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eed some culture?
'pas is an alternative to Houston, Austin
Halfway between the cultured towns of
iouston and Austin, College Station without
Ihe draw of Texas A&M might never get the
pff-Broadway shows it has seen in the 30 years
(that MSC Opas has brought the performing art'
lo A&M.
But being on a University campus is more
han just academics and football, even at tradi-
ion-led A&M. MTV brings its campus concert
ours, Franklin Graham brings his show-stop
ring preaching and Christian music, and MSC
3pas brings us entertainment we would only
ee in big-city theaters. What’s best of all is
hat you can still wear jeans without being
fowned upon.
Students also receive a discount on tickets
jthat black-tied administration and alumni pay
full price for. The prices
lepend on where you want
jo sit in Rudder Auditorium
tnd how much you are will
ing to pay.
Sandy, Danny, Rizzo and the Pink Ladies sing
loud, rock-n-roll tunes during their last year at
Rydell High.
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Donee takes
the stage March 18 and 19. Michael Flatley is
listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as
possessing the world’s fastest feet. Costumes,
vibrant music, more than 21 sets and 40
dancers make this show much more than a
dance recital.
On April 3. the Moscow Soloists with violist
Yuri Bashmet, all performers under the age of
30, will play a program highlighted by Bach
and Tchaikovsky. The graduates of the Moscow
Conservatory will begin their world tour at
A&M and then head to Carnegie Hall
in New York.
The Music Mon closes out Opas’
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j .Vll shows'begin'’at "tfTup.m. m
Rudder Auditorium unless otherwise indicated.
The mainstage opens with the comedy
\Greater Tuna, about Tuna, Texas, the state’s
third-smallest town, showing Sept. 5-7.
The opera La Boheme, performed by the
I Stanislavsky Opera Company, is the basis of
the popular musical Rent. La Boheme, a tale of
bohemian artists trying to pay the rent on their
tiny Paris attic apartment, runs Oct. 1-2.
Rent, the 1996 Tony award winner for Best
Musical, plays Oct. 29-30. On a variation of the
themes of La Boheme, Rent follows the lives of
a community of young artists struggling for
recognition in the modern world.
Sing Along Santa comes to Rudder Dec. 14
at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The show is a family
sing-a-long with all the Christmas favorites.
The spring semester opens with the World
War-11 tale composed by Rodgers and
Hammerstein, South Pacific, playing Jan. 24-
25. South Pacific is another Tony award and
Pultizer Prize winner, a love story on a remote
island in the 1940s.
The Girls Choir of Harlem will take their
first world tour this spring, stopping at A&M
for a show Feb. 7 to prove their voices equal
their signing brothers, the Boys Choir of
Harlem.
Grease, the fifth-longest running musical in
Broadway history, hits A&M Feb. 1 1 and 12.
DEI.UNA • THE BATTALION
30th season on April 22-23. “We’ve got trouble,
right here in River City,” music man and con
artist Harold Hill contends in this musical, set on
convincing the town of River City. Iowa, that they
need a marching band to keep their children out
of trouble.
Grammy-award winning Tom Chapin & Friends
opens Opas’ season of Intimate Gatherings on Oct.
10 at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. I he artist’s trio
will share family folk sounds and southern blue-
grass akin to the music heard in O Brother! Where
Are Thou?
Claire Bloom in Shakespeare's Women brings
experienced Shakespearean actor Bloom and her
one-woman show to Rudder Theatre Nov. 14.
Bloom first performed onstage at Stratford-Upon-
Avon at age 17 as Hamlet’s Ophelia.
The Debussy Quartet with James Dick, pianist
opens on the small stage at Rudder Theatre on Feb.
13. The quartet will perform Dvork’s Piano Quintet
in A Major and Mozart’s Quartet #16 in E flat
major.
Tickets can be ordered online for each show or
order a season subscription to multiple shows at
opas.tamu.edu, or visit the TicketMaster outlet on
the ground floor of Rudder from I I a.m. to 4 p.m.
weekdays. More information on mainstage shows,
as well as Intimate Gatherings and Opas, Jr., pro
grams geared for the entire family, can be found
on the MSC Opas web site at opas.tamu.edu.
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