Events

Met Opera: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Broadcast in HD)
2012-10-13 12:55 (America/New_York)
Donizetti’s L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Sat., October 13, 2012 at 12:55 p.m.
Encore: Fri., November 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Approx. Runtime: 3:02

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Bartlett Sher, whose previous productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Comte Ory, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann have delighted Met audiences, guides this lively staging, where surface charm will meet with real emotion. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Broadcast in HD
Production a gift of the Monteforte Foundation, Inc., in honor of Wim Kooyker

Red Baraat
2012-10-12 20:00
Red Baraat (Red BA-rot) has been described as “a fiery blend of raucous Indian bhangra and funky New Orleans brass” — a “Big Band for the world,” playing “Bollywood with a go-go beat.” Of course such a unit could only hail from the flavorful melting-pot fondue that is millennial Brooklyn — and if Red Baraat seems to defy attempts to pinpoint their sound on the cultural GPS, its members do so purely out of the sheer joy of making a big and boisterously infectious sound; a delightfully boundary-busting attack that’s been likened to everything from gypsy punks Gogol Bordello to the nationwide marching-band underground.
Whether they’re playing Lincoln Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival or a superheated sold-out club in their native NYC, Red Baraat have made instant converts of listeners who wouldn’t have known Sufi standards from Bhangra Funk five minutes earlier.
Fronted by MC Sunny Jain and his driving two-headed dhol drum, Red Baraat offers up a big and boisterously infectious sound that mixes
saxophones, brass, drums and percussion with raps, traditional Hindi vocals and just about anything else that maintains the energy level and excitement. It’s a delightfully boundary-busting attack that’s been likened to everything from gypsy punks Gogol Bordello to the nationwide marching-band underground.
Coming off a first-ever appearance at the annual Bonnaroo Music & Art Festival, and a Spring 2012 European tour behind their debut
studio album Chaal Baby, Jain and company have used that momentum to issue a live release (Bootleg Bhangra) and get busy on their forthcoming second studio set, tentatively titled Shruggy Ji.
Still, the live, real time setting — whether it’s in an underground club, a church, a Fashion Week runway, a historic hall or a cramped radio studio — is where Sunny’s crew shines; taking the North Indian bhangra rhythms that have thrilled generations, and infusing them with healthy doses of New York attitude and street-busker savvy.
www.redbaraat.com

Runaway
2012-10-12 | Pollak Theatre

Steve Earle - CANCELLED
2012-09-25 19:30
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*
Tickets: $27, $40, and $50
A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark,
roots rocker and country legend Steve Earle is a master storyteller in
his own right. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie
Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders,
Joan Baez and countless others. His own albums garnered both Emmy and
Grammy Award nominations. Earle’s 14th Studio Album, I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, which shares the same name with his 2011 debut novel was called “American roots music at its best” by the New York Post

Purchase tickets through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 or in person at the Monmouth University Central Box Office.
For more information visit www.SteveEarle.com

Produced by TTM, Inc.

Retro-Perspective
2012-09-25 16:30
RETRO-PERSPECTIVE
by award-winning, iconic performance artists Lois Weaver & Peggy Shaw
A
performed compilation of their greatest hits, featuring a medley of work that
has made the politics of gender and sexuality and the humor of human relations
accessible to all ages and persuasions for the last 30 years. Peggy Shaw and
Lois Weaver, along with Deb Margolin, founded the company “Split Britches” in
New York City 32 years ago. Since 1980 Weaver and Shaw have transformed the
landscape of queer performance with their vaudevillian and satirical
gender-bending shows.

Seán Tyrrell
2012-09-22 19:30
One of the world’s most breathtaking interpreters of
traditional Irish words and music — a man who’s turned epic 18th century poems
into opera, co-created a concept album tribute to an Irish hero of the First
World War, and caught the attention of the international folk music community.
Seán Tyrrell returns Stateside on the heels of his starkly
beautiful new album Walker of the Snow,
a set that sees the singer-guitarist lend his quiet power to material that
ranges from Dublin poet Charles Dawson Shanley’s haunting titular folktale, to
the vintage pop perennial “You Are My Sunshine.” The intimate setting of the historic
Woods Theatre makes an ideal forum for the mesmerizing storytelling skills of
this ageless master.
www.seantyrrell.com

On Screen In Person: Gen Silent
2012-09-19 19:30
Gen Silent
Gen Silent is the critically-acclaimed documentary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses – their entire lives in order to survive in the care system.

Josh Emmons
2012-09-19 16:30
Josh Emmons was born in Bangkok and grew up in northern California. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he published his first novel with Scribner in 2005, “The Loss of Leon Meed,” which won a Copernicus-James Michener Award and has been translated into French, Hebrew, German and Dutch. His second book, “Prescription for a Superior Existence,” came out in 2008 from Scribner, and a Turkish translation is forthcoming. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in “The American Scholar,” “The New York Times Book Review,” “McSweeney’s Quarterly,” “Details,” “People,” “FiveChapters,” “Esquire,” “The San Francisco Chronicle,” and elsewhere.

Two of his short stories have been given honorable mention in “The Best American Non-required Reading,” and he has received several fellowships to the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY. Emmons has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Iowa and Loyola University, and he is now an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University. He lives in Philadelphia.
www.joshemmons.com

Fresh Beat Band - Evening Performance
2012-09-07 18:30
NICKELODEON’S FRESH BEAT BAND
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH
DOORS 5:30 p.m. – SHOWTIME 6:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $39.50 and $29.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit four per person.
Seating Chart
The parking lot will open at 4:30 p.m.
Tickets on sale Friday, April 13th at 10 a.m. Through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 and the mac and Pollak Theatre box offices
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Fresh Beat Band - Afternoon Performance
2012-09-07 15:00
NICKELODEON’S FRESH BEAT BAND
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th
DOORS 2:00 PM – SHOWTIME 3:00 PM
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $39.50 and $29.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit four per person.
Seating Chart
Tickets on sale Friday, April 13th at 10 a.m. Through Ticketmaster.com phone charge at 800-745-3000 and the mac and Pollak Theatre box offices
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Train - The California 37 Tour
2012-08-30 19:30
Location: MAC at Monmouth
TRAIN
THE CALIFORNIA 37 TOUR
With special guest MAT KEARNEY

Thursday, August 30, 2012 – Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Box Office open at 5:00 p.m. for will call
Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
Tickets are on sale Friday April 27th at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800.745.3000 and the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.

Tickets: $69.50, $59.50, $49.50, $39.50 + applicable surcharges
Limit six per person
Seating Chart
The parking lot will open at 5:30 p.m.
There will be a $10 parking fee per car and tailgating is prohibited.
Beer Garden will open at 6:30 p.m.
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

For more about the band, visit trainline.com.

Met Opera: DER ROSENKAVALIER Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-07-25 19:00
Strauss’s DER ROSENKAVALIER
Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Edo de Waart conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.
Production: Nathaniel Merrill
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Cast: Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson
Original transmission: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Broadcast in HD
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 20, 2012

Met Opera: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Encore
2012-07-18 19:00
Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy in her Met role debut, with Piotr Beczala as her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production, first seen in 2007, is staged as a Victorian ghost story.

Production: Mary Zimmerman
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov

Original transmission: February 7, 2009

Teddy and Alice
2012-07-12 20:00 - 2012-07-29 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 p.mSundays at 7 p.m. Friday matinee at 2 p.m.
Book by Jerome Alden; Music by John Phillip Sousa; Lyrics by Hal Hackady Adaptations and Original Music by Richard Kapp“I
can do one of two things,” says Teddy Roosevelt at the top of “Teddy
& Alice,” “I can either be President of the United States or I can
control Alice. I cannot possibly do both!” The battle of wills between
the great American President and his free-spirited daughter provides a
spectacular double-star turn in this high-stepping, flag-waving and
heart-warming family drama, set to the immortal strains of John Philip
Sousa.

Met Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-07-11 19:00
Offenbach’s LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN
Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role of this fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains. Met Music Director James Levine conducts.
Conductor: James Levine
Production: Bartlett Sher
Cast: Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held
The Live in HD production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann does not include the partial nudity seen in the stage production.
Original transmission: December 19, 2009
Broadcast in HD

Met Opera: DON GIOVANNI Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-06-27 19:00
Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI
Mariusz Kwiecien is the world’s most famous lover in Michael Grandage’s elegant production, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. The lineup of refined Mozartians also includes Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni.
Production: Michael Grandage
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, Joshua Bloom, Štefan Kocán
Original transmission: October 29, 2011
Broadcast in HD

Met Opera: LE COMTE ORY Encore
2012-06-20 19:00
Rossini’s LE COMTE ORY
Bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez sings the title role of this vocally dazzling comedy, in Bartlett Sher’s Met production. Joyce DiDonato stars in the trouser role of the page Isolier, who vies with Count Ory for the love of Countess Adèle, sung by Diana Damrau.
Production: Bartlett Sher
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Cast: Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi
Original transmission: Saturday, April 9, 2011

Met Opera: ANNA BOLENA Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2012-06-13 19:00
Donizetti’s ANNA BOLENA
Anna Netrebko opened the Met’s 2011-12 season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king, singing one of opera’s greatest mad scenes. David McVicar’s Met premiere production also stars Ekaterina Gubanova as her rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII. Marco Armiliato conducts.

Production: David McVicar
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, Ildar Abdrazakov
Original transmission: October 15, 2011
Broadcast in HD

La Traviata Encore - Verdi
2012-05-24 19:00
We apologize that the date of the encore was printed incorrectly in our season brochure. Please note the correct date/time indicated above.
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. (3 hours 7 minutes, 1 intermission)

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Götterdämmerung
2012-05-20 17:00
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
The “Ring” Cycle concludes with a cataclysmic climax of betrayal and loss as focus shifts from the realm of the gods to the power and ambition of human beings. It is left to Brünnhilde, in the legendary Immolation Scene that brings the cycle to a close, to restore balance to the world.
Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier; Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, Hans-Peter König
Original Live in HD transmission: February 11, 2012
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Junie B. Jones
2012-05-20 14:00

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Siegfried
2012-05-16 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
Part three of the “Ring” follows the journey of Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, from naive fearless boy to supreme hero. With the re-forged sword of his father, he conquers magical obstacles to reach his prize, Brünnhilde. Jay Hunter Morris took over the title role, one of the most demanding in the repertoire, days before the production’s premiere and reprised his acclaimed portrayal in this live transmission the following week. Deborah Voigt is Brünnhilde and Bryn Terfel sings the Wanderer.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Patricia Bardon; Jay Hunter Morris, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens
Original Live in HD transmission: November 5, 2011
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Die Walküre
2012-05-14 18:30
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This extraordinarily powerful work of theater focuses on some of the Ring’s most interesting characters at decisive moments of their lives: Wotan, whose violation of his own laws has jeopardized the gods’ rule; his twin offspring, Siegmund and Sieglinde, who are meant to save the gods; and, above all, his heroic Valkyrie daughter Brünnhilde, who makes a fateful decision that shatters her world. This production marked soprano Deborah Voigt’s first performances as Brünnhilde. Bryn Terfel again is Wotan, Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe sings Fricka.
Conductor: James Levine
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe; Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König
Original Live in HD transmission: May 14, 2011
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Das Rheingold
2012-05-09 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
Conceived by Wagner as a prologue to the “Ring” Cycle, Das Rheingold sets forth the dramatic issues that play out in the three subsequent operas. Gold from the depths of the Rhine River is stolen by the dwarf Alberich, who uses it to forge a ring that will give him unlimited power. The theft sets in motion a course of events that will eventually alter the order of the universe. Bryn Terfel as Wotan, lord of the gods, heads the cast.
Conductor: James Levine
Cast: Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon; Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König
Original Live in HD transmission: October 9, 2010
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Wagner's Dream
2012-05-07 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
A new documentary film by Susan Froemke
(Estimated running time: 115 minutes)
Award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke takes you behind the scenes as one of theater’s finest stage directors teams up with one of the world’s leading opera companies to tackle opera’s most monumental challenge: the production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle. The film captures the creative birth of director Robert Lepage’s groundbreaking production and the multi-year effort to bring it to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, taking you deep into the artistic process, from early development to musical and stage rehearsals at the Met.
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Jim Flanagan: Storyteller Growing up Irish-American
2012-05-05 19:00
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Jim Flanagan: Storyteller
Woods Theatre
Jim Flanagan is seanchai, a true Irish storyteller, who has
that lyrical way with words the Irish bring to the world. Join him and
visit a Jersey City boyhood where street games, schools, nuns, priests,
and politicians are the stuff of legends. He will take you on a journey
from laughter to tears and back again with the magic of his words. The
evening is sure to warm your heart and widen your smile.
Tickets: $10

Met Opera: Manon Encore - Massenet
2012-04-26 19:00
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium. (4 hours 8 minutes, 2 intermissions)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

a drift: Erin V. Sotak
2012-04-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Shadow Lawn
Erin V. Sotak – photographer and installation artist
Audiences can come and go as they please. If students want to take part in creating Erin Sotak’s site specific performance, they can contact
Anne Massoni at amassoni@monmouth.edu.
This collaborative site-specific performance transforms ordinary experience into performative action and elevates everyday life encounters. Mundane and significant events are amplified and altered through repetition and recreation while fabricated narratives interrupt reality and engage the fantastical. A hopeless romantic and devout absurdist, Sotak regales the arduous adventures of comically courting the ever-shifting and always fleeting in an attempt to stall, freeze and simply endure.
Artist bio:
Erin V. Sotak has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has been an invited lecturer and an artist in residence at prestigious universities, and her work has been published in several art journals. She describes her work as “less a conversation and more a short story. I narrate using symbolic colors, iconic objects, cultural references and historical allusions… My work
most often takes the form of installation and performance that is concerned with labor, endurance, absurdity, collections, consumption and
aesthetics. The work ultimately and most importantly exists as a photograph.”
For more information visit: http://www.erinvsotak.com/Erin_V_Sotak/erin_v._sotak.html

Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: Original Stars of Broadway's RENT
2012-04-21 20:00
Adam & Anthony from Broadway’s Rent
Cost: $47/37
This show will feature the two Rent stars performing singly and together. Rapp will specifically perform pop standards, as well as original material. Pascal will offer a segment titled Me and Larry, featuring musical director Larry Edoff that will include numbers from Cabaret and Chess, as well as new arrangements of “Maria,” “Not a Day Goes By,” and “What I Did for Love,” among others. In addition the two will share stories about working on Rent and perform selections from Jonathan Larson’s multi-award-winning show.

Rule Americana: Spring Concert
2012-04-20 19:30
Spring Concert
Rule Americana
Cost: $30 (adults), $20 (seniors), $5 (non-MU students), MU students with ID get one free ticket
