IN THE HEIGHTS, RAGTIME and More Coming Up at Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center This Year

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center has announced updates to its 2016 schedule. Scroll down for details!

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IN THE HEIGHTS

April 16 - May 22, 2016

Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm

(No performance April 30th)

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave in Simi Valley

IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York's Washington Heights neighborhood - a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. IN THE HEIGHTS is the winner of the 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations. Tickets are $24 Adults, $20 Seniors 60+ and Students, and $18 Children 12 & Under. Tickets can be purchased online at www.simi-arts.org or by calling the Box Office at (805) 583-7900.

ARTS Presents THE WIZ

June 4 - July 10, 2016

Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave in Simi Valley

Presented by Actors' Repertory Theatre of Simi. The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a glorious and soulful musical retelling of Frank Baum's "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" set in the context of African-American culture and multi-ethnic cast. With an infectious funky score and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, The Wiz brought renewed relevance to a timeless classic. The 1975 Broadway production was like nothing Broadway had ever seen, and ultimately won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Score. Tickets are $25 for Adults, $22 for Seniors & Students and $18 for Children and can be reserved by calling (805) 583-7900 or purchased online at www.simi-arts.org

ARTS Presents PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

July 23 - August 28, 2016

Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave in Simi Valley

Presented by Actors' Repertory Theatre of Simi. Peter and the Starcatcher is a prequel to Peter Pan based on the children's book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and freely adapted for the stage by Rick Elice, with co-directors Alex Timbers and Roger Rees. For two-and-a-half hours, twelve actors make theatrical magic by playing dozens of characters: sailors, pirates, British naval officers, Mollusk natives and orphans in addition to eighteen major roles. The original Broadway production was a deliberately low-budget spectacle: an extravaganza of staging that relied on suggestion and storytelling rather than expensive set pieces like the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera or the helicopter in Miss Saigon. Elice's script, jam-packed with poetry, fart jokes, gentle lyricism, and numerous nods to pop culture, is a coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan -- inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl -- became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Tickets are $25 for Adults, $22 for Seniors & Students and $18 for Children and can be reserved by calling (805) 583-7900 or purchased online at www.simi-arts.org

ARTS Presents RAGTIME: The Musical

October 29 - December 4, 2016

Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave in Simi Valley

Presented by Actors' Repertory Theatre of Simi. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once On This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime is the winner of the 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical is filled with pageantry, emotion and hope, bursting onto the stage like no other musical. At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing. and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together -- that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician -- united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America.Tickets are $25 for Adults, $22 for Seniors & Students and $18 for Children and can be reserved by calling (805) 583-7900 or purchased online at www.simi-arts.org

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