Ed Asner as FDR
As The Richard Stockton College Performing Arts Center launches its fall season it maintains a tradition that’s been a staple of the arts center’s seasons for years.
Namely, putting together an eclectic and intriguing line-up.
As one of the few arts venues in the area outside of Atlantic City, the college’s entertainment programs offer up a diverse mix of shows that you’re not always likely to see in a casino showroom.
The season opens this Sunday with a performance by The Four Bitchin’ Babes, a group of four singers who present a comic and musical journey dubbed Diva Nation.
Other highlights for the fall season include such offerings as a one-man show starring veteran actor Ed Asner as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oct. 22, pictured above) to a concert appearance by musical cult icon Leon Redbone (Nov. 20).
But the season also offers a mix of classical music and ballet to a show by the Griffin Theater Co called Letters Home, based on the reading of actual letters home for U.S. Military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like we said, eclectic.
After the fall season, the Stockton PAC offers up four holiday concerts in December including the traditional performance of The Nutcracker by the Atlantic City Ballet.
Most shows are held at the Stockton PAC on the college campus in Pomona, Galloway Township, but a few concerts, such as Redbone, are in the college’s new Campus Center Performance Theater. also on the Pomona campus
Tickets for all shows are available through the PAC box office, 652-900 or Stockton.edu.
Here’s the list of shows. Seniors prices are discounted $5.
Oct. 16, 2pm
The Four Bitchin’ Babes
Campus Center Theater
With their whimsical, hip and sophisticated girl-group harmonies, these hysterically funny and multi-talented musicians let loose on how the new millennium has, in some cases literally, changed the face of The Diva. $35.
Oct. 22, 7:30pm
Ed Asner: FDR
Performing Arts Center
One of our generation’s best actors is playing one of our generation’s best presidents. Ed Asner as FDR will make a presidential stop at the Stockton Performing Arts Center. FDR explores the life of one of America’s best-loved presidents and the events and decisions that shaped a nation.
Oct. 24, 7:30pm
Grace Kelly Quintet with Special Guest Phil Woods
Performing Arts Center
Now just eighteen, Grace has performed over 500 concerts worldwide as the leader of her own quintet. Appearing with Grace is Phil Woods, a jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. Woods’ recordings have been nominated for seven Grammy awards and have won four. $40 orchestra, $25 mezzanine.
Thursday Oct. 27, 7pm
Atlantic City Ballet – 'Dracula'
Performing Arts Center
“Dracula,” an original work by Artistic Director Phyllis Papa, is a full ballet in three acts with a peculiar power of hypnotic fascination. It is based on Bram Stoker’s story of ages old yet forever new. The company consists of 18 professional dancers and 10 apprentices from the U.S., Latvia, Romania, Korea, Japan, China and Israel. $35 orchestra, $20 mezzanine.
Tuesday Nov. 1, 7pm
Shangri-la Chinese Acrobats
Performing Arts Center
This multi-faceted and multi-cultural production features dazzling acrobatic displays, formidable feats of daring and balance, explosive energy, brilliant costumes, with a touch of Chinese comedy. $35 orchestra, $20 mezzanine.
Thursday Nov. 3
Griffin Theater Company – 'Letters Home'
Performing Arts Center
These letters were written under the most difficult of circumstances — the disorientation of training, deployment, separation from family and loved ones, combat, and occupation duties in Afghanistan and Iraq. One theme unites their diverse voices: the belief that the person standing beside you is more important than you are. They also help define for the audience—patriotism and what it means to serve our country today, through acts of bravery, compassion, social responsibility, sense of community and brotherhood. $35 Orchestra, $20 mezzanine.
Sunday Nov. 6 2pm
Bay-Atlantic Symphony
Performing Arts Center
Mozart Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…………Marriage of Figaro selections featuring five soloists from Opera Vivente
Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…..Symphony No.36, “Linz”
$25 all seats.
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Ed Asner is an iconic figure and multi-Emmy winner for his work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant. For the last three years he has been bringing another iconic figure to life in the one-man show FDR, about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The play will be presented at the Stockton Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30pm.
Members of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will present a three-day free musical extravaganza at various indoor and outdoor venues in Atlantic City Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14-16.
“I think for a lot of people it’s like a kickoff to the holiday season, and an event people enjoy going to see each year,” says the A.C. Ballet's Phyllis Papa, who employs 22 professional dancers in the production, many of whom come from, and were formally ballet trained in, other countries.
On Thursday, Oct. 28, the Atlantic City Ballet returns to the Stockton PAC for 'Dracula,' a full three-act ballet from artistic director Phyllis Papa.
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