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CONCIERGE UNLIMITED INTERNATIONAL July 2014 culturalupdate Volume XXIV—Issue VII Celebrate in Red, White & Blue all July Long! Arts/Museums Let freedom ring and find your favorite red white and blue apparel opens because July is all about fireworks, food, futbol, and fun! You won’t have a 4 Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Art Institute dull moment this July with all the festivities it has to offer! 4 What May Come Art Institute ♦ Bastille Day ♦ Restaurant Openings & Hot Spots ♦ Fourth of July ♦ 13 A Walk Through Space & Time Adler Planetarium ♦Theatre Openings ♦ Summer Concerts ♦ and more! ♦ 19 Onchi Koshiro: The Abstract Prints Art Institute through New/News 13 Utamaro: Aspects of Beauty Art Institute To Open 13 Truths: Photography & Motherhood MoCP 20 Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom Field Museum The Betty (839 West Fulton Market) Footman Hospitality team, the 27 M.F. Husain London, UK masterminds behind Bangers & Lace and Anthem, will offer a menu of 27 When the Greeks Ruled Egypt Art Institute distilled drinks with a focus on bourbon and craft beers accompanied by 8/3 Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives MSI a small plates menu. The bar atmosphere will provide a piano player and 8/3 Isa Genzken: Retrospective MCA a visual design by Karen Herold (Embeya & Girl & The Goat). STK (360 North State Street) is a concept by ONE Group Inc that is a Ongoing steakhouse for the ladies! STK aims for something similar to their New Of Gods and Glamour Art Institute York and Las Vegas locations in Chicago.The plates will include smaller Museum Free Dates cuts of meat and more salads. The restaurant is slated to open in 2015. Art Institute: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 (Thursdays) Ask your CUI Concierge about updates on what’s new in restaurants! Chicago Children’s Museum: 3, 6, 10, 17, 24, 31 (15 years & Under) Chicago History Museum: 4 Just Opened DuSable Museum: 6, 13, 20, 27 (Sundays) Rustle + Roux Cafe (227 West Monroe) is a global café featuring seven Museum of Contemporary Art: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 (Tuesdays) kitchens of elevated lunch cuisine. From wood-fired pizzas to authentic street tacos, gelato and more. And with one rotating kitchen, the choices Ballet/Dance will always be fresh. Options range from Chicago favorites like Mercadito opens Taqueria, and Mercato by Fabio Viviani! 1-5 American Ballet Theatre: Coppelia New York, NY Henry’s Swing Club (18 West Hubbard) from the group that brought 15 AfriCaribe Performance Group AfriCaribe Cultural Center DMK Burger Bar comes a new eatery! The DMK installation takes the 18-20 Thodos Dance Chicago: New Dances 2014 Ruth Page place of Lao 18 and brings a new experience to the area. It is trendy and 25 Summer Dance: SoundMinas Quartet Grant Park 30-8/3 JUBA! Masters of Tap & Percussive Dance MCA: Stage offers cocktails like frozen mezcal mules and s’mores you cook tabletop! Fig & Olive (70-104 Oak Street) the group opened their Gold Coast mansion location on June 28th for dinner. The restaurant offers a through spacious terrace for al fresco dining and serves mediterranean cuisine. 11 Move Live Tour: Julianne & Derek Hough Chicago Theatre Expect lunch to be served beginning July 14th and brunch July 19th. Children/Family Contact your CUI Concierge to arrange a VIP dinner for business or opens pleasure! Let us be At Your Service for all of your dining needs! 2 Mid-Week Yoga Millennium Park 11-13 Windy City Smokeout Grand & The Chicago River 23-24 The Kratt Brothers Brookfield Zoo We Recommend 8/2 Chicago Bears Meijer Family Fest Soldier Field This is Our Youth (1650 North Halsted) Headliners Kieran Culkin and through Michael Cera take the stage in the new theatre production. This wild, 31 Circus Zirkus Navy Pier funny and bittersweet production portrays a modern classic! The story 8/24 Family Fun Festival Millennium Park follows forty-eight hours in the lives of three lost young souls in New 9/1 Cirque Shanghai Navy Pier York in the 1980s. Armed with nothing but the knowledge gained in their teen years, they want to take on the world. Classical/Symphony at Ravinia Want to see this or other shows? Contact your CUI Concierge today! 7 Emerson String Quartet Contact your CUI Concierge to save time and money on group and Carts of Chicago “on-site” catering company specializing in carted 17&18 West Side Story foods like Ice Cream Carts, Hot Dog Carts, and Sundae Bars. A full- 24 All-Beethoven Evening meeting spaces for your next function! 27 service BBQ company that is large enough to service all your needs and Tchaikovsky Spectacular small enough to know you. With access to a Private Picnic Grove loca- at Pritzker Pavilion tion near O’Hare Airport they can accommodate up to 2000 people. 2 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto 4 Independence Day Salute Need assistance catering your next event? Contact your CUI 5 Portland Youth Philharmonic Concierge today for all your event needs! 6 Madame Butterfly Videocast 9 Ella, Louis and All That Jazz 12 Holst The Planets Wine Insight 16 The Blue Planet In Concert 18&19 Dvorak and Beethoven View our “Wine Insights” at www.conciergeunlimited.com 28 National Youth Orchestra 30 Symphonie Espangnole Opera: 2014 Season Concierge Unlimited International Cultural Update July 2014• 2 opens 2 La Traviata Paris, France 8 La Lucrezia and Lascia Ch’io Pianga St. James Cathedral Concert/Rock/Blues/Jazz 9 Otello Summer Encore AMC River East 21 3 Earth, Wind & Fire Ravinia 16 Opera in Focus Rolling Meadows 4-5 Dave Matthews Band Northerly Island 20 Opera Scenes Gala Lutkin Hall 5 Marilyn Manson Congress Theatre 29 Lyric Shorts: Mozart’s Don Giovanni St. James Cathedral 5 Sarah McLachlan Ravinia 7 Cher & Cyndi Lauper New York, NY Theatre 9 Paul McCartney United Center opens 9 Awolnation and Saints of Valory Taste of Chicago 5 Seussical Chicago Shakespeare Theatre 11 Lady Gaga United Center 11 Charlotte’s Web Broadway Playhouse 10 Sara Bareilles Chicago Theatre 30 Cascabel Lookingglass Theatre 11 Fall Out Boy First Midwest Bank through 11 311 Northerly Island 13 The Last Ship Bank of America Theatre 11 Nickel Creek, Emmylou Harris, Parker MillsapTaste of Chicago 27 This is Our Youth Steppenwolf 12 Willie Nelson & Alison Krauss Ravinia 8/9 Motown the Musical Oriental Theatre 12 Jeff Tweedy and Lucinda Williams Taste of Chicago 8/10 Brigadoon Goodman Theatre 12 Journey and Steve Miller Band First Midwest Bank 10/26 Avenue Q Mercury Theatre 13 Toby Keith First Midwest Bank 13 Aloe Blacc and The Wailers Taste of Chicago open run 14 Counting Crows Ravinia Blue Man Group Briar Street Theatre 16 Taj Mahal Trio City Winery Million Dollar Quartet Apollo Theatre 18 Billy Joel Wrigley Field Apes of Wrath Second City ETC 18 Courtney Love House of Blues Jack Lemmon Returns Royal George Theatre 19 Blake Shelton & The Band Perry Wrigley Field Let your CUI Concierge arrange the perfect seat for your 20 Phish Northerly Island favorite performance at preferred pricing. 21-22 David Crosby City Winery 23 Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynrd First Midwest Bank Sneak Previews 24 Jack White Auditorium Theatre 8/5 Wiz Khalifa, Jeezy & More First Midwest Bank 24 Nine Inch Nails/Soundgarden First Midwest Bank 8/5 Tori Amos Chicago Theatre 24 Jay Z & Beyonce Soldier Field 8/7 Katy Perry United Center 25 Panic! At the Disco Northerly Island 8/9 Chaka Khan Chicago Theatre 8/10 Drake vs. Lil Wayne First Midwest Bank Sports 8/14 Miley Cyrus United Center White Sox Cubs 8/16 Rod Stewart and Santana Allstate Arena 1-2 Angels 11-13 Braves 22-24 Padres 8/16-17 Air and Water Show North Avenue Beach 4-6 Mariners 25-27 Cardinals 8/16-17 Navy Pier 18-20 Astros Lobster Fest 28-31 Rockies 8/18 Kiss and Def Leppard First Midwest Bank 21&23 Royals 8/23 Tom Petty/Steve Winwood United Center Chicago Fire FIFA World Cup 8/26-27 Arcade Fire United Center 2 Toronto FC Visit our website for 8/29-30 One Direction Soldier Field 19 Philadelphia results of FIFA World 8/31 Luke Bryan Soldier Field 26 Tottenham Hotspur Cup Second Stage! 9/5 Stratford Festival Stratford, Ontario, Canada 30 Vancouver 9/10-14 Disney on Ice: Princesses & Heros United Center also... 9/20 R5 Rosemont Theatre 6/24-7/6 Wimbledon London, England 9/20 Food Network in Concert Ravinia 6/28-12 FIFA World Cup (Second Stage) Manaus, Brazil 9/23 David Bowie Is MCA 5-27 Tour de France Yorkshire, England 9/26-28 Chicago Gourmet Millennium Park 10-13 Women’s British Open Southport, UK 9/27 Jeff Dunham Horseshoe Casino 17-20 The British Open Wirral, UK 9/27-28 Black Keys United Center 10/2-3 Fleetwood Mac United Center Special/Seasonal 4 Independence Day USA 10/14 Demi Lovato with Christina Perri United Center 10 The Dinner Party w/ Andrew Zimmerman Taste of Chicago 10/15 Swan Lake Auditorium Theatre 9-13 Taste of Chicago Grant Park 10/18 Wanda Sykes Chicago Theatre 12 Zoo Ball Lincoln Park Zoo 10/21 Jim Gaffigan Chicago Theatre 14 Sardinian Dinner Trattoria No. 10 11/6 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey: Legends Allstate Arena 14 Bastille Day Worldwide 11/6 Ina Garten: The Barefoot Contessa Auditorium Theatre 18-20 Pitchfork Music Festival Union Park 12/8 Justin Timerberlake United Center 24 Country Thunder Twin Lakes, WI Contact your CUI Concierge for top tickets to all upcoming events! 8/1-3 Lollapalooza Grant Park We are your time-saving concierge service and resource for local, national and international needs! Concierge Unlimited International Cultural Update • July 2014 • 3 Bastille Day Travel Abroad: All Around The World The best of French cuisine! Celebrate Bastille Day with the July 14th, 2014 best authetic plates Paris has to offer! Here is a meal-by-meal guide to the city of lights for your next trip or The French National Day commemorates the beginning of the find these favorites with the help of your CUI Concierge! French Revolution with the Storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789, as well as the Fête de la Fédération on the 14 July 1790.
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    The Auditorium Theatre Celebrates 50Th Anniversary of Their Grand Re

    10/12/2017 Auditorium Theatre One-Night-Only Performance Honoring the Theatre's Past, Present, Future View in browser 50 E Congress Pkwy Lily Oberman Chicago, IL 312.341.2331 (office) | 973.699.5312 (cell) AuditoriumTheatre.org [email protected] Release date: October 5, 2017 THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRAND RE-OPENING WITH ONE-NIGHT-ONLY PERFORMANCE FEATURING PREMIER DANCERS FROM TOP COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD THE EVENING INCLUDES PERFORMANCES BY DANCERS FROM ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE, DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET, THE JOFFREY BALLET, NEW YORK CITY BALLET, THE WASHINGTON BALLET, AND FINALISTS FROM YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX A Golden Celebration of Dance – November 12, 2017 On November 12, 2017, the Auditorium Theatre, The Theatre for the People, commemorates the 50th anniversary of its grand re-opening with A Golden Celebration of Dance, a one-night-only mixed repertory program featuring dancers from the world’s premier dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Dutch National Ballet, Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Joffrey Ballet, MOMIX, New York City Ballet, Parsons Dance, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and The Washington http://tracking.wordfly.com/view/?sid=NjUzXzQ4NTRfMjc3ODA2XzY5NTk&l=4d2b8dea-61af-e711-8416-e41f1345a486&utm_source=wordfly&utm_me… 1/5 10/12/2017 Auditorium Theatre Ballet. In addition, the evening will feature special performances by finalists from the Youth America Grand Prix, the next generation of great dancers. In 1941, the Auditorium Theatre closed its doors to the public in the wake of the Great Depression. Aside from when it was used as a servicemen’s center during World War II, the theatre sat unused and in disrepair, until a 7-year-long fundraising campaign – led by Beatrice Spachner and the Auditorium Theatre Council – covered the costs of theatre renovation, culminating with a grand re-opening on October 31, 1967.