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features 9 Q&A: Chad Oliverson Tulsa PAC Trust’s marketing and PR manager talks about how SummerStage is “fringing out” this year to include performances at other venues Interview by Nancy Bizjack

12 Nun on the Run

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Sister Act takes everything we loved about the movie and bumps ups the fun factor with new music and costumes inspired by the 1970s disco scene

by Kendra Blevins

17 A Favorite Thing

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Theatre Tulsa presents the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music with Kelsey Kemper and David Lawrence heading up a 60-member cast

by Rachel Weaver

5 Directions Accounting For It by John Scott

7 Bravo Race The Neverending Story Click, Clack, Moo The Bluest Eye

23 Spotlight Ophelia Orchestra Wicked One-Man Star Wars Fun & Frolic Family Magic Show Vintage Wildflowers Book of Days Janet Rutland Sings the Sixties Rick Miller’s BOOM

26 June Events

in the gallery Carmen Art Exhibit May 1-30

18 Interview With a Gypsy Mezzo-soprano Leann Sandel-Pantaleo makes her Tulsa Opera debut in the title role of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, with her friend Jonathan Burton as Don José

by Thom Golden

21 Talking Heads

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From “Behind the Scenes of Downton Abbey” with Jessica Fellowes to “A Morning With the Puzzle Master, Will Shortz,” Tulsa Town Hall has lined up another intriguing season Compiled by Nancy C. Hermann

Cover photos: Sister Act by Joan Marcus; Carmen courtesy of Opera Omaha

Carmen Flamenco by Diane Ainsworth 18” x 24” Oil The opera Carmen is the focus of an art exhibit in the PAC Gallery this month. Through collaboration with Tulsa Opera, members of the Oklahoma Society of Impressionists (OSI) have interpreted Georges Bizet’s masterwork in paint. Each of OSI’s members will display one Carmen-related painting and one painting on a subject of their choosing. View the show Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and during Chapman Music Hall events.

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ACCOUNTING FOR IT LAST MONTH Alana Reed and John Scott I discussed some challenges for the PAC with regard to next fiscal year’s budget. Drawing from the City’s General Fund and Convention Fund, our typical yearly expense budget ranges from $2.4 to $2.8 million.

It comprises 86 different line items contained in five cost centers, including Administration, Stage and Tech Services, Customer Services, Plant Services and PAC Trust Programming.

Ever wonder who tracks all those expenses and pays our bills? That would be Alana Reed, PAC Senior Accounting Specialist.

Even though each cost center’s expenses are monitored by a division manager, Alana’s responsibilities include overall supervision of all monies paid out for such things as personnel, supplies, tools, theatrical equipment and outside vendor contracts. Once our annual budget is approved by the Mayor and City Council, Alana must account for every penny disbursed.

As if that were not enough, Alana also is the “check and balance” for the high volume of dollars coming into our ticket office. Averaging $7.5 million per year ($10.8 million last year with The Lion King), ticket office gross sales are held in escrow until the individual events take place, after which Alana computes each show’s settlement (final accounting). Facility expenses are subtracted from the ticket proceeds net of sales tax with the balance paid to or collected from the event’s sponsoring organization. With more than 500 performances per year, Alana’s is the epitome of a full-time job and, after 26 years, no one does it better.

Enjoy a range of events this month, including opera, drama, musicals and Miss Shelly’s annual dance recital. Treat yourself to several this month.

As always, thanks for your support and I’ll see you in the lobby.

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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.

THE NEVERENDING STORY 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.

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ADAPTED BY Lydia R. Diamond from the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye is about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her family and schoolmates.

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ang the gong, let’s get it on!” exclaims the baton-wielding Deloris Van Cartier in the musical Sister Act. Based on the popular 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act takes the comedy of the film and combines it with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Glen Slater.

“It’s all new music,” says Ta’rea Campbell, who plays Deloris in the musical. “The audience can expect to see lots of sparkles, and it’s extremely funny. They won’t miss the movie aspect because the musical stands on its own.”

While the musical definitely captures the comedy of the movie, it ups the pizzazz with music inspired by 1970s acts like Donna Summer. The main differences between the movie and the musical are that the play is set in Philadelphia instead of California, the time is the ’70s instead of the ’90s, and the music has a groovy disco vibe.

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performed in two Menken musicals — Little Shop of Horrors and Leap of Faith — on Broadway before joining the U.S. tour of Sister Act in 2012. Campbell has also been in The Book of Mormon and The Gospel According to Fishman.

She dismisses all of that as pure coincidence, saying she was attracted to Sister Act because she thought the show was a good fit for her.

“I thought the show was fantastic, and the characters were funny,” she says. Apparently many others think

so too. Sister Act opened in London in 2006 with Goldberg in the role of Mother Superior and garnered four Olivier Award nominations. In 2011 it came to Broadway, where it earned five Tony nominations and was up for five Drama Desk Awards. Productions of Sister Act have been mounted in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and France, with more planned for other countries.

Campbell has been with the U.S. tour since its inception in 2012. She

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first came to Tulsa in 2006 as Nala in The Lion King, and she says she is looking forward to returning as the feisty Deloris, a former nightclub singer who, after witnessing her boyfriend, Curtis, commit a violent crime, has been placed in a convent for her own protection.

Deloris (now known as Sister Mary Clarence) trades her hip ’70s attire for a nun’s habit and tries to fit in, but her lively personality keeps getting her in trouble.

Not accustomed to the strict rules of the convent, Deloris finds ways to break the monotony, like sneaking out to the neighborhood disco, only to be followed by two of the nuns and then reprimanded by Mother Superior and Eddie, the detective responsible for Deloris’ safety.

To keep Deloris in line, Mother Superior assigns her to the painfully bad church choir, but that doesn’t keep Deloris down. She is in her element and, baton in hand, raises the spirits of the choir, creating a noteworthy group that brings in more congregants, more donations, and an audience with the Pope.

Campbell’s favorite scene in the musical is “Raise Your Voice,” in which the nuns let loose an explosion of confidence that they’ve kept under wraps, due to Mother Superior’s regard for tradition and meekness. Played by Hollis Resnik, Mother Superior is not a fan of Deloris’ ways, but is trying to do her Christian duty to care for someone in need. Also, the church desperately needs the money the choir is bringing in! However, the choir’s success also grabs the attention of journalists, and Curtis and his thugs see Deloris on TV. With her cover blown, she has to suddenly leave the convent and prepare to stand trial against her old boyfriend.

Although Deloris never planned to stay in the convent forever, after achieving success with the choir and bonding with the sisters, she feels guilty when she has to tell them who she really is and that she has to leave before they can perform for the Pope.

Faced with a crisis of conscience, Deloris has to make a decision: Will she leave the convent behind and sing her way to the top of the disco scene or will she go for deeper meaning in her life?

“The character is written wonderfully,” says Campbell. “Deloris goes through a lot of emotions. She’s a complex woman, so I never get bored.

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A Favorite Thing

by Rachel Weaver

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id you catch the live TV performance of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood? The December 2013 production sparked new and renewed interest in the classic as the von Trapp family won our hearts all over again.

Theatre Tulsa didn’t need to be wooed.

The longstanding local theatre company had already begun planning a production of The Sound of Music, securing the rights from Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals to tell the heroic, heartening and mostly true tale of the Trapp Family Singers for the last production in Theatre Tulsa’s 91st season.

It’s a story familiar to most, thanks to the popular 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews. Maria, a nun in Austria during the dawning of World War II, is sent to be a governess for the seven children of widower Captain Georg von Trapp.

Maria reintroduces music to the strict household, and she and the captain fall in love and marry. Von Trapp is called to join the German navy, but instead he and his family “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and escape over the Alps.

As viewers of the recent TV performance discovered, the stage musical, which came first, in 1959, is only

slightly different from the movie. All the beloved songs are there, such as “My Favorite Things,” “So Long, Farewell,” “The Sound of Music” and “Edelweiss.”

In addition, the musical has three songs that were cut from the movie: “How Can Love Survive?,” “No Way to Stop It” and “An Ordinary Couple.”

The actually “not-so-ordinary” couple, Maria and Captain von Trapp, are played by Kelsey Kemper and David Lawrence, part of a 60-member cast that includes two groups of von Trapp children, who will alternate performances.

With only seven youth roles in the production, director Sara Phoenix said she wanted to give as many children as possible the opportunity to be in the show, which Theatre Tulsa last staged in 1986.

“We had 80 local kids come and audition — just absolutely amazing talent,” she says.

Lawrence, a new father, says playing the patriarch of a large family is a privilege and responsibility.

“The fact that Captain von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers were real people

and the show itself is an homage to truelife events is a big deal to me,” he says.

Other cast members include 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.

Phoenix encourages parents to bring their children.

“I remember the first time my parents took me to see a stage production of The Sound of Music when I was 10 years old,” she recalls. “Movies come and go, but the experience of live theatre is a special event children will never forget.”

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An Interview With a Gypsy C

armen famously bombed at the box office and with critics when it premiered at Paris’ staunchly traditional Opèra Comique in 1875. Luckily for music lovers, the opera was soon remounted to great acclaim in Vienna, and it quickly had audiences leaping to their feet across Europe and in America. One hundred and thirty nine years later, Georges Bizet’s masterwork about a beguiling gypsy and the soldier who surrenders to her seduction is widely regarded as the most popular opera in the world. Mezzo-soprano Leann SandelPantaleo, who makes her Tulsa Opera debut as Carmen this month, says the reasons for this are pretty straightforward.

“Bizet melds the music with feeling. He takes complex music and makes it seem effortless, and there is a physical connection for audiences,” she explains. “It’s sensual but approachable to all of us, and it’s fun.”

She also believes that Americans in particular may love Carmen because, in form, it shares many similarities with Broadway musicals.

Whether she’s performing Amneris in Aïda or Siegrune in Die Walküre, SandelPantaleo is praised for her ability to truly inhabit her roles. When she sang Carmen with Utah Opera in 2010, she says artistic director Christopher McBeth approached her after a rehearsal and said, “Excuse me.

Are you her?” McBeth was probably joking, and to her credit, her answer was, “I hope not,” but Sandel-Pantaleo thinks she has a few things in common with Carmen.

“I’m not so afraid of what people think of me,” she says. “Carmen doesn’t play by the rules, and I’m a rule-breaker. I’m unapologetically nonconventional, and I’m always led by my passion.”

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I See Your Gypsy

There may well be something of the gypsy in Sandel-Pantaleo, too. Though she’s found her way to the stages of La Scala, Staatsoper Berlin, The Metropolitan Opera and other world-famous opera companies, her path to becoming an opera singer wasn’t conventional. At age ten, she moved to a farm in rural Michigan, where she learned to garden, drive tractors and raise pigs. She was active in 4-H, where she won the title of Grand Showman. Fate stepped in during her high school years, when she was asked to choose a summer camp.

“I was tall, so I thought I would do basketball, but it turns out I was really awkward,” she says.

Music camp was her second choice and not just any music program. She ended up at the renowned Interlochen Center for the Arts and found herself transformed by the experience.

“Music opened up my life. I was happier than I’d ever been,” she remembers.

The young Sandel-Pantaleo excelled at Interlochen. She won a scholarship to return the following summer, sang leading roles in H.M.S. Pinafore and Carousel, won a concerto competition, and she was even invited to attend school at Interlochen on scholarship. She turned down that offer, but it was there at summer camp that she was first introduced to opera and encouraged to attend college and study music.

Sandel-Pantaleo went to the famed music school at Indiana University, a solid step on the path to becoming a professional singer. However, although she had

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a great teacher, college wasn’t a positive experience, and it was the beginning of a dark period in her life. After college, she left music and moved to the West Coast, but opera was always calling, always in the back of her mind. Eventually, she took part in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She didn’t advance, but she was encouraged to get back into music. Thus began an odyssey that included touring the nation as a pop singer, moving to Italy to learn the language, and earning a master’s degree from Butler University. Then one day came an experience that snapped everything into focus.

“I remember it vividly. I was watching a video of Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas singing La traviata with tears streaming down my face,” SandelPantaleo recalls. “I knew this was what I had to do and that I had to get serious.”

She moved to New York and found a vocal coach to help refine her skills, making the switch from soprano to mezzo — something she found rather horrifying at the time.

“I didn’t want to be a second-class citizen. At least that’s how I thought of it at the time,” she admits. “Boy, was I wrong!

Becoming a mezzo not only opened up new qualities in my voice, it opened new possibilities for me.”

The Late Bloomer

Sandel-Pantaleo made her professional debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana with PORTopera in Portland, Maine, in 2004. It was later in life than the typical debut, but she quickly made up for lost time. Soon, she was on stage at The Met singing Flora in La traviata and Siegrune.

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The latter role, in Die Walküre, has become something of a specialty, taking her to Rome, Berlin, London and elsewhere.

Sandel-Pantaleo sang her first Carmen with Chautauqua Opera in 2007. Now, it’s a standard in her repertoire — this is her eighth production — and a role for which she’s won the most critical acclaim.

It’s also a role with which she’s become very familiar and comfortable (“It’s like a having a nice chair or couch”) but never takes for granted. “It’s a danger to say, ‘Oh, another one.’ I look for all the differences in each production, and I’m not afraid to take risks,” she says.

In this Tulsa Opera production, SandelPantaleo sings the role opposite her friend Jonathan Burton as Don José. The two performed the same roles together last November in a celebrated production at Opera Omaha. It’s an exciting prospect for Sandel-Pantaleo.

“This opera really should be called José’s Madness,” she says. “Jonathan is such a gifted singer and such a gifted actor. He’s truly one of the best I’ve worked with. When you’re around greatness and such authenticity, it’s amazing where you can go.”

She also says that while this is a completely different production, she and Burton will be able to skip the trustbuilding process that costars typically go through. “I don’t have to wonder what he’s thinking,” she offers as an example.

Sandel-Pantaleo is careful not to call Carmen her favorite role, but it’s clear that she has an affinity for the character. There is, however, something that bothers her about the role.

“One of the things that ticks me off is that Micaela gets to steal the hearts of the audience and Carmen is the villain,” she says. “Micaela is loved, and Carmen gets what’s coming to her!”

Carmen Presented by Tulsa Opera May 2 at 7:30 p.m.

May 4 at 2:30 p.m.

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Lawyers Of The Year

Among Tulsa’s “The Best Lawyers in America,” 47 have been named the best in a specific practice area and named a “Lawyer Of The Year” by Woodward/White, Inc. These honored attorneys are: Insurance Law Phil R. Richards Richards & Connor PLLP

Litigation - Real Estate Robert Winter Pray Walker, PC

Labor Law - Management Charles S. Plumb McAfee & Taft PC

Litigation - Securities James M. Sturdivant GableGotwals

Litigation - Banking and Finance Terry M. Thomas Crowe & Dunlevy

Litigation - Trusts and Estates Jeffrey D. Hassell GableGotwals

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Sheppard F. Miers, Jr. GableGotwals

Litigation - Bankruptcy Steven W. Soule Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C.

Mediation Earl D. Mills Dispute Resolution Consultants, Inc.

Employment Law - Management David E. Strecker Strecker & Associates, P.C.

Litigation - Construction James L. Kincaid Crowe & Dunlevy

Energy Law Terry D. Ragsdale GableGotwals

Litigation - Environmental Linda Crook Martin Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP

Medical Malpractice Law Defendants Terry Todd Rodolf & Todd

Appellate Practice Jon E. Brightmire Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP

Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar Paul Brunton Morrel Saffa Craige P.C.

Arbitration David L. Bryant GableGotwals

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Allen M. Smallwood Allen Smallwood

Banking and Finance Law Gary L. Betow Conner & Winters, LLP

Education Law J. Douglas Mann Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Neal Tomlins Tomlins & Peters, PLLC Bet-the-Company Litigation Oliver S. Howard GableGotwals Construction Law Steven K. Metcalf McDonald, McCann, Metcalf & Carwile, LLP Copyright Law Robert E. Spoo Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP Corporate Governance Law C. Raymond Patton, Jr. Conner & Winters, LLP Corporate Law Stephen W. Ray Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C.

Environmental Law Michael D. Graves Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. Family Law Paul E. Blevins Blevins Law Office Gaming Law Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr. GableGotwals Health Care Law Barry L. Smith McAfee & Taft PC

Litigation - ERISA Karen L. Long Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold Litigation - Intellectual Property Roy C. Breedlove Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, P.C. Litigation Labor and Employment Steven A. Broussard Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C.

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Michael D. Cooke Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. Native American Law Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Jr. Crowe & Dunlevy Natural Resources Law James C. T. Hardwick Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. Oil and Gas Law W. Bland Williamson, Jr. Pray Walker, PC

Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Michael P. Atkinson Atkinson, Haskins, Nellis, Brittingham, Gladd & Fiasco PC Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs M. David Riggs Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis Inc. Product Liability Litigation Defendants Dennis C. Cameron GableGotwals Real Estate Law B. Kenneth Cox, Jr. Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. Securities / Capital Markets Law C. Bretton Crane Pray Walker, PC Securities Regulation Robert A. Curry Conner & Winters, LLP Tax Law Kenneth L. Hunt Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C. Trusts and Estates Mark W. Curnutte Logan & Lowry, LLP

Patent Law Terry L. Watt Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, P.C.

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OPHELIA ORCHESTRA THE OPHELIA ORCHESTRA is a 10-piece band from Oslo, Norway, that is considered one of the best in the world when it comes to performing ragtime and early jazz.

The Ophelia focuses on the music of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake and Jelly Roll Morton, as well as more contemporary ragtime composers, including David Thomas Roberts and Frank French, both of whom

have performed solo and/or duet concerts in Tulsa.

The orchestra has played at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and toured extensively in the U.S., including performances at the annual Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri.

June 3 at 7 p.m.

JOHN H. WILLIAMS T H E AT R E Tickets are $25; $5 for students.

CELEBRIT Y AT TRACTIONS

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DECLARED “The Best Musical of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly and “A Cultural Phenomenon” by Variety, this beloved backstory of the witches of Oz is the winner of more than 50 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards.

Long before Dorothy drops in, two girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for “the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time,” wrote USA Today.

The show is based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman.

June 18–July 6 CHAPMAN MUSIC HALL Tickets are $35-$155.

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ONE-MAN STAR WARS A FEW YEARS AGO, in a garage far, far away, comedian Charles Ross decided to put his Star Wars obsession to good use. He now performs the original movie trilogy — voices, sound effects, soundtrack and all — in a lightspeed 60-minute show that’s suitable for all ages.

One-Man Star Wars is “funnier than you could imagine,” writes Spin

magazine. “Immediately accessible… it was great,” says Conan O’Brien.

From off-Broadway New York to London’s West End, from Dubai resorts to the Glastonbury Music Festival, in small towns, big cities and at Lucasfilm’s own Star Wars conventions — this show has been places!

June 13 at 7:30 p.m.

J O H N H . W I L L I A M S T H E AT R E Tickets are $25.

TOP HAT MAGIC

FUN & FROLIC FAMILY MAGIC SHOW SIT BACK AND RELAX as master magician Steve Lancaster conjures up fun and exciting illusions with so many surprise endings, you will wonder, “How did he do that?” In addition, Sponji the Clown joins the show, bringing his own magic, comedy and balloons!

Lancaster has been a magician for 30 years, performing coast to coast for conventions, sales meetings and banquets. In 1995, he was included in the Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic, an invitation-only gathering of the top 125 sleight-of-hand magicians in the world.

Native Oklahoman John Pansze, a.k.a. Spongi the Clown, began exploring the mysteries of magic in 1976. Over the years, he has performed with numerous magicians, including the late Doug Henning.

VINTAGE WILDFLOWERS

VINTAGE WILDFLOWERS IN CONCERT ACCLAIMED FOR their instrumental prowess, onstage charm and soulful vocals, the Vintage Wildflowers have developed an enthusiastic legion of fans with their vibrant Celtic, folk and bluegrass blend. Equally at home before soldout festival crowds and intimate house concert audiences, the Vintage Wildflowers have performed at venues as varied the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the North Texas Irish Festival, and the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour.

“Theirs is a full and rich sound that can fill a concert hall with song and three-part harmonies or, if they choose, make a tune resonate softly to float on the air over a coffee-house audience,” wrote Marie Gullard in the Washington Examiner.

The Vintage Wildflowers are Abby Bozarth (fiddle, mandolin, harmony vocals, guitar), Dana Fitzgerald Maher (Celtic harp, piano, harmony vocals), and Audrey Schmidt (lead vocals, bass, guitar).

June 15 at 2 p.m.

June 19 at 7:30 p.m.

L I D D Y D O E N G E S T H E AT R E Tickets are $22.50; $17.50 for seniors and students, $12.50 for children. Table seats are $25.50.

C H A R L E S E . N O R M A N T H E AT R E Tickets are $15; $12 for students and seniors; $10 for children.

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BOOK OF DAYS BOOK OF DAYS, by Lanford Wilson (Hot L Baltimore) is set in a small Missouri town dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church, and a community theater.

When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan

of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done.

June 19-21 at 8 p.m.

June 22 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 students and seniors.

Recommended for mature audiences

PAC TRUST

RICK MILLER’S BOOM BOOM is a one-man multimedia performance that documents the music, culture and politics that shaped the Baby Boom generation.

Awarding-winning Canadian actor, director and writer Rick Miller (MacHomer) takes you through 25 turbulent years (1945-1969) and gives voice to more than 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians of that generation.

From the boom of the atomic bombs that ended World War II through the explosion of science and technology that landed men on the moon, BOOM lets you experience global events as they unfold.

June 20-21 at 7:30 p.m.

JOHN H. WILLIAMS T H E AT R E Tickets are $25; $22 for seniors, $12 for students.

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JANET RUTLAND SINGS THE SIXTIES JANET RUTLAND Sings the Sixties is the Sand Springs songstress’ 10th cabaret show for SummerStage.

In putting this show together, she collaborated with Top 40 guru Steve Clem (author of Tulsa’s KAKC Radio: The Big 97) on the decade’s songs as well as historical events.

“This music is a real heart punch,” says Rutland. “You can remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first heard these songs. It’s a trip.”

Rutland will perform songs by Dusty Springfield, The Mamas and The Papas, Bob Dylan and more.

June 20-21 at 7:30 p.m.

CHARLES E. N O R M A N T H E AT R E Tickets are $12; $18 for table seats.

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ON UPCOMING EVENTS

JUNE

JANET RUTLAND

Jerry Seinfeld

JANET RUTLAND SINGS THE SIXTIES June 20-21 at 7:30 p.m.

Charles E. Norman Theatre

RAGTIME FOR TULSA

OPHELIA ORCHESTRA June 3 at 7 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre

PAC TRUST

RICK MILLER’S BOOM June 20-21 at 7:30 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre

EXPERIENCE TULSA

ART AND CULTURE ARE ALL AROUND TOWN June 5–July 11 PAC Gallery

SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY THEATRE

JERRY SEINFELD June 7 at 7 p.m.

Chapman Music Hall

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN June 26-28 at 7:30 p.m.

June 29 at 2 p.m.

Liddy Doenges Theatre

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DREAMGIRLS June 26-28 at 7 p.m.

June 29 at 2 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre

ONE-MAN STAR WARS June 13 at 7:30 p.m.

John H. Williams Theatre TOP HAT MAGIC

JOHNTOM ENTERPRISES

FUN & FROLIC FAMILY MAGIC SHOW June 15 at 2 p.m.

Liddy Doenges Theatre CELEBRITY ATTRACTIONS

WICKED June 18–July 6 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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A REALLY COOL, COOL SHOW (PLEASE COME!) June 27-28 at 8 p.m.

Charles E. Norman Theatre VINTAGE WILDFLOWERS

VINTAGE WILDFLOWERS IN CONCERT June 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Charles E. Norman Theatre

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.

THEATRE POPS

BOOK OF DAYS June 19-21 at 8 p.m.

June 22 at 2 p.m.

Liddy Doenges Theatre

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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