White Plains Performing Arts Center Announces Fall Season!

The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) is proud to announce an exciting Fall Season. All performances are at the White Plains theatre, located on the third level of City Center off Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown White Plains.

The 2017 Fall Season performance schedule is as follows:

The Paquito D'Rivera Quintet

Saturday, September 16 @ 8pm

White Plains Jazz Fest presents, in association with the White Plains Performing Arts Center, Iconic Cuban American virtuoso of the clarinet and saxophone, composer and fourteen-time Grammy winner in both jazz and classical categories brings his unique blend of a global sensitivity to White Plains Jazz Fest.

Tickets start at $24

Story Pirates

Saturday, September 23 @ 2pm

The Story Pirates Greatest Hits Show celebrates creative writing by students from coast to coast in a big, hilarious sketch comedy musical performed by professional actors and musicians. The performance is based entirely on stories written by elementary school students, and part of the show is made up on the spot by the kids in the audience! Called "crazy entertaining" by the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Story Pirates will keep you doubled over laughing, all the while motivating kids to pick up a pencil and write from their own imaginations. Sketches run the gamut from kung fu ninja babies fighting crime to cats flying to tickle monsters who rule the world.

Tickets are $23 adults; $19 12 & younger

*WPPAC Mainstage Production

Ghost the Musical

Book & Lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin

Music & Lyrics by Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard

Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin

Original West End Production Produced by Colin Ingram, David Garfinkle, Adam Silberman, Land Line Productions, Donovan Mannato, Michael Edwards / Carole Winter

"Unchained Melody" written by Hy Zaret and Alex North, courtesy of Unchained Melody Publishing LLC

October 13-29, 2017

Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg made GHOST one of the biggest hit films of all time. Now the Oscar-winning film comes alive on stage in a smart, funny, suspenseful and romantic musical for the whole family. Or just a great date night! With a fresh pop/rock score by Grammy winners Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know"), GHOST THE MUSICAL follows Sam and Molly, a young couple whose connection takes a shocking turn after Sam's untimely death. Trapped between two worlds, Sam refuses to leave Molly when he learns she is in grave danger. Desperate to communicate with her, he turns to a storefront psychic, Oda Mae Brown, who helps him protect Molly and avenge his death.

Get ready to fall in love again with the story you know and the characters that made the film one of the most romantic movies of all time. With a big heart and even bigger laughs, this musical gem is "out of this world"!

Performances are: Friday, October 13 8pm; Saturday, October 14 8pm; Sunday, October 15 2pm; Thursday, October 19 2pm; Friday, October 20 8pm; Saturday, October 21 8pm; Sunday, October 22 2pm; Friday, October 27 8pm; Saturday, October 28 8pm; Sunday, October 29 2pm

Tickets start at $33. Student and Group Rates are available by contacting the box office.

Girls Night: The Musical

Friday, November 17, 2017 @ 8pm

A touching and hilarious 'tell-it-like-it-is' look at the lives of a group of female friends, GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL promises to have audiences laughing, crying and dancing in the aisles! Follow five friends as they relive their past, celebrate their present and look to the future on a wild and hilarious karaoke night out... and you'll recognize every one of them! Carol who was born to party, blunt Anita who says it like it is, Liza and her 'issues', boring Kate the great designated driver and Sharon, the not-so-angelic angel who just couldn't resist tagging along! GIRLS NIGHT is bursting with energy and is packed with hits "Lady Marmalade," "It's Raining Men," "Man I Feel Like A Woman," "I Will Survive," "We are Family" and many more! So grab the girls and get ready to party!

It is described as "Desperate Housewives meets Mamma Mia" (Applause Magazine), "A boisterous, bust-out, bawdy musical revue" (Wisconsin State Journal), "An infectious, exhilarating sense of intoxication" (Hollywood Reporter) and "As funny and outrageous as Sex and the City!" (The Advocate).

Tickets start at $27 Recommended for ages 13+

Langston Hughes Project

Saturday, November 18 @ 8pm

The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes's kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite 'Ask Your Mama' which is Hughes's homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin "cha cha" and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming -- a creative masterwork left unperformed at the time of his death in 1967.

Tickets start at $27

New York Regional Premiere

*WPPAC Mainstage Production

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Music by Alan Menken

Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Book by Peter Parnell

Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film

December 22, 2017 - January 14, 2018

From the Oscar-winning composing team of Alan Menken (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) & Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin) comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo's (author of Les Miserables) epic story of love, acceptance, and what it means to be a hero. The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the Disney film's Academy Award-nominated score.

The musical begins at the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn't the only one captivated by her free spirit, though - the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the gypsies - and it's up to Quasimodo to save them all.

A sweeping score (accompanied by a 15 piece orchestra & 30 person choir) and powerful story makes The Hunchback of Notre Dame an instant classic. Audiences will be swept away by the magic of this truly unforgettable musical.

Tickets start at $33. Student and Group Rates are available by contacting the box office.

Performances are: Friday, December 22 7pm; Saturday, December 23 2pm & 7pm; Wednesday, December 27 7pm; Thursday, December 28 2pm; Friday, December 29 7pm; Saturday, December 30 2pm & 7pm; Thursday, January 4 2pm; Friday, January 5 7pm; Saturday, January 6 7pm; Sunday, January 7 2pm; Wednesday, January 10 2pm; Friday, January 12 7pm; Saturday, January 13 7pm; Sunday, January 14 2pm

White Plains Performing Arts Center is located on the third level of City Center off Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown White Plains. For tickets: visit the theatre box office Monday-Friday (11am-6pm), purchase the tickets online at www.wppac.com or call 914-328-1600. For Group Sales, please contact stephen@wppac.com.

*WPPAC MainStage Productions are the professional productions of WPPAC featuring union and non-union actors from Broadway, national tours and regional theatre across the country. These productions are created from scratch, staffed with professional production teams (directors to designers), large LIVE orchestras and boast high-quality sets and costumes.

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