Art and Entertainment in Fort Worth
|
|
Art and Entertainment in Fort Worth
|
|
||||
 |
|
|
 |
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
Features:
Site Search |
Get Listed |
Referrals |
Advertise |
About Us |
Links |
Feedback |
Get Email |
Get a Site
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bass Performance Hall 
Randy Newman Returns To Bass Hall On January 23Performing Arts Fort Worth welcomes the return of acclaimed singer-songwriter and pianist Randy Newman to Bass Performance Hall on Sunday, January 23, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $22-$55, and are on sale NOW! Winner of five Grammy awards, three Emmy awards and an Academy Award, Randy Newman is one of popular music’s most celebrated singers, songwriters and composers. Throughout a career that has spanned more than four decades, Newman, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, has recorded a number of hits – such as “Short People” and “I Love L.A.” – but is equally regarded for scoring the music to such films as Ragtime, The Natural, Parenthood, The Paper, Cars, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc, Meet the Parents and the three Toy Story films. Newman wrote and sang many of the memorable and pivotal songs from those films, including “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (Toy Story), “Our Town” (Cars), “If I Didn’t Have You” (Monsters, Inc.) and “When She Loved Me” (Toy Story 2). Newman was recently nominated for a pair of 2011 Grammys for his work on the Toy Story 3 soundtrack and for the song “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog soundtrack. But it’s Newman’s latest solo album that brings him to town. Harps and Angels, released in 2008, has been called one of his finest. Upon its release, Newsweek proclaimed, “Randy Newman is curmudgeonly, cranky and at his best.” Starting with his 1968 self-titled debut record, Newman has spent his career infusing social and political humor and commentary into his encyclopedic music, which encompasses rock, pop, R&B, classical and blues. Rolling Stone proclaims: “Randy Newman writes mordant, ironic, concise songs with chromatic twists worthy of George Gershwin and Kurt Weill.” Born in New Orleans and raised in California, Newman grew up surrounded by music; two of his uncles scored several films. At 17, Newman was already a staff writer for a music publisher. Just a few years later, Newman landed a record deal. Throughout the 1970s, Newman alternated between having his own hit songs and writing hits for others. He toured frequently, often with a full orchestra, and released several acclaimed albums, such as Little Criminals and Sail Away. In the 1980s, he began scoring films, such as The Natural and Ragtime, and he also had his biggest hit yet with the tongue-in-cheek song, “I Love L.A.,” which The Los Angeles Times called the city’s “de facto theme song.” Since then, Newman has continued to divide his career between releasing solo albums and film scores. He has also dabbled in theater; in 1995, he wrote a musical adaptation of Goethe’s Faust. Despite detours into theater and film, he still considers himself, first and foremost, a singer/songwriter. “As much as I love writing movie music,” he said in an interview with music web site MOG, “and I think I’ve done some good movie music, I guess my job is still, as far as most people are concerned, being a singer-songwriter. Even though the singer part of that equation is open to debate!” To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. Ticket office hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. For additional information please contact:
MAMMA MIA!WALKS DOWN THE AISLE OF BASS PERFORMANCE HALL! Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Bass Performance Hall in February, 2011. Performances begin on Feb. 1 and run through Feb. 5. Seen by over 45 million people around the world, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 3,800 performances in its tenth smash hit year at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre and remains among Broadway’s top selling musicals. The current North American Tour has played over 3,000 performances in over 130 cities with 125 repeat visits. The original West End production of MAMMA MIA! is now in its twelfth year and has celebrated over 4,800 performances in London and the international tour has visited more than 50 foreign cities and been seen by 3.6 million people. The blockbuster feature film adaptation of MAMMA MIA!, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, is the most successful movie musical of all time grossing $600 million worldwide. The cast includes several local and regional actors and actresses, including Fort Worth native Chris Myers; Houston-raised Alison Luff; and onetime Texas news anchor Eileen Faxas. Assistant costume designer Robert Martin is from Tyler. In the 2010 - 2011 season, MAMMA MIA! will walk down the aisle for the first time, making premiere performances, in Alaska, Mississippi and West Virginia. The show will also return to Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Providence and Tampa for a remarkable fifth return visit. An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya - from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA’s songs from “Dancing Queen” and “S.O.S.” to “Money, Money, Money” and “Take a Chance on Me,” MAMMA MIA! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found. The performance schedule for MAMMA MIA! at Bass Performance Hall is 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1-3; 8 p.m. Feb. 4; and 2 and 8 p.m. Feb. 5. Tickets for MAMMA MIA! are $37.80 – $75.60. To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce St. Ticket office hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal, the creative team responsible for bringing MAMMA MIA! to theatrical life includes some of the most gifted and celebrated talents of musical theatre and opera. With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd. MAMMA MIA! has choreography by Anthony Van Laast, production design by Mark Thompson, lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material and arrangements by Martin Koch. The special edition cast recording of MAMMA MIA! is available on Decca Broadway. For information about MAMMA MIA! go to www.mammamianorthamerica.com. For additional information please contact:
Classic Rocker Boz Scaggs Returns To Bass Hall On Valentine’s DayPerforming Arts Fort Worth proudly welcomes back Dallas-bred singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs to Bass Performance Hall on Monday, February 14, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $27.50-$60.50, and will go on sale THIS SATURDAY, December 11, at 10:00 a.m. Boz Scaggs has been one of the most prolific and popular singer/songwriters of the last 30 years. Throughout the '70s and '80s, he racked several R&B/pop hits, including "Lido Shuffle," "Lowdown" and "Look What You’ve Done to Me." Scaggs continues to dazzle fans and critics alike. In his review of Scaggs’ debut appearance at the Hall, in 2009, Star-Telegram writer Robert Philpot said: "From the moment Boz Scaggs opened his mouth on Jojo, his first number, it was like nearly 30 years had been erased." Now in his mid-60s, Scaggs continues to release new music – music that challenges both him and his fans. His last two albums, 2003’s But Beautiful and 2008’s Speak Low, are abrupt left turns for the pop/R&B singer. They are collections of standards that are mostly jazz-oriented – an area of music Scaggs has flirted with in the past but, until now, never full embraced. "So many people in the last decade have gone back to the standards, the list is as long as my arm," Scaggs says. "It seemed pointless to even go there unless we were going to do something to make these songs our own. We had to find an emotional connection. We played around a lot with different tempos and feels, pushed the songs in different directions." Made up of a wildly eclectic mix of songs, including Chet Baker’s "She Was Too Good to be True," Johnny Mercer’s "This Time the Dream’s on Me" and the Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash title track, Speak Low was recorded at Skywalker Sound, a recording studio connected to filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch complex. The disc was recorded in four days, with all the musicians playing in the same room, thus giving the record, Scaggs says, a "live" and "intimate" atmosphere. "The sense of intimacy you get there is quite remarkable," he says. "You sort of naturally think that you can get closer to the music in a smaller room, but that’s not always true. At Skywalker, the vastness brought us all together. The enormous space and the enormous quiet really gives you a sense of intimacy." William Royce Scaggs was born in Ohio but raised in Oklahoma and Texas. While attending school in Dallas, he met guitarist/singer Steve Miller and joined his group, the Marksmen, in 1959. The two would cross paths again – in Wisconsin, where they played together in blues bands such as the Ardells, and in San Francisco, where Scaggs joined the fledging Steve Miller Band. After recording two well-received albums with the group, Children of the Future and Sailor, Scaggs struck out on his own, landing a record deal in 1968. Nearly ten years would pass, however, before Scaggs’ career took off commercially. In 1976, Scaggs released Silk Degrees, an album that spawned several hit singles, including "Lowdown," "Georgia" and "Lido Shuffle." Silk Degrees sold more than four million copies and won Scaggs a Grammy Award® for Best R&B song for "Lowdown." After winning more accolades for subsequent albums and singles such as "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Look What You’ve Done to Me," Scaggs took a long break from the music industry that lasted until 1988’s Other Roads album. Since then, Scaggs has been consistently touring and recording - and challenging himself. "I come more out of a blues/rhythm and blues background, but this is a different way of using my voice," he says. "And it’s much more musically challenging and adventurous for me." For additional information please contact:
|
|
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
