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Dear Friends,

The Performing Arts Series offers a rich contribution to the cultural life of the Missoula and campus communities. I congratulate and commend the students of UM Productions for an outstanding schedule of events, including something for everyone.

We of The University of Montana have tremendous pride in the exciting environment this programming makes possible. I encourage you to participate in the 2008-2009 season. As you do, you provide still one more wonderful learning experience for the students who make it possible.

Sincerely,

George M. Dennison, President
The University of Montana

Visit the Performing Arts Series Page for more information

Terry Fator

Friday, September 5, 2008
Doors @ 7:00, Show @ 8:00 PM
University Theatre

Tickets on sale now at all GrizTix outlets, including the Source in the UC, the Adams Center Box Office, Worden’s Market, Southgate Mall, toll free 888-MONTANA, and online at www.GrizTix.com.

Tickets: $55.50, $45.50

Terry Fator, ventriloquist, impersonator, singer, comedian, and winner of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” (2007), is perhaps the first entertainer to combine the art of ventriloquism with singing celebrity impressions. His puppets, including Cowboy Walter, Emma Taylor and Winston the Impersonating Turtle, effortlessly perform the singing styles of an eclectic group of stars including: Tony Bennett, Elvis, Maroon 5, Garth Brooks, Nat King and Natalie Cole, Roy Orbison, Etta James, Gnarls Barkley, James Blunt, Brooks & Dunn, Louis Armstrong and even Kermit The Frog. He recently performed to rave reviews on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”
and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” This will be the last tour for Terry Fator until 2014 because he just signed a $100 Million deal with the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.

For more information, please visit www.terryfator.com or www.myspace.com/terryfator

 

Carlos Mencia

Monday, October 13th, 2008
Doors @ 6:00, Show @ 7:00 PM
University Theatre

Tickets on sale now at all GrizTix outlets, including the Source in the UC, the Adams Center Box Office, Worden’s Market, Southgate Mall, toll free 888-MONTANA, and online at www.GrizTix.com.

Tickets: $37.50 + Ticketing Fees

Carlos Mencia, Latino superstar/stand-up comedian, is undoubtedly one of today’s most lauded and feared comics.  Each week he is the “mouth” behind Comedy Central’s hit show “Mind of Mencia” (3rd Season), where he dishes out a new brand of groundbreaking comedy humor. Mencia takes comedy one step further than comics like Lenny Bruce and Chris Rock, as he combines attitude and his unrelenting provocative nature with caustic, unabashed humor and pokes at racial stereotypes as well as modern day absurdities.

For more information, please visit www.carlosmencia.com

In The Mood

Friday, October 24th, 2008
Doors @ 6:30, Show @ 7:30
University Theatre

Tickets: $35.00 General Public, $25.00 Students

In The Mood began as a celebration of 1940's Swing Era in American Music.On the radio, in theaters, and ballrooms, Big Bands were drawing recordcrowds. Vocal groups and soloists sang a repertory of great songs, and forthe last time in the 20th century, the entire country shared a common popular music. The National Archives in Washington, DC brought In the Moodto their audiences as part of their commemoration of the 50thanniversary of WWII, and the response was extraordinary, with crowds lining up hoursbefore curtain time. Touring since 1994, In the Mood's upcoming nationaland international performances continue to portray the spirit that movedthe nation, including the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw,Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskin Hawkins, The Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and many more. More than a concert, In the Mood is a Big Band Theatrical Swing Revue.

For more information, please visit inthemoodlive.com.

Xiayin Wang

Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Doors @ 6:30, Show @ 7:30
UM Recital Hall

Tickets: $13.00 General Public, $8.00 Students

Xiayin Wang (pronounced shy-inn ) With a Carnegie Hall debut with Symphony behind her and glowing reviews from her first recording "Introducing Xiayin Wang" now starting to blossom, there is no doubt that this charming young pianist is starting to set the classical music world on fire. A "...breath of repertoire, sensitivity of touch, and a beautiful overallsound...Wang is quite an exciting player " raved the All Music Guide. The New York Sun reported " a poetic touch" while the November issue of TheClassical Music Magazine - Fanfare headlined their feature article - Discipline and Heart: A Conversation with Xiayin Wang. The story/ review by Peter J. Rabinowitz covers the differences growing up as a pianist at the Shanghai Conservatory of music where her training and the discipline setthe stage for her additional schooling here in the United States. He hasher talk refreshingly about music today - yesterday and of course, her "favorite" pianists. He then talks of her "elastically phrased, velvet-toned Ravel, which builds to a kaleidoscopic climax, her ecstaticperformance of the Scriabin Waltz, her glowering Vers la flamme, and, perhaps best of all, her impassioned accounts of Earl Wild's etudes on Gershwin. Wang speaks in her interview about the importance of "discipline", but it's clear from these performances that she's referringto the kind of discipline that liberates, not the kind that enslaves. Before arriving in the US from her native China where she had completedher studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Xiayin Wang had garnered an enviable record of first prize awards and special honors andhad played as soloist with China's leading orchestras. Here she studied at the heralded Manhattan School of Music and won it's Eisenberg Concerto Competition, as well as the noted Roy M. Rubinstein Award. In addition to a wide and eclectic repertoire, she also has a love for chamber works and plans to record in this area in the coming year. New CD's, video on YouTube and MySpace, a recital at Carnegie's Zenkel Hall in New York and extensive touring this coming season promise to carry this exciting artist to her next adventures on the world's great concert stages.

For more information, please visit www.gmartists.com/xiayinw or http://www.xiayinwangpiano.com

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Carrie Underwood

Friday, November 21st, 2008
Doors @ 6:30 Show @ 7:30 PM
Adams Center

Tickets on sale now at all GrizTix outlets, including the Source in the UC, the Adams Center Box Office, Worden's Market, Southgate Mall, toll free 888-MONTANA, and online at www.GrizTix.com.

Tickets: $55.00, $45.00, $35.00 + $3.50 Ticketing Fee

The excitement and overwhelming demand from fans for tickets to Carrie Underwood's headline tour, the " Carnival Ride Tour," is no surprise. As one of the hottest country tours on the road this year, additional dates have been added through December. Underwood was recently named Top Female Vocalist at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards for the second consecutive time. Her current album CARNIVAL RIDE, which contains the #1 co-written smash hits "So Small," " All-American Girl" and "Last Name," was certified double-platinum within 2 months of its release. Her debut album, SOME HEARTS, was certified 7x-Platinum, becoming the best-selling solo female country debut in RIAA history and surpasses all other releases as the all-time U.S. top-selling album by any American Idol contestant.
Little Big Town will open the show.

For more information, please visit www.carrieunderwood.fm or www.myspace.com/carrieunderwood.

The New Shanghai Circus

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Doors @ 6:30, Show @ 7:30
University Theatre

Tickets: $29.00 General Public, $8.00 Students

The New Shanghai Circus is composed of astonishing athletes defying gravity and executing breathtaking feats as they stretch the limits of human ability in this spellbinding show. Fearless performers with boundless energy bring you more than two thousand years of Chinese circus traditions. If it's humanly possible-and even if it's not! - Shanghai's acrobats, jugglers and contortionists do it with spectacular flair.

For more information, please visit www.gmartists.com/shows.htm#shanghai or www.acrobatsofchina.com.

Ailey II

Friday, February 20th, 2009
Doors @ 6:30, Show @ 7:30
University Theatre

Tickets: $28.00 General Public, $20.00 Students

Ailey II is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country's best young dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today's most outstanding emerging choreographers. Alvin Ailey personally appointed former Ailey member, Sylvia Waters, as Artistic Director in 1974. Under her direction, Ailey II has become one of the most popular dance companies in the country, combining a rigorous touring schedule with extensive community outreach programs.

For more information, please visit http://www.alvinailey.org.