DPO adds 2nd ‘Queen’ concert

By Terry Morris | Saturday, February 18, 2012, 07:33 AM

Due to sizzling ticket sales, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has added a second show to its March 10 presentation of “Queen: A Symphonic Rock Spectacular.”

The 8 p.m. show is sold out, so an additional concert will be presented the same day at the Schuster Center, Second and Main streets, Dayton.

The presentation in the DPO’s Rockin’ Orchestra Series features cast members (some are shown above) of the original West End London production of the musical “We Will Rock You” performing the legendary rock band’s songs with a full orchestra.

The Dayton performances will open the production’s North American tour.

Tickets are $84, $66, $56 and $42. Students get a 50 percent discount at the $56 and $42 levels. There’s a $2 discount for seniors. Call (888) 228-3630 or go to www.daytonphilharmonic.com.

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Vic season has ‘Idiot,’ ‘Shrek,’ ‘Normal,’ ‘Poppins’

By Terry Morris | Monday, February 13, 2012, 04:15 PM

The Victoria Theatre Association has announced a 2012-13 season that will feature local premieres of the musicals “American Idiot,” “Next to Normal,” “Mary Poppins,” “Shrek” and “The Addams Family.”

Announced Monday, Feb. 13, the lineup includes a six-show Broadway Series and four Star Attractions.

Dates and titles in the Broadway package are:

Nov. 27-Dec. 2: “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.”

Jan. 15-27, 2013: “Shrek The Musical.”

March 5-10, 2013: “The Addams Family.”

April 16-21, 2013: “Mary Poppins.”

May 7-19, 2013: “Next to Normal” (produced by Dayton’s Human Race Theatre Company).

June 4-9, 2013: “Dreamgirls.”

Single-show Star Attractions, which will go on sale first to series subscribers, will include:

Sept. 23: “An Evening With Branford Marsalis.”

Oct. 12-14: “Menopause: The Musical.”

March 12-14, 2013: “Green Day’s American Idiot.”

May 21-22, 2013: the musical “Rock of Ages.”

For more information, call the VTA’s box office, Ticket Center Stage, at (937) 228-3630, toll free at (888) 228-3630 or visit www.ticketcenterstage.com.

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Raitt, Staples coming to Fraze

By Terry Morris | Friday, February 10, 2012, 09:13 AM

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bonnie Raitt will appear in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering.

Mavis Staples will also appear as a special guest.

Tickets for Raitt, who has a new album out called “Slipstream,” are $65.60 for plaza seats, $55.50 for the center orchestra, $50.50 for the side orchestra and $40.50 for lawn and terrace.

They go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Fraze box office, 696 Lincoln Park Blvd., and at www.fraze.com, www.etix.com or Charge-by-Phone at (800) 514-3849.

Tickets will also go on sale for two other recent additions to the summer 2012 season at Fraze:

The Country Throwdown Tour on Saturday, June 2, will include a free music festival beginning at 3 p.m. in Lincoln Park Commons, featuring Eric Paslay and Sunny Sweeney, followed at 7:30 p.m. by a ticketed concert with headliners Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins and Josh Thompson. Those seats are $55, $50, $45 and $35.

Alice Cooper will return to the outdoor Kettering stage as part of his “No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13. Prices are $59.50, $49.50 and $27.50.

For more information, visit www.fraze.com.

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‘Eleemosynary’ continues at UD

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 01:32 PM

The University of Dayton Theatre program will continue its production of the Lee Blessing play “Eleemosynary” at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 9-11, in Kennedy Union Boll Theatre.

General admission tickets are $12 for adults, $7 for UD faculty staff and students. Call (937) 229-2545.

Tony Dallas directed the bittersweet comedy about three female family members from different generations. Definition of the play’s title has to to with charitable, humanitarian and altruistic acts.

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“Happy Together” tour returning to Fraze

By Terry Morris | Friday, February 3, 2012, 07:07 AM

The Turtles, The Grassroots, The Buckinghams, Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap will all play Kettering’s Fraze Pavilion Thursday, Aug. 2, as part of “The Happy Together Tour 2012.”

Turtles personnel includes leaders Flo & Eddie.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $45 for the plaza, $40 for center orchestra seats (sections B & C), $35 for the side orchestra (A&D) and $25 for the lawn and terrace.

They go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Fraze box office, 695 Lincoln Park Blvd., or charge by phone at (800) 514-3849. For more information, visit www.fraze.com.

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Game shows feature area college students

By Terry Morris | Thursday, February 2, 2012, 02:53 PM

Tyler Benedict, a Dayton native and junior at Columbia University, will be among the competitiors on the “Jeopardy!” College Championship at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3.

The program is aired locally on WDTN Channel 2.

Above is a photo of Benedict with “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek.

Wilberforce University student Latyra Stinson of Cincinnati was a contestant on the sixth annual Ford Black College Quiz Game Show on Jan. 28, which was also aired on WDTN.

Stinson, above, a sophomore planning a career in health care, competed against students from several other historically black colleges and universities. Host was Greg Alan Williams. The competition was hosted by Howard University.

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WYSO chosen for national project

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 10:18 AM

Yellow Springs-based WYSO (91.3 FM) is one of just 10 public radio and television stations in the United States chosen for “Localore,” a project to develop new forms of reporting.

The competitive $2 million initiative by Boston-based transmedia association AIR will receive more than $1 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Other stations chosen are: KALW-FM, San Francisco; KCRW-FM, Los Angeles; KQED Radio and Television, San Francisco; KUT-FM, Austin; KVNF-FM, Paonia, Colo.; Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, N.D.; Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis; WBEZ-FM, Chicago, and WGBH Radio and Television, Boston.

WYSO’s part of the project will be produced by Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. They will spend 10 months at the station helming “Re-Invention,” a participatory documentary examining how Miami Valley residents are reinventing themselves in a new and unstable economy.

They will ask residents: “Who was I before the bottom fell out? What happened that changed my life? Who am I becoming, or trying to become now?”

The resulting documentary will incorporate film, radio and on-line segments.

Neenah Ellis, WYSO general manager, said the project will “strengthen our creative capacity, tell the stories of the Miami Valley and demonstrate to others around the nation that local stations can step up to create more vital and expanded services.”

Founded in 1988, AIR is an association of more than 800 producers, journalists, technicians, media entrepreneurs and sound artists in 46 states and 14 countries.

WYSO is licensed to Antioch University.

For more information about Localore, visit http:\airmediaworks.org/localore.

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