INNER VIEW: Preservation Hall band
plays crowd-pleasing New Orleans jazz

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which spreads the good news about the roots of New Orleans style jazz, performs April 12 at Eisenhower Auditorium.

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Perlman believes great music
comes from being team player

Violin superstar Itzhak Perlman returns to Eisenhower Auditorium for the first time since 1993 to perform with pianist Rohan De Silva in an April 1 concert including works by J. S. Bach, R. Strauss, and Poulenc.

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Russia’s St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre
performs updated Romeo and Juliet

St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre performs a production of Romeo and Juliet that combines classical and modern elements April 4 at Eisenhower Auditorium.

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Junie B. Jones leaps from the page
to the stage in musical adaptation

Junie B. Jones, the pint-sized protagonist of a popular series of children’s books, is the star of a TheatreworksUSA musical based on several of Barbara Park’s stories. The show comes to Eisenhower Auditorium April 6.

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EVITA a musical about a woman
famous for seducing a country

The touring Broadway production the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical EVITA, a classic about an ambitious woman’s rise to power in Argentina, comes to Eisenhower Auditorium for two shows April 9 and 10.

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Director’s View: April’s first twelve days
brim with outstanding performances

April’s two-week span of excellent presentations at Eisenhower Auditorium begins with violinist Itzhak Perlman and ends with Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

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© 2008 Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State

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George Trudeau

Marketing and Communications Director
Laura Sullivan

Art Director
Urszula Kulakowski

Multimedia Specialist
Erik Baxter

Editor
John Rafacz

Writers
Jennifer Pencek
John Rafacz

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All artists, programs, dates, and times described in PreViews are subject to change.

Itzhak Perlman photos © Akira Kinoshita

“Schön Rosmarin,” from Itzhak Perlman’s A La Carte, used with permission. © 1995 EMI Records, Ltd.

Junie B. Jones cover illustration from Junie B., First Grader (at Last!). Illustration © 2001 by Denise Brunkus. Used by permission of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Junie B. Jones cast photo © Carol Rosegg

EVITA cast photos © 2007 Lugo Graphics

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