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
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