12/13 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series

2012/ 2013

EPIC

UNFORGETTABLE

SPECTACULAR

2012/ 2013 nOVember 6-11 beLK theater

JanUarY 8-13 OVenS aUDitOriUm

FebrUarY 12-17 beLK theater

maY 28 - JUne 2 beLK theater

maY 7-19 • Knight theater

march 13-31 OVenS aUDitOriUm

aUg. 6 - SePt. 1 beLK theater

Anne Brummel as Elphaba in WICKED. Photo by Joan Marcus.

SAVE YOUR SEATS! You KNOW you want to see these great shows! This year, TREAT yourself to season tickets. Season tickets make you part of our Broadway family and pay for themselves by saving you time and money.

No more searching for good seats for mega hits like WICKED and THE LION KING. No more disappointment because you missed something you really wanted to see because it sold out or you just never got around to getting tickets. Put some FUN on your calendar now.

SPECTACULAR ENTERTAINMENT

You don’t have to travel to New York to see Broadway’s best shows. The national tours featured on the Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series feature the same incredible production values and on-stage talent you’d enjoy in New York.

GUARANTEED SEATS THAT YOU RETAIN YEAR TO YEAR You’re never left out because a show sells out. And, you can purchase extra seats for friends and family NOW. Plus, your seats are yours year to year.

You can keep the exact same ones, or change to a new location before anyone else gets the chance to buy. This is the best way to get the best seats!

GREAT VALUE

Season Ticket buyers get the best seats at the best price. You’ll enjoy up to 20% off on some performances and you’ll be seated before ANYONE else.

AFFORDABLE

You can enjoy a whole season of entertainment—seven spectacular Broadway shows—for less than $150. Or the best seats in the house on coveted weekend nights for less than what you’d pay for a daily latte over the same time frame.

HURRY! The sooner you place your order, the better your seating. Want even more seating preference? Become a Member. Your gift will help local students experience performances, special workshops and other activities that inspire their creativity and interest in the arts.

ORDER TODAY!

BlumenthalArts.org/Broadway • 704.335.1010 Cover Photo Credits: WAR HORSE Photos © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg 2011 London Cast; Tiffany Haas and Anne Brummel in WICKED. Photo by Joan Marcus; Jelani Remy as “Simba” and the ensemble in “He Lives in You” from THE LION KING National Tour. ©Disney.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus.

SeaSOn ticKet bUYerS enJOY theSe beneFitS GUARANTEED, RENEWABLE SEATS

Your seats are yours so long as you renew your season tickets. And you’ll get first chance to upgrade your seating location annually.

THE BEST SEATS AT THE BEST PRICE

Season ticket buyers are seated before anyone else and get up to a 20% discount on some performances.

FLEXIBILITY

• Swap one show on the season for ANYTHING else coming this season for FREE.* • Exchange your season tickets for another day/time of the same show for FREE.

BUY SINGLE TICKETS BEFORE THE PUBLIC

Get additional seats before sales open to the public.

EASY PAY PLAN**

Pay for your season tickets with equal monthly installments to your credit card through November. The earlier you purchase, the lower your monthly payments!

BECOME A MEMBER

Get priority status on seat upgrades by becoming a Blumenthal Member.

Membership levels begin as low as $100. Just include your gift when you order and your request for seat upgrades will be processed before nonmembers.

*SWAP option available when season tickets are received. Season ticket buyers must pay difference if substituted show is higher price; Blumenthal will refund difference if price is lower. **There is a $2 per month fee for Easy Pay Plan.

Buyi Zama as “Rafiki” in the opening number “The Circle of Life” from THE LION KING National Tour. ©Disney. Photo Credit: Joan Marcus.

“THIS BIG, DARK, FLASHY SPECTACLE IS A REAL CROWD-PLEASER. IT KNOCKS THE ROOF OFF THE THEATRE.” - Gannett Newspapers

Starring in the dual title role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, American Idol star and Tony Award® nominee Constantine Maroulis injects new life into the classic tale of good and evil, JEKYLL & HYDE. After four thrilling, chilling years on Broadway and multiple worldwide tours, this dark and dangerous love story from Tony® and Grammy® Award nominee Frank Wildhorn returns in a stunning new pre-Broadway production that includes all the classic songs (“This is the Moment,” “A New Life,” “Someone Like You”) that first grabbed audiences by the throat and transformed JEKYLL & HYDE into a theatrical phenomenon.

nOVember 6-11 · beLK theater at blumenthal performing arts center

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The Original Broadway Production of SISTER ACT. Photo Credit Joan Marcus

SISTER ACT is Broadway’s feel-amazing musical comedy smash!

The New York Post calls it “RIDICULOUSLY FUN,” and audiences are jumping to their feet in total agreement! Featuring original music by 8-time Oscar® winner ALAN MENKEN (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors), SISTER ACT tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a wannabe diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a crime and the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look—a convent! Under the suspicious watch of Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own.

A sparkling tribute to the universal power of friendship, SISTER ACT is reason to REJOICE!

JanUarY 8-13 · OVenS aUDitOriUm Season Ticket Services: 704.335.1010 • BlumenthalArts.org

THE NEW 25TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION

Cameron Mackintosh presents a brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil & Schönberg’s legendary musical, LES MISÉRABLES, with glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records wherever it goes. The New York Times calls this LES MISÉRABLES “an unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish.” The London Times hails the new show “a five star hit, astonishingly powerful.”

February 12-17 · Belk Theater at blumenthal performing arts center

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March 13-31 Ovens Auditorium Back by “Popular” demand. Variety calls WICKED “a cultural phenomenon,” and when it last played Charlotte in 2010, it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, WICKED is “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” (The New York Times).

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TRACES combines awe-inspiring acrobatics with infectious urban energy, this thrilling modern brand of circus is infused with the energy of street performance. The artists of TRACES employ every trick in the book—from music, dance, and illustration to skateboarding, basketball, and highrisk acrobatics—to make a lasting impression. TRACES is spectacularly anti-spectacle, relying instead on the fantastic abilities of the performers, individuals who appear to be nothing more than a group of friends, just as easygoing, affable, and potentially clumsy as the guy next door—until they unleash ninety minutes of heart-stopping acrobatics and unbridled energy that leave audiences breathless and exhilarated.

TRACESUSA.COM

MAY 7-19 · KNIGHT THEATER at levine center for the arts

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National Theatre of Great Britain and Bob Boyett present

a remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship.

England, 1914. As World War One begins, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped from England to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

This powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness that is currently playing to packed houses in London and New York. At its heart are astonishing life-sized puppets created by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, that bring to life breathing, galloping, charging horses strong enough for men to ride.

Winner! ®

Photos © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg 2011 London Cast

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2011 Tony Awards

MAY 28 - JUNE 2 | BELK THEATER at blumenthal performing arts center

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Experience the phenomenon of Disney’s THE LION KING when Charlotte’s best-loved musical makes a triumphant return to Blumenthal! Marvel at the breathtaking spectacle of animals brought to life by award-winning director Julie Taymor, whose visual images for this show you’ll remember forever. Thrill to the pulsating rhythms of the African Pridelands and an unforgettable score including Elton John and Tim Rice’s Oscar®-winning song “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” and “Circle of Life.” Let your imagination run wild when the Tony Award®-winning Broadway sensation returns to the Belk Theater stage.

AUG. 6 - SEPT. 1 · BELK THEATER at blumenthal performing arts center

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BROADWAY If there is a production on the Broadway Lights season that doesn’t work for you, SWAP for one of these Broadway EXTRAS or for anything else coming to our theaters in 2012-13. Just contact us when you receive your season tickets in August and make a switch. It’s easy and this benefit is available ONLY to season ticket buyers!

AMERICAN IDIOT. Photos by Jeremy Daniel.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE is “so full of energy it could end our dependence on oil” according to the New York Daily News and “stuffed with so much holiday cheer and audacious acts, Scrooge would exit with a big ol’ smile on his face” proclaims the Erie Times News about this “Broadwayworthy spectacle.”

Don’t miss the international sensation that “Dazzled…at The Kennedy Center” according to the Washington Post…CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE.

December 18-23 · Knight Theater at levine center for the arts

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Y EXTRAS! “THE FIRST GREAT MUSICAL OF THE 21st CENTURY!” - The Toronto Star

the groundbreaking BROADWAY musical The New York Times calls AMERICAN IDIOT “thrilling and emotionally charged, as moving as anything on Broadway!” Based on Green Day’s groundbreaking rock opera of the same name, this daring new musical tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia, and features the smash hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday” and “21 Guns.”

AMERICAN IDIOT contains adult content and strong language.

MARCH 8-10

BELK THEATER

www.AmericanIdiotTheMusical.com

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A SPECTACULAR SETTING

FOR YOUR SHOWS The beautiful Belk and Knight Theaters host the majority of our performances. You’ll experience the finest in acoustics and amenities, including all the excitement of uptown Charlotte, where restaurants, bars and many other cultural attractions, including the Levine Center for the Arts with it’s three new museums (and the Knight Theater), abound. Plan dinner, drinks, or a visit to one of the new museums or other uptown attractions in conjunction with a show for the perfect night (or day) on the town.

Parking is also easy and affordable at our affiliated garages (only $5).

Or take light rail and get off a block from the theaters! *WICKED and SISTER ACT will be presented at Charlotte’s historic Ovens Auditorium on Independence Boulevard.

BLUMENTHAL THANKS THESE SUPPORTERS

BECOME A MEMBER Members receive special benefits to enhance their theatergoing experience and understanding of the arts. This year we’ve introduced some exciting new benefit opportunities, so don’t miss out! Below is a sample of the benefits you will receive at each level of membership. For a full list of our exclusive benefits and more information about our membership program please visit blumenthalarts.org/support.

Your tax-deductible gift makes a critical difference in Blumenthal’s ability to serve the community and helps fund education programs and outreach.

2012/2013 Membership $100+

Priority ticket purchase

$250+

Behind-the-scenes tour

$500+

Two parking passes

$750+

Two complimentary tickets to a Blumenthal performance

Enjoy Exclusive Benefits as a Producer’s Circle Member

2012/2013 Producer’s Circle $1,000+

One Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series opening night party with the cast

$1,500+

Access to Member Services Concierge for ticket purchase and exchange

$2,500+

Annual Chairman’s Dinner invitation

$5,000+

Opportunity to purchase house seats for NYC Broadway productions

$7,500+

Opportunity to attend Tony Awards in NYC with Blumenthal President

$10,000+

Private VIP access to visiting performers

Alena Waters, Rashidra Scott and Patina Miller in the Broadway Production of SISTER ACT. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Photo: TRACES

to see videos from the shows on the season.

Visit blumenthalarts.org/broadway

• Our Easy Pay Plan lets you pay for your season tickets in monthly installments now - November.

• Season tickets for the Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series start at less than $150.

• Next year’s lineup includes many of the hottest current shows on Broadway.

Did you know?

A SPECIAL INVITATION TO JOIN OUR FAMILY OF BROADWAY FANS!

2012/ 2013

P.O. Box 35069 • Charlotte, NC 28235-5069

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