Kimmel Center Cultural Stimulus Plan Offers Half Price Tickets Through
December 12, 2008
Half Price Offer to Nine Kimmel Center Presents and Broadway Series Shows!
The Kimmel Center introduces Cultural Stimulus Plan with the opportunity to purchase half price tickets for nine upcoming Kimmel Center Presents and Broadway Series shows. The half price offer provides more affordable, lighthearted holiday entertainment for friends and family this season. Patrons may take advantage of the half price ticket offer from December 16, 2008 to December 31, 2008 for the best of Broadway, world & pop, jazz and classical music selections.
An added incentive to experience the performing arts, Kimmel Center and Academy of Music patrons will receive a special surprise from the following participating Cultural Stimulus Plan partners —Teuscher Chocolates, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Estia, McCormick & Schmick’s and The Prime Rib —upon presenting a ticket stub from Kimmel Center Presents and Broadway Series shows or mentioning the Cultural Stimulus Plan. Benefits vary from a free appetizer to free dessert or 10 percent discount.
For more information, visit www.kimmelcenter.org/half, call 215-893-1999 or purchase tickets at the Kimmel Center box office at Broad and Spruce Streets, open daily from 10am to 6pm.
The half price offer applies to the following performances:
BÉLA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES
With special guest Andy Statman, clarinet
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | 8pm
Verizon Hall
Full Price: $32-59
Led by the superman banjo hands of 10-time Grammy® Award-winning composer-musician Béla Fleck, this incredibly talented band of musicians will perform selections from their first holiday CD, Jingle All The Way.
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Friday, January 9, 2009 | 8pm
Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, January 11, 2009 | 1pm and 6:30pm
Academy of Music
Full Price: $28-100
It's been 30 years since Ain't Misbehavin,’ Broadway's smash-hit Fats Waller musical revue, won six Tony Awards® including Best New Musical. Ruben Studdard, the 2003 American Idol winner, joins a top-notch cast with a sassy all-star band live onstage.
*Half Price Offer valid ONLY for Fri., Jan. 9 and Sun., Jan. 11th evening shows for balcony and above seating. Excludes box seats.
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY
January 8-31, 2009 | Times vary
Innovation Studio
Full Price: $47
This hit musical tells how Broadway and tap dance developed into a purely American art form. Through the songs of Cohan, Berlin, Gershwin and many others, the performers will sing and tap dance their hearts out through the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
*Half Price Offer valid ONLY for Monday through Friday evening shows.
Radio Stories & Other Stories:
AN EVENING WITH IRA GLASS
Host of This American Life
Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 8pm
Verizon Hall
Full Price: $29-40
The award-winning host and producer of This American Life has reinvented radio through his ability to find humor and drama in everyday events. Making his Kimmel Center debut, Ira Glass proves why TIME magazine calls him the "Best Radio Host in America."
"…a storyteller who filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary imagination, an eccentric intelligence and a sympathetic heart."
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Friday, January 30, 2009 | 8pm
Saturday, January 31, 2009 | 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 1pm and 6:30pm
Academy of Music
Full Price: $25-100
The first masterpiece from the legendary writing team of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber exploded onto the scene in 1971 and includes a score of amazing songs – "I Don't Know How to Love Him," "Hosanna," "Heaven on Their Mind." This original groundbreaking production starring Ted Neely in the title role and Living Colour’s Corey Glover as Judas is as relevant and timeless as ever.
*Half Price Offer valid ONLY for Fri., Jan. 30th and Sun., Feb 1st evening shows for balcony and above seating. Excludes box seats.
**Offer is available from December 16 to December 19 for above dates exclusively.
JERRY BLAVAT’S ROOTS OF RHYTHM AND BLUES
Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 7:30pm
Verizon Hall
Full Price: $41-81
Philadelphia’s legendary radio personality returns to dish out a hot and healthy serving of songs you know and love from the yesterdays of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Artists include Gary U.S. Bonds, Darlene Love, Tommy Hunt and the Flamingos, and Kenny Vance and the Planotones, among others.
SIMON SHAHEEN
Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 3pm
Perelman Theater
Full Price: $35-45
Palestinian composer and virtuoso of the oud and violin, Simon Shaheen takes us on a soaring flight through the spheres of fusion music to discover the heart of the Middle East.
An Acoustic Evening with
LYLE LOVETT AND JOHN HIATT
On Stage Together
Friday, February 6, 2009 | 8pm
Verizon Hall
Full Price: $40-72
Four-time Grammy® Award-winner Lyle Lovett’s distinctive sound can be heard in a range of styles from fervent country swing to gospel blues. Renowned for his rootsy fusion guitar skills, John Hiatt joins the stage to perform selections from his recent 2008 release, Same Old Man.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Sunday, February 8, 2009 | 3pm
Verizon Hall
Full Price: $33-115
MOZART: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 "Leningrad"
Written when he was just 17, Mozart’s "Little G Minor" was his most passionate and dramatic piece to date. Shostakovich’s "Leningrad" was written while the city was under siege by the Nazis in 1941 and became his most popular symphony. Conductor Franz Welser-Möst leads his celebrated Cleveland Orchestra in an unforgettable night of masterpieces.
To take advantage of the half price offer, patrons must provide the promo code: HOLIDAYHALF when purchasing tickets. This limited-time offer begins December 16, 2008 and expires December 31, 2008 with a limit of four tickets per show. The offer applies to designated seating, is non-transferrable, cannot be combined with other offers and does not apply to subscription packages or prior ticket purchases.
Tickets for all Kimmel Center Presents performances are available for purchase by calling 215-893-1999; online at www.kimmelcenter.org; at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings; and at the Academy of Music box office on performance evenings only. For group sales, please call 215-790-5883.
Tickets for all Broadway Series performances can be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad and Spruce Streets (open daily 10am to 6pm) or at the Academy of Music box office, Broad & Locust Streets (open during performances only). Groups of 15 or more will receive discounts for select performances by calling 215-790-5883 or 866-276-2947.
Kimmel Center Presents’ 2008/2009 Season is sponsored by Citi. The Great Orchestra Series is supported by 10 Rittenhouse Square. Additional support is provided by the University of Pennsylvania Health System, American Express, and Interpark. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. NBC-10 is a media partner for Kimmel Center Presents.
Free in the Plaza programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.
The Kimmel Center is the recipient of partnership funding through the nationally recognized PNC "Grow Up Great" initiative, a ten-year, $100 million investment in preparing children for success in school and life. Funding gives support to the Kimmel Center’s early childhood program "Bop and Swing," an arts program for children 1-5 years old, designed to promote an appreciation for American culture.
All performances of the Broadway Series are supported by CITI, WPVI-TV 6, The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Broadway Series.
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