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Dixie Longate is the fast-talking, gum-chewing, gingerhaired Alabama gal who is bringing your grandma’s Tupperware party into the 21st century. Audiences howl with laughter as Dixie demonstrates the many alternative uses for the iconic plastic kitchen staple. Filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, audience participation and a little bit of empowerment and homespun wisdom, Dixie’s Tupperware Party leaves your heart a little bigger and your food a little...
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SEAN LEBITA
Sean Lebita is an award-winning junior piano performance major and collaborative pianist from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studies under the esteemed Paul Barnes. In 2018, Sean won the Young Artist Award at the Music Teachers National Association of Collegiate Artists in Piano Competition, and went on to compete against other regional winners in the West Central...
Comprised of some of the nation's finest performers and educators, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Jazz Ensemble drew national attention in 2010 with their appearance on the NET Television and Glenn Korff School of Music program Jazz Cabaret, which has been viewed by millions. The program captured the versatility and creativity audiences have come to expect from the group. From...
NYU Verbatim Theatre: A Play on Politics
Make sure to vote, then tune in to Lunch & Learn as the Lied Center welcomes Joe Salvatore, a Professor of Educational Theatre at New York University, to chat about his groundbreaking work in political and cultural theatre using verbatim performance! Salvatore directs NYU’s Verbatim Performance Lab, which emerged following the success of ...
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Indigenous Climate Activist, Hip Hop Artist
Martinez is a powerful voice in the global youth- led environmental movement. From the age of six, Martinez has spoken around the world, from the Rio+20 United Nations Summit, to the General Assembly at the UN. A musician and activist, he is also known as a fashion model, philanthropist, and cross-cultural icon.
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Set in a loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Lanford Wilson's electrifying play shows the tension that erups when people from different worlds collide. The show is penetrating exposition of four violently opposing characters that are scrambling to regain control over their lives.
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One of Broadway’s biggest stars performs songs from her acclaimed career on stage and screen. Winner of a 2015 Tony Award® for her performance in the Broadway revival of The King and I, O’Hara’s has also co-starred with Matthew Broderick in Nice Work If You Can Get It and with Harry Connick, Jr. in The Pajama Game. Her engagements as...
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Lied Center Student Council presents
Broadway Trivia Night!
November 10, 2020 | 7:00 p.m.
UNL students, do you want to put your Broadway knowledge to the test? Don’t throw away your shot! Show off your lyric know-how, guess the Broadway show, and put those Great White Way facts bouncing around your brain to good use with a Broadway Kahoot game...
SENSATIONAL SEASONS & WILD WEATHER: YOGA, MOVEMENT, AND MUSIC!
As changing leaves sprinkle the ground and winter snowflakes approach in the Heartland join Ashley Laverty, Artistic Director of the Theatre for the Very Young company Kerfuffle,for a 45-minute season and weather themed movement, music, and yoga jam, specifically designed for children under 5years old. Since 2015, Kerfuffle has traveled the...
With an ever-changing set list, On Broadway highlights the music from Broadway’s newest blockbusters, including Moulin Rouge, Hamilton, SIX and Dear Evan Hansen while also featuring hits from iconic productions like The Lion King, West Side Story and more! Starring New York’s most sought-after talent, this production celebrates the best of Broadway sung by the stars themselves.
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Broadway Dance Master Class
This free Zoom master class for students ages 11-18 will bea musical theatre dance class for beginning and intermediate dancers, led by Lied Center teaching artist Con O’Shea Creal. O’Shea Creal will teach and perfect a short, choreographed combination from a musical theatre work. Students will learn how to pick up simple choreography, discover and build their...
Who: You and Jim Brickman!
What: A private concert event that will take place virtually
When: Sunday, November 29th • 3 PM CT
Where: Your couch, your kitchen table, your bed, your comfy recliner, your front porch…
Why: To enjoy a one of a kind personal concert experience with Jim and help support Lied Center for the Performing Arts
AND: You’ll get a stocking full of Christmas...
The Canadian Brass amps up the holiday cheer with lush Christmas carols and classics from A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, along with other favorite holiday hits!
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As the winner of NBC’s hit show Phenomenon, finalist on America’s Got Talent, and featured magician on Penn & Teller’s: Fool Us, Mike Super is the only magician in history to win a LIVE magic competition on primetime U.S. network TV and be voted America’s Favorite Mystifier. Enjoy this family-friendly performance filled with illusions, intrigue, danger, anticipation and excitement.
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In tribute to the much loved, international pop icon Neil Diamond, Super Diamond performs the timeless classics including “Sweet Caroline,” “America,” “Cherry Cherry,” “Forever in Blue Jeans” and all your favorite hits. Super Diamond’s success in America is unprecedented for a tribute band. With a nod from Neil (the man himself), Super Diamond is the most celebrated Neil Diamond tribute...
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Michael Feinstein, the multi-platinum-selling, five-time GRAMMY®-nominated entertainer dubbed "The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook," is one of the premier interpreters of American standards. His 200+ shows a year have included performances at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, as well as the White House and Buckingham Palace. Come for a perfect Valentine's Day weekend celebration at the Lied Center!...
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One of the top brass ensembles in the world makes its Nebraska debut with a program that highlights the most popular works of its illustrious 25-year career. Known as the Monty Python of the music world, this Austrian brass septet seamlessly combines laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy with virtuosic musical ability.
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A revered panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me, Paula Poundstone was the first woman to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and is the recipient of an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up Comic. Don’t miss her hilarious return to the Lied stage!
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Introduced to Lied audiences in 2018 as a last-minute soloist with Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra, Behzod Abduraimov has quickly established himself as a rising classical music star. Described as displaying “prodigious technique and rhapsodic flair” by The New York Times, Abduraimov returns to the Lied Center with a performance that includes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s grandiose Sonata...
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Established as a chamber music ensemble of the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic in 1985, this incredible group returns to Lincoln after making its Lied Center debut in 2018. The program includes Johannes Brahms’ masterwork Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor as well as Danny Elfman’s piano quartet, which was co-commissioned by the Lied Center....
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This ensemble has emerged as one of the top dance ensembles in the United States. Led by frequent Broadway choreographer Camille A. Brown, the company takes audiences on journeys through race, culture and identity. Brown blends the styles of modern, hip-hop, African, ballet and tap to tell stories that connect history with contemporary culture....
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This quartet shared the stage with Frankie Valli for a decade as the Four Seasons. During their tenure with Valli, they developed their own signature sound and incredible precision dancing. They are now touring the world performing your favorite hits of the ’60s and ’70s with four-part tight harmonies in styles ranging from pop...
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Irish singing sensation Michael Londra and his dazzling cast of Riverdance and Lord of the Dance alums perform a lively evening of traditional Irish music and step dancing. Backed by an ensemble of Ireland’s finest musicians, Michael Londra and the Celtic Fire promise an electric St. Patrick’s Day celebration straight from the heart of the Emerald Isle.
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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Studio Company features rising stars of the ballet world performing masterworks of the classical and neoclassical canons, alongside contemporary and newly created pieces. Nearly 80% of current dancers in American Ballet Theatre are alumni of ABT Studio Company, including 13 Soloists and 9 Principal Dancers - among them Misty Copeland, David Hallberg and Isabella Boylston.
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Identical twin sisters Christina and Michelle Naughton have been hailed by the San Francisco Examiner for their “stellar musicianship, technical mastery and awe-inspiring artistry.” Experience the Lied Center debut of this incredible piano duo featuring a program of works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Ravel!
“The textures shimmer like pure gold in bright...
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Regarded as one of contemporary jazz’s leading vocalists, Diane Schuur is as eclectic as she is brilliant. Schuur was blind from birth, but gifted with perfect pitch and three-and-a-half-octave vocal range. With a recording career that spans over three decades and includes two GRAMMY® awards, Schuur has explored almost every corner of the American musical landscape.
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For five decades, the athletic, nimble, zany, seemingly superhuman dancers and acrobats of Pilobolus have entranced audiences with their irresistible mix of wit, sensuality and stunning physical acumen. Contorting, bending and partnering to transform themselves into incredible shapes and images, the Pilobolus dancers tell stories through the astounding strength and precision of their bodies, enhanced by magical stage effects.
*Content warning: performance contains nudity
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In an eye-dazzling retelling of this classic fable, Aesop’s characters are illustrated by giant luminescent puppets stretching over 15 feet tall that give the art of storytelling a whole new look. Come early for FamFest, a preshow party with free snacks and hands-on activities!
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This Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo topped the charts for decades with No.1 hits, including the most played song in radio history, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'.” The concert experience features favorites, including “Soul & Inspiration,” “Unchained Melody,” “Rock and Roll Heaven,” the GRAMMY® Award-winning Dirty Dancing theme “The Time of My...
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Brazilian-born pianist Arnaldo Cohen has long had a reputation for astonishing audiences with his musical authority and blistering virtuosity. Cohen returns to the Lied to celebrate the music of composer Franz Liszt after an unforgettable performance in our 2013-2014 season!
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Jazz icon and 14-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and composer Herbie Hancock makes his Lied Center debut performance! Hancock was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered groundbreaking sound in jazz. In the 1970s he led musical innovations with record-breaking albums, including Head Hunters, combining electric jazz with funk and rock.
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One of the world’s preeminent orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra returns to the Lied Center for the first time since 2001 with a concert featuring the epic yearnings of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony! The program also includes Sarasate’s virtuosic Carmen Fantasy for violin showcasing concertmaster David Kim.
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Experience the journey of Ajijaak, a young whooping crane, in this majestic production brought to life through puppetry, dance and visual projections. Ajijaak’s story puts forward visions from Indigenous communities, celebrating the symbiotic relationship between cranes and Native American/Indigenous peoples while inspiring the next generation of storytellers and change-makers.
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With James Francies and Joe Dyson.
Twenty-time GRAMMY® Award winner Pat Metheny is one of the most accomplished jazz artists in history. Throughout his legendary career, Metheny has performed with artists as diverse as Herbie Hancock, David Bowie and Steve Reich while always sidestepping the limits of any one genre.
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The Boston Pops is not only America’s orchestra, it was John Williams’ orchestra before he passed the baton to Keith Lockhart. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the entire orchestra mark their return to the Lied Center with a program featuring the symphonic splendor of John Williams’ iconic music. Hop in your Millennium Falcon to celebrate 60 years of movie music...
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