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August 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Schuster Center Broadway Children’s Choir will hold AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT FOR NEW MEMBERS. All interested students in grades 5 – 12 MUST call (937) 228-7591, ext. 3034, to make an appointment; no walk-ins will be accepted the day of auditions. Please note: this audition is for NEW MEMBERS ONLY. Previous members of the choir do NOT need to audition again.

Auditions will be held Tuesday, September 23, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Mathile Theatre at the Schuster Center. The Mathile Theatre is just inside the Schuster Center’s Ludlow Street entrance. Rehearsals begin October 13 in the Mathile Theatre.

For more information, including a complete rehearsal and performance schedule, and a downloadable audition packet, please visit www.victoriatheatre.com/comm_prog/sbcc.php.

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August 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Individual tickets for most 2008-2009 Victoria Theatre Association presentations go on sale Friday, September 12, at 5 p.m., in conjunction with the Open House & Arts Market being held at the Schuster Center during Urban Nights.

Tickets for the following series and shows will be available through Ticket Center Stage:

Chase Broadway Series: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Purple  and Legally Blonde The Musical (Tickets for RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles already on sale)
Universal 1 Variety Series: Mayhem Poets, Craig Karges: Experience the Extraordinary and Altar Boyz
Young at Heart Family Series: Rhythm in Shoes, Riders In The Sky: Christmas the Cowboy Way, Golden Dragon Acrobats, Circo Comedia and Stellaluna
Star Attractions: Boyz II Men and Sweet Honey in the Rock (Tickets for STOMP already on sale)
IMPACT: Bruce Anthony Davis in A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. and Gregory Hines (Tickets for Grandma’s Hands already on sale)

The Open House & Arts Market will be held at the Schuster Center from 5 – 9 p.m. on September 12, as part of the Urban Nights ArtsFest. For more information about Urban Nights, visit www.downtowndayton.org.

Tickets may be purchased at the Schuster Center box office or by phone, at (937) 228-3630 or toll free (888) 228-3630. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.ticketcenterstage.com. Ticket Center Stage’s regular business hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and two hours prior to each performance. Beginning September 6, Ticket Center Stage will also be open Saturdays, noon – 4 p.m.

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August 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

September 12 will find downtown Dayton alive and pulsing with artistic life! Urban Nights Arts Fest (part of the Downtown Dayton Partnership’s Urban Nights event) will boast a new feature this year: an Open House & Arts Market at the Schuster Center and Victoria Theatre, from 5 – 9 p.m. that night.

“It seemed like the perfect opportunity to invite people into our home spaces,” says Victoria Theatre Association President & CEO Dione Kennedy. “We wanted to enhance what Culture Works has already done with the Urban Nights Arts Fest. The Open House & Arts Market will kick off the arts season in style and give people a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the theatres.”

Participating in the Open House & Arts Market will be the resident companies of the Schuster Center, the Victoria Theatre and The Loft Theatre: CITYFOLK, Dayton Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dayton Opera, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, The Human Race Theatre Company, Rhythm in Shoes, and Victoria Theatre Association.

The Open House & Arts Market will feature a variety of events and activities at all three venues:

AT THE SCHUSTER CENTER
Get your tickets now!
Single tickets for most Victoria Theatre Association presentations, including the Chase Broadway Series, the Universal 1 Variety Series, the Young at Heart Family Series and Star Attractions, go on sale Friday, September 12 at 5 p.m. Tickets for the other arts groups’ events and performances will be available as well.

Arts Market in the Wintergarden
Each of the resident companies will have merchandise for sale, along with other special items and collectibles. There will be a special “blind auction” featuring gift baskets, autographed items, and more.

Open Rehearsal with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
Visitors are invited to sit in on a Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra rehearsal! The rehearsal starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Mead Theatre at the Schuster Center. Visitors may come and go as they choose during the two-hour rehearsal.

Introducing the New Ticket Center Stage
Ticket Center Stage has a new ticketing system and a new look for its website, TicketCenterStage.com. Visitors will be able to take a “guided tour” and see all the new features that make buying tickets even easier.

Urban Nights Stage at Second & Main Streets
There will be a variety of performances on the plaza in front of the Schuster Center. Look for the return of Rhythm in Shoes, Victoria Theatre Association’s own “No Intermission,” plus many other acts.

Coffee & Video Lounge in the Mathile Theatre
Tours of the Schuster Center will end in the black box Mathile Theatre. Visitors may relax there and enjoy coffee or other beverages at the bar, as well as watch video clips from Dayton’s arts community.

Citilites Bar & Restaurant
Nestled right off the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center, Citilites Restaurant & Bar will be open for cocktails (try the Urban Nights Martini), appetizers and conversation.

AT BOTH THE VICTORIA THEATRE AND THE SCHUSTER CENTER
Get the backstory on both of these arts facilities and get a glimpse backstage as well. Guided tours of each venue will be held every 30 minutes, starting at 5 p.m., with the last tour leaving at 9 p.m.

AT THE LOFT THEATRE
The Human Race Theatre Company will already be in production with the first show of The Eichelberger Loft Series, Over the Tavern, running September 4 – 21.

To learn more about Urban Nights, visit www.downtowndayton.org.

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August 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

If you answered “I’m a mocker” then you need to come down to the Victoria Theatre this weekend to see A Hard Day’s Night, the final film of this summer’s Michelob Ultra Cool Films series! If you have no idea what we’re talking about, THEN YOU NEED TO COME DOWN TO THE VICTORIA to see A Hard Day’s Night!

Don’t forget that tickets for RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles go on sale at the movie tonight, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Online ticket sales begin at 10 p.m. tonight. We’ll also be having our Ultra Cool Beatles Trivia Quiz tonight, with one lucky winner receiving opening night tickets to RAIN, a RAIN prize pack, and a $50 gift certificate to Jay’s Seafood Restaurant!

The Human Race Theatre Company is also getting in on all the Beatlemania this weekend: you can sign up at the movie for a chance to win four opening night tickets to their production of EARS ON A BEATLE (Oct. 16 – Nov. 2 at The Loft Theatre), a fabulous Beatles coffee table book and a John Lennon action figure!

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August 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Just a reminder – tickets for STOMP are on sale NOW, through Ticket Center Stage. STOMP will be on stage at the Victoria Theatre for three performances, on October 18 & 19.

Three Easy Ways to Buy Tickets:
* By Phone at 937-228-3630 (toll free 888-228-3630)
* At the Victoria Theatre & Schuster Center box offices
* Click Here to buy online right now!

STOMP is explosive, provocative, sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique and appeals to audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered an armful of awards and rave reviews, and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. As USA Today says, “STOMP finds beautiful noises in the strangest places.” STOMP. See what all the noise is about.

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August 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

We’ve been told by reliable sources that A Hard Day’s Night played at the Victory Theatre back in 1964 – we’d love to hear from anyone who saw it here or at other Dayton-area theatres. If you have other good Beatles stories from the heydey of Beatlemania (like, for instance, you saw them in concert, bumped into them on the street, etc.), we’d love to hear those, too! Take a couple of minutes and post a comment below.

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August 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

We’ll resist the obvious “Ticket to Ride/Ticket to RAIN” puns, but we do want to let you know all about how you can get tickets to RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles before they go on sale to the general public. Buy a ticket to this Friday’s showing of A Hard Day’s Night at the Victoria Theatre, and you’ll be able to buy your “Ticket to RAIN” (okay, we just couldn’t resist) that night. Can’t make it to the movie on Friday? Log on to TicketCenteStage.com at 10 p.m. Friday night and buy online (click on Victoria Theatre Association, then Chase Broadway Series in the left-hand menu). Phone and box office sales begin Monday at 10 a.m.

The final round of our Ultra Cool Trivia Contest will take place at A Hard Day’s Night as well. Brush up on your Beatles trivia for a chance to win a bunch of great prizes, including tickets to RAIN, RAIN merchandise and a $50 gift certificate to Jay’s Seafood Restaurant in the Oregon District!

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August 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

The summer has flown by, and we’re heading into the final weekend of the Michelob Ultra Cool Films series. We wrap up the series with the Fab Four in A Hard Day’s Night.

It was 1964, and Beatlemania was at its most frenzied when John, Paul, George and Ringo starred in their first feature film. A Hard Night follows a madcap “day in the life” of The Beatles, as they try to elude hordes of screaming fans and still get to the Big Show on time, in spite of Paul’s troublemaking grandfather and Ringo’s arrest!

Directed by Richard Lester and filmed in six-and-a-half weeks, A Hard Day’s Night has come to be regarded as a pop culture classic and continues to delight audiences, nearly 45 years after its release. The film is, of course, full of great Beatles classics, including “I Should Have Known Better,” “And I Love Her,” “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” and “A Hard Day’s Night.”

Watch: The trailer to A Hard Day’s Night

Be sure to check back here later this week for details about how you can get tickets to RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles at A Hard Day’s Night.

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August 15th, 2008 | No Comments »

We’re heading into the last two weekends of the Michelob Ultra Cool Films series! This weekend, it’s another great movie musical, with Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly!.

Directed by Gene Kelly, the musical comedy earned three Oscars, including awards for Best Art Direction, Best Music and Best Sound. Hello, Dolly! features a talented cast that includes Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi, Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder, and Michael Crawford as Cornelius Hackl.

Dolly has a mission to marry Horace Vandergelder, “the well known, unmarried, half-a-millionaire.” Through her mission, Dolly manages to match up several other individuals in the process. The film is based on the popular Broadway musical, which was in turn based on Thorton Wilder’s play, The Matchmaker.

The film contains many memorable songs, including “Put On Your Sunday Clothes,” “Ribbons Down My Back,” “Before the Parade Passes By,” “Elegance,” “It Only Takes a Moment” and, of course, the famous title song.  Legendry jazz musician Louis Armstrong, who had a huge hit with the title song, makes a cameo appearance in the film.

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August 15th, 2008 | No Comments »

Hailed as the most commercially successful R&B group of all time, Boyz II Men will perform at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 29. Tickets for this Star Attraction go on sale Friday, September 12 at 5 p.m. through Ticket Center Stage.

Boyz II Men have sold an estimated 60 million recordings in a spectacular 17-year career, and American Idol’s Randy Jackson has called them, “… the most talented vocal group of our era.” The group’s clean-cut “retro nouveau” image, synchronized dance routines, and polished stage act helped fuel their rapid rise to stardom. Between 1992 and 1997, Boyz II Men recorded five Number One Pop hits and 12 Top Ten R&B singles. At the same time, they also earned a host of awards, including four Grammy Awards. Their debut album, Cooleyhighharmony, is considered a classic of ’90s “new jack swing,” and their second album, simply titled II, topped the Billboard charts and spawned the massive hit singles, “I’ll Make Love to You” and “On Bended Knee.” Their impressive string of hits also includes “End of the Road,” “Water Runs Dry,” “One Sweet Day,” “4 Seasons of Loneliness” and “I’ll Get There.”

Boyz II Men will be on stage at the Schuster Center on Saturday, November 29, at 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $61, $56, $46 and $38, and go on sale Friday, September 12, at 5 p.m., in conjunction with downtown Dayton’s Urban Nights.

Tickets will be available through Ticket Center Stage, at the Schuster Center box office in downtown Dayton or by phone, at (937) 228-3630 or toll free (888) 228-3630. Ticket Center Stage hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and two hours prior to each performance. Beginning September 6, Ticket Center Stage will also be open on Saturdays, from noon – 4 p.m. Tickets may be purchased online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.

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