FAIRYTALES ON ICE
“Beauty and the Beast”
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
FRIDAY, MAY 19
THEATERWORKSUSA’S
“Junie B’s Essential Survival Guide to School”
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
These programs are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
SUNDAY, MAY 21
Alyssa Allgood
Lee Greenwood
Welcome to another exciting year with North Central College’s Fine & Performing Arts! Whether this is your first or fiftieth time experiencing our performances and venues, we are thrilled you are here to join us for the 2022-2023 season, complete with events perfect for all ages!
At this time, we wish to say, “Thank you!” for your continued support of the arts at North Central College. Without patrons like you, it wouldn’t be possible to carry on our mission to bring world-class artists to our worldclass venues in Naperville. We hope you will join us in the coming months for several more sensational artists and performances.
We also wish to thank our Friends of the Arts donors, corporate sponsors, and restaurant partners for their
generous and ever-appreciated support of the Fine & Performing Arts at North Central. Without them, we would not be able to bring our audiences these wonderful artists and performers or work toward future seasons of exciting fine arts events in our community.
We hope you are as thrilled as we are for the 2022-2023 season, and we are grateful you are here with us today. It’s show time!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Berosek Associate Director of Fine ArtsShows that qualify for season subscription discount
North Central College student performance
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Sunday, April 2 at 3 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
Direct from its sellout tour in Australia, the ice skating spectacular “Fairytales on Ice” is touring the U.S. this year. Delight in the spectacular as award-winning skaters bring your favorite fairy tale characters to life through ice skating, singing, and music!
Featuring stories and characters from “Beauty & The Beast,” explore the fairy tale land alongside “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and more! Follow the ice skating magic as you enter Arelia; meet Beauty and join along as we share our modern storyline full of fun and adventure! Let these well-known characters lift you high into another world.
Become immersed in a storyline that features the familiar and the unknown. “Fairytales on Ice” will delight, entertain, and leave you—and the family—jumping for joy! Be mesmerized by world-class pro champion ice skaters, live singing, and cirque from all ends of the globe as they spin through show-stopping sets, bedazzling costumes, and enchanting effects that are sure to delight and excite.
Performers glide effortlessly across the floor in a hold-your-breath experience you won’t want to miss. This non-stop thrilling adventure features exciting magical illusions, spectacular special effects, alongside an original award-winning recorded soundtrack with thrilling jumps, spins and pair lifts—as the ice skating spectacular takes to the stage in your town this year.
After the performance, we would love to hear your feedback on the experience and what you hope to see next in our venues. We invite you to take our short survey.
Saturday, April 22 at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
“JUNIE B’S ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL GUIDE TO SCHOOL”
Now that Junie B. Jones has been going to school for over one-and-a-half years, who better to write the book on EVERYTHING you need to know? From bus rules and Band-Aids to carpools to cookies. Junie B. and friends deliver the definitive word on surviving and thriving in style. With a jillion tips, tricks, and trip-ups, Junie B. shares her hard-won expertise and shows us all how school is sometimes scary, sometimes super-fun, and ALWAYS something to sing about!
After the performance, we would love to hear your feedback on the experience and what you hope to see next in our venues. We invite you to take our short survey.
Friday, May 19 at 8 p.m.
Pfeiffer Hall
Music has always been a part of Lee Greenwood’s life. He started playing the piano when he was seven and the saxophone at 12. In junior high, he started his first group called the Moonbeams. His sister Patricia was the piano player in the band. By the time, he finished High School he played most all the instruments in the orchestra and was the Drum Major for the marching band.
The California native was discovered in 1979 by Larry McFaden, who saw him performing in a show at the Nugget Casino in Sparks, Nevada. McFaden was the bass player and bandleader for Mel Tillis. He brought the singer to Nashville and got him signed to the Halsey Agency, who booked The Oak Ridge Boys. He began working with producer Jerry Crutchfield who would record with Lee for the next 20 years.
With seven #1 songs & 25 charted singles to his credit, choosing songs proved to be a success for Greenwood. His country hits include: “It Turns Me Inside Out”, “Ring On Her Finger Time On Her Hands”, ”She’s Lying”, “I Don’t Mind the Thorns If You’re The Rose”, “Dixie Road”, “Somebody’s Gonna Love You”, “Going Going Gone”, “You Got A Good Love Comin”, “Fools Gold”, and “Mornin Ride” while he already garnered several crossover hits such as “Touch & Go Crazy”, “IOU” and the duet with Barbara Mandrell, “To Me”.
Lee Greenwood has won numerous industry awards including, Male Vocalist of the Year from the Academy of Country Music in 1983, two Male Vocalist of the Year awards from the Country Music Association in 1983 & 1984 and a Grammy for Top Male Vocal Performance in 1985 for “I.O.U.”. The CMA also named “God Bless The U.S.A.” its Song of the Year in 1985.
“God Bless the USA” went far beyond what Greenwood expected when he wrote it in the back of his tour bus in 1983. The song has been in the top five on the country singles charts three times (1991, 2001 and 2003), giving it the distinction of being the only song in any genre of music to achieve that feat. It was also #1 on the pop charts after 9/11/01. In addition, CBS News voted “God Bless The U.S.A.” the most recognizable patriotic song in America.
Greenwood says, “USA is the song I always felt the need to write. I wanted to have something that would unite Americans from coast to coast and to instill pride back in the United States. The song represents my family, my community and those men and women who have paid the price for the freedoms we all love and enjoy.”
Lee and his wife, Kimberly, a former Miss Tennessee, fell in love on his 1989 USO/DOD tour. They were married in Nashville in 1992 and have two sons, Dalton and Parker.
After the performance, we would love to hear your feedback on the experience and what you hope to see next in our venues. We invite you to take our short survey.
Sunday, May 21 at 6 p.m. Madden Theatre
Alyssa Allgood is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist, bandleader, educator, and composer who has been described as “assured and daring” by DownBeat Magazine and a “model of sophisticated song interpretation” by the Chicago Tribune. She brings a modern flair to the jazz tradition with her engaging arrangements, infectious swing feel, and lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.
After the performance, we would love to hear your feedback on the experience and what you hope to see next in our venues. We invite you to take our short survey.
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BMO Harris Bank is proud to support North Central College Fine & Performing Arts.
For ticket information, call the Box Office at 630-637-SHOW (7469) or visit northcentralcollege.edu/show