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Friday - May 3, 2013 8:00 pm Returning to The Wildey Theatre: MICHAEL BREWER & TOM SHIPLEY. Brewer & Shipley are truly two who work as one. Still as passionate as ever, they continue to blend guitars and voices and perform for audiences 40 years after their trademark vocal harmonies and intertwined acoustic guitars carved a unique niche in America's soundboard. Their melodic music and underlying lyrical themes of personal freedom and traditional songs of love still resonate with long time fans while continuing to draw new ones. ... Buy Tickets... |
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Saturday - May 4, 2013 3:00 pm See Tom Chapin perform a children's concert at The Wildey Theatre! In a career that spans five decades, 23 albums and three Grammy awards for children's albums, multi-talented singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Chapin has covered an incredible amount of creative ground. Chapin uses his ability to engage the hearts, minds and imaginations of young listeners with witty, life-affirming original songs delivered in a sophisticated array of musical styles. 
Saturday - May 4, 2013 6:30 pm In a career that spans five decades, 23 albums and three Grammy awards, multi-talented singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Chapin has covered an incredible amount of creative ground. In addition to his work as a recording artist and concert performer, Chapin has acted on Broadway, as well as working extensively in films, television and radio. Now is your chance to see Tom Chapin perform live in concert at The Wildey Theatre! | |||
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Sunday - May 5, 2013 3:00 pm Onscreen Broadcast of Specticast: Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme See the onscreen broadcast of Specticast: Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme at The Wildey Theatre. La Boheme, arguably the most popular and passionate opera of all time, is at its pinnacle with this unbeatable cast, starring the velvet-voiced Anna Netrebko as the doomed flower girl Mimi. Puccini's masterpiece is as heartbreaking as ever in this celebrated production from the Salzburg Festival. | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Thursday - May 9, 2013 7:00 pm Mid Life Vices is the celebration of "Whine Women and Song!" Mid Life Vices hysterically journals the lives of this Baby Boomer generation. In Babe fashion, the girls use their musical wacky viewfinder to honor the quirks and habits of men and women who (like the Babes) refuse to act their age! Neener, neener, neener in stunning 4-part harmony!!! |
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Friday - May 10, 2013 8:00 pm Howard and David continue to prove that the trail they’ve ridden to fame has been as unique as their music itself—music that is now celebrating 30 years of success. |
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Saturday - May 11, 2013 7:55 pm Jack Schmitt Chevrolet Tribute Series Do you love the great rock bands of the 70's and 80's but missed the chance to see them in concert? Now you can! This spring and summer is going to be filled with the opportunity to break out your tie‐dyed shirts, ripped jeans and grab a bunch of friends to relive your youth with eight great rock n roll tribute bands. Jack Schmitt Chevrolet is proud to announce that it is sponsoring a concert series featuring 8 rock and roll tribute bands. This series will span over the course of several months for 2013. Check out the eight different tribute bands below! 
Saturday - May 11, 2013 8:00 pm Dogs of Society: A Tribute to Elton John |
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Sunday - May 12, 2013 2:59 pm See the comedy quartet that has made you laugh again and again, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx! Their classic movies Cocoanuts and Monkey Business will be playing at The Wildey Theatre for a special price. In Cocoanuts, during the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves. . Then in Monkey Business, while on a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. 
Sunday - May 12, 2013 3:00 pm Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. A subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob Adams. 
Sunday - May 12, 2013 5:00 pm While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters while trying desperately to evade the ship's crew. After arriving stateside, one of the gangster's kidnaps the other gangster's daughter - and it's up to our unlikely heroes to save the day. | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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Thursday - May 16, 2013 5:59 pm Outbreak and Twelve Monkeys Package Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman star in the deadly thriller, Outbreak. A deadly virus with a 100% mortality rate begins infecting people in the Motaba River Valley, Zaire. The virus is so deadly that the government firebombs the region to prevent the infection from spreading. Until the virus pops up in a small town in the USA. 
Thursday - May 16, 2013 6:00 pm In July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak of the Motava virus this time in a quiet town in the Untied States. ... Buy Tickets... 
Thursday - May 16, 2013 8:30 pm An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. ... Buy Tickets... | 17 |
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Saturday - May 18, 2013 5:00 pm In the late 50's, most vocal groups had school type names such as Danny & the Juniors, The Four Freshmen and The Four Preps. The Lettermen chose the name The Lettermen and wore letter sweaters. By the time those names became passé in the early sixties, The Lettermen had already had a few hit singles and albums, and were a tremendous success in Colleges and nightclubs. 
Saturday - May 18, 2013 8:00 pm In the late 50's, most vocal groups had school type names such as Danny & the Juniors, The Four Freshmen and The Four Preps. The Lettermen chose the name The Lettermen and wore letter sweaters. By the time those names became passé in the early sixties, The Lettermen had already had a few hit singles and albums, and were a tremendous success in Colleges and nightclubs. |
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Friday - May 24, 2013 8:00 pm Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. Lindley is known for his work as a session musician and has contributed to recordings and live performances by Linda Ronstadt, Curtis Mayfield, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Terry Reid, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart. He has also collaborated with fellow guitarists Ry Cooder and Henry Kaiser. |
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Saturday - May 25, 2013 4:00 pm The Muppets are back in their classic retelling of Treasure Island! After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they convince Squire Trelawney to hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted. 
Saturday - May 25, 2013 6:00 pm When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater. Kermit the Frog now lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, The Great Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie Bear performs with a tribute band called The Moopets, Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab center in Santa Barbara. |
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Sunday - May 26, 2013 3:00 pm Onscreen Broadcast of Specticast:Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Mahler & Strauss The Wildey Theatre presents the onscreen broadcast of Specticast: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Mahler & Strauss. | 27 | 28 | 29 |
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Thursday - May 30, 2013 6:29 pm See three great Clint Eastwood movies for a special price! 
Thursday - May 30, 2013 6:30 pm In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude. 
Thursday - May 30, 2013 8:30 pm Picking up three years after the events in Magnum Force, a threatening terrorist group called, The People's Revolutionary Strike Force declare war to the city of San Francisco and demand a ransom to be paid, otherwise they plan to blow the city apart. While Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is at a limbo following his unorthodox method during a robbery, he's at it to dispatch the terrorist group, by playing their game by being more dirty than ever. But this time, he's got a new partner. 
Thursday - May 30, 2013 10:15 pm The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps a heavy-handed order in the town. But when a couple of cowboys cut up a whore the prostitutes, unsatisfied by Bill's Justice, put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, but with his wife gone and farm life failing, he takes one last job. Munny rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth. |
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Friday - May 31, 2013 8:00 pm "Michael Curtis, Terry Jones Rogers, Scott Nienhaus and Tim Politte, put out nonstop four part vocal harmonies flawlessly throughout their entire show. These four musicians are carrying on the strong tradition of the music of The Byrds in the most professional manner, and to hear these guys perform these songs is a pleasure not often available in today's music world!!!" T.P. Douglas~Granger Fest |
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Stone In Love: The Tribute to Journey
Formed in the spring of 2007, performing for audiences of over 7000 within two years, it didn’t take long for “Stone In Love “ to become one of the premier tribute acts in the mid-west. “Stone In Love” is not merely to witness, but an experience in which the audience taps into the great memories attached to the music of Journey. Composed of veteran musicians, that exude professionalism, “Stone In Love” is a family friendly act whose demographic includes every ...read more/buy tickets
Pavlov's Dog
Brought to you by Sundazzlers, Pavlov's Dog, the group that won the world over with their thrilling vocals and exceptional musicianship, is coming to The Wildey Theatre! Formed in 1973 the group toured and played all over the world. The band reformed in 2010 to compliment their already signature style, releasing a new studio album entitled "Eco & Boo" earning the title of 13th most important album by Eclipse magazine. Now is your chance to see the legendary St. Louis ...read more/buy tickets
The Brothers: A Tribute to The Allman Brothers
Over nearly 30 years, The Allman Brother's Band has gone from being America's single most influential band to a has-been group trading on past glories, to reach the 21st century as one of the most respected rock acts of their era. The Wildey Theatre is proud to present the return of The Brothers, an Allman Brothers tribute band, as they pay homage to an American classic live in concert September 28th, 2013. Don't miss your chance to join us for ...read more/buy tickets
