Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets Now on Sale! Comedian GEORGE LOPEZ at Academy of Music, Nov.19 and The Kinks' Legendary Frontman RAY DAVIES at Kimmel Center, Nov. 27

OCTOBER 11, 2010


George Lopez

George Lopez

Friday, November 19, 2010 at 8pm

Academy of Music

Ticket Price: $39.50 to $69.50

 

Presented in Association with Live Nation

 

Multi-talented entertainer George Lopez performs stand up comedy at the Academy of Music on Friday, November 19, 2010 at 8pm. His newest TV venture, TBS’s Lopez Tonight, premiered Saturday, November 9th.  One of the most influential Hispanics in America (Time Magazine), Lopez has performed in sold out venues from coast to coast. His Academy of Music show is intended for mature audiences (18+) only.

 

Tickets for George Lopez are on sale now.  All seats are available for $39.50 to $69.50, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings.  (Additional fees may apply.)

 

George Lopez has risen to become one of the premier comedic talents in the entertainment industry.  He has been praised by audiences and critics alike for his work in television, film and standup, as well as his extensive charity work with various foundations. 

 

In August 2009, Lopez filmed his second HBO Comedy Special, Tall, Dark and Chicano.  He headlined his first HBO Comedy Special, America’s Mexican, in 2007.  Lopez has also performed as part of HBO and TBS’s Comic Relief 2006.  His acclaimed comedy concert, Why You Crying?, debuted on Showtime in 2004.  Lopez released his third standup CD, El Mas Chingon, in 2006, earning a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Comedy Album.  Prior to that, in 2004, he was nominated for a Grammy in the same category for his CD Team Leader.  In May 2004, his autobiography, Why You Crying?, entered The New York Times Bestsellers Top 20.  The book was co-written by Emmy®-winning writer and sportscaster Armen Keteyian.   Lopez also was the focus of the award-winning documentary Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream.

 

Television’s groundbreaking hit sitcom, George Lopez, ran for six seasons on ABC, and remains a hit with viewers in syndication, ranking as one of the top-rated shows on the network and among the top five comedies and top 20 weekly programs in syndication.  George Lopez is one of only four off-net comedies to post weekly ratings gains among households from the 2007–08 to 2008–09 season.

 

 

Ray Davies

Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 8pm

Verizon Hall

Ticket Price: $45

 

Presented in Association with Larry Magid Entertainment and XPN Welcomes

 

Ray Davies performs live with full choral ensemble at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 8pm, as part of a four night East Coast tour in support of the new album, See My Friends.  Featuring Bill Shanley on guitar, Dick Nolan on bass, Damon Wilson on drums, Ian Gibbons on keyboards, and Gunnar Frick on keyboards, Davies recreates some of the classic Kink originals, as well as his own set of solo material on stage. 

 

Tickets for Ray Davies are on sale now.  All seats are available for $45, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings.  (Additional fees may apply.)

 

Ray Davies was lead frontman and songwriter of legendary London-based rock group, The Kinks, from 1964 to 1996, producing mid 1960’s gems like “You Really Got Me,”  “All Day and All of the Night,” and “I Need You” to more sensitive, thought-provoking works, such as, “Waterloo Sunset.” In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine profiled Ray Davies, deeming him “an anthropologist with a guitar” for his maturity in expressing song lyrics with keen, observational storytelling that reflected on the social issues of the working class British class system.  The 1969 album, Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), as well as songs such as “She’s bought a Hat Like Princess Marina” are a small sampling of his vast repertoire of music, ranging from rock and roll and blues to his latter explorations showing influences of vaudeville, traditional jazz and ragtime music.

The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and since then Davies has toured independently.  He has released five solo albums, including Return to Waterloo (1985), The Storyteller (1998), Other People’s Lives (2006), which was a top 40 album in the U.K., Working Man’s Café (2007) and The Kinks Choral Collection (2009), as well as the compilation Ray Davies—Collected (2009).

 

On October 26, 2010, Davies will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the AVO Session, an indoor music festival in Basel, Switzerland. He was also recently honored with GQ Magazine’s Men of the Year, Outstanding Achievement Award (September 2010).  Davies and the Kinks were the third British band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, when Davies was described as “almost indisputably rocks’ most literate, witty and insightful songwriter.”

 

 

Kimmel Center, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center.  Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts’ Merriam Theater. Our mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. The 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Citi, and the Broadway 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Verizon, and American Airlines.  For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org.  

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