November 2019
Join us for a dance party in the Black Box after the Roasted Nut performance on Saturday, November 23rd! Your Roasted Nut ticket gets you in for free, otherwise it's $5 at the door, as there is no pre-show ticketing for this event.
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The Olga Symphony and Friends returns Thanksgiving weekend, Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 30. Gordon, Melinda, JP, and Anita will once more bring fine fashion and non-symphonic music, old favorites and new treasures, to the Orcas Center stage.
December 2019
The title character of Madama Butterfly—a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage—is one of the defining roles in opera. The story triggers ideas about cultural and sexual imperialism for people far removed from the opera house, and film, Broadway, and popular culture in general have riffed endlessly on it. The lyric beauty of Puccini’s score, especially the music for the thoroughly believable lead role, has made Butterfly timeless.
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Celebrate the season with joyous song, as the Orcas Choral Society presents its holiday concert, “Comfort and Joy.” Expect new twists on your favorite carols old and new. We’ll be joined by visiting Orcas instrumentalists Martin Lund and Kaj Litch plus instrumental offerings from Choral Society members Marilyn Andrews, Jim Shaffer-Bauck, Patty Johnson, and Terri Triplett. A great time will be had by all!
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No one has to be alone, nor spend any money at the holidays. Please receive the gift of music and join the Orcas Island Community Band for a holiday concert Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 3:00pm at Orcas Center. This annual community concert is a favorite with musical selections ranging from marches to show tunes and of course sounds of the season and sing-a-longs. The diversity of the music and of the age of musicians is sure to delight because music is the universal language. Admission is by donation and audience members are treated to a dessert reception afterwards.
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Orcas Center is pleased to welcome the performers of the San Juan Community Theatre to Center Stage for a special one-day-only production of A Christmas Carol. The story of Scrooge and the ghosts of Past, Present, and Future has been told dozens if not hundreds of times in various forms—even the Muppets did a take on it! It’s also known that Dickens himself toured around after the story was published doing public readings for enthusiastic crowds. Our version is much simpler than the Muppets. Five actors play all the parts in a 90-minute show that is produced simply because everything has to fit in the trunk of a car when we visit Lopez and Orcas islands. It features Brad Fincher, Kate Luebekman, Chelsea Parrot, BooBoo James, and Jim Hooper in a magical story of greed and redemption. It’s great for the whole family - see you there!
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"Christmas Around the World” is an evening of dance, presented by some of Orcas Island’s talented and aspiring performing artists with special guest Turtleback Brass. Exploring music, dance, and holiday traditions around the globe, performers will bring joy, hope, love, and good cheer to Orcas Center’s Main Stage this December. A variety of dance styles will be featured, with choreography by three of our island’s favorite dance instructors - Stephanie Moss, Tiffany Loney, and Katie Zwilling.
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Come “Home for the Holidays” with the Crow Valley String Band and Brograss on Friday December 20th at the Orcas Center. Rachel, Jim, Tashi and Kaj will be joined by Carl Burger, Dave Zoeller, Hailey Averna, Howard Barbour, Robb Eagle, and other guests for an evening of live music, stories, dance and laughter to embrace the shortest night of the year, and welcome Christmas, just around the corner.
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In this timeless story accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s beloved score, rising star Soloist Margarita Shrainer perfectly embodies Marie’s innocence and enchantment along with the supremely elegant Principal Dancer Semyon Chudin as The Nutcracker, captivating audiences of all ages and bringing them on an otherworldly journey.
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Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s modern masterpieces, with star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as the revolutionary title ruler who transformed ancient Egypt. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic music, McDermott offers an arresting vision that includes a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to more than 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
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A beloved holiday tradition continues as Mozart’s delightful fairy tale returns in the Met’s abridged, English-language version for families, perfect for younger audiences, with no intermission and a running time of less than two hours. Lothar Koenigs conducts a dynamic cast of standout Mozarteans in Julie Taymor’s magical production, an enduring Met classic with its eye-popping puppetry and stunning visuals.
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Raymonda is a must-see of the Bolshoi, a work of living dance history. Being one of legendary choreographer Marius Petipa’s final works, he fully armed this ballet with beautiful court scenes, romantic corps de ballet dances, Hungarian czars and a title role suited for the most outstanding ballerina.
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America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.
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