From: Carder, Carol [mailto:ccarder@pima.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:23 PM
Subject: Pima Community College Center for the Arts Spring arts preview
Additions and corrections from the 2011-12 season press release are in red.
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Center for the Arts
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Carol Carder, marketing/pr director
2202 W. Anklam, Tucson, AZ 85709
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November 22, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pima Community College Center for the Arts Spring 2012 Season: Collage
what: PCC Center for the Arts Spring 2012 Season
where: PCC Center for the Arts, West Campus, 2202 West Anklam Road, Tucson, AZ 85709
when: January through May 2012
open to the public: For performance tickets call the box office at 520-206-6986 or purchase online at www.pima.edu/cfa. The gallery and all its programs are free, call 520-206-6942.
information: 520-206-6986 or 520-206-3062, centerforthearts@pima.edu <mailto:centerforthearts@pima.edu>
Tucson, Arizona--Pima Community College Center for the Arts Spring 2012 Season: Collage— an eclectic and vibrant assemblage of performances, gallery exhibits and special events. The season includes student performances by Pima’s theatre arts and dance programs; student, faculty and guest artist performances by Pima’s music program; and exhibitions of contemporary works by international, national and regional visual artists in the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. The season rounds out with an award-winning digital video and film screening; a runway fashion show of student-designed apparel; and readings and workshops by Pima’s communication department. The Center for the Arts complex, situated on PCC’s West Campus, consists of the 425-seat Proscenium Theatre, 75-plus-seat Black Box Theatre, 75-plus-seat Recital Hall and the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery.
PCC Theatre Arts
CURTAINS, book by Rupert Holmes, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. A Tucson premiere! (Curtains ran on Broadway from March 2007 to September 2008.) Brought to the stage by the creative team of Todd Poelstra, Mickey Nugent, Dr. Mark Nelson and featuring for the first time the acclaimed Nancy Davis Booth. February 22 - March 4, 2012, in the Proscenium Theatre (Wed.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.) ASL interpreters: February 29. Tickets are $18 with discounts available. Curtains is a murder-mystery, musical comedy whodunit set in a theatre in 1959 Boston. This play within a is a fun madcap venture with plenty of dancing, singing and humor. The mayhem begins when the remarkably untalented star of the new musical “Robbin’ Hood!” is murdered during her opening night curtain call. A police detective, who moonlights as a musical theater fan, sequesters the entire cast and crew backstage to solve the case and save the show. Musical numbers include Show People, That Away, Wide Open Spaces, The Woman's Dead, He Did It, and A Tough Act to Follow. Nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Choreography.
INHERIT THE WIND, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Directed by Nancy Davis Booth. April 11–22, 2012, in the Black Box Theatre (Wed. preview, Thu.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.). ASL interpreters: April 19. Tickets are $15 with discounts available. Set in a present-day small town, a man’s right to think is challenged as faith and science collide in a raging debate between the literal interpretation of creation found in the book of “Genesis” and the scientific theory of evolution as posited by Charles Darwin in his “Origin of Species” (1859). Written in 1955, the play is a fictionalized version of the famous 1925 Scope’s “Monkey” Trial, involving a teacher arrested, tried and convicted for teaching evolutionary theory to his public school students during science class.
PCC Music (Tickets: $6 with discounts available.)
SINGING FOR PLEASURE: Dr. Jonathan Ng, tenor - a faculty recital featuring English and German art songs with Dr. Raymond T. Ryder, accompanist. February 12, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
ALEXANDER LAPINS TUBA – a recital featuring eclectic selections by Dr. Alexander Lapins, euphonium and tuba professor at Northern Arizona University. February 16 at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
PRESIDIO GOES TO HOLLYWOOD: A Tribute to the Hollywood Saxophone Quartet (1950-1970) – featuring the Presidio Saxophone Quartet (Michael Keepe, Derek Granger, Kelland Thomas, Ryan McCormick). February 19, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Wind Ensemble Concerts – featuring classics for full band, as well as small wind and percussion ensembles and soloists. March 8, 2012 and May 3, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. Directed by Dr. Mark Nelson.
Chorale & College Singers Concerts – features selections for a large mixed-voice choir and a more select mixed-voice a cappella choir. March 6, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.; May 6, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. Directed by Dr. Jonathan Ng.
MANO A MANO - a faculty piano recital with Eileen Perry, Dr. Raymond T. Ryder, Dr. June Chow-Tyne and Dr. Alexander Tentser. March 25, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Mark Nelson tuba – an annual faculty tuba recital featuring classic, contemporary and premiered works for tuba. April 5, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
OPERA SCENES – features scenes from popular operas. April 20-21, 2012 in the Proscenium Theatre (Fri. at 7 p.m., Sat. at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.). Directed by Dr. Dean Schoff.
Jazz Improv Combos Concert – features individual combos performing their own set of repertoire with music from early swing numbers through bebop, modern fusion and funk styles. April 23, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. Directed by Mike Kuhn.
Jazz Ensemble Concert – features jazz standards from a variety of periods in big band style. May 1, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. Directed by Mike Kuhn.
Orchestra Concert - features a repertoire for orchestra with high school/college students and community adults. May 13, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. Directed by Dr. Alexander Tentser.
PCC Dance (Tickets: $10 with discounts available.)
FOUR SEASONS. Directed by Aurora Gonçalves-Shaner. Dancers transport the audience on a journey through winter, spring, summer and autumn, as well as the seasonal and emotional experiences of human life. Ballet, modern, jazz and ballroom dances, choreographed to wide array of music, including Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” illustrate the passage of time. May 11-12, 2012, Fri. at 7:30 p.m., Sat. at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre.
Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery (The gallery and its programs are free and open to the public.)
East/Pacific/West: Confluence - Claire Campbell Park, Nancy Tokar Miller, Mary Babcock
January 30 – March 9, 2012
Gallery Talk: Thursday, February 9, 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Reception: Thursday, February 9, 5–7 p.m.
Lecture: Thursday, February 9, 7 p.m. Mary Babcock, professor and fibers program chair,
Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Gallery closed rodeo break 2/23-24, spring break 3/12–20
Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition
April 2 – May 4, 2012
Reception & Visual Arts Award Ceremony: Wednesday, April 11, 12–3 p.m. with awards at 1 p.m.
PCC Events
Spring Fashion runway Show –featuring student-designed clothing. May 4, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. (Tickets: $2.)
Digital Video and Film Screening - features film and video work from students in the beginning and advanced classes. May 14-15, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre. (Free and open to the public.)
writers’ workshop. May 25-27, 2012
PCC Center for the Arts is dedicated to providing outstanding cultural enrichment opportunities for the college and the Tucson community. There is ample free, well-lit parking adjacent to the center. For more information call the box office at 520-206-6986.
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