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Solid Entertainment Lineup Bring Major Stars To Northeast
Wisconsin
by Bob
Lowe
October 27, 2004
People looking for entertainment in northeast Wisconsin over
the next several days have a delectable feast of choices comparable
to a diner at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. The lineup
includes the Broadway musical "Chicago," country
singer Dolly Parton, the bands Chicago and Earth Wind and
Fire, several Halloween-related events," and country
crooner Kenny Rogers.
Yesterday
began the national tour of the Broadway musical, "Chicago,"
at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in downtown Appleton.
The engagement runs through Sunday Oct. 31.
The 29-year-old show is based on two real life murderesses
who kill their lovers and a manipulative lawyer who turn them
into media celebrities. Appearing in the lead roles are Bianca
Marroquin as Roxie Hart, Brenda Braxton as Velma Kelly and
Tom Wopat as maser attorney Billy Flynn. It has won six tony
Awards and a Grammy Award for its cast recording.
"Chicago"
has grossed more than $600 million worldwide, has been performed
more than 10,000 times worldwide and has been seen in 19 countries
by 12 million people. The movie version, starring Richard
Gere, Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones, grossed more
than $170 million and became the 10th most successful film
in 2002. The musical has the distinction of being Broadway’s
longest running revival and continues to enjoy standing room
only audiences in its eight year at the Ambassador Theater
in New York City. It features such songs as "And All
That Jazz," "Razzle Dazzle," "Me and My
Baby," "My Own Best Friend," "We Both
Reached for the Gun" and "When You’re Good
to Mama."
The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2
and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday Oct. 31.
Tickets range from $37-$67 and can be reserved by calling
920-730-3760 or logging into www.foxcitiespac.com.
Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire will be at the Resch Center
in Green Bay, 1901 S. Oneida St., at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Oct.
26, with tickets going for $39.75 to $69.75.
Dolly Parton will be at the Resch Center in Green Bay at 7:30
p.m.
Wednesday Oct. 27. Tickets are sold out.
"Tony
N’ Tina’s Wedding" will play at the Meyer
Theater and the former H.C. Prange/Younkers building in downtown
Green Bay Tuesday through Saturday. For details call 1-800-895-0071.
YouthGo’s
Haunted House, "The Pirate’s Revenge: The Curse
of the S.S. Smith," will be ready to scare Halloweeners
6:30-10:30 p.m. today through Saturday, Old City Garage333
W. Cecil St., Neenah. Call 920-722-2033.
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
at the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, 920-424-2350.
"Terror on the Fox" will be at the National Railroad
Museum in Green Bay from 6:30-11:30 p.m. today through Sunday
Oct. 31. Contact: 920-430-1844.
Country singer Kenny Rogers will appear at the Weidner Center
in Green Bay at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Oct. 31. For tickets call
1-800-328-8587.
The UW-Fox Theatre will present Jane Anderson’s "Defying
Gravity," a "theatrical look at our heroic reach
for the stars," 7 p.m. Nov.3, 4, 10 and 11 and at 6:30
p.m. Nov. 6 and 13 in the Barlow Planetarium on the University
of Wisconsin-Fox Valley campus on Midway Road in Menasha.
Next
month will bring another celebrity parade through the Fox
Valley with appearances by Bill Cosby Nov. 5, NBC Tim Russert
Nov. 9 and Richard Chamberlain in "Scrooge" Nov.
16, all at Appleton PAC, Canadian fiddle Player of the Year
and Emmy nominee Natalie MacMaster on Nov. 11 at the Grand
Opera House in Oshkosh, Russell Simmons'' Def Poetry Jam on
Nov. 18 at the Weidner and Lonestar Nov. 22 at the PAC and
legendary rocker Bob Dylan at the Kolf Sports Center on Nov.
2 at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
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