Wed, Jul 04, 2007
July 2 - 6, 2007
MEMORIAL STADIUM, JULY 25
Tickets on Sale for Cornhusker Summer Music Games
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Band Program will host the Cornhusker Summer Music Games Drum Corps International competition July 25 at Memorial Stadium.
Drum Corps International is a nonprofit youth organization serving junior drum and bugle corps around the globe. From modest beginnings in 1972, DCI has developed into a powerful youth activity with artistic and organizational influence on the world's drum and bugle corps, marching bands, and related activities. more...
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, STARTING JULY 5
Nebraska Repertory Theatre Celebrates 40th Season
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional theatre company of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, celebrates its 40th season with three performances. Opening July 5 in Howell Theatre is Jason Robert Brown's new musical The Last Five Years. Jason Robert Brown creates a unique, musical portrait celebrating the life of a marriage. Told in Jamie's voice (played by Paul Coate, Omaha) from the first moments of infatuation and Catherine's (played by Melissa Lewis, Lincoln) from the final goodbye, the lovers' stories intersect in time for one all too brief and touching moment.
Jennifer Hubbard from Louisville, Kentucky, directs the production with musical direction by Lincoln's Vincent T. Learned. The production is designed by Steve Shelley from New York City (lighting), Ahna Packard from Vermillion, South Dakota (scenic), Sharon Sobel from University of Nebraska at Omaha (costumes), and Jeff O'Brien of Lincoln (sound). Performances are July 5, 6, 7, 14, 20, 27 and August 1 at 7:30 p.m. and August 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Season passes are $50, $45 faculty/staff and senior citizens, $30 student/youth. Each season pass allows the pass-holder unlimited attendance to all three NRT 2007 productions, one free admission to each Destinations performance, and one free admission to the special screening of the film Gone with the Wind. Individual performance tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Private Fears In Public Places Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Private Fears In Public Places. Private Fears In Public Places will show through July 5, while La Vie En Rose will play through July 26.
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars 2005 Cesar Award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Born into abject poverty, surrounded by street performers, hookers, and pimps, Piaf's magical voice made her a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nominated for eight Cesar awards in its native France, Private Fears In Public Places is an intelligent, adult look at loneliness in the twenty-first century. Directed by French master Alain Resnais (Last Year At Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour), the film examines the interrelated lives of six main characters who are trying desperately but failing at making real, long-lasting connections.
More information is available at the Ross website.
