Civic Center Announces Prairie Meadows Temple Theater Series

Today the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines announced the 2011-2012 line-up for the Prairie Meadows TEMPLE THEATER SERIES. New orders for the three-show package may be placed beginning Monday, Sept. 26 at 9 a.m. online at CivicCenter.org or in person at the Civic Center Ticket Office. Packages start at just $70.

The three-show package includes benefits such as discounted prices, premium seating selection, exchange benefits and lost ticket insurance.

PRAIRIE MEADOWS TEMPLE THEATER SERIES (THREE-SHOW PACKAGE):

BLIND DATE
Wednesday, Jan. 4 - Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012
There's nothing like the thrill of a first date...anything can happen! In the brand new play Blind Date, you'll experience all the excitement and awkwardness of blossoming love as Mimi, a Parisian temptress, goes on a blind date with a different man every night- plucked right out of the audience! Direct from critically acclaimed, sold-out runs in New York and Toronto, this fast and funny fusion of improvisation, theatre, and social experiment is hailed by the New York Times as "fearless...and very funny. Called, "A flight of theatrical fancy that is absolutely magical" by the Toronto Star, Blind Date is the perfect date night or evening out with friends-an "irresistible, cheeky and charming evening" (New York Daily News) that men and women alike adore. This must-see hit show is "the perfect marriage of theatre and comedy," (Now Magazine). Don't miss it!
Special Friday matinee performance: Jan. 13 at 2 p.m.

YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP
Wednesday, March 7 - Sunday, March 18
After 13 years of marriage, writer-actors- and real life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch ("Dinner and a Movie," Fired!) and Jeff Kahn ("The Ben Stiller Show," Forty Year Old Virgin) have adapted their hilarious often moving memoir, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up for the stage. In their 70-minute tour de force, YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP takes a humorous look back at their years together as a couple. At points, their relationship seemed doomed by their opposing personalities. But after trials and tribulations they learned to navigate the conflicts that come with romance, money, and children by embracing each other's differences, taking on parenting as a competitive sport, and dropping out of couple's therapy. Their delightfully crazy lifestyle has managed to keep their relationship intact, up-ending every idea you ever had about living "happily ever after."
Special Friday matinee performance: March 9 at 2 p.m.

THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Wednesday, May 9 - Sunday, May 20
Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Company creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of The Players has brushed up on his "thee's" and "thou's" to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Any hour could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we've come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. The night could reveal a tragedy, comedy, or history. Nothing is planned-out, rehearsed, or written. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new!
Special Friday matinee performance: May 18 at 2 p.m.

The TEMPLE THEATER SERIES three-concert package includes one ticket to each of the three concerts in the series at a discounted price. Package prices start at only $70 and go on sale to the public on Monday, Sept. 26 at 9 a.m. online at CivicCenter.org or in person at the Civic Center Ticket Office.

Weekly performance schedule:
Wednesday - Friday: 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: 5 and 8 p.m.
Sunday: 3 p.m.

All performances of the TEMPLE THEATER SERIES are performed at the Civic Center's Temple Theater in the Temple for Performing Arts located at Tenth and Locust Streets in downtown Des Moines.

The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines
The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines is a private not-for-profit corporation celebrating over 30 years of presenting the performing arts to Iowa and the surrounding states. It is the presenter of major Broadway and educational touring companies, performers and groups, and is the performing home of many local and regional groups, including the Des Moines Symphony and StageWest. All performances of the Broadway Series are supported by Willis Auto Campus. All performances at the Civic Center's Temple Theater are supported by Prairie Meadows. All performances of the Family Series are supported by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

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