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?I Love Paris? is the theme of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra?s April 17th pops performance at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. The Symphony returns for their third pops performance in four years, and once again maestro Matthew Garbutt will lead a full symphony orchestra through a program that places a premium on audience accessibility and family fun. Garbutt has selected a variety of classical and contemporary works that celebrate one of Europe?s most romantic cities, celebrated for its beauty, inspirational light and old world architecture.

On the morning of May 11, 2009, 50 years after that momentous occasion, Lincoln Center will begin a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary with a special ceremony in the newly-transformed Alice Tully Hall. New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman with alumni from The Perlman Music Program, Tony Award-winning opera star Paulo Szot, jazz icon Wynton Marsalis with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and The Juilliard Orchestra are among those scheduled to perform in a program that celebrates the past 50 years and looks to the next generation of Lincoln Center's artists and audiences. In the audience of this private event will be elected officials, performing artists, civic and community representatives, and leaders from all 12 Lincoln Center resident organizations.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) and Seattle Public Library host a lively conversation about the role of media in politics from the 1977 interview of President Richard Nixon by British talk show host David Frost to the 2008 interview of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin by CBS anchor Katie Couric. The discussion will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2009 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm at Seattle's Downtown Library. Local political media and academics participating include: Lynne Varner from The Seattle Times and Knute Berger from Crosscut.com (and former Seattle Weekly reporter), and Mark Smith a University of Washington Political Science Professor moderated by KUOW Weekday host Steve Scher. RSVP is recommended to lizy@stgpresents.org.

Carnival of the Animals will be performed on April 25 at 11:00am at the Tiedtke Concert Hall on the Rollins College campus (1000 Holt Ave, Winter Park, FL). Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students 18 and under.

'Disney's High School Musical 2,' the Live Stage Version, will be performed at Yorktown Stage on the following dates: Saturdays, April 11, 18 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Sunday, April 19 at 1 p.m. and Friday, April 17 at 7 p.m.

Did you miss the chance to visit Buck Creek Playhouse in late January and early February for Twain Tonight? If your answer was 'yes,' then you are in luck! The cast and production staff of Twain Tonight will perform this brilliant and hilarious review for three more performances at the Oaklandon Civic Theater, 6450 Oaklandon Road, April 3, 4 and 5, 2009.

Written by seven indigenous playwrights, from nine North American First Nations, Mixed Blood Theatre?s world-premiere production Red Ink explores the issues of contemporary Native life. Red Ink runs April 23 through May 10 at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis. Purchase tickets at 612.338.6131 or visit www.mixedblood.com. Price run $11-$30, discounts are available for students, seniors, and groups of 10 or more. All performances are at the Mixed Blood Theatre, located at 1501 S. Fourth Street in Minneapolis.

'The Prodigal Father,' a world premiere play by Larry Dean Harris directed by Michael Matthews, opened March 27 at Celebration Theatre (CT) as a co-production between CT and Playwrights 6 (P6). Television veteran Max Gail plays the title role in a cast that includes Josette DiCarlo, Joe Rose, Allain Rochel and Truly Magyar.

The Courthouse Center for the Arts is thrilled to be accepting submissions for its Young Playwrights Festival. Any student from Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade may submit an original script no later than 4 pm on April 20, 2009.

The Courthouse Center For The Arts is set to present the first performance of their opera series with Seymour Barab's Little Red Riding Hood. This operetta is a delightful adaptation of the family classic sung by three singers: a soprano, a mezzo soprano, and a baritone. Each performer will be playing several roles while accompanied by piano.

Join Fusionworks as they bring their annual spring concert series to South County?s Courthouse Center for the Arts. In perfect contrast and compliment to the company's fall performance series on the beautiful proscenium stage of Sapinsley Hall, seeing the dances at Courthouse gives you an intimate, up-close look at the work. You are close enough to hear the breathing and footfalls of the dancers, while being just far enough away to experience all the intricate patterns.

The Courthouse Center for the Arts is proud to announce Eilen Jewell on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 8:00PM.

The Courthouse Center for the Arts recently announced its first Battle of the ?Garage? Bands this June. Local bands will perform at the Courthouse Center for the Arts to compete for a $250 cash prize in both high school and college level divisions.

OSO at The Southampton Inn, 91 Hill Street in Southampton continues its popular 'Dinner and...' Series featuring a 3 course gourmet dinner and conversations with luminaries in The Hamptons with a very special evening featuring three Hamptonites who have delighted audiences on stages across the East End: Josh Perl founder of The Naked Stages, Josh Gladstone Artistic Director, John Drew Theatre at Guild Hall and Watermill Center Artist in Residence writer/actor/director/choreographer Kate Mueth. The trio will give audiences a brief preview of the upcoming Naked Stages Marathon at Guild Hall; what special events are planned for the 2009 Season and do a short performance in an intimate salon like atmosphere.

From now until April 6th, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts invites you to make a combined ticket purchase of 'Rabbit Hole,' 'Peter Pan,' and 'The Rural Characters' for only $33!

The Longwood Players continues its 11th season celebrating women with a stunning musical based on the work of Federico Fellini. Nine has music & lyrics by Maury Yeston (book by Arthur Kopit). It is adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. The show will be performed at the Cambridge Family YMCA theatre on April 24, 25, 30, May 1, and May 2 at 8 pm. Tickets are $16-25 per person ($3 student/senior discount). For more information, and to purchase tickets online, visit their website www.longwoodplayers.org.

Cinnabar Theatre presents Lady Be Good (Book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, Music and Lyrics by George an Ira Gershwin). The production features young rep artists to present an energetic, toe-tapping production of Lady Be Good. This Gershwin show debuted on Broadway in 1924 and starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele.

Cole Porter?s love affair with Paris is brilliantly evoked by this delightful farce ? last seen on Broadway in 1938. Master, Baron von Hummer (James Zanelli) and his valet, Gaston (Kevin Kraft), switch places and fall in love with mistress, Mme. Von Baltin (Kate Merrily) and maid, Maria (Jennifer Evans) who have also switched places. Adding spice to this amorous stew is Ida, the Baron?s jilted paramour (Christy Morton), and ?the outraged husband? (Todd Faulkner). Bill Coyne appears as chauffeur, messenger and waiter (at different times).Songs include: I Am Gaston; By Candlelight; Alpha to Omega; At Long Last Love; What Is that Tune?; For No Rhyme or Reason; Let?s Put It to Music; I?m Back in Circulation; I?m Going In For Love; What Shall I Do? This work was written as a chamber piece but arrived on Broadway in a much larger version. Not only are we restoring the original libretto, we have restored 10 Cole Porter songs that had been cut.

The incomparable jazz pianist and vocalist Patti Wicks, who began her career in New York in the early 70s playing such clubs as Bradley's, The Half Note, Ted Hooks Backstage, Jimmy Westons, The Living Room and The Apartment, continues her steady New York reemergence from the shadows in an exclusive five-show engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, from April 7 to 11. In a new act ?Songs of Love and April,? Wicks shows why she c an lay claim to being one of the most arresting jazz soloists playing today. According to Bruce Crowther of Jazz Journal International, ?This is jazz piano playing of the very highest order.? Her smoky vocals ? by turns craggy and lyrical -- have been called haunting, blissful, fascinating, sensuous and captivating.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to present jazz vocalist Peter Eldridge at Birdland on Monday, April 13 at 7pm as part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series.