MPAC Announces 2014-15 Schedule, Tickets Go On Sale Monday
By: Courtnie Mele Jun. 12, 2014
The Mayo Performing Arts Center features over 100 events, concerts and performances in its 2014-2015 season. Tickets for events go on sale Monday, June 16 at 9 am online and 10 am in person and by phone (973-539-8008).
The season marks MPAC's 20th anniversary as a performance hall. The season officially kicks off with a concert by Broadway stars Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, Man of La Mancha) and Kelli O'Hara (Bridges of Madison County, South Pacific).
MPAC celebrates its 20th anniversary with a concert marking the return of Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, and the Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly the Kirov Orchestra), which opened the theatre 20 years prior, on September 29, 1994.. Headline acts include Smokey Robinson, Paul Anka, Bill Cosby, Patti LuPone and Don Rickels. MPAC's Broadway lineup features recent hits Sister Act, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes and Memphis. Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Million Dollar Quartet return by popular demand. Other notable artists include William Shatner in "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It," Chazz Palminteri in "A Bronx Tale," Ira Glass from public radio's "This American Life," Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, and Dennis Miller.7/1 Happy Together Tour 2014
7/9 The GoGo's and The Motels in Replay America
7/17 The Stylistics in 70's Soul Jam
7/18 The Marshall Tucker Band
7/20 The Bacon Brothers
7/22 Barenaked Ladies
7/25 Alanis Morissette
7/29-30 Menopause the Musical AUGUST 2014
8/7 The Romantics, The Smithereens, Marshall Crenshaw and Tommy Tutone in Rock of the 80s
8/11 Heart
8/12 Josh Turner
8/14 Abba the Concert
8/20 Yanni In Concert LIMITED TICKETS
8/24 Deep Purple SEPTEMBER 2014
9/9-10 Steely Dan SOLD OUT
9/12 Bill Engvall
9/13 Don Williams
9/19 Opening Night: Brian Stokes Mitchell & Kelli O'Hara
9/20 Ladies of Laughter
9/25 Asia OCTOBER 2014
10/5 Peter Gros, of the Original Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
10/9 David Sedaris
10/11 Dick Fox's The Golden Boys
10/17 Chazz Palminteri in "A Bronx Tale"
10/18 Midtown Men
10/19 Bill Cosby: Far From Finished Tour
10/22 New Orleans Legends with Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Allen Toussaint
10/24 Smokey Robinson
11/7 Voca People
11/8 Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: The Two Man Group
11/14 Paul Anka
11/15 Ron White: The Nutcracker Tour
11/20 Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone and The Buckinghams
11/21 Dancing Pros Live
11/22 Jackie Evancho
11/28 Manhattan Comedy Night
11/29 Charlie Daniels Band: Hits and Holiday DECEMBER 2014
12/2 Michael McDonald This Christmas: An Evening of Holiday & Hits
12/3 Dennis Miller
12/5 Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour 2014
12/6 Celtic Thunder: Symphony
12/12-24 NJ Ballet's Nutcracker JANUARY 2015
1/4 Sing-A-Long Sound of Music
1/9 Shatner's World: We Just Live In It
1/10 The Doo Wop Project
1/11 Wild Kratts Live
1/15 Nice Work If You Can Get It
1/16 Manhattan Comedy Night
1/17 Rockin' the 70s with Atlanta Rhythm Section, Al Stewart, Firefall
1/30 20th Anniversary Concert with Valery Gergiev & Mariinsky Orchestra
1/31 Sister Act FEBRUARY 2015
2/1 Sister Act
2/5 The Australian Bee Gees Show
2/6 In The Mood: A 1940's Musical Revue
2/7 Complexions Contemporary Ballet
2/8 Frogz presented by Imago Theatre
2/13 Rosanne Cash
2/14 The Fab Four
2/19 Tango Buenos Aires
2/20-21 Stomp
2/26 The Pink Floyd Experience
2/27 Visions from Cape Breton: A Celtic Family Celebration
2/28 Anything Goes MARCH 2015
3/5 Stanley Jordan and Kevin Eubanks
3/6 The Temptations and The Four Tops
3/7 New Shanghai Circus
3/12 Andrew Weil
3/13 Women of Ireland
3/21 Patti LuPone: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
3/26 Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
3/27 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: with Jeremy Denk
3/28 Mike Super: Magic & Illusion Show APRIL 2015
4/2 Shaolin Warriors
4/9 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
4/10-12 Disney's Beauty & the Beast
4/16 Russian National Ballet presents Swan Lake
4/18 Manhattan Comedy Night
4/24 Peter Schickele: 50 Years of P.D.Q. Bach: A Triumph of Incompetence
4/25 Tommy James & The Shondells/ Felix Cavaliere
4/30 2Cellos MAY-JUNE 2015
5/1 Mariachi Del Sol
5/2 The Rat Pack is Back!
5/5 Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass
5/8-9 Memphis
5/13 Don Rickles
5/16 NJ Ballet presents Tappin' at the Ballet
6/10 Million Dollar Quartet Children's Events:
11/2 Veggie Tales LIVE! Silly Song Sing-Along
11/16 Rainbow Magic Live: Saving Fairyland
11/30 Mooseltoe
1/25 Pinkalicious
1/27 Sid the Science Kid
2/10 The Rainbow Fish
3/3 Little Engine That CouldTM Earns Her Wheels
3/22 Fancy Nancy
4/20 Butterfly: Story of a Life Cycle
4/26 The Berenstain Bears Live! in "Family Matters"
5/17 NJ Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
5/19 Curious George * Additional events to be added. Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2014-2015 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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