Fall 2018 Performances
American Shakespeare Center: The Winter’s Tale
Friday, September 21, 7:30 pm Pre-show music starts at 7 p.m.
Tickets $15; Students free
Shakespeare’s magnificent late play is a roller-coaster ride from romance to tragedy to comedy and finally to a place of transcendent beauty. “A sad tale’s best for winter,” but after unleashing a wintry tempest onto his characters, Shakespeare ultimately conjures spring’s miraculous rebirth.
Thanks to the Dr. Darrell W. Hurst Endowment for Cultural Enrichment and BRCC’s Cultural Affairs Committee for support of this performance.
12th Annual Empty Bowl Dinner
All proceeds benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Thursday October 25, 6 p.m.
Plecker Workforce Center
Tickets $15; includes ceramic bowl, soup, and beverage
Carrie the Musical
All proceeds benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 25-27, 7 p.m.
Sunday, October 28, 3 p.m.
Tickets $15; Students free
Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she’s an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she’s at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’d not afraid to use it… Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, Carrie features a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film), music by Academy Award winner Michael Gore, and lyrics by Academy Award winner Dean Pitchford. “The show has guts. Carrie’s score does what a musical score should do: it moves the show along, illuminates the characters and deepens emotions…Carrie has real weight and emotional conviction.”
Note: Intended for mature audiences only due to strong language and subject matter.
Robert Jospe’ Express
Saturday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Tickets $15; Students free
Jazz, Latin, Funk, and R&B fuse together in the Robert Jospé Express Quartet, which include keyboards, electric bass and guitar, and features jazz with an electric edge. His highly skilled and entertaining band offers a concert repertoire and experience for all ages! “The band was extremely tight and had wonderful energy on stage. The arrangements were top notch and they tastefully exhibited their chops on straight ahead jazz, Latin grooves, funk, (and) beautiful ballads.”
Urinetown
BRCC Children’s Theatre Workshop
Thursday-Saturday, November 15-17, 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 18, 3 p.m.
Tickets $15; Students free
Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America's greatest art forms. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the "comedic romp" into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.
URINETOWN is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
