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features

5 Directions

10 Q&A: Gentry Lee

7 Bravo

The space engineer and science fiction writer talks about the Curiosity rover mission to Mars and his collaborations with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke Interview by Kendra Blevins

The Other Shoe by John Scott Brown Bag It Tulsa Symphony: Higdon, Haydn and Strauss Proof Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Venus Tulsa Unplugged — A Spoken Art Experience

23 Spotlight

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12 What Dreams May Come Newlyweds Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bible-based musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

by Britt Greenwood

17 Split Knuckle Theatre

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by Nancy Bizjack

Race The Neverending Story Tulsa Opera: Carmen Click, Clack, Moo Sister Act The Sound of Music

26 May/June Events

in the gallery Diversity in Art April 1-28

19 Celebrating 60 With ASQ Chamber Music Tulsa marks its 60th anniversary with several concerts by the venerable American String Quartet

by Nancy C. Hermann

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Works by five female artists will be exhibited together this month. Cindy Parsons’ prizewinning work has been shown at Philbrook, Gilcrease, the Mayfest Invitational Gallery, and other venues. Karin Cermak has received numerous awards for her artworks in oil, acrylic, charcoal and 3D mixed media.

Other artists included in the show are Madelyn Raska, Mary Oswald and Janie Crean.

Pictured: Storybook by Cindy Parsons

Cover photo by Peter Schaaf

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THE OTHER SHOE IN FEBRUARY’S John Scott Intermission, I wrote about a 3.5% cut the PAC and all other City Departments were directed to make in General Fund appropriations for the remainder of the current fiscal year (July 2013 through June 2014). In that piece, I explained that such reduction, significant though it was, may not be the only step required to resolve what is an ongoing shortfall in sales tax collections compared to projections.

In mid-March, “the other shoe” dropped and department heads were notified that more and deeper reductions were needed for Fiscal Year 2015.

In fact, the PAC and 19 (out of 23) other departments were asked to reduce their FY15 budget requests by as much as 10%. For the PAC, the target of 10.1% translates to a reduction of $224,000. I can tell you quite frankly, after years of flat budgets and other cuts necessitated by poor economic times, the only large-dollar items remaining in our budget are utilities and personnel.

At this writing, no final decisions have been made on our reductions, but if our proposal for complying with this directive is not accepted, the specter of staff reductions looms large. Since I was informed that revenue enhancements could be submitted in lieu of or in combination with budget reductions, it would be easy to propose an increase in service fees for purchasing tickets.

However, since that effectively raises ticket prices, I’m reluctant to propose that option.

Budget decisions are the purview of the Mayor, his administration and ultimately the City Council. The composition of FY15’s final budget will not likely be finalized until late spring, and I know all proposals will get full consideration. Cross your fingers the PAC staff can stay whole and we can continue providing our user groups as well as the citizens of Tulsa the finest in facilities and facility management.

Take full advantage of April’s volume of diverse entertainment. Nothing stirs the soul like live performances.

Thanks for all your support, and I’ll see you in the lobby.

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THIS MONTH AT THE PAC

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BROWN BAG IT THE SPRING SERIES of free noontime concerts continues with Tallasi on April 2, Trio Aleszky on April 9 and Lorelei Barton & Friends on April 16.

Tallasi is a clarinet, horn and piano trio. Trio Aleszky is composed of pianist Allyson Eskitch, violinist Paulo Eskitch and cellist Lou Lynch.

Barton, an accomplished harpist, will perform with oboist Lise Glaser, flutist Dana Higbee, violist Paul Roberts and French horn player Mark Watson.

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April 2, 9, 16 at 12:10 p.m.

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CERTAIN CURTAIN

PROOF PROOF, BY DAVID AUBURN, won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for its sensitive portrayal of a brilliant young woman haunted by both the mathematical genius of her recently deceased father and the mental illness she fears she may have inherited from him.

Catherine spent years caring for her father and is torn between missing him and resenting the sacrifices she made for him. As she grieves, Catherine has to deal with the arrival of her take-charge sister, and also with Hal, a former student of Catherine’s father who hopes to find some hint of Robert’s early genius among the incoherent scribblings he left behind. As Catherine and Hal become attracted to each other, they push at the edges of each other’s knowledge, considering not only the unpredictability of genius but also the human instinct toward love and trust.

Silas Tibbs directs Crystal Lovvorn, Denny MeredithOrr, Mick Swiney and Sasha Townsend in this production.

April 10-12 at 7:30 p.m.

April 13 at 2 p.m.

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TULSA SYMPHONY concludes its season with TSO Principal Cellist Kari Caldwell as soloist for Don Quixote, the 1897 tone poem by Richard Strauss.

Also on the program are Joseph Haydn’s popular Symphony No. 88 in G Major and American composer Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral. This one-movement tone poem, inspired by the death of Higdon’s brother from cancer, has been performed by more than 400 orchestras since its 2000 premiere, making it one of the mostperformed modern orchestral works by a living American composer.

Guest conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann is Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Texas at Austin and Music Director and Conductor of the Canton (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra.

April 12 at 7:30 p.m.

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MEN ARE FROM MARS; WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS — LIVE! THIS ONE-MAN FUSION of theater and stand-up comedy is based on the best-selling 1992 book by John Gray. Moving swiftly through a series of vignettes, the show covers everything from dating to marriage to sex.

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Peter Story is the star of this theatrical Peter Story comedy. He has appeared in the TV shows CSI, Without a Trace and Ugly Betty. Story’s tale of how he and his wife won a dream wedding competition was featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour, a show featuring the country’s best storytellers.

April 22-23 at 7:30 p.m.

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Gentry Lee

Interview by Kendra Blevins

Mars has played a big part in Gentry Lee’s

life, and not just as a setting for some of his science fiction novels! Chief engineer for the Solar System Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, Lee is responsible for the engineering integrity of all the robotic planetary missions managed by JPL for NASA, including the popular Curiosity rover mission to Mars in August 2012. His engineering success led him to collaborations with popular astronomer Carl Sagan and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Lee also narrated Are We Alone?, the Discovery Channel documentary about the possibility of life on other planets.

Lee received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1976 and the Distinguished Service Medal (NASA’s highest award) in 2005. In 2006 he received the prestigious Harold Masursky Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences for his career contributions to planetary exploration. Lee was awarded the prestigious Simon Ramo Medal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for career excellence in engineering in 2013.

Lee received a BA, summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.

Tell us about your work with NASA. What exactly is your job and why do you do it? I am responsible for the engineering integrity of all the planetary robotic missions built and flown by JPL. What a great job! In fact, I believe that I have the best job in the world. I spend all my time trying to solve engineering and science problems related to the exploration of other bodies in the solar system.

The job is always challenging, I work with some of the smartest people anywhere, and I am continually learning.

What are the results of all this effort?

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short, the objective of my job is to add to human knowledge.

The Curiosity rover mission to Mars has been highly successful. What was your role in the mission? Curiosity was designed, tested, and flown by JPL engineers. I was deeply involved throughout the project, not only as a member of the NASA-appointed Standing Review Board (SRB), but also as the chairman of all the engineering risk reviews during the implementation of the project. My role as chairman of the risk reviews was to ask, “What bad things can happen?” about all aspects of the project and to help the project reduce the overall risks to an acceptable level.

From a historical perspective, what will be the primary impact of Curiosity? Curiosity will earn her place in the history books for two different kinds of accomplishment. First, the “Seven Minutes of Terror” entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence that thrilled millions of people around the world on August 6, 2012, was the most advanced example of complex engineering autonomy that has ever been achieved. The spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 miles per hour and had only seven minutes to decelerate itself, using a heat shield, a parachute, and then rocket engines, to the two to four miles per hour speed that would guarantee a safe landing. Throughout the EDL sequence, the

spacecraft operated autonomously, without any commands from Earth.

Curiosity’s scientific achievements have been equally spectacular. At a location very close to the landing site in Gale Crater, the rover’s scientific instruments determined — after analyzing a powdered sample pulled from the inside of a rock by an amazing drill — that this particular region of Mars has all the chemical and mineralogical elements necessary to sustain life. In other words, life as we know it could live and flourish in that site on Mars. Never before has any place not on the Earth been identified as habitable.

What will Curiosity do in the future?

The rover is presently driving slowly across the Gale Crater plains toward the primary mission destination, an enormous mountain named Mount Sharp, which is one of the locations on Mars that would have been most likely for the development of life during the early wet years of Martian history.

How does Curiosity fit into the overall NASA program for the exploration of the solar system? There are three basic goals of the NASA solar system exploration program: To understand the origin and evolution of the Sun and all the planets, asteroids, and comets that orbit the Sun; to determine whether life developed anywhere else in the solar system and if so, how this process occurred and how it was similar to or different from the development of life here; and to look at the present conditions on all the bodies from a comparative point of view.

We have explored Mars more than any other planet, primarily because it is considered to be the most likely candidate for the existence of other life forms.

But our robotic mission discoveries have turned up some other possible candidates to harbor life, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa. Scientists believe there are deep and widespread oceans underneath the ice cover on Europa and that these waters could be an excellent site for the development of life. In the next decade, it is highly likely that a NASA robotic mission to Europa will investigate this moon and help answer questions about whether life developed there.

Was Curiosity your first Mars mission?

Oh, no. I have had the great good fortune to have been intimately associated with every robotic Mars mission except the very first flyby in 1964. Mars has been a major part of my life. I worked for eight years on the Viking mission that soft-landed two spacecraft on the red planet in 1976. And I played a major and involved review role on the twin Mars Exploration Rovers that landed in 2004.

Watching humanity unravel the puzzles of Mars has been a wonderful experience.

Besides your space systems engineering activities, you have been active in television and publishing. Would you tell us about that? After Viking landed on Mars in 1976, Carl Sagan and I decided that we would take the story of the excitement and wonder of space exploration directly to the people. We thought that television would be an excellent place for this story. The result was Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the most widely watched scientific series in television history.* We were gratified by the amazing response around the world to our attempt to share our view of mankind’s drive to under-

best engineering job in the world, and I have also collaborated with two of the great minds of the 20th century on television and writing projects.

What about your personal life? Do you have children? Yes, indeed. I have eight sons. No daughters. My sons range in age from Cooper at 37 to my little Francesco, the current focus of my personal life, who turned 5 on March 15. I have tried hard to balance my professional and personal lives, but I have not always succeeded.

Have you ever been to Tulsa before?

Yes I have. My uncle was also named Gentry Lee. He was an attorney for Cities Service Oil and lived in Tulsa and Bartlesville when I was growing up.

I clearly remember my visits to Tulsa during my childhood. In particular, I remember being fascinated by the streets arranged in alphabetical order and named after various cities in the United States.

What would you like your Tulsa audience to remember? To appreciate that our species is engaged in a fantastic and wonderful effort to understand our universe and our place in it. What we are learning is accessible to anyone who is interested, and the endeavor to understand where we came from and where we are going is a rich story that can be as entertaining as it is informative. But more than anything, I want people to leave my talk feeling uplifted by what they have heard and catalyzed to make their own search for answers to the basic questions of our existence.

“Watching humanity unravel the puzzles of Mars has been a wonderful experience.” stand the universe. Cosmos was shown in 63 countries and has been replayed at least a dozen times in the United States.

The book based on the series was on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Collaborating closely with Carl Sagan for five years on the Cosmos series was one of the great learning experiences of my life.

Then, many years later, the legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke asked me if I would like to collaborate with him on a science fiction novel. I was astounded by his offer. I accepted immediately. We eventually co-authored four science fiction novels between 1989 and 1994: Cradle, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed, all of which made the New York Times bestseller list.

It is hard to imagine how I could have had a richer professional life. I have the

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*Editor’s note: A sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by 2010 Tulsa Town Hall speaker Neil deGrasse Tyson, premiered last month on the Fox and National Geographic channels.

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Ace Young as Joseph and Diana DeGarmo as Narrator in the song “Jacob & Sons”

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ou would have to go back to England, 1968, before Jesus Christ Superstar was a mega-hit, to find the origins of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s early pop cantata Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Created for the Colet Court School, the 15-minute piece quickly outgrew the schoolyard and, following the popularity of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s Superstar, blasted 12

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into a more fully realized production that has enjoyed the spotlight for over four-and-a-half decades.

Recently reinvigorated for the stage, Lloyd Webber and Rice’s tale, taken from the book of Genesis, stars newlyweds Ace Young as Joseph and Diana DeGarmo as Narrator.

American Idol fans will recognize DeGarmo, then the show’s youngest competitor at age 16, as the first

All photos by Daniel A. Swalec

by Britt Greenwood

runner-up to Fantasia. DeGarmo was the first American Idol alum to appear on Broadway, singing her way through Hairspray, 9 to 5, Brooklyn: The Musical and Hair.

It was during Hair that she connected with Season Five finalist Ace Young. During Idol’s Season 11 finale, Young conspired with emcee Ryan Seacrest and surprised DeGarmo by proposing to her during the live broadcast. The couple married in June 2013.

Even prior to being cast in Joseph, Young and DeGarmo were familiar with the show’s music. Shortly before Young’s grandfather passed away 11 years ago, he took his grandson to see Joseph for the first time. DeGarmo’s attachment to Joseph goes back even further. Twice, when the tour stopped in her hometown of Atlanta, DeGarmo sang in its children’s choir. “I really love the show from top to bottom,” she says.

Having the opportunity to advance their careers in a profession that often requires being far from home, the couple are delighted to be sharing the stage in this new production. “We love working together and don’t mind working apart, but working together is always better,” says DeGarmo.

Young comes from a big family and is the youngest of five sons, which mirrors his role in Joseph as the son who comes along late in the life of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Endearing himself as the favorite of Jacob’s 12 sons, Joseph is given a colorful coat by his father, stirring jealousy among the brothers. The envy grows when Joseph exhibits a gift for seeing into the future through his dreams.

When those visions forecast his own greatness, the brothers have had enough and take action.

They sell Joseph to a wealthy merchant and present their father with a coat stained with goat’s blood. Jacob believes his beloved son is dead.

Though the story sounds grim, Lloyd Webber and Rice use music — reggae,

jazz and country — to lighten the mood and carry the tale forward to a happy conclusion.

Joseph’s ability to interpret dreams not only allows him to escape life in prison, but also to rise in rank all the way to becoming the Pharaoh’s most trusted advisor. He is able to predict famine, thus saving Egypt from calamity. In a position of great power, he eventually chooses to forgive his brothers.

DeGarmo enjoys watching Young sing one of the show’s signature numbers, “Close Every Door.” “It’s Joseph’s, and my husband’s, time to vocally shine,” she says. In her own role, “Pharaoh’s Story” is her big moment. “It’s actually the one and only time I get to sit and sing during the entire show. The Narrator definitely gets a workout! I also love the ‘MegaMix’ at the very end because it’s a recap of the show, and you get to relive the fun one more time.”

Other well-known numbers from Joseph are “Any Dream Will Do” and “Those Canaan Days.”

Young says, “Other shows can have throwaway songs and moments that don’t matter — space-fillers. This particular touring production has been revamped. Every moment in our production matters. There is not one left untouched or forgotten. The music, the lyrics, the dancing, the costumes and the sets all have been created and tended with the utmost

Ryan Williams as Pharaoh and Ace Young as Joseph in “Stone the Crows”

care. Our director and choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and his team of brilliant minds have created a work of art.”

Costume maven Jennifer Caprio designed Joseph’s coat based on Marc Chagall’s 12 stained-glass windows from the Abbell Synagogue in Jerusalem. The show’s team wanted to recreate the ethereal experience one had from seeing light pour through Chagall’s exquisitely colored windows. Elements of his design were incorporated into Caprio’s vision for Joseph’s coat — each panel representing one of the brothers. The colors and pattern also were used in projections that the creative team hopes will overtake the stage to evoke something bigger than the production itself. The costume becomes, in Caprio’s estimation, “an overarching symbol of love and family.”

“I’m pretty sure Joseph has never been done like this,” says Young.

“It is truly something you must see to believe. There is something for everyone when they come to see us.”

A line from DeGarmo’s song “Any Dream Will Do” sums up the pitch. “All I need is an hour or two to tell the tale of a dreamer like you.”

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Paul Castree as Simeon and Ace Young as Joseph, followed by their brothers in “Joseph’s Coat”

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Split Knuckle Theatre

by Nancy Bizjack

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful.

Honor and recognition in case of success.

That was the notice Sir Ernest Shackleton used to recruit crewmen for his 1914 expedition to Antarctica via the ill-fated barquentine Endurance. It could also describe the lonely journey aspiring actors might face when embarking on their careers. Unless, as in the case of Split Knuckle Theatre Company, the actors, like Shackleton’s ship-less crew, band together, set a fresh course, and create their own survival story.

Split Knuckle, based in Storrs, Connecticut, was founded by a group of American actors who met at the London International School of Performing Arts.

Inspired by the pedagogy of French actor and mime Jacques Lecoq, LISPA takes an organic approach to theatre with a focus on

movement and collaboration to create new works. So does Split Knuckle.

“Unlike traditional actors who are waiting for their agents to call them, we go out and make our own work based upon our own social observations and passions, and what we want to say about the world we live in,” says Split Knuckle’s artistic director Greg Webster. “It’s like being in a great rock band.”

Webster found inspiration for Split Knuckle’s imaginative play Endurance while channel surfing late one night. As he watched a NOVA documentary titled Shackleton’s Voyage of Endurance, Webster was struck by the difference between the men of that era and people today. The response to Shackleton’s unappealing appeal for crewmembers amazed the actor.

“Ten thousand men applied for that job!” he exclaims. “Who would apply for that now? No one would. I was interested in examining how tough those guys were then and how more like ‘the-foamis-wrong-on-my-latte’ we are now.”

Then the Global Financial Crisis happened, and Webster and his troupe thought, “This is what our play is about.”

Created in 2008 at the University of Connecticut, Endurance alternates between telling the story of how Shackleton kept his crew alive after their ship froze in the polar ice pack in 1915 and how a fictional character named Walter Spivey struggles to

save his insurance company coworkers’ jobs in the wake of the recent economic meltdown.

Like the staffs at many companies lately, the cast and props of Endurance are downsized and overworked. The four actors use a few tables, chairs, trashcans, file cabinets, and hat stands to create not only a Hartford insurance office but also a ship trying to plow through the icy Weddell Sea. The cast portrays rugged explorers stranded in the icy Antarctic in one scene and office workers adrift in a sea of paperwork the next.

But all of this repurposing has a purpose.

“Our mission is that theatre has to do something different from television and film,” Webster explains. “Theatre should inspire the imagination and challenge the audience, take them on a journey.”

Humorous as well as inspirational, Endurance boasts original music by Ken Clark and a lighting design by Emmy Award winner Dan Rousseau, who also designs for NBC News and CNN.

Endurance Presented by the PAC Trust April 25-26 at 7:30 p.m.

April 27 at 2 p.m.

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Celebrating 60

believed that the distance between the First Viennese School (Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven) and the Second (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg) is not as great as many imagine, and we try to demonstrate that by juxtaposing masterworks from both on a single program. Of course, the musical

by Nancy C. Hermann language has changed in the hundred same year he cofounded the New or so years between, but the emotional York Metamorphoses Orchestra. He’s component is unbroken. Come hear collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and our concert on the 27th and see if you dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, among connect!” many others.

The American String Quartet also Avshalomov has served as principal will perform a free concert at the violist for numerous festival orchestras Guthrie Green on April 26 as part of and was featured as solo violist with Chamber Music Tulsa’s 60 Anniversary the Bolshoi ballet. When asked about celebration. For Avshalomov, his chosen career is all about sharing his and the quartet’s great love for the music they perform.

“Quartet-playing is one of those things that improves over time,” he says. “Our repertory consists of the best music written by nearly all the great composers, and those who may one day be considered great. The process of rehearsing and Peter Winograd, Laurie Carney, performing these works Wolfram Koessel and Daniel Avshalomov allows us to delve ever his personal soul-mate composer, he deeper into the music. No two evenings’ said that recently when the four ASQ performances are alike, nor would we members were interviewed separately want our concerts to become an ‘act.’ and presented with that question, they There are performers who tend that all gave the same answer: Beethoven. way, but what they miss are two of ASQ will play Beethoven’s Quartet in live music’s highest virtues: an honest F Major, Op. 59, No. 3, “Razumovsky,” emotional connection with the listeners, during its Friday, April 25, Salon Series and the opportunity to better realize appearance and the composer’s Quartet the composers’ intentions through in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131, on April interpretations which never rest.”

27. The Sunday concert will also feature Bach’s Four Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier and Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite.

Presented by Chamber Music Tulsa Berg’s Suite and Beethoven’s Quartet April 27 at 3 p.m. in C Minor, Op. 131, is a program J O H N H . W I L L I A M S T H E AT R E that speaks to the distinct nature of Tickets are $25; $5 for students.

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ho better to help Chamber Music Tulsa celebrate its 60th anniversary than one of chamber music’s most exalted ensembles, the American String Quartet?

“We have been coming to Tulsa since the very early years of the ASQ,” notes the quartet’s violist Daniel Avshalomov. “We have such respect and gratitude for the music lovers there. Their interest and support have made the series one of the standouts in this country. Whenever we see it included in our next season’s list, we are always delighted, and when we walk out on stage these days, we see familiar faces, which is always reassuring.”

ASQ itself will mark 40 years during the 2014 season. The quartet has performed in all 50 states and most recently appeared on Chamber Music Tulsa’s series two years ago. Formed by Juilliard students in 1974, ASQ won both the Naumburg and Coleman competition prizes its first year. Violinist Laurie Carney was there. She began attending Juilliard when she was age eight — the youngest violinist ever admitted — and she’s been performing longer than any woman in the field.

First violinist Peter Winograd won Naumburg’s top prize in 1988 before joining the quartet in 1990.

Cellist Wolfram Koessel was music director with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 2004 to 2008. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1994, the

The American String Quartet

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THREE (a few) DOORS DOWN

by Rachel Weaver

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ooking for a new favorite downtown restaurant? Here are three to try — and they’re all within walking distance of the PAC.

Tallgrass Prairie Table

The idea for Tallgrass Prairie Table (313 E. 2nd St.) came to Hope Egan more than nine years ago. She started a catering business with Cherry Street Farmer’s Market with the intention of eventually having a farm-to-table restaurant.

Tallgrass opened in December 2013 and Egan saw her dream take shape.

Tallgrass is part of the slow-food movement, which Egan says is another way to describe farm-to-table.

“It’s basically the opposite of the fastfood movement,” she explains. “We’re spending a lot of time to make sure we get the best food to you.”

The restaurant’s goal is to gather its ingredients from within a 150-mile radius and bring fresh items to the table.

The menu is seasonal, and popular items include pork belly and scallops as a small plate and arugula salad with preserved lemon crispy fried chicken skin.

The flatiron steak and curry fried chicken are well-liked entrees. Tallgrass also has gourmet menu items like bone marrow, which is offered as a small plate.

Egan describes Chef Michelle Donaldson’s food as having big, bold flavors and depth.

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“It’s modern American, so it’s elevated comfort food, but it’s done with so much care.”

Tallgrass’ décor is rustic industrial, using natural elements of its location (formerly the Blue Dome Diner), such as wood rafters and brick walls.

For Egan, the restaurant is a real labor of love.

“The chef and I share the same vision for the restaurant, and we are completely women-owned and operated,” she says. “I think that’s unique, and our commitment to community involvement is unique.”

Reservations can be made online at tallgrasstable.com. Tallgrass opens at 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, and there’s live music from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A jazz brunch is offered Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The restaurant is also open for dinner Sunday evening.

Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar

Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar originated in Naples, Florida, and a local businessman brought the concept to South Tulsa in 2012. The newest location is at 201 S. Denver Ave., across from the BOK Center.

“It’s a growing area,” says Gary Greene, district manager for the Tulsa restaurants.

“We think it’s an up-and-coming part of downtown.”

Naples serves flatbreads, Italian classics, pizza, pasta and panini-style sandwiches.

“We give a lot of care to the ingredients,” Greene says. “We use a lot of traditional Italian imported ingredients. We insist on that.”

The extensive menu is the same at both locations. A favorite starter or “appeteaser” is the apple-and-goat-cheese bruschetta. A favorite salad is the Captiva, a mixture of greens with craisins, mangos, apples and chicken breast. Popular flatbreads include the Basilico, with chicken and a variety of toppings, and the pulled-pork Hey Jerk.

A newer menu item at Naples is the sizzle wrap, which Greene says has been a big hit.

“We take all the great toppings from any of our flatbreads, and we bake them on a sizzling platter,” he explains. “Kind of like a fajita-type platter. We serve them with piadas — Italian tortillas — or lettuce wraps.”

The restaurant prides itself on keeping pricing at a fast-casual level. “We have delicious wines for as little as $5 a glass and tons of great specials,” Greene says. Naples’ centerpiece bar serves 12 drafts and 50 bottled beers.

Naples offers free parking every night — except BOK concert nights — in a lot adjacent to the restaurant. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

White Flag

Naples – Hey Jerk Pulled pork, mozzarella, applewood smoked bacon, pineapple, coconut, caramelized onions, roasted peppers, Caribbean jerk sauce, balsamic reduction.

Tallgrass Prairie Table – Pan-seared Wild King Salmon With kabocha squash broth, Manila clams and local greens.

White Flag – The Salma Hayek Habanero salsa, Mexican white cheese, candied bacon, and sriracha mayo.

White Flag (116 S. Elgin) is located in the old Back Alley Blues & BBQ location. With a Rib Crib around the corner and an Albert G’s Bar & Q also opening in the Blue Dome, Back Alley owner Blake Ewing raised the white flag in surrender and converted Back Alley to a burger joint, according to Jeremy New, company chef and kitchen manager.

White Flag is decorated with militarythemed movie posters, and the staff wear T-shirts bearing the motto: “We live to eat another day.”

The restaurant is a self-service, fast-casual dining concept, so guests place their orders before they sit down. They’re given a playing card, such as the Queen of Hearts, instead of a number to put on their table.

“That’s just one of Blake’s ideas,” says Devo McFarland, bartender. “He’s always coming up with new ways to expand downtown and make it fun for people.” Ewing also owns the nearby Joe Momma’s pizza place, The Max Retropub, and the country dance hall Legends.

White Flag’s menu includes basic burgers and specialty ones, such as the Pineapple Express and the Salma Hayek. The Pineapple Express has grilled pineapple, smoked bacon, Muskogee white sauce, jalapeno relish and white cheese. Habanero salsa, Mexican white cheese, candied bacon and sriracha mayo adorn the Salma Hayek.

Burgers are made of one or two threeounce patties smashed flat with onions grilled in, and buns are made fresh daily at Pancho Anaya in Tulsa. The restaurant has chicken and vegetarian options, and all of their burgers can be made with black-bean patties.

“We pride ourselves on sourcing as much stuff locally as we can,” New says. “To me, White Flag is a cool local bar where you can also get great food.”

There’s a full bar with local beers on tap.

During Oklahoma City Thunder games, White Flag offers a special deal.

“If the Thunder scores 105+, everybody in the building gets a free burger card to use that night or on their next visit,” McFarland says.

White Flag is open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. There’s live music Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m.

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ON UPCOMING EVENTS

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RACE

DAVID MAMET’S Race is about a wealthy white man, played by Kris Farnsworth, who is accused of raping a black woman. The story takes a different turn than expected when he hires a team of lawyers — a white man (Jeremy Geiger), a black man (Freddie Tate), and their young female associate (Karla Ford) — to defend him. As they review evidence, shame, guilt and personal feelings about racial harmony emerge.

As a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony Award nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. As a

screenwriter, he has received Oscar nominations for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. May 1-3 at 8 p.m.

May 4 at 2 p.m.

L I D D Y D O E N G E S T H E AT R E Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors and students.

BASED ON Michael Ende’s book of the same name that gave birth to the movie adaptation, The Neverending Story is the tale of Bastian Bux (Chris Delano), a bullied boy who becomes lost in the pages of a magical book, and Atreyu (Wesley Dotson), a young hero chosen to save a fantastical world and its dying empress from annihilation.

Directed by Jana Ellis and suitable for all ages, The Neverending Story is an enchanting tale that celebrates the triumph of imagination.

May 2-3, 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.

May 4 at 2 p.m.

J O H N H . W I L L I A M S T H E AT R E Tickets are $20; $14 for students.

TULS A OPERA

CARMEN ONE OF THE most frequently performed and beloved operas of all time returns to the Tulsa Opera stage!

Carmen is a sexy tale about a naïve soldier who abandons his childhood sweetheart — as well as his military duties — when he is seduced by a fiery gypsy.

This production of Georges Bizet’s masterpiece features mezzo soprano Leann Sandel-Pantaleo and tenor Jonathan Burton in their Tulsa Opera debuts.

With a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Carmen is sung in French with English supertitles.

May 2 at 7:30 p.m.

May 4 at 2:30 p.m.

CHAPMAN MUSIC HALL Tickets are $25-$98.

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CLICK, CLACK, MOO: COWS THAT TYPE The animals on Farmer Brown’s farm have had enough! They work all day to provide milk and eggs, but when their request for electric blankets to warm the drafty barn is ignored, action must be taken. Join the cows, hen and duck — and their trusty typewriter — as they engage in peaceful protest to improve their working conditions.

May 9-10 at 6:30 p.m.

C H A R L E S E . N O R M A N T H E AT R E Tickets are $10 for adults; $5 for students and children (age 3-12).

Age two and younger are free.

CELEBRIT Y AT TRACTIONS

SISTER ACT

Joan Marcus

FEATURING original music by eight-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.

Police hide her in the last place anyone would think to look — a convent! Under the suspicious eye of

Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own.

Based on the 1992 comedic film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act was nominated for five 2011 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The show is recommended for ages 9 and up.

May 13-18 CHAPMAN MUSIC HALL Tickets are $20-$60.

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC ONE HUNDRED FORTY actors auditioned for this production of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical! Making the cut are Kelsey Kemper as Maria, David Lawrence as Captain von Trapp, Kristin Harding as Baroness Elsa Schraeder, Jeremy Stevens as Max Detweiler and John Tupy as Rolf. The role of the Captain’s “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” daughter Liesl is shared by Hannah Finnegan and Cherish Masters. The roles of the other Von Trapp children are also double-cast, with the young actors taking part in alternating performances.

“It is a cast of 60 of some of Tulsa’s finest musical theatre talent,” says Theatre Tulsa’s artistic director Sara Phoenix. “The show will incorporate new scenic and costume designs and will include all of the wonderful music and choreography that audiences love.”

May 16-17, 22-24 at 8 p.m.

May 18 and 25 at 2 p.m.

J O H N H . W I L L I A M S T H E AT R E Tickets are $20; $16 for seniors, students and children.

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Wicked

THEATRE POPS

RACE May 1-3 at 8 p.m.

May 4 at 2 p.m.

Liddy Doenges Theatre OKLAHOMA SOCIETY OF IMPRESSIONISTS

CARMEN EXHIBIT May 1-30 PAC Gallery TULSA OPERA

CARMEN May 2 at 7:30 p.m.

May 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Chapman Music Hall AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY

THE NEVERENDING STORY May 2-3, 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.

May 4 at 2 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

CLICK, CLACK, MOO May 9-10 at 6:30 p.m.

Charles E. Norman Theatre CELEBRITY ATTRACTIONS

SISTER ACT May 13-18 Chapman Music Hall

HOUSE NOTES THE TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER was dedicated in 1977, the fulfillment of many Tulsans’ long-held dream. Built with a combination of public and private funds, the facility is operated by The City of Tulsa. The Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust is a non-profit organization of mayoral-appointed citizens who lend expertise and guidance in promoting Performing Arts Center goals. Local arts organizations and entertainment promoters are the Center’s main clients.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES are located at 110 E. Second Street, Tulsa, OK., 74103-3212. Office hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone 918-596-7122. Fax 918-596-7144. Please subscribe to our monthly PAC broadcast e-mail online at TulsaPac.com.

LOCATION. Downtown Tulsa at Third Street and Cincinnati Avenue, accessible from the Broken Arrow Expressway, Interstate 244, Hwy. 75 and Riverside Drive.

PARKING. Convenient underground parking is located west of the building, accessed from Second Street. Event parking also is available in several lots across the street to the east and south of the PAC.

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THEATRE TULSA

THE SOUND OF MUSIC May 16-17, 22-24 at 8 p.m.

May 18, 25 at 2 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre MISS SHELLY’S SCHOOL OF DANCE

RECITAL May 24 at 1:30 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Chapman Music Hall

ADMISSION AND LATE SEATING. Lobby doors open two hours prior to an event. Chapman Music Hall doors normally open 45 minutes prior to curtain.

The remaining theaters open 30 minutes before curtain. Late seating is at the discretion of each sponsoring organization. Latecomers may be temporarily held out of the theater or asked to take seats at the back if available.

TICKET OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. A free parking zone is available in front of the Third Street ticket office,101 E. Third Street (Third and Cincinnati) on the south side of the PAC. In addition to regular hours, it opens two hours prior to curtain for events scheduled in Chapman Music Hall.

The Second Street ticket office,110 E. Second Street on the north side of the building, opens two hours prior to each curtain for tickets to events scheduled that day in John H. Williams Theatre, Liddy Doenges Theatre or Charles E. Norman Theatre.

PHONE ORDERS. Call the PAC ticket office, 918596-7111, or from outside Tulsa call 1-800364-7111. Nominal service charges are added to all phone and Internet orders. The PAC ticket office accepts DISCOVER, MasterCard or VISA. Subscriber hotline: 918-596-7109.

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ONLINE TICKET ORDERS SERVICE OPTIONS. Buy tickets online and print them at home when you purchase at TulsaPac.com and MyTicketOffice. com. Use DISCOVER, MasterCard or VISA for online purchases. View our website and purchase tickets on your cell phone at TulsaPAC.mobi. In addition, purchase tickets through TulsaPAC. com or MyTicketOffice.com, choose the Tickets@ Phone option and have your tickets sent to your cell phone. Tickets will be scanned by ushers at the door.

EXCHANGES. The ticket office gladly exchanges tickets to events with more than one performance, subject to certain guidelines.

Otherwise, all sales are final.

24-HOUR EVENT LINE. For recorded information about ticket prices, dates, theater locations, upcoming events, Broadway series and season tickets, call 918-596-2525.

GROUP SALES AND BUILDING TOURS. Group discounts are available. Please call 918-5967109 for group sales assistance. Tours of the PAC are offered free of charge and last approximately 45-60 minutes. Arrangements may be made by calling 918-596-7122.

Artists, dates and ticket prices are subject to change.

SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. All Performing Arts Center facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. Please ask about wheelchair-accessible seating when purchasing your ticket. Parking is located on the street level of the parking garage near the PAC elevators.

Use the south elevator to reach Chapman Music Hall. Restroom facilities are located in the Third Street Lobby for Chapman Music Hall events, and adjacent to the John H. Williams Theatre Lobby for events in the PAC’s other theaters. Headsets and telecoil units for the Sennheiser infrared hearing assistance system in Chapman Music Hall may be picked up at the Coat Check in the Third Street Lobby for Chapman events, or from the House Manager on duty in the Williams Lobby for John H. Williams and Liddy Doenges Theatre events. The PAC’s TDD number is 918-596-7211.

PLEASE NOTE: Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is prohibited inside the PAC. Also, as a courtesy to the performers and audience, please turn off all audible message systems and cellular phones.

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Carrie Underwood with Jamee Suarez-Howard, founder and president of the OAA, and County Commissioner Karen Keith who served as the emcee.

Fur Ball co-chairs Emily and Greg Bollinger with OAA board member and artist Dana Gilpin who created the themed artwork for the 2014 event.

Among the 350 Fur Ball attendees were Robert Gallant, Carol McGraw, Allie Gallant, Joe McGraw and Mike McGraw. Carol and Joe were event sponsors.

Charlie Brown, a sweet two-year-old pup rescued by OAA, was a special canine guest. If you would like to know more about Charlie, please call Chay in Tulsa at 405-464-1939.

Fur Ball 2014

The 9th Annual Fur Ball raised over $135,000 for the Oklahoma Alliance For Animals (OAA) on March 8th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Special guests included Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, and country music superstar Carrie Underwood, Nashville, and her mother, Carol Underwood, of Checotah.

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