limited number of golf carts available; first come, first served. 647-7600.
“Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor”: Ann Arbor Dance Works.
June 7-9. The U-M dance department’s internationally acclaimed resident professional company presents its annual spring concert at 4 sites along a 4-block route downtown. The program includes dances exploring downtown’s layered history and the hopes for a greenway connecting these spaces to outlying neighborhoods. The performance begins in the WSG Gallery, where U-M dance professor Jessica Fogel presents an 8-woman group work investigating the gendered spaces of the building’s earlier incarnations as a corset factory, hardware store, and department store. The gallery’s current exhibit also features works responding to the building’s history. U-M dance grad Marly Speiser Schneider presents a short group work, performed by the Community High School Dance Body, in the so-called Kline’s lot alley behind the gallery. Adesola Akinleye, a guest choreographer from the UK, presents a work to accompany the audience’s passage to the next site, Downtown Home & Garden, where BYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes presents a work for 115 dancers. U-M dance professor Robin Wilson presents a sextet at the corner of First Street and Liberty that celebrates the proposed greenway that includes this site. Wilson’s dance proceeds along sidewalks to the parking lot behind 415 West Washington.
7 p.m., WSG Gallery, 306 S. Main. $15 (students & seniors, $10) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com ) and (if available) at the door. 763-5461. [map
“Frankenstein”: University Musical Society.
June 6 & 7. Tape-delayed live broadcast of the National Theatre (London) production, directed by Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle, of Nick Dear’s drama. Based on Mary Shelley’s suspenseful masterpiece, this deeply disturbing gothic tale of a creature created by an audacious medical student and then cast out into a hostile world resonates with contemporary concerns about scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development, and the nature of good and evil. Recommended for ages 15 and older. Stars Jonny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch.
7 p.m., Michigan Theater. Tickets $22 (Michigan Theater members and UMS donors, $18; students, $12) in advance at the Michigan League and ums.org , and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538 or (800) 221-1229. [map
“The 39 Steps”: EMU Theatre Department.
June 1-3 & 7-9. EMU drama professor Ken Stevens directs EMU drama students in Patrick Barlow’s farce, a spoof of Hitchcock’s 1935 mistaken-identity thriller, set in interwar London, feautring a bored-with-life playboy who unexpectedly finds himself involved in risky espionage. The action is an almost continuous series of quick-changes, as 4 actors play a multitude of parts.
7 p.m. (Thurs.-Sat.) & 2 p.m. (Sun.), EMU Sponberg Theater, Ford St. (off Lowell at Jarvis), Ypsilanti. Tickets $15 (students, $12; kids 12 & under, $6) in advance and at the door. 487-1221.
8 p.m.
“Brilliant Traces”: Carriage House Theatre.
June 1-3 & 7-9. This new local theater company opens its second season with Cindy Lou Johnson’s drama about a lost runaway bride who shows up at the door of an Alaskan hermit. Snowbound, the two slowly find common ground. Joseph Fournier directs.
8 p.m. (except June 3, 2 p.m.), CHT, 541 Third St. Free, but donations ($10 suggested) accepted. Carriagehousetheatre.weebly.com , 546-6441. [map
“Sweeney Todd”: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
June 7-10. Rachel Francisco directs local actors in Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical about a deranged London barber who kills his customers and has them served up in meat pies. Based on supposed actual events in 19th-century England, Sondheim’s black comedy is a tale of thwarted love, social injustice, and a quest for vengeance that finally destroys the avenger. The operatic score ranges from a haunting choral narrative to dazzlingly melodic arias and duets. Cast: Matt Peckham, Richard Knapp, Amy Bogetto-Weinraub, Trisha Fountain, Chris Potter, Robby Griswold, Camila Ballario, Paul Clark Ellington Berg, Chris Shewchenko, David Beaulieu.
8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University. Tickets $22 (seniors age 60 & over, $20; students, $12; Thurs., $17) in advance at a2ct.org & by phone, and at the door. 971-2228. [map
Friday
June 2012
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”: Shakespeare in the Arb (U-M Residential College/Nichols Arboretum).
June 7-10, 14-17, & 21-24. U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs students and local actors in Shakespeare’s high-spirited farce, which features Shakespeare’s best-loved comic character, the charming yet roguish knight Falstaff, who schemes to charm his way into the hearts and purses of 2 ladies who decide to beat the portly braggart at his own game. The action moves from spot to spot within the Arb, and director Mendeloff takes special care to make the shifting environments an active force in the performance. Bring a blanket or portable chair to sit on; dress for the weather. Note: 6:30 p.m., meet at the Peony Garden entrance at 1610 Washington Heights. $20 (students with ID & youth age 18 & under, $10; seniors age 62 & older, $17; Friends of Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, $15; kids under age 5, free) at the gate only. Limited number of golf carts available; first come, first served. 647-7600.
7-9 p.m.
RainSong: Aglow International.
This Arizona-based Nammy- and Grammy-winning husband-and-wife duo of Terry and Darlene Wildman performs Biblical stories in a Native American style, with flute and other instrumental accompaniment.
7-9 p.m., WCC Morris Lawrence Bldg., 4800 E. Huron River Dr. Free. 971-4545. [map
“Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor”: Ann Arbor Dance Works.
June 7-9. The U-M dance department’s internationally acclaimed resident professional company presents its annual spring concert at 4 sites along a 4-block route downtown. The program includes dances exploring downtown’s layered history and the hopes for a greenway connecting these spaces to outlying neighborhoods. The performance begins in the WSG Gallery, where U-M dance professor Jessica Fogel presents an 8-woman group work investigating the gendered spaces of the building’s earlier incarnations as a corset factory, hardware store, and department store. The gallery’s current exhibit also features works responding to the building’s history. U-M dance grad Marly Speiser Schneider presents a short group work, performed by the Community High School Dance Body, in the so-called Kline’s lot alley behind the gallery. Adesola Akinleye, a guest choreographer from the UK, presents a work to accompany the audience’s passage to the next site, Downtown Home & Garden, where BYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes presents a work for 115 dancers. U-M dance professor Robin Wilson presents a sextet at the corner of First Street and Liberty that celebrates the proposed greenway that includes this site. Wilson’s dance proceeds along sidewalks to the parking lot behind 415 West Washington.
7 p.m., WSG Gallery, 306 S. Main. $15 (students & seniors, $10) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com ) and (if available) at the door. 763-5461. [map
“The 39 Steps”: EMU Theatre Department.
June 1-3 & 7-9. EMU drama professor Ken Stevens directs EMU drama students in Patrick Barlow’s farce, a spoof of Hitchcock’s 1935 mistaken-identity thriller, set in interwar London, feautring a bored-with-life playboy who unexpectedly finds himself involved in risky espionage. The action is an almost continuous series of quick-changes, as 4 actors play a multitude of parts.
7 p.m. (Thurs.-Sat.) & 2 p.m. (Sun.), EMU Sponberg Theater, Ford St. (off Lowell at Jarvis), Ypsilanti. Tickets $15 (students, $12; kids 12 & under, $6) in advance and at the door. 487-1221.
8 p.m.
“Brilliant Traces”: Carriage House Theatre.
June 1-3 & 7-9. This new local theater company opens its second season with Cindy Lou Johnson’s drama about a lost runaway bride who shows up at the door of an Alaskan hermit. Snowbound, the two slowly find common ground. Joseph Fournier directs.
8 p.m. (except June 3, 2 p.m.), CHT, 541 Third St. Free, but donations ($10 suggested) accepted. Carriagehousetheatre.weebly.com , 546-6441. [map
“Nunsense”: Encore Musical Theatre Company.
Every Thurs.-Sun, May 20-June 10. This Dexter-based professional company presents Dan Goggin’s wacky musical about a convent in crisis. A cadre of bingo-playing nuns returns to the convent to find that 52 of their sisters have been killed by tainted soup. After burying only 48, the sisters run out of money and decide to whip up a talent show to raise cash and finish the job. Hidden talent emerges as the nuns show off some soft shoe, storytelling, and singing of such songs as “Just a Coupl'a Sisters,” “Holier than Thou,” “So You Want to Be a Nun,” and others. Cast TBA.
7 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), & 3 p.m. (Sat., Sun., & June 7), Encore, 3126 Broad St., Dexter. $18 on Thurs., $32 (members & seniors, $29; groups of 10 or more, $26) on Fri. & Sat. eve., & $28 (members & seniors, $25; groups of 10 or more, $22) for matinees. Tickets available at theencoretheatre.org and at the door. 268-6200. [map
“Sweeney Todd”: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
June 7-10. Rachel Francisco directs local actors in Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical about a deranged London barber who kills his customers and has them served up in meat pies. Based on supposed actual events in 19th-century England, Sondheim’s black comedy is a tale of thwarted love, social injustice, and a quest for vengeance that finally destroys the avenger. The operatic score ranges from a haunting choral narrative to dazzlingly melodic arias and duets. Cast: Matt Peckham, Richard Knapp, Amy Bogetto-Weinraub, Trisha Fountain, Chris Potter, Robby Griswold, Camila Ballario, Paul Clark Ellington Berg, Chris Shewchenko, David Beaulieu.
8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University. Tickets $22 (seniors age 60 & over, $20; students, $12; Thurs., $17) in advance at a2ct.org & by phone, and at the door. 971-2228. [map
Saturday
June 2012
Spring Recitals: Dexter’s Dancer’s Edge.
June 9 & 10. Area dance students perform ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and other dance styles.
2 p.m. (June 9 & 10) & 6 p.m. (June 9), Chelsea High School auditorium, 740 N. Freer, Chelsea. Tickets $15 in advance; $17 at the door. 424-2626. [map
“The 39 Steps”: EMU Theatre Department.
June 1-3 & 7-9. EMU drama professor Ken Stevens directs EMU drama students in Patrick Barlow’s farce, a spoof of Hitchcock’s 1935 mistaken-identity thriller, set in interwar London, feautring a bored-with-life playboy who unexpectedly finds himself involved in risky espionage. The action is an almost continuous series of quick-changes, as 4 actors play a multitude of parts.
7 p.m. (Thurs.-Sat.) & 2 p.m. (Sun.), EMU Sponberg Theater, Ford St. (off Lowell at Jarvis), Ypsilanti. Tickets $15 (students, $12; kids 12 & under, $6) in advance and at the door. 487-1221.
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”: Shakespeare in the Arb (U-M Residential College/Nichols Arboretum).
June 7-10, 14-17, & 21-24. U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs students and local actors in Shakespeare’s high-spirited farce, which features Shakespeare’s best-loved comic character, the charming yet roguish knight Falstaff, who schemes to charm his way into the hearts and purses of 2 ladies who decide to beat the portly braggart at his own game. The action moves from spot to spot within the Arb, and director Mendeloff takes special care to make the shifting environments an active force in the performance. Bring a blanket or portable chair to sit on; dress for the weather. Note: 6:30 p.m., meet at the Peony Garden entrance at 1610 Washington Heights. $20 (students with ID & youth age 18 & under, $10; seniors age 62 & older, $17; Friends of Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, $15; kids under age 5, free) at the gate only. Limited number of golf carts available; first come, first served. 647-7600.
“Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor”: Ann Arbor Dance Works.
June 7-9. The U-M dance department’s internationally acclaimed resident professional company presents its annual spring concert at 4 sites along a 4-block route downtown. The program includes dances exploring downtown’s layered history and the hopes for a greenway connecting these spaces to outlying neighborhoods. The performance begins in the WSG Gallery, where U-M dance professor Jessica Fogel presents an 8-woman group work investigating the gendered spaces of the building’s earlier incarnations as a corset factory, hardware store, and department store. The gallery’s current exhibit also features works responding to the building’s history. U-M dance grad Marly Speiser Schneider presents a short group work, performed by the Community High School Dance Body, in the so-called Kline’s lot alley behind the gallery. Adesola Akinleye, a guest choreographer from the UK, presents a work to accompany the audience’s passage to the next site, Downtown Home & Garden, where BYC choreographer Monica Bill Barnes presents a work for 115 dancers. U-M dance professor Robin Wilson presents a sextet at the corner of First Street and Liberty that celebrates the proposed greenway that includes this site. Wilson’s dance proceeds along sidewalks to the parking lot behind 415 West Washington.
7 p.m., WSG Gallery, 306 S. Main. $15 (students & seniors, $10) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com ) and (if available) at the door. 763-5461. [map
“Follow the Magic Green Shoes”: Tree of Life Dance Studio.
Tree of Life students and staff present an original family-oriented dance drama, loosely inspired by The Wizard of Oz, that features piles of green shoes, a lightning storm, lost and found musical rhythms, a flashback, at least one fairy, and a handful of munchkins.
7 p.m., Washington Street Education Center, 500 Washington, Chelsea. $10 (pack of 10, $80) in advance, $12 at the door. 433–0697. [map
8 p.m.
“Brilliant Traces”: Carriage House Theatre.
June 1-3 & 7-9. This new local theater company opens its second season with Cindy Lou Johnson’s drama about a lost runaway bride who shows up at the door of an Alaskan hermit. Snowbound, the two slowly find common ground. Joseph Fournier directs.
8 p.m. (except June 3, 2 p.m.), CHT, 541 Third St. Free, but donations ($10 suggested) accepted. Carriagehousetheatre.weebly.com , 546-6441. [map
“Nunsense”: Encore Musical Theatre Company.
Every Thurs.-Sun, May 20-June 10. This Dexter-based professional company presents Dan Goggin’s wacky musical about a convent in crisis. A cadre of bingo-playing nuns returns to the convent to find that 52 of their sisters have been killed by tainted soup. After burying only 48, the sisters run out of money and decide to whip up a talent show to raise cash and finish the job. Hidden talent emerges as the nuns show off some soft shoe, storytelling, and singing of such songs as “Just a Coupl'a Sisters,” “Holier than Thou,” “So You Want to Be a Nun,” and others. Cast TBA.
7 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), & 3 p.m. (Sat., Sun., & June 7), Encore, 3126 Broad St., Dexter. $18 on Thurs., $32 (members & seniors, $29; groups of 10 or more, $26) on Fri. & Sat. eve., & $28 (members & seniors, $25; groups of 10 or more, $22) for matinees. Tickets available at theencoretheatre.org and at the door. 268-6200. [map
“Studio Artists Opera Workshop”: Arbor Opera Theater.
Members of this polished local opera company’s studio artists program present fully staged scenes from several famous operas.
8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1500 Scio Church Rd. Tickets $15 (students & seniors, $10; kids age 11 & under, free) in advance at arboropera.com . 332-9063. [map
“Sweeney Todd”: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
June 7-10. Rachel Francisco directs local actors in Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical about a deranged London barber who kills his customers and has them served up in meat pies. Based on supposed actual events in 19th-century England, Sondheim’s black comedy is a tale of thwarted love, social injustice, and a quest for vengeance that finally destroys the avenger. The operatic score ranges from a haunting choral narrative to dazzlingly melodic arias and duets. Cast: Matt Peckham, Richard Knapp, Amy Bogetto-Weinraub, Trisha Fountain, Chris Potter, Robby Griswold, Camila Ballario, Paul Clark Ellington Berg, Chris Shewchenko, David Beaulieu.
8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University. Tickets $22 (seniors age 60 & over, $20; students, $12; Thurs., $17) in advance at a2ct.org & by phone, and at the door. 971-2228. [map
Sunday
June 2012
Spring Recitals: Dexter’s Dancer’s Edge.
June 9 & 10. Area dance students perform ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and other dance styles.
2 p.m. (June 9 & 10) & 6 p.m. (June 9), Chelsea High School auditorium, 740 N. Freer, Chelsea. Tickets $15 in advance; $17 at the door. 424-2626. [map
“Sweeney Todd”: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
June 7-10. Rachel Francisco directs local actors in Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical about a deranged London barber who kills his customers and has them served up in meat pies. Based on supposed actual events in 19th-century England, Sondheim’s black comedy is a tale of thwarted love, social injustice, and a quest for vengeance that finally destroys the avenger. The operatic score ranges from a haunting choral narrative to dazzlingly melodic arias and duets. Cast: Matt Peckham, Richard Knapp, Amy Bogetto-Weinraub, Trisha Fountain, Chris Potter, Robby Griswold, Camila Ballario, Paul Clark Ellington Berg, Chris Shewchenko, David Beaulieu.
8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University. Tickets $22 (seniors age 60 & over, $20; students, $12; Thurs., $17) in advance at a2ct.org & by phone, and at the door. 971-2228. [map
“Nunsense”: Encore Musical Theatre Company.
Every Thurs.-Sun, May 20-June 10. This Dexter-based professional company presents Dan Goggin’s wacky musical about a convent in crisis. A cadre of bingo-playing nuns returns to the convent to find that 52 of their sisters have been killed by tainted soup. After burying only 48, the sisters run out of money and decide to whip up a talent show to raise cash and finish the job. Hidden talent emerges as the nuns show off some soft shoe, storytelling, and singing of such songs as “Just a Coupl'a Sisters,” “Holier than Thou,” “So You Want to Be a Nun,” and others. Cast TBA.
7 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), & 3 p.m. (Sat., Sun., & June 7), Encore, 3126 Broad St., Dexter. $18 on Thurs., $32 (members & seniors, $29; groups of 10 or more, $26) on Fri. & Sat. eve., & $28 (members & seniors, $25; groups of 10 or more, $22) for matinees. Tickets available at theencoretheatre.org and at the door. 268-6200. [map
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”: Shakespeare in the Arb (U-M Residential College/Nichols Arboretum).
June 7-10, 14-17, & 21-24. U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs students and local actors in Shakespeare’s high-spirited farce, which features Shakespeare’s best-loved comic character, the charming yet roguish knight Falstaff, who schemes to charm his way into the hearts and purses of 2 ladies who decide to beat the portly braggart at his own game. The action moves from spot to spot within the Arb, and director Mendeloff takes special care to make the shifting environments an active force in the performance. Bring a blanket or portable chair to sit on; dress for the weather. Note: 6:30 p.m., meet at the Peony Garden entrance at 1610 Washington Heights. $20 (students with ID & youth age 18 & under, $10; seniors age 62 & older, $17; Friends of Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, $15; kids under age 5, free) at the gate only. Limited number of golf carts available; first come, first served. 647-7600.
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