Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein
Labor Day is
behind us. Let the fall performances
begin!
Lansing arts
organizations are in now full swing. As usual, area culture lovers will have a
lot to choose from as they peruse their music and theater smorgasbord.
Here’s what I
recommend you should make sure is on your calendar in the next two weeks:
***LSO: The Lansing Symphony is opening their 90th
season with a huge coup on Saturday, September 21st. They’ve been able to snag in Audra McDonald,
the queen of Broadway. She has won six Tony awards, is a Julliard graduate and
has demonstrated her great talent as a singer as well as an actress. This will likely be a stunning night of music
and is a wonderful way to celebrate the LSO’s 90th season. It will
be a thrill to have her deep, beautiful voice accompanied by a full symphony orchestra.
For more info and tickets, please check it out at lansingsymphony.org.
***Peppermint
Creek: As his style, Chad Badgero,
artistic director and founder of Peppermint Creek Theater Company, is bringing a
fresh and new (2 years old) Broadway musical to Lansing. This time it’s “Bright Star”, by Steve Martin
and Edie Brickell, opening on September 19 for two weekends. It’s a blue grass
and folk song-based musical and will be performed at PCT’s new venue, the Central
United Methodist Church in downtown Lansing.
For more info and tickets, check out peppermintcreek.org
***Wharton:
Although Wharton has just completed their big hit of the season with “Come From
Away”, they are bringing a concert that many folks will enjoy, “Gordon
Lightfoot”, one night only on September 21st. Some news sources said
that Lightfoot died on an American tour earlier this year, but the 71-year-old
singer of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is very much with us. For more
info and tickets, check out whartoncenter.com
***MSU THEATER: The MSU theater department is opening their
season with an original, fantasy-based musical, “Dr. Fox and the Impossible Cure
For Death”, opening on September 21st. It stars professional actors
as well as MSU students and looks like will be interesting and fun. For more
info and tickets, check out theatre.msu.edu
***MSU MUSIC: The following week (Sept 23rd)
will kick off many concerts from the MSU College of Music. On the 23rd the College of Music will
feature Musique 21, the contemporary music series, and the big concerts later
in the week with be the Symphony Band, the Wind Ensemble and the Symphony Orchestra,
all at Wharton’s Cobb Great Hall. Lots to hear at very inexpensive prices. For
more info and tickets, check out music.msu.edu
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