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   from the issue of July 15, 2004

     
 
Lied sets '04-'05 season schedule

The Broadway hits Mamma Mia!, Rent and Chicago are just a few of the attractions coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts for the 2004-2005 season.

 
A scene from Mamma Mia!, which will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Feb. 1-6. Individual event...
 A scene from Mamma Mia!, which will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Feb. 1-6. Individual event tickets will be available from the Lied's Web site beginning Aug. 16.

Season tickets are now on sale, and single-event tickets will go on sale online on Aug. 16. For information, call 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 or visit www.liedcenter.org.

Below is the Lied Center schedule. For more information, visit the Web site or request a season brochure. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on the mainstage unless noted. The schedule is subject to change.

• Sept. 9, David Halberstam, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, "War and the Modern American Presidency," E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues lecture, 8 p.m.

• Sept. 18, Lewis and Clark Commemorative/Philip Glass Concerto, featuring Philip Glass, composer; Omaha Symphony; Paul Barnes, piano; R. Carlos Nakai, flute.

• Sept. 23, Preservation Hall Jazz Band/BeauSoleil.

• Sept. 29, River North Chicago Dance Company.

• Oct. 5, Ravi Shankar.

• Oct. 7, Nebraska Jazz Orchestra with Kelly Ellenwood, soprano.

• Oct. 9, Stanislavsky Opera Company - Tosca.

• Oct. 12, Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, The New Republic, "Power and Virtue: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East after September 11," E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues lecture, 3:30 p.m.

• Oct. 13 and 14, Rent.

• Oct. 20, Gajamukha Dance Ballet of India.

• Oct. 22, Marian McPartland, jazz pianist.

• Oct. 26, Pilobolus Dance Theatre.

• Oct. 28, The Capitol Steps, political entertainers.

• Nov. 3, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with Olga Kern, piano.

• Nov. 4, Cypress String Quartet, Johnny Carson Theater.

• Nov. 8, Roy Gutman, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, "Afghanistan and Lessons Learned," E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues lecture, 3:30 p.m.

• Nov. 12, musician Bobby McFerrin.

• Nov. 16, singer Emmylou Harris.

• Nov. 30, Michael Martin Murphey's A Cowboy Christmas.

• Dec. 9, A Scottish Christmas featuring Bonnie Rideout.

• Jan. 15, singer/musicians Odetta and Richie Havens.

• Jan. 24, The Cashore Marionettes, Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union.

• Jan. 29, St. Petersburg State Ballet Theatre.

• Feb. 1-6, Mamma Mia!, varying times.

• Feb. 11, Scholastic's The Magic School Bus, 7 p.m.

• Feb. 17, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a cappella singers.

• Feb. 19, Moiseyev Dance Company.

• Feb. 23-27, Riverdance, varying times.

• March 4, Prague Symphony Orchestra with Navah Perlman, piano.

• March 5, Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul, Irish musicians.

• March 9, Michael Lane Trautman, clown act, 7 p.m.

• March 22, Alloy Orchestra - Buster Keaton's The General (silent film), Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union.

• March 25, Samantha Power, executive director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, "The Age of Genocide," E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues lecture, 3:30 p.m.

• March 31, Fred Hersch, jazz pianist/composer, Leaves of Grass.

• April 1-2, The Full Monty, varying times.

• April 16, UNL Orchestra and Choirs - Christus by Liszt.

• April 22-24, Chicago, The Musical, varying times.

• April 27, Scrap Arts Music, 7 p.m.

• May 4, Lou Rawls - Rawls Sings Sinatra and Rawls Sings Rawls.

• May 12-14, 42nd Street, varying times.


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ARTS HEADLINES FOR JULY 15

Now playing at the Ross
Decorate eggs for White House
Great Plains Art Collection receives paintings by Falter
'Ivories' display extended to fall
Lewis, Clark interpretation opens July 31
Lied sets '04-'05 season schedule
Outdoor movies conclude Aug. 12

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