Broadway Across America Series at the Keller Theater 

Keller Theater at 222 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201
Saturday Matinee, 10/23/10, No Transportation Provided
ORCH B, Rows R & Q Cost: $44.70, Curtain at 2:00pm
1BAL B. Rows B, C&E Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 2:00pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Wednesday prior to show date.

HAIR
The Public Theater’s new Tony® Award–winning production of HAIR is the most electric celebration on Broadway! This exuberant musical about a group of young Americans searching for peace and love in a turbulent time has struck a resonant chord with audiences young and old. HAIR features an extraordinary cast and dozens of unforgettable songs, including “Aquarius,” “Let the Sun Shine In,” "Good Morning, Starshine" and “Easy To Be Hard.” Its relevance is UNDENIABLE. Its energy is UNBRIDLED. Its truth is UNWAVERING. It's HAIR, and IT'S TIME. "INTENSE, UNADULTERATED JOY."–The New York Times "HAIR SPEAKS TO A WHOLE NEW GENERATION!" –Time Out(Adult language/Adult situations/Brief nudity) www.hairbroadway.com

Keller Theater at 222 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201
Thursday, 12/30/10, No Transportation Provided
ORCH D & C, Rows R, S&T Cost: $44.70, Curtain at 7:30pm
1BAL D, Rows B, C&D Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 7:30pm

 Sunday Matinee, 1/2/11, No Transportation Provided
ORCH D, Rows N&O Cost: $44.70, Curtain at 1:00pm
1BAL D, Rows C&D Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 1:00pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Wednesday prior to show date.

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is the joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. A big musical with an even bigger heart, BILLY ELLIOT will enchant the dreamer in all of us. Based on the international smash-hit film, BILLY ELLIOT is brought to life by a phenomenal cast of 45 and the Tony Award-winning creative team -- director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer Lee Hall -- along with music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "HIS BEST SCORE YET!" (Adult language) www.billyelliottour.com

Keller Theater at 222 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201
Thursday, 4/7/11, No Transportation Provided
ORCH B, Rows O, P & Q Cost: $72.28, Curtain at 7:30pm
1BAL Rows D&C Cost: $62.16, Curtain at 7:30pm
2BAL Rows A&B Cost: $44.48, Curtain at 7:30pm

 Saturday Matinee, 4/16/11, No Transportation Provided
ORCH C, Rows O&N Cost: $83.60 Curtain at 2:00pm
1BAL, Rows C&B Cost: $76.65, Curtain at 2:00pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Wednesday prior to show date.

MARY POPPINS
Beginning in June 2011 the world's most famous nanny will arrive at Keller Auditorium. Combining the best of the original stories by P. L. Travers and the beloved Walt Disney film, the Tony® Award-winning MARY POPPINS is everything you’d hope for in a Broadway musical — and more. Produced by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, the show includes such wonderful songs as “Chim Chim Cher–ee,” “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” and of course, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” The NY Daily News hails MARY POPPINS as “a roof–raising, toe–tapping, high–flying extravaganza!” Let your imagination take flight at this perfectly magical musical! www.MaryPoppins.com

Keller Theater at 222 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201
Thursday, 6/23/11, No Transportation Provided
ORCH D&C, Rows W, U & T Cost: $44.70, Curtain at 7:30pm
1BAL, Rows G&F Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 7:30pm
2BAL, Rows C&B Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 7:30pm

 Sunday Matinee, 6/26/10, No Transportation Provided
ORCH D, Rows M, N&O Cost: $89.40, Curtain at 2:00pm
1BAL B Rows A, B C&D Cost: $84.10, Curtain at 2:00pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Wednesday prior to show date.

LES MISÉRABLES DREAM THE DREAM
Cameron Mackintosh presents the brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil & Schönberg's legendray musical, LES MISÉRABLES, with glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has already been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records wherever it goes. The London Times hails the new show "a five star hit, astonishingly powerful and as good as the original." The Western Mail says "an outstanding success- the best version yet."  www.lesmis.com

Keller Theater at 222 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201
Saturday Matinee, 8/6/11, No Transportation Provided
ORCH D, Rows L, M&N Cost: $44.70, Curtain at 2:00pm
1BAL B, Rows A&B  Cost: $34.05, Curtain at 2:00pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Wednesday prior to show date

PORTLANDCENTERSTAGE 
Series at the Gerding Theater

Join Evergreen Community Education and Portland Center Stage for 2010-2011 Season. All shows will take place on Thursday evenings for our group discounted season. For more information about the shows go to psc.org.

Sunset Boulevard book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton
music by Andrew Lloyd Webber directed by Chris Coleman

 “It’s extravagant. It’s spectacular. Go and enjoy.” -Clive Barnes, New York Post

She’s still big. It’s the pictures that got small. Norma Desmond gets the full star treatment in this blow out season opening musical (our first by Andrew Lloyd Webber) about the fading silent film star whose obsession with the revitalization of her career and a young man named Joe might just succeed… or it might end in the kind of tragedy only a legend can inspire.

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 10/7/11, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.  

An Iliad created by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson

Leave it to Tony-award winning actor Denis O’Hare* and visionary director Lisa Peterson to find a way to make the western world’s oldest extant work of literature not only intelligible, but immediate, relevant and eerily fascinating- like a barroom raconteur telling LITERALLY the oldest story in the book and making you believe it is being told for the first time. Gods and goddesses, weak-tendoned heroes and the face that launched a thousand ships…it’s all just another (incredibly engrossing) yarn in O’Hare* and Peterson’s one-man adaptation, developed at the Sundance Theatre Institute.

*Denis O’Hare is the co-creator of the piece but will not be the actor performing in the Portland Center Stage production.

Ellyn Bye Studio - Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 11/18/10, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.

A Christmas Story

 “Wacky and wistful, and fresh as a fir.” – San Jose Mercury News

The only thing little Ralph Parker hopes to find under the tree is a Daisy Brand Red Ryder BB rifle. He doesn’t simply want it – he’s consumed with an aching desire for it. Looming in the way, however, are alleyway bullies, major awards, freezing flagpoles, unsympathetic authorities and a certain horrifying Macy’s Santa. Based upon the classic motion picture, this play is a holiday treat everyone can enjoy—that is, until someone shoots their eye out.

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 12/23/10, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.

The Imaginary Invalid

“Trés crass, trés funny… [a] delirious spree of silliness.” – Misha Berson, Seattle Times

All the world’s a fart joke in Constance Congdon’s hilarious new take on Moliere’s skewering of a health care crisis from an entirely different century. To quell his growing pile of medical bills, Monsieur Argan, a chronic hypochondriac, will go to any length to marry his daughter off to a doctor. Of course, his daughter has other ideas. A narcotic cocktail of romantic triangles, double entendres and mistaken identities ensues, promising to leave you gasping, giggling and possibly… in stitches.

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 2/3/11, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

It was set at the Oregon State Hospital, still one of the most controversial institutions in the state. It was arguably the greatest anti-authority protest novel of the 20th century. And it boils down to one insistent refrain: Authority Must Always Be Questioned. Want more? Cuckoo’s Nest pits Randle Patrick McMurphy (a convict who has feigned psychosis so that he can spend the final months of his sentence at a mental institution) against Nurse Ratched (the icy head nurse of the ward), who believes that rules must be followed without exception. A band of crazies gets half-inspired, half destroyed by McMurphy’s rebellion and the question remains… was it worth it anyway?

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 3/17/11, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.

Opus

 “So entertaining and insightful that you’ll never quite listen to a chamber music group the same way again.” – New York Post

Ex-violist Michael Hollinger trades in his bow for a pen in this a tart and witty chamber piece about the politics and passions that threaten a classical string quartet. In front of an audience they’re pitch perfect but behind the scenes the Lazara string quartet is coming unstrung- all on the eve of their first televised performance for the President of the United States. There’s sex, there’s drugs, there’s…chamber music, but the real rewards lie in Hollinger’s insights into the balancing act of drudgery, machination and volatile genius that make a seemingly effortless performance possible.

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 5/5/11, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.


Love, Janis written and directed by Randal Myler

 “Spirited and poignant…Love, Janis passionately explores the person behind the myth and the music that stirs listeners now as it has for four decades.” – culturevulture.net

Inspired by the memoir of the same name, Randal Mylers combines Janis’ own words (taken from real-life interviews and heartfelt letters home to her family in Port Arthur, Texas) with her brilliant breed of rock-n-soul music that revolutionized 1960′s America. To recreate Janis’ leave nothing back style of musical performance (including full renderings of her hits “Piece of My Heart,” “Ball & Chain,” “Mercedes Benz,” “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Get It While You Can”), three actresses will tackle the role- one to play the young Janis seen in the letters and interviews and two to alternate performance nights embodying the on-stage legend.

Main Stage- Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Thursday, 6/9/11, No Transportation Provided
Cost: $22.00, Curtain at 7:30pm
Must call 1-360-604-4082 to order and purchase tickets
*Tickets can be picked up on the Monday prior to show date.