2002-03 Live Performance Season
| September 20 | Tannahill Weavers | February 5 | Harlem | |
| October 4 | The Ying Quartet and The Fry Street Quartet | February 13 | Congreso | |
| October 11 | Bill Miller | February 22 | Il Teatro Calimari | |
| October 17 | My Left Breast | February 28 | St. Petersburg Ice Ballet: Sleeping Beauty | |
| November 8 | Norman Foote | March 22 | Todd Green | |
| November 16 | Eric Bibb | April 3-12 | COPENHAGEN Presented by The Helena Theater Company |
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| November 22 | Patchwork Girl of Oz | April 24 | Leon Redbone | |
| February 4 | The Miracle Worker | May 10 |
SEPTEMBER
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Friday, September 20, 8:00 p.m.
With Roy Gullame (guitar and vocals), Les Wilson (bouzouki, keyboards, guitar and vocals), John Martin (fiddle, cello, viola, vocals) and Scotland's best young piper Colin Melville (highland bagpipes, small pipes, whistles), these Scotsmen have been bringing the best in Celtic music to audiences around the world for many years. |
OCTOBER
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Friday, October 11, 8:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 17, 8:00 p.m.
This special event is sponsored by Partners in Prevention. |
This moving, award-winning play chronicles the story of a woman's struggle with breast cancer and is performed by Shameless Hussy Productions, one of Vancouver, Canada's leading theater troupes. My Left Breast has earned playwright Susan Miller both an Obie Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best play in the English-speaking theater written by a woman. Actress Deb Pickman is recipient of the 1999 Vancouver Sun People's Choice Award for her performance in this play.NOVEMBER
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Norman Foote Friday, November 8, 7:00 p.m.  Norman Foote is an award-winning singer/songwriter for children who has received critical acclaim for his recordings, outrageous props and off-beat sense of humor. Here, Norman puts his theatrical and comedic talents to use weaving stories and painting musical imagery with character voices that young listeners respond to immediately. Norman Foote most recently received a 2001 SOCAN Award "Best Songwriter for Children" in Canada. Norman performs in theatres, festivals--even with symphony orchestras. You can see his music videos "The Man Who Ran Away With The Moon" and "The Dinosaur & The Progress of Man" on the Disney and Family Channel.Arts Plus! Two special school performances will precede the evening performance. |
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Saturday, November 16, 8:00 p.m.
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Here's a treat for blues lovers: Hot blues artist Eric Bibb, who soared to success quickly in Europe, has earned his position as a rising star in the acoustic blues arena here in the U. S. His unique folk-blues talent continues to draw the attention and admiration of blues fans and critics alike. Adding to his earlier award of "Best Newcomer" in the British Blues Awards, Bibb has seen a flurry of attention in the U. S. blues world as well. Two of his previous albums (Sprit & The Blues and Home To Me) were nominated for the prestigious W. C. Handy awards and this year he has been nominated for "Best Acoustic Blues Song of the Year" ("Kokomo" from Painting Signs) and "Best Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year."|
Friday, November 22, 7:00 p.m.
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Modern dance and the digital age join forces to bring L. Frank Baum's 1913 classic, The Patchwork Girl of Oz alive onstage in the 21st century. This unique performance combines interactive technologies, multimedia work, and dance. This production is performed by Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers and Louise Reichlin & Dancers, one of the West's most accomplished dance troupes. For an added treat, they'll incorporate young Helena dancers in the program. What a great opportunity to expose local young artists to high-caliber working professionals in their art.2003
FEBRUARY
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Montana Repertory Theater's The Miracle Worker Tuesday, February 4, 7:30 p.m. 
Few stories are as timeless or reveal the courage and resilience of the human spirit as well as The Miracle Worker. This stirring dramatization of the story of Helen Keller and her tutor, Anne Sullivan, has been mesmerizing audiences for decades.The Miracle Worker is a story of overcoming unbelievable odds. It is a story of conviction, of determination, and of true, unfettered love. The play recounts the early life of Helen Keller, deaf and blind since infancy, as she finds her way, with the help of her tutor, Anne Sullivan, into the world of inner light--the most important "sight" of all. The Montana Repertory Theater has had a professional touring company since 1968, bringing high-quality, successful productions to communities around the West. Their mission: "to tell the great stories of our world to enlighten, develop, and celebrate the human spirit in an ever-expanding community." |
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Kennedy Center Tour/Kid's Entertainment Harlem Wednesday, February 5, 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. Arts Plus! This Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration Touring Production also includes school activities and residencies for kids. The Myrna Loy Center will sponsor two teachers' workshops that will provide ideas for using this show in creative classroom activities. Two special school performances for 5-6 graders in Helena and the surrounding area will also give students a chance to ask questions and learn more about the production. |
Harlem is a vibrant journey through the streets of Harlem where life, language, history, rhythm and music merge into an exciting blend of poetry, jazz, and art, telling the tales of the people of Harlem. Join a storyteller, a vocalist and a jazz quartet as they explore, through young eyes, the excitement of being in the midst of the creativity of the Harlem Renaissance.|
Thursday, February 13, 7:30 p.m.
Congreso has played for the Amnesty International Concert, Expo Seville in Spain, Montreal Festival in Canada, and at Cologne, Germany's Teatro Opera. The Myrna Loy Center has been selected to host this award-winning Chilean group in the Project Americas Initiative to bring quality international performance to small nationally recognized venues. Arts Plus! Congreso members will spend a week in Helena conducting residency activities and giving workshops and school performances. |
This amazing group from Quilpué, Chile, has excited audiences worldwide with their music, which continually searches for a fresh new language for the expression of Latin American popular music. They have invented a delicate fusion of the many characters of Chile: the multi-tonal altiplano of the north; the larger cities of Santiago and Valparaiso; the forests and lakes of the south; the vast Patagonia. Their music brings each place to life, transforming them into voices, rhythms, and sounds of their homeland.|
Saturday, February 22, 2:00 p.m.
The three members of Il Teatro Calimari also conduct workshops for kids and teachers; stay tuned for their residency schedules! |
Three award-winning performers take kids of all ages on fanciful journeys that spring from a mountain of luggage. See what happens when balloon dogs attack, Kleenexes fall in love, lunch doesn't wish to be eaten, pillows throw off their shackles of servitude in this madcap bilt of physical theater. Il Teatro Calimari will perform from their repertoire, which includes Waiting for the Train, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and other familiar stories.|
St. Petersburg Ice Ballet: Sleeping Beauty Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
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This year's headliner will bring a major Ice Ballet to Helena for the first time in over 40 years. These ice dancers are trained by the Kirov Ballet and will be presenting Tchaikovsky's most popular ballet at the Helena Ice Palace. What a treat!A pictorial collage has been created to commemorate this great performance. Please visit our Photography Gallery to relive the great moments experienced on February 28.
MARCH
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Saturday, March 22, 2:00 p.m.
Regardless of your musical interests and background, Todd Green's concert is a uniquely gratifying experience with elements of both the familiar and the unfamiliar, and promises to broaden everyone's musical horizons in an unforgettable way. With this tour, Todd returns to Montana where he was trained and started as a performer. Arts Plus! Todd Green will conduct school residencies, a school matinee performance, and other educational activities to teach students about his various instruments.
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Guitarist and multi-instrument performer Todd Green is one of the most acclaimed instrumentalists on the western circuit. He plays an eclectic blend of classical, jazz, new age and world music. In addition to performing solo guitar pieces in many different styles, he uses digital samplers to record and overdub himself live on stage to become a one-man orchestra of unique and exotic instruments from all over the world. As Todd takes his audience on a fascinating tour of many countries and their diverse styles of music, he intersperses his playing with entertaining and informative explanations of the music and the instruments.
APRIL
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COPENHAGEN April 3, 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m.
They were old friends, and their work together had opened the way into the atom. But now they were on opposite sides of a world war, and the meeting ended in disaster. Scientists and historians have argued ever since about why Heisenberg went, and what the two men said. Copenhagen retraces their journey through the mysteries of the world around us - and on into the even stranger mysteries of the world within. "Copenhagen is a stirring flesh and blood drama, as emotional as it is intellectually bracing. It is the humanity and heartbreak of these three people that remains most potently in the memory." - Mike Kuchwara, Associated Press - Ben Brantley, The New York Times |
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr.|
Thursday, April 24, 8:00 p.m.
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That's right: American blues legend, most memorable singing voice and mystery man extraordinaire, Leon Redbone is coming to town. With his gravelly baritone voice, his neo-vaudeville style, his hang-dog mustache and his reticence to reveal any personal information about himself including his phone number (but his web site is MAY
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Buster Keaton Classic, Sherlock, Jr. with Blue Grassy Knoll Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
First, the film: one of Buster Keaton's best, and possibly the funniest movie ever made. Buster is a cinema projectionist framed for theft by a jealous rival for his girl's hand. It's a sublime study of film and fantasy; fast moving and surreal, with Keaton becoming a detective in his dreams. Now, about the band: With banjo, accordion, double bass, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, they combine two parts gypsy with one part bluegrass, a splash of zydeco and a twist of cabaret, all laced with humor and garnished with hot blooded passion to create a swirling blend of addictive acoustic mayhem. They have been known to pay homage to Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini & TV themes, set Shakespeare's soliloquies to tangos as well as penning their own bossa novas, bluegrass and gypsy dirges. |
When was the last time you watched a great silent film with a live soundtrack? This is a rare experience, especially in the hands of Blue Grassy Knoll, Australia's favorite bluegrass band.Copyright ©
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