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INSIDE IOWA STATE
June 14, 2002

Tickets on sale for new Stephens season

by Linda Charles
In the mood for a Broadway musical? Maybe you'd rather listen to bagpipes? Or perhaps Shakespeare is more what you have in mind. It all will be at C.Y. Stephens next season (2002-03).

Tickets are on sale now for the 34th "Season at Stephens," which also will feature orchestras, ballets, folk dances, Irish music and tango dancing. Discounts (15 percent off for three or more events during the season) end Aug. 23.

Broadway productions will include The Music Man (Oct. 15-16), Fosse (Feb. 1, 2003), Cabaret (Feb. 20, 2003) and The Miracle Worker (May 3, 2003).

For those who prefer Shakespeare, there's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Feb. 25, 2003), and if opera is your cup of tea, check out Madame Butterfly (March 13, 2003).

Music buffs can select from a variety of performances. Those in the mood for orchestras can catch the Venice Baroque Orchestra (Oct. 6) or the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (March 4, 2003). Irish music will be featured in a performance by Cherish the Ladies (Dec. 18). Other musical performances will be presented by the Band of the Grenadier Guards with the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Highlanders (Feb. 16, 2003), The Nylons (March 28, 2003) and Rhythm & Brass (April 4, 2003).

Folk dancing will take center stage when the Georgian State Dance Company performs (Oct. 3). Ballet lovers can see Coppelia by the Shanghai Ballet (Oct. 10). Ballet National du Senegal (Nov. 1) will present the spirit of West Africa through music, song and dance. Tango Buenos Aires (March 27, 2003), featuring the rhythm and intricate steps of the dance that was born in the barrios of Buenos Aires, also will make a return trip to Ames.

Color, light, movement and music will highlight Blast II Shockwave (March 2, 2003), a hybrid of dance, gymnastics, drum-and-bugle corps and color guards.

For the kids, there's contemporary folk artist Tom Chapin (Nov. 16), who will lead sing-alongs and word games, and teach a song in sign language. The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration on Tour will present Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale (Feb. 23, 2003).

For more information, contact the Iowa State Center, 4-3347, or visit its Web site at http://www.center.iastate.edu/events/indexseason.html.