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Tickets on sale Monday, May 27, 2019 at 10 a.m. The Oakville Centre THANK YOU TO OUR for the Performing Arts SPONSORS! 2019/2020 The generous support of our corporate sponsors helps us to nurture Canadian SCHOOL talent, bring the world’s best artists PERFORMANCES SEASON here to Oakville and build the cultural strength of the community. A TD Learning with the Arts matinee ON SALE DATES Buy First, Pay Less exclusively for students is available for BECOME A BIG TICKET this production. Visit OakvilleCentre.ca Big Ticket Plus members MEMBER AND SAVE! for details on all school performances. Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 10 a.m. Become a Big Ticket Member for $60 Contact the box office directly to book and receive advance ticket sales before at 905-815-2021. Big Ticket members public sales, discounted prices and a Friday, May 24, 2019 $20 tax receipt. BUY A TICKET. GIVE A TICKET. at 10 a.m. Become a Big Ticket PLUS Member for New for the 2019/2020 season we are Public on sale $120 and receive advance ticket sales excited to introduce Sharing the Monday, May 27, 2019 before Big Ticket Members, discounted Experience. Buy 2 tickets and get 2 at 10 a.m. prices, $50 tax receipt and a $25 gift tickets FREE to give away to friends, To purchase tickets visit certificate for Paradiso Restaurant. family or neighbours. Some restrictions OakvilleCentre.ca or call the Both Memberships receive discounts at apply – look for the shows with Sharing box office at 905-815-2021. Paradiso Restaurant. the Experience. Plus receive a free cup of coffee, tea or All performances take place in VOLUNTEERS hot chocolate at at any performance at either the AEG Liebherr the Oakville Centre upon presentation Interested in Volunteering Auditorium or the Studio of your membership card. Full details at the Oakville Centre? Theatre. available at OakvilleCentre.ca. Contact: [email protected] SPONSORS AFTER SHOW ARTIST CHATS Interested in Sponsorship? Contact: [email protected] A moderated discussion with the artist, hosted at Paradiso Restaurant. Studio The Oakville Centre Artist chats held in Studio Theatre after for the Performing Arts performance. Tickets are available first 130 Navy Street day of public ticket sales. Four ticket Oakville ON L6J 2Z4 limit per purchaser. SEPTEMBER 2019 JANUARY 2020 Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited Tour ...... September 17 & 18 Jungle Book ...... January 4 SOLD OUT Banff Mountain Film Festival Lydia Persaud ...... January 11 World Tour ...... September 30 Humans ...... January 15 Crash Test Dummies ...... January 29 OCTOBER The Magic School Bus ...... January 30 Emma Donaghue ...... October 1 Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis ...... January 31 Junie B. Jones ...... October 3 Ann Patchett ...... October 4 FEBRUARY CAL: Led Zeppelin IV ...... October 5 VC2 ...... February 8 Decoding Bharatnatyam ...... October 9 Dogman ...... February 15 Seán Cullen ...... October 10 Okavango African Orchestra ...... February 22 Lloyd Spiegel ...... October 11 Ripopée ...... February 28 2019/2020 Max Weinberg’s Jukebox ...... October 22 The Cowboy Junkies ...... October 26 MARCH SEASON Ted Barris ...... October 29 We’ve Got Each Other ...... March 6 Okan ...... March 7 NOVEMBER The Trews: Acoustic & Electric ...... March 11 AT A CAL: Damn the Torpedoes ...... November 1 Les McKeown’s Bay City Rollers ...... March 12 Huff ...... November 6 Masters of Illusion ...... March 13 GLANCE The Young Novelists ...... November 8 The Archivist ...... March 13 & 14 Bruce McCulloch: Miri Ben Ari ...... March 14 Tales of Bravery and Stupidity ...... November 15 The Little Mermaid ...... March 20 Burton Cummings: Up Close and Alone ...... November 16 CAL: Let It Bleed ...... March 27 Dr. Lee Smolin ...... November 19 Matt Andersen ...... March 28 Miracle on 34th Street – The Play ...... November 22, 23 & 24 The Next Generation Leahy ...... March 29
DECEMBER APRIL Men of the Deeps ...... December 6 Mission Songs Project ...... April 1 A Whole New World: Brent Butt ...... April 3 The Musical Magic of Alan Menken ...... December 7 The Musical Box: A Genesis Extravaganza ...... April 15 & 16 Lee Rocker (of the Stray Cats) ...... December 13 CAL: Bridge Over Troubled Water ...... April 17 Sultans of String Christmas Caravan ...... December 14 Catapult Shadow Dance Company ...... April 28 The Oakville Centre for the Maceo Parker ...... December 18 Tanya Tagaq ...... April 29 Performing Arts is a division CAL: Abbey Road ...... December 20 Outerbridge – Clockwork Mysteries: MAY of the Recreation and Grand Masters of Illusion ...... December 31 Barbra Lica & Cat Bernardi ...... May 8 Culture Department of the The Men Behind the Music: Beatles Edition ...... May 14 Town of Oakville. CAL: Led Zeppelin III ...... May 15 Please avoid the use of perfume, cologne, scented hairspray, and other scented products when attending an Oakville Centre performance. Scented products release chemicals which can trigger serious health reactions in people with asthma, migraines, allergies or chemical sensitivities. Thank you for your cooperation!
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Lakeshore Securities EMMA DONOGHUE TED BARRIS Akin: A Novel Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire IN Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7 p.m. CONVERSATION All Tickets $30 All Tickets $30 In her first contemporary novel Noted military historian Ted Barris explores WITH... Series since Room, which became an his father’s wartime experiences as a medic Academy Award nominee for Best leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944- The Oakville Centre for the Picture, bestselling author Emma 45, and weaves into his narrative stories Performing Arts, Oakville Public Donoghue returns with her next about the life-and-death struggles of military Library and A Different masterpiece, a brilliant tale of medical personnel during a century of Drummer Books are pleased to love, loss and family. With all the service. Barris’s sources reveal – like never present this series that feeds tenderness and psychological before – why men and women sporting the the inquisitive mind. intensity that made Room a huge red cross on their helmets or sleeves didn’t In Conversation With... is a bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart- flee to safety but chose instead to rush to speaker series providing you wrenching tale of an old man and assist. with an opportunity to hear, a boy who unpick their painful ask questions and meet some story and together start to write a of Canada’s top influencers new one. and authors. ANN PATCHETT DR. LEE SMOLIN The Dutch House: A Novel Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Friday, October 4, 2019, at 7 p.m. Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum All Tickets $30 Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 7 p.m. All Tickets $30 Ann Patchett, The New York Times bestselling author of Globally renowned theoretical physicist Commonwealth and State of Dr. Lee Smolin takes us on a journey through Wonder, returns with her most the basics of quantum physics, introducing powerful novel to date: a richly the stories of the experiments and figures Presented by The Oakville Centre, moving story that explores the that have transformed the field, before Lakeshore Securities Inc., Oakville Public indelible bond between two wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums Library and A Different Drummer siblings, the house of their Books. More authors to be announced that they present. He illuminates the existing at a later stage. childhood, and a past that will theories about the quantum world that not let them go. might solve these problems, guiding us Box Office: 905-815-2021 toward his own vision that embraces OakvilleCentre.ca common sense realism. All prices include taxes and handling fees. Acura of Oakville OUTERBRIDGE – CLOCKWORK MYSTERIES: GRAND FAMILY MASTERS OF ILLUSION Special New Year's Eve performance! Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Series at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Outerbridge – Clockwork Mysteries: BUY MORE & SAVE! Grand Masters of Illusion takes its Purchase three or more audience on a bizarre and fascinating journey through time. Within seconds shows in the Acura of of taking the stage, the Outerbridges Oakville Family Series fuse their revolutionary illusions with split-second artistry to hold viewers and save $5 per ticket. spellbound. Outerbridge – Clockwork Mysteries: Grand Masters of Illusion is a high-energy magical adventure for both adult and family audiences. JUNIE B. JONES, THE MUSICAL Recommended for ages 8 and up Regular $35 | Purchase 3 or more shows $30 By Electric Moon Theatre Company Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 7 p.m. JUNGLE BOOK It’s Junie B.’s first day of first grade, and a lot of By Kidoons things have changed. Her friend Lucille no Saturday, January 4, 2020 longer wants to be her pal and Mr. Scary thinks at 1 p.m. & 4 p.m Junie may need glasses! Throw in a new kid Presented by The Oakville Centre. Using a rich soundscape and Sponsored by Acura of Oakville. named Herb, a friendly cafeteria lady, a kickball immersive multimedia, this bold new Associate Sponsor: Sylvan Learning tournament and a “Top-Secret Personal Oakville. Beeswax Journal”, and first grade has never version of Rudyard Kipling’s The been more exciting. Jungle Book features your favourite The Oakville Centre gratefully characters like you've never seen Recommended for ages 4 to 8 acknowledges the financial support of Regular $20 | Purchase 3 or more shows $15 before, and delves deep into the the Munz and Planche Family Fund original themes of the story. Co- for the Performing Arts at the created by Craig Francis and Rick Oakville Community Foundation, a registered charitable public Miller, Jungle Book is the 2nd of the foundation serving the Oakville Kidoons “connection trilogy”, (the Community. 3rd being Frankenstein). Box Office: 905-815-2021 Recommended for ages 8 and up OakvilleCentre.ca Regular $30 | Purchase 3 or more shows $25 All prices include taxes and handling fees. RIPOPÉE By L’Aubergine Friday, February 28, 2020 at 7 p.m. Ripopée is a clownish fable on the theme of travel. Four artists arrive in the night at the place where their show is to be presented. They fall asleep only to discover upon waking that their audience is already there. The show begins, but things get all mixed up – day-to-day life interferes with the performance, forcing it down a new, unpredictable path. Recommended for ages 5 and up Regular $20 | Purchase 3 or more shows $15
THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS DOGMAN THE LITTLE MERMAID By TheaterWorksUSA By TheaterWorksUSA Special March Break performances! Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7 p.m. Saturday, February 15, 2020 By Theater Terra When the planetarium is closed and the at 1 p.m. & 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2020 at 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. field trip is ruined, Ms. Frizzle saves the Best buds George and Harold have been Once upon a time, deep in the ocean lived a day! The Magic School Bus blasts off creating comics for years, but now that mermaid with a voice of gold. She often into outer space to explore the solar they’re in 5th grade, they figure it’s time dreamed of the world above the sea and system! Ms. Frizzle gets separated from to level up and write a musical based on when she is finally old enough to explore this the group and her class must travel their favourite character, Dog Man, the world, she saves a young prince from a through the planets and beyond to crime-biting sensation who is part dog, drowning ship. She falls in love and wants to rescue her. Hop on the Magic School Bus part man, and ALL HERO! Dog Man: The become human as well. The Little Mermaid is for a ride in TheaterWorksUSA’s new Musical is a hilarious new production one of the most famous and popular fairy musical adaptation based on the based on the worldwide bestselling tales worldwide. Theater Terra has created a original book series published by series from Dav Pilkey, the creator new family musical with puppetry, songs, and Scholastic. of Captain Underpants. a truly inventive set based on this fairy tale. Recommended for ages 5 to 10 Note: Dogman is a theatrical version with live actors. Recommended for ages 6 and up Regular $20 | Purchase 3 or more shows $15 Recommended for ages 6 to 10 Regular $25 | Purchase 3 or more shows $20 Regular $25 | Purchase 3 or more shows $20 Dan Cooper CONCERT Series
MAX WEINBERG’S JUKEBOX AN EVENING WITH THE COWBOY JUNKIES Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 8 p.m. Regular $75 | Big Ticket $68 | Big Ticket Plus $64 Regular $70 | Big Ticket $63 | Big Ticket Plus $59
A truly interactive experience with the drummer of Bruce Anyone who has followed Cowboy Junkies’ three Springsteen’s E St. Band! Max Weinberg invites the audience decade-long journey knows the band has always to create the set list, in real time, that he and his crack four traveled its own path. In 1988, they proved that there piece group will play. Performing songs from the glory days was an audience waiting for something quiet, of rock and roll, the audience chooses from a video menu of beautiful and reflective. The Trinity Session was like a over 200 songs – everything from the Beatles to the Stones to whisper that cut through the noise – and it was Presented by The Oakville Centre. Bruce and The E Street Band’s biggest hits – and hear the compelling. With their new album, All That Sponsored by The Dan Cooper Group. group play ‘em the way they want to hear them played! Reckoning, the band once again gently shakes the listener to wake up. It also may be the most powerful Box Office: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca album Cowboy Junkies have yet recorded. All prices include taxes and handling fees. A WHOLE NEW WORLD: THE MUSICAL MAGIC OF ALAN MENKEN Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 8 p.m. Regular $55 | Big Ticket $48 | Big Ticket Plus $44
Brought to you by the same people who presented last year’s Any Dream Will Do: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, BURTON CUMMINGS: their new smash hit show features the iconic music of Alan UP CLOSE AND ALONE Menken, the master songwriter of Aladdin, Beauty And The LEE ROCKER (of the Stray Cats) Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 8 p.m. Beast, The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, and Little Shop Of Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8 p.m. Horrors. Discover how one man’s music gave us a whole new Regular $67 | Big Ticket $60 | Big Ticket Plus $56 All Tickets $125 world of animated characters, stories and classic films. Hear all Lee Rocker made his mark singing, playing, Burton Cummings is that rare artist who has your favourites – Be Our Guest, Part Of Your World, Friend standing on, spinning and rocking his giant transcended time, genres and generations Like Me, Under The Sea, Colors of the Wind, Go The Distance, upright bass in the legendary music group The with a body of work that continues to Suddenly Seymour, and of course, A Whole New World. resonate with fans both old and new. Relive Stray Cats. The Grammy-nominated Stray Cats the days of the Guess Who through his have sold nearly 10 million albums and garnered Greatest Hits album treasures, as well as this an astounding 23 gold and platinum certified rock ‘n’ roll living legend’s solo career. records worldwide. Lee has put together a hot four-piece band to recreate not only the Stray Cats sound but also some of Lee’s solo rockabilly recordings. CRASH TEST DUMMIES Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $75 | Big Ticket $68 | Big Ticket Plus $64
Crash Test Dummies reunite for God Shuffled His Feet 25th MACEO PARKER anniversary tour. Each gig will feature a full performance Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. of the album, which featured their unique smash Regular $77 | Big Ticket $70 | Big Ticket Plus $66 hit, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, plus other staples from the Maceo Parker: his name is synonymous with Funky Music, his band’s catalog. pedigree impeccable; his band: the tightest little funk orchestra on earth. It’s fairly common knowledge that Maceo has played with each and every leader of funk; his start with James Brown, which Maceo describes as “like being at University”; jumping aboard the Mothership with George Clinton; and his ongoing part in Prince’s tours. He’s the living, breathing pulse which connects the history of Funk in one golden thread. AN EVENING WITH THE TREWS Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $70 | Big Ticket $63 | Big Ticket Plus $59
In a performance part acoustic, part electric, The Trews showcase how great their songs can sound no matter LES McKEOWN’S BAY CITY ROLLERS how they are played. Join us for a rocking great time Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 8 p.m. with The Trews! Regular $75 | Big Ticket $68 | Big Ticket Plus $64 The legendary Bay City Rollers’ Les McKeown is bringing his award-winning Rollertastic show to Canada! Les McKeown’s Bay City Rollers promises to be a unique voyage back to the 1970s, when Les and his legendary band ruled the world’s pop charts, performing all the original hits including Bye Bye Baby, Shang-a-Lang, Remember, Summerlove Sensation and Give A Little Love, plus many more. MATT ANDERSEN THE MUSICAL BOX – A GENESIS EXTRAVAGANZA BARBRA LICA & CAT BERNARDI Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15 & Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday May 8, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $57 | Big Ticket $50 | Big Ticket Plus $46 Regular $85 | Big Ticket $78 | Big Ticket Plus $74 Regular $45 | Big Ticket $38 | Big Ticket Plus $34
A powerhouse performer with a giant, In an all-out performance of live visual signature stunts, a Hot on the heels of her 2017 Juno-nominated soul-filled voice and commanding stage museum-worthy array of vintage instruments and a dizzying pace recording, I’m Still Learning, Barbra Lica is back presence, Matt Andersen has built a of iconic tracks and stage rarities, The Musical Box indulges for the with her fifth and most ambitious offering to date formidable following by touring worldwide 1st time in its 25 year existence, in an intense trip into the world of – You’re Fine. She is a fast-rising Canadian jazz and letting his stunned audiences and new early Genesis. TMB presents a new, never performed show vocalist and songwriter who has captivated devotees spread the good word of his featuring the music of Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling audiences all over North America with her unique righteous tunes. His latest album, Halfway England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick vocal ability that stresses subtlety and grace, along Home by Morning, is the sound of an artist Of The Tail and Wind & Wuthering. with her genuine warmth and confident stage laying his soul bare using the music that presence. Rising star Cat Bernardi’s silky smooth runs through him, with more jubilation vocals pay tribute to her idols, Natalie Cole, Ella than ever before. Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday and Nina Simone. Lakeshore Securities CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE Series
Founded by Craig Martin in 2003, Toronto-based Classic Albums Live recreates famous rock albums without LED ZEPPELIN IV TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS THE BEATLES the gimmickry, relying solely Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 8 p.m. DAMN THE TORPEDOES ABBEY ROAD on the music. It has become Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 Friday, November 1, 2019 at 8 p.m. Friday, December 20, 2019 at 8 p.m. the ultimate destination for Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 music lovers wanting to hear the greatest albums performed live.
Presented by The Oakville Centre. THE ROLLING STONES SIMON AND GARFUNKEL LED ZEPPELIN III Sponsored by Lakeshore Securities Inc. LET IT BLEED BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8 p.m. Box Office: 905-815-2021 Friday, March 27, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, April 17, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 OakvilleCentre.ca Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Regular $65 | Big Ticket $58 | Big Ticket Plus $54 Lakeshore Securities COMEDY Series
SEÁN CULLEN BRUCE McCULLOCH: TALES OF BRAVERY Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 8 p.m. AND STUPIDITY Regular $55 | Big Ticket $48 | Big Ticket Plus $44 Friday, November 15, 2019 at 8 p.m. Expect the unexpected with Seán Cullen, a nimble Regular $55 | Big Ticket $48 | Big Ticket Plus $44 master of improvisation and accomplished Former Kids in the Hall member Bruce McCulloch’s Tales impressionist who delights in the absurd. For two and of Bravery and Stupidity is a one-man show that is funny a half decades, Cullen has dominated the Canadian and at times touching. Part stand-up, part storytelling, it comedy scene as an award-winning comedian, actor, looks at some of the bravely stupid things that Bruce author and screenwriter. Seán is a series regular and has done, and things we all do as we get ourselves in star panelist on Match Game, and has guest starred or and out of trouble as we “throw ourselves at life.” appeared in Spun Out, Murdoch Mysteries and was featured on the Just For Laughs: All Access, The Warning: Mature Content Presented by The Oakville Centre. Halifax Comedy Festival and The Winnipeg Comedy Sponsored by Lakeshore Securities Inc. Festival television specials. Box Office: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca All prices include taxes and handling fees. HYPROV: IMPROV UNDER HYPNOSIS WE’VE GOT EACH OTHER BRENT BUTT Starring Colin Mochrie and Asad Mecci Starring Paul O’Donnell Friday, April 3, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, January 31, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2020 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre Regular $68 | Big Ticket $61 | Big Ticket Plus $57 Regular $75 | Big Ticket $68 | Big Ticket Plus $64 Regular $44 | Big Ticket $37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 Creator and star of the hit TV show From the minds of improv and comedy legend The almost entirely imagined Bon Jovi musical. With the modern Corner Gas, Brent Butt returns to Colin Mochrie, and master hypnotist, Asad jukebox musical comes: a multitalented cast, orchestra, opulent Oakville with his hilarious live stand-up Mecci, comes a brand new, mind-blowing, side- sets, decadent costumes, extravagant routines, dramatic key performance for one night. With splitting show combining hypnotism and changes and the odd hydraulic lift or two. We've Got Each Other numerous television specials, hit TV improvisation. Twenty members of the audience has none of these things (they cost lots of money), but Paul tries shows and two feature movies, Brent will be put under hypnosis, and the five best to create this all-singing, all-dancing spectacle using the powers of has become one of Canada’s funniest will join Mochrie into a hypnotic improv your imagination. Through entertaining descriptions of the show performers! extravaganza! This will be an entirely original as it unfolds and 180+ lighting cues, Paul invites the audience to and completely unforgettable show, for who fill in the gaps imagining the breath-taking tragic love story of knows where the unconscious mind will go. Tommy and Gina. Paradiso DANCE, DRAMA & FILM Series
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL DECODING BHARATNATYAM HUFF WORLD TOUR Nova Dance Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 8 p.m. Monday, September 30, 2019 at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre Regular $25 | Big Ticket $20 | Big Ticket Plus $20 Regular $20 | Big Ticket $15 | Big Ticket Plus $15 Regular $20 | Big Ticket $15 | Big Ticket Plus $15
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Nova Dance’s Decoding Bharatnatyam is Huff (Solo) is the wrenching, yet brings all the excitement of the Banff Centre an enchanting evening of dance darkly comic tale of Wind and his Mountain Film and Book Festival to delightfully defining and decoding the brothers, caught in a torrent of audiences around the globe! Traveling to classical form with uniquely Canadian solvent abuse and at high risk of exotic landscapes and remote cultures, and flair. Fluttering with discovery while suicide. Ancestral history combines bringing audiences up-close and personal anchored in movement tradition, four with harsh reality and gas-induced with adrenaline-packed action sports, the stunning dancers perform works by hallucination in a tale of family, love, Nova Bhattacharya and José Navas, rich 2018/2019 World Tour is an exhilarating and despair, and the possibility of provocative exploration of the mountain with powerful physical technique, Presented by The Oakville Centre. redemption. world. storytelling and humour. Sponsored by Paradiso Restaurant. Warning: Mature Content Box Office: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca Presentation All prices include taxes and handling fees. Sponsor: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET – The Play In Association with West End Studio Theatre Friday, November 22, 2019 at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 2 p.m. Regular $30 | Big Ticket $25 | Big Ticket Plus $20 THE ARCHIVIST CATAPULT SHADOW DANCE COMPANY Written and performed by Shaista Latif Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 8 p.m. In Miracle on 34th Street – The Play, Kris in the Studio Theatre Regular $25 | Big Ticket $20 | Big Ticket Plus $20 Kringle, an old man in a retirement home, gets Friday, March 13, 2020 at 8 p.m. a job working as Santa for Macy’s. Kris Catapult is a shadow-dance company created by Adam unleashes waves of good will with Macy’s Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. Battelstein in 2008. The talented dancers have the skills to customers and the commercial world of New Regular $20 | Big Ticket $15 | Big Ticket Plus $15 transform their bodies into seemingly impossible images. York City by referring parents to other stores to Catapult has made films for corporations and performed Shaista Latif is a storyteller who has been invited to tell find exactly the toy their child has asked for. live on America’s Got Talent! Their shadow dances amaze a story. She is a perpetual guest, and her time is limited. Deemed dangerous and deluded by Macy‘s audiences and make them fall in love with the human So, she will be justifying her existence and building a vocational counselor, Kris is in the court system body and its ability to transform. live archive to mark her eventual disappearance. This is defending who he is – the true Santa! her story. This is not Aladdin. Watch at your discretion. Warning: Mature Content V!VA Retirement Communities - Oakville CLASSICAL & WORLD ARTISTS Series
MEN OF THE DEEPS: Christmas in the Mine SULTANS OF STRING CHRISTMAS CARAVAN Friday, December 6, 2019 at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 8 p.m. Regular $68 | Big Ticket $61 | Big Ticket Plus $57 Regular $57 | Big Ticket $50 | Big Ticket Plus $46
Join Men of the Deeps, for a special Christmas Celebrate the season with an adventurous musical trip performance from a choir of working and retired coal around the world! Three time JUNO Award nominees miners from the island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. Sultans of String deliver an exuberant performance Organized in 1966 as part of Cape Breton’s contribution featuring band originals, world-music inspired classics, and to Canada’s Centennial Year (1967), the group’s seasonal favourites to warm your heart on a cold winter’s inception was an effort by the people of Cape Breton night. Sultans of String are joined on stage by Canada’s Presented by The Oakville Centre. to preserve in song some of the rich folklore of that shimmering guest vocalist Rebecca Campbell (Jane Siberry, Sponsored by V!VA Retirement island’s coal mining communities. Parachute Club, Lynn Miles). Communities - Oakville. Box Office: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca All prices include taxes and handling fees. HUMANS OKAVANGO AFRICAN ORCHESTRA MASTERS OF ILLUSION By Circa Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, March 13, 2020 at 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $47 | Big Ticket $40 | Big Ticket Plus $36 Regular $75 | Big Ticket $68 | Big Ticket Plus $64 Regular $63 | Big Ticket $56 | Big Ticket Plus $52 Sharing the Experience: 4 tickets for $95 Starring the world’s greatest award-winning Ten incredibly skilled acrobats from award-winning Winners of the 2017 JUNO Award for Best magicians, this 21st century magic show is unlike contemporary circus ensemble Circa, present Humans, a circus World Music Album, Okavango brings together anything you have ever seen! Watch closely as unlike anything you’ll have ever seen! Using nothing but their traditional music and instruments of several you experience things that just can’t be done…or bodies and incredible strength and acrobatics, each moment African cultures to create a new music, can they? You will be on the edge of your seat builds into another unbelievable, thrilling and heart-stopping harmonizing different tunings, rhythms and from the jaw-dropping grand illusions, while movement! Circa is the most in-demand Australian arts timbres. The musicians and instruments of laughing out loud at the hysterical comedy company in the world with their reputation for fearless, Okavango represent a continuum of traditions magic, as performers from around the world boundary pushing circus! and cultures from time immemorial to the create magic, in front of your eyes. present day. MIRI BEN-ARI THE NEXT GENERATION LEAHY Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 3 p.m. Regular $55 | Big Ticket $48 | Big Ticket Plus $44 Regular $55 | Big Ticket $48 | Big Ticket Plus $44 Sharing the Experience: 4 tickets for $110 The deep-rooted music these seasoned professionals bring Grammy Award-winning violinist, producer, humanitarian to audiences belies their young ages. The Next Generation Miri Ben-Ari has created her own unique sound: a Leahy play the music of their Irish heritage, but they are revolutionary fusion of classical, soul and dance music. A not tethered by it: the Leahy children bring centuries-old classically trained violinist, who once studied under the music into the modern era for a new audience. This rare late classical master Isaac Stern, this Israeli artist and music talent is an inspiration to young and old alike, showing producer has helped sell millions of records by just what young people are capable of. collaborating with other celebrated Grammy award- winning artists, including Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, and Alicia Keys, to name just a few. MISSION SONGS PROJECT TANYA TAGAQ THE MEN BEHIND THE MUSIC: with special guest Lacey Hill Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 8 p.m. BEATLES EDITION Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $50 | Big Ticket $43 | Big Ticket Plus $39 Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $47 | Big Ticket $40 | Big Ticket Plus $36 Sharing the Experience: 4 tickets for $100 Regular $44 | Big Ticket $37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 Sharing the Experience: 4 tickets for $95 Sharing the Experience: 4 tickets for $88 Tanya Tagaq is a Canadian (Inuk) throat singer, Searching for the secular songs that were sung after composer, visual artist, advocate, writer and public Weaving together 300 projected visuals, 16 live songs and church, Jessie Lloyd explores the day-to-day life on the speaker from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq) in storytelling, Haley Marie and her band take you on a Australian missions, settlements and reserves through Nunavut. An experimental artist who has achieved journey behind the history-making events and music. From cultural identity to love and loss, these rare a level of mainstream crossover success, Tanya heartbreaking moments of the Beatles (such as why John songs consist of almost forgotten stories that can now blends Inuit throat singing with electronic, hated the version of Help! we all know today). After years shed light into the history of our Indigenous elders, classical, punk and rock music. of research and musical analysis, Yale-educated families and communities. musician/storyteller Haley Marie dives deep into the true story of four young guys who changed the world. STUDIO SESSIONS Series
Enjoy some of today’s finest emerging artists in our intimate 100 seat Studio Theatre.
Studio Sessions Artist Chats will be held in The Studio Theatre.
LLOYD SPIEGEL Friday, October 11, 2019 at 8 p.m. Regular $44 | Big Ticket $ 37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 THE YOUNG NOVELISTS Multi-award winning Australian artist Lloyd Spiegel Friday, November 8, 2019 at 8 p.m. returns to Canada delivering one of the most unique solo concert experiences in the world. Blending jaw- Regular $44 | Big Ticket $ 37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 dropping guitar chops with a commanding voice, Written by bandmates Graydon James and Laura Spink, their new powerful songwriting, storytelling and comedy, it’s no album, In City & Country, features a collection of songs inspired by wonder that Rolling Stone Australia described him as an array of Canadian towns. Highlighting stories from both urban an “Oz Roots & Blues Icon”. and rural locales, the songs are based on a combination of historical research and personal experience, and ultimately show the similarities and differences between both types of places. Presented by The Oakville Centre. Box Office: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca All prices include taxes and handling fees. LYDIA PERSAUD VC2 OKAN Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 8 p.m. Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 8 p.m. Regular $44 | Big Ticket $ 37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 Regular $44 | Big Ticket $ 37 | Big Ticket Plus $33 Regular $44 | Big Ticket $ 37 | Big Ticket Plus $33
A fixture of Toronto’s music community and a sought- VC2 is an innovative cello duo able to captivate Taking its name from the word for heart or soul in the after collaborator, Lydia Persaud stands alone with her audiences through their performances of classical Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, OKAN fuses Afro- debut album Let Me Show You. Lydia’s sound expands masterworks, unknown gems and boundary-pushing Cuban and other global rhythms with jazz, folk and the boundaries of soul to include both folk and jazz, music. Comprised of cellists Amahl Arulanandam and classical forms. Co-leaders, composers and multi- styles that have been foundational to her musical Bryan Holt, the Toronto-based duo presents artistically instrumentalists Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys growth. With Let Me Show You, Lydia draws challenging yet accessible programs, and has Savigne bring a fresh perspective to Latin and world inspiration from her musical heroes, such as Donny performed in venues ranging from intimate pubs to jazz fusion through their powerful vocals, incredible Hathaway, Bill Withers and Carole King, while Roy Thomson Hall. musicianship and potent lyrical content. touching on vital issues that deeply affect her. Her music melds genres while Lydia’s clear message shines through on the power of her unforgettable voice. The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts 130 Navy Street Oakville ON L6J 2Z4
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