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July 3
Time(s):
4pm Outdoor pre-show Events
7pm Radio Show
Seating:
Reserved Seating
Tickets:
$16 Adult
$14 Student/Senior
$8 Child
LIVE Performance - Ice Cream and Independence: A Live Radio Show
Celebrating Abraham Lincoln and featuring preshow Civil War Re-Enactors and Displays, The Concert Band of Illinois, Civil War Band Instruments and or course free Cold Stone ice cream!
July 16 & 17
Time(s):
5:30pm
Seating:
General Admission
Tickets:
$5
Theatre/Play: Cinderella Jr
Poor Cinderella is endlessly mistreated by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters ... but with a little help from her mice friends and a lot of help from her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella goes to the ball, meets the Prince and falls in love! This production is presented by the Champaign Park District Youth Theatre camp.
Location changed to Class Act Interactive Education and Events at 114 S Neil Street.
July 16 & 17
Time(s):
8pm
Seating:
General Admission
Tickets:
$7
Theatre/Play: High School Musical
On the front steps of East High, it’s the first day after winter break. The Jocks, Brainiacs, Thespians and Skater Dudes find their cliques, recount their vacations, and look forward to the new year. Join in all the Wildcat fun as the Disney Channel's smash hit musical comes to life on our stage!
July 18, 2009
Time(s):
1 &
7 pm
Seating:
General Admission
Tickets:
$5
FILM - Dances with Wolves (1990)
Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways.
Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
Based on the well-known English legend, Robin of Locksley is a noble who is forced to become an outlaw when Prince John tries to take the throne from his absent brother. He flees to Sherwood forest where he gathers together his Merry Men. He robs from the rich, gives to the poor and still has time to woo the lovely Maid Marian and defend the throne.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Set in the 1880’s, the story follows Annie Oakley, a backwoods sharpshooter, as she meets Frank Butler and joins Buffalo Bill’s show. This Irving Berlin classic reminds us all that ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.
Tickets:
Adults $12
Senior/Student $8
Children under 12 $6
DANCE - Downtown Festival of the Arts Gala Performance
The Gala Performance is a celebration of talented, young, classical and contemporary dancers representing the outstanding dance schools in the Champaign-Urbana area. Please join us for this Friday night event that kicks off the Downtown Festival of the Arts.
August 15, 2009
Time(s):
1 &
7 pm
Seating:
General Admission
Tickets:
$5
FILM - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town?
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, John Megna
FILM - Bullitt (1968) "2nd Annual Reels and Wheels Car Show"
A no glitter, all guts cop named Frank Bullitt - with two other cops - is assigned to what seems like a normal case: to watch a witness for 48 hours before he goes to trial on Monday. When the officers and the witness are killed, Chalmers gets angry at Bullitt. After he chases the hitman that killed them, he vows to catch him, and the mafia boss that hired him.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience. Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 29 albums, including their latest, Obama Mia . They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.
Back by popular demand! As America’s Hottest Illusionist, Jason Bishop might have a person passing through his body one moment or make goldfish appear from nowhere the next.This show features exclusive large illusions and award winning sleight of hand.
Bishop is an international award-winning illusionist who was the youngest person to win the Magician’s Alliance of Eastern States Stage Award and one of the youngest people to compete in the Society of American Magicians World-Class competition. http://thejasonbishopshow.com.
October 10, 2009
Time(s):
1 &
7 pm
Seating:
General Admission
Tickets:
$5
FILM -The Shining (1980) "Haunted Theatre Night "
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall
An evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, “Jekyll & Hyde” is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart.
Ticket Line - 217.356.9063
