Tilles March Calendar Includes Molaskey, PORGY AND BESS et al.

The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts has announced their March calendar schedule.  Performers scheduled for the Tilles Center include Garrison Keillor (March 9), Bryan Adams (March 20), Jessica Molaskey (March 27), and a performance of Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS (March 26).  

Garrison Keillor is a best-selling author and host of the radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. The famous Minnesotan has over three million listeners on more than 450 public radio stations each week. His unique brand of humor and storytelling are refreshingly old-fashioned. Keillor is the author of twelve books, including Lake Wobegon Days, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

Bryan Adams continues his highly successful solo acoustic concert tour which includes selections from his eleventh studio album, appropriately titled 11. Adams has interspersed these special intimate performances in between stadium dates in Europe and the U.S., and this new spin on his classic hits has been met with rave reviews from critics and fans alike. As Canada's best known ambassador, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has spent the last three decades making music history. He has sold over 65 million records, toured six continents and achieved #1 status in over 40 countries around the world. With hits like, "Cuts Like A Knife", "Summer of '69", "Kids Wanna Rock", "Can't Stop This Thing We've Started", "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", "Open Road" and most recently "Thought I'd Seen Everything," Adams status as one of the great songwriter's of our time, has been solidified.

Jessica Molaskey (A Man of No Importance, Crazy for You, Chess) also writes music and hosts NPR's nationally syndicated radio program Radio Deluxe with husband John Pizzarelli.

From its Broadway opening in 1935, Porgy and Bess was destined to break new ground. An all-black ensemble in an era of blackface sang in a style that merged classical opera, jazz and Broadway belt. Now in its 75th year, Porgy and Bess is admired as a masterpiece which both reflects and transcends social history with its timeless human drama and breathtaking music. This production will be performed with full orchestra in the original text, with supertitles.

To view ticket prices, purchase tickets, and view a full March schedule for the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, click here.

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville, is Long Island's premier concert hall. Under the leadership of Executive Director Elliott Sroka, the 2009-10 season began with an opening night performance of Broadway superstar Bernadette Peters, in concert with full orchestra last October. Performances by stars such as Bill Cosby, Jackson Browne, Rita Moreno, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsons Dance Company accompanied by members of the East Village Opera Company, Itzhak Perlman and many others have graced the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts stages.

 

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