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The Champaign Park District offers a flexible IMPORTANT DATES: subscription option at the Virginia Theatre, with MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2018, 10AM a specially-curated list of over a dozen shows • 2018-2019 Performing Arts Season Announced to choose from. A subscription is a purchase of • On-sale date for patrons renewing their tickets to four or more qualifying events. subscription To subscribe, simply pick four or more “VT Series” FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2018, 10AM events, and you’ll get great perks that include: • New subscriptions on sale • Discounted tickets FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018, 10AM • First choice of premium seats • Individual tickets to many shows on sale • Option to keep the same seats when you renew • First choice of seats to select shows Please note that some shows may already be on as they’re added throughout the year (past sale and seating choices may be limited. Programs examples include The Beach Boys and Chicago) subject to change. To subscribe, stop by the Virginia • Free News-Gazette, Rewind, and Reel Deal Theatre box office (10am-5:30pm, Mon-Fri), or movies all year long when you subscribe to six or charge by phone at 217-356-9063. more “VT Series” events
2 thevirginia.org 2018-2019 VT SERIES EVENTS: • Ice Cream & Independence – July 1, 2018 • CUTC’s Annie – Aug 2-5, 2018 • TAJMO: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band – Aug 9, 2018 • Lyle Lovett & Robert Earl Keen – Oct 11, 2018 • The O’Jays – Oct 13, 2018 • Craig Ferguson – Oct 31, 2018 • Rosanne Cash – Nov 8, 2018 • 98o – Nov 28, 2018 • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Musical – Dec 6, 2018 • Michael McDonald – Dec 9, 2018 • Andrew Peterson – Dec 12, 2018 • That’s What She Said – Mar 2, 2019 • CU Ballet’s Swan Lake – May 3-4, 2019
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PHOTO BY BEN TSCHETTER 3 to the virginia theatre Welcome CHAMPAIGN PARK DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Craig W. Hays – President Timothy P. McMahon – Vice President Jane L. Solon – Commissioner Barbara J. Kuhl – Commissioner Kevin J. Miller – Commissioner
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Joe DeLuce – Executive Director Guy C. Hall – Attorney Cindy Harvey – Secretary Donna Larson – Treasurer
VIRGINIA THEATRE STAFF Steven Bentz, Director Jenny Carpenter, Box Office Manager Jeff Headley, Front of House Coordinator Mitch Marlow, Sales & Public Relations Manager Stephen White, Technical Manager
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NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES REEL DEAL FILM SERIES – Tickets $6 • 1pm & 7pm 365 DAYS OF GREAT MOVIES! For over 15 years, The News- Tickets $5 Gazette has sponsored great movies at the Virginia Theatre This season, see the pictures you with its popular classic film series. love when the Virginia screens the Screened one Saturday each films that have stolen the hearts of month (except in October and December, when we highlight moviegoers everywhere. We’re proud Hitchcock and Christmas films), the News-Gazette Film Series to bring you films as diverse asLady Bird and Purple Rain, Wonder is your ticket to Hollywood’s golden age. Many of our films are Woman, and Stand By Me. projected from 35mm reel-to-reel prints, while others show on the Presented many Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Reel Deals Virginia Theatre’s new Christie 4K HD digital projector. Throw in are an affordable way to enjoy a beloved movie on our 52-foot house organist David Schroeder’s regular performances on the screen, with state-of-the-art sound and the best popcorn in town! Virginia’s historic Wurlitzer pipe organ, and you have an evening of entertainment fit for the whole family! New this year, join News-Gazette film criticRichard Leskosky in the Virginia lobby following most 7pm News-Gazette screenings for a post-show REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES talk about each film. Tickets $5 2018-2019 NEWS-GAZETTE This series is presented most months FILM SERIES PASS – $85 in partnership with Rewind 92.5 and Purchase a 2018-2019 News-Gazette Film Series Pass and see features the most memorable movies of all 20 classic series titles this season at a discount. Enjoy a rich the 80s, 90s, and today. The Rewind 92.5 Film Series celebrates selection of critically-acclaimed, beloved movies from the 1930s, everything from the movies of John Hughes and Kevin Bacon to 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. It’s the perfect gift for the film buff in more contemporary fare. Don’t miss the fun! your family.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 5 JULY ICE CREAM AND INDEPENDENCE Champaign-Urbana Civic Wind Band Dr. Linda Moorhouse, Conductor Yvonne Redman, Soprano NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Tickets: $9 Child (12 & under)/$12.50/$15.50/$19.50 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) Join WDWS Newstalk-1400 AM and host Jim Turpin SUN, JULY 1 • 3PM Tickets: $6 in celebrating Independence Day in style with the best in American music performed by the Champaign-Urbana Civic Wind Band, conducted by Linda Moorhouse, and featuring Yvonne Redman, soprano. We’ll be serving delicious SAT, JULY 7 • 1PM & 7PM frozen yogurt right outside the theatre at 1:30pm, before the concert. The Rated PG (104 min) One of our all-time concert begins at 3pm. favorites! In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded Special thanks to WDWS, The News-Gazette, the by a strait-laced missionary to use his University of Illinois Bands program, and TCBY. VT Series Event vessel to attack an enemy warship. The film was adapted from a 1935 novel of the same name and was directed by the legendary John Huston. The African Queen won Humphrey Bogart his only Oscar (Best Actor), and Katharine Hepburn later penned a best-selling nonfiction book about its making.
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Join us at the Virginia Theatre all summer-long when we feature some of the greatest animated classics of all time, from both yesterday and today! TUE/THU, JULY 3 & 5 • 6:30PM: Toy Story 3 MON/TUE, JULY 9 & 10 • 6:30PM: Despicable Me WED/THU, JULY 11 & 12 • 6:30PM: Despicable Me 2 FRI/SAT, JULY 13 & 14 • 1PM (Sat only) & 6:30PM: Despicable Me 3 TUE/THU, JULY 24 & 26 • 6:30PM: The Little Mermaid MARY POPPINS JR TUE, AUG 7 • 6:30PM: Minions Presented by Champaign Park TUE/THU, AUG 14 & 16 • 6:30PM: Snow White District Youth Theatre TUE/THU, AUG 28 & 30 • 6:30PM: Mary Poppins Tickets: $12 Child/$14 Adult
THU, JULY 19 • 7PM FRI, JULY 20 • 10AM & 7PM SAT, JULY 21 • 2PM & 7PM You Don't Know Beans… Your favorite until you’ve had a cup of coffee roasted at practically-perfect nanny takes Columbia Street Roastery center stage in The Virginia Theatre is proud to serve coffee made from beans roasted locally by this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Columbia Street Roastery. Columbia Street is the product of a three-generation family adventure based on the award-winning business dating back to 1951. The family opened their roastery at 24 East Columbia Broadway musical and the classic Walt Avenue in 1998 with the goal of providing customers the very best experience in whole bean coffees and loose leaf teas. Disney film. Performed by the young actors of the Champaign Park District’s Youth Theatre program, grades 5-10.
Tickets On Sale Fri,Tickets July On20 –Sale 10AM Now 7 Wine & Beer Service The Champaign Park District is proud august to welcome Farren’s Pub & Eatery to select events at the Virginia Theatre. You’ll find Farren’s set up in the theatre’s lobby, serving fine wines and A CUTC & J. Barry Howell production of beers. From Cabernet to Chardonnay, VT Series Event Sam Adams to Sierra Nevada, ANNIE, THE MUSICAL the skilled servers from Farren’s always bring the perfect selection to Tickets: $10 Children (12 & under)/$14 Student & Senior (55+)/ complement your Virginia experience! $18 Adult /$24 Premium | On Sale Now Offered at most live shows. Both cash and credit cards accepted. THU-SAT, AUGUST 2-4 • 7PM This family-friendly 1977 Tony Award-winner SUN, AUGUST 5 • 2PM for Best Musical is based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip “Little Orphan Annie,” Book by Thomas Meehan which he started drawing in the 1920s. In Music by Charles Strouse this beloved tale, Annie is taken from her Lyrics by Martin Charnin orphanage – and the clutches of the evil Miss Hannigan – to stay at billionaire Oliver Directors: Steven Fiol & Jaclyn Loewenstein Warbuck’s mansion for the holidays. When Music Director: Aaron Kaplan Annie wins the hearts of Warbucks and his Choreographer: Rebecca Nettl-Fiol staff, they set out on an epic mission to find Annie’s parents. With — Annie: Noreen Adoni ANNIE is presented through special arrangement Oliver Warbucks: Michael Steen with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied Grace Farrell: Chrissy Mauck by MTI. www.MTIShows.com Miss Hannigan: Julia Megan Sullivan FARREN’S Rooster Hannigan: Grant Morenz Original Broadway Production Directed by Martin Pub & Eatery Lily St. Regis: Zoë Dunn Charnin Based on “Little Orphan Annie”® Est. 2000 By Permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC 308 N. Randolph, Champaign
8 thevirginia.org 2018 PENS TO LENS Student Screenwriting Competition & Gala Screening
Tickets: $12 Pass/$8 Standard/ FREE for Ages 18 & under
PHOTO BY JAY BLAKESBERG JAY BY PHOTO SAT, AUGUST 11 • 2PM & 6PM The Champaign Park District is proud to welcome back Champaign-Urbana Film Society, Champaign Movie Makers, and Champaign-Urbana Design Organization as they present this unique program for East Central Illinois K-12 students. In Pens to Lens, children write original screenplays which are then made into short films by local filmmakers. TAJMO: THE TAJ MAHAL AND KEB’ MO’ BAND Area graphic designers and illustrators then create Presented by Exceptional Artists, with the Champaign Park District original movie posters for many of the submitted screenplays. The whole community is invited to Tickets: $45/$69/$85/$125 | On Sale Now come out and watch the finished films, walk the red VT Series Event carpet, and celebrate some very creative student THU, AUGUST 9 • 8PM Keb’ Mo’ was among the big winners at the 2018 Blues Music screenwriters. Awards are Awards, winning Album of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for this presented at each first-ever collaboration project with Taj Mahal, along with Contemporary Blues Male Artist show time. The 2pm of The Year! screening features Since arriving on the scene in 1990s, Keb’ Mo’ has built a powerful body of work that’s films written by showcased his mastery of multiple blues as well as his sense of musical adventure, which K-8th grade has led him into all manner of projects. students, and the 6pm screening Taj Mahal first made his mark in the late 1960s with a series of visionary country-blues features films albums, and in the decades since has continued to pursue his free-spirited muse with a long written by 8th-12th series of eclectic recording projects touching upon a wide array of genres and cultures. grade students. “TajMo” marks the first time that these two important artists have joined forces in the studio.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 9 august
NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: The Long, Long Trailer (1953) VIRGINIA SPECIAL EVENT: 2001: A Space Odyssey, in 70mm (1968) Tickets: $6 Tickets: $8 SAT, AUGUST 18 • 1PM & 7PM MON-SAT, AUGUST 20-25 • 7PM Rated G (103 min) Lucille Ball and Desi SAT-SUN, AUGUST 25-26 • 1PM Arnaz star in this delightful road trip movie about a year-long camping trip Rated G (161 min) 2001 turns 50 this year, and we’re celebrating at the Virginia with a full gone very,very wrong. At the time, MGM week of screenings of Stanley Kurbick’s masterpiece. See it on a new, 70mm print struck was doubtful that patrons would line up from the original negative without any digital remastering, effects, or edits. This is as close to see stars cross over from television, as you can get to the legendary film’s original 1968 presentation, when it was projected in but the film earned more than Father of 70mm on Cinerama screens nationwide. the Bride (the highest grossing comedy of the day), winning Desi Arnaz a $25,000 bet with the studio bosses. ANIMATION VACATION! See page 7 for August screenings of animated classics.
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TUE/THU, SEPT 4 & 6 Lady Bird (2017) NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Rated R, 95 min To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) TUE/THU, SEPT 11 & 13 The Shape of Water (2017) Tickets: $6 All Screenings 7PM Rated R, 123 min SAT, SEPTEMBER 1 • 1PM & 7PM Not Rated (130 min) Adapted from Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DISNEY’S THE ARISTOCATS - KIDS novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is Presented by Champaign Park District Youth Theatre considered one of the finest film 30-Minute Version adaptations of all time. The picture stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Tickets: $10 Child/$12 Adult Mary Badham as Scout, and marked the film debut of Robert Duvall. It THU, SEPTEMBER 20 • 7PM received overwhelmingly positive FRI, SEPTEMBER 21 • 7PM reviews from critics at its release and SAT, SEPTEMBER 22 • 2PM & 7PM was a box-office success, earning more than 10 times its budget and winning Everybody wants to be a cat in Disney’s charming stage three Academy Awards. In 2003, the adaptation of the animated classic motion picture! Based on American Film Institute named Atticus the beloved Disney animated film and featuring a jazzy, upbeat Finch the greatest movie hero of the score, Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS is a non-stop thrill ride of 20th century. feline fun, complete with unbelievable twists and turns.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 11 september
DANNY GOKEY: HOPE ENCOUNTER TOUR
Tickets: $25/$35/$75 (Gold Circle) | On Sale Now
SUN, SEPTEMBER 23 • 7PM Grammy nominee, Dove Award winner, and Capitol recording artist Danny Gokey is gearing up for his first-ever headline tour with this fall’s Hope Encounter. REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: Gokey became a favorite of millions of fans as Ghostbusters (1984) a Top 3 finalist on Season 8 of American Idol. His first album,My Best Days, debuted at #4 Tickets: $5 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. Since then, the Wisconsin native has celebrated a SAT, SEPTEMBER 8 • 7PM series of #1 album debuts, including his first (Rated PG, 105 min) There’s something award-winning holiday album, Christmas Is strange going on in our neighborhood… Here. Gokey’s latest album, Rise, reached #1 Join us at the Virginia for this extra special on the Billboard Top Christian Album chart and screening with our friends from Rewind 92.5 garnered his first Grammy nomination. Its title FM and find out what. Who ya gonna call? track marked his third, multi-week, multi-chart The Virginia Theatre Box Office! #1 single.
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THE O’JAYS Tickets: $69.50/$89.50/$99.50/$119.50 VT Series Event
SAT, OCTOBER 13 • 7:30PM Original founding members Walter AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT & ROBERT EARL KEEN Williams and Eddie Levert first formed The O’Jays in 1963, in Canton, Ohio, and Tickets: $39.95/$49.95/$59.95/$69.95 VT Series Event over 50 years later, they’re still touring with the same electrifying energy. After THU, OCTOBER 11 • 7:30PM A singer, composer, and actor, being signed to a major label in 1972, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career The O’Jays scored their first number 1 that spans 14 albums over three decades. Coupled with his gift for hit, the million-selling “Backstabbers,” to storytelling, this Texas-based musician fuses elements of Americana, be followed by a long run of legendary, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues in a convention-defying manner that chart-topping pop/R&B singles like breaks down barriers. Among Lovett’s many accolades are included “Love Train,” “I Love Music,” and four Grammy Awards, the Americana Music Association’s inaugural “Use Ta Be My Girl.” Trailblazer Award, and being named Texas State Musician. The O’Jays were inducted into the With nineteen albums to his name, Robert Earl Keen remains as inspired Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, into by his muse as ever. From his humble beginnings on the Texas folk the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2005, scene, he’s blazed a trail that’s earned him living-legend status in the and honored with BET’s Life Time Americana music world. In 2012, Robert Earl Keen was inducted into the Achievement Award in 2009. In 2013, they were also inducted Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame along with his college buddy, into the R&B Music Hall of Fame. The O’Jays have earned 10 Gold Lyle Lovett. albums, 9 Platinum albums, and 10 #1 hits.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 13 REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: Hocus Pocus (1993) OCTOBER Tickets: $5 SUN, OCT 21 • 2PM (Doors Open at 12PM) PG-13 (96 min) Rewind 92.5 FM returns to the Virginia with this ever-popular cult classic. It’s been three centuries, and the three Sanderson sisters are resurrected at last in Salem, MA on Halloween night. Come as you are, or come as your favorite character, and run amok, amok, amok! Enjoy fun activities starting at 12pm and a chance to meet the Sanderson sisters at this special screening event.
All Screenings 7PM NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: 5 NIGHTS OF HITCH! TUE/THU, OCT 2 & 4 Tickets: $6 each (or see all five for $24) Get Out (2017) Rated R, 104 min Unquestionably our most popular short film series, 5 Nights of Hitch is back with critically-acclaimed blockbusters from the
irreplaceable master of suspense. Enjoy this year’s new addition —a return to the popular television show produced and hosted by Hitchcock himself. The Virginia will screen four of the series’ very best episodes, back to back. MON, OCT 22 • 7PM Suspicion (1941) Not Rated (99 min) TUE, OCT 23 • 7PM Notorious (1946) Not Rated (102 min) WED, OCT 24 • 7PM “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” THU, OCT 25 • 7PM Dial M for Murder (1954) TUE/THU, OCT 16 & 18 Rated PG (105 min) Beetlejuice FRI, OCT 26 • 7PM Psycho (1960) Rated R (109 min) (1998) Rated PG, 92 min
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Tickets: $5
SAT, OCTOBER 27 • 7PM Rated R (100 min) Let’s do the Time Warp again when the king of cult classics returns to the Virginia’s silver screen! Participation is encouraged, and we’ll provide a limited number of free prop bags with admission, so don’t wait to buy your tickets; we see you shiver with antici…pation! Rocky Horror Picture Show House Rules: Costume and props are welcome. Sorry, no outside food, beverages, or liquids are allowed inside the theatre. Nothing may be thrown at the movie screen.
IWO JIMA Documentary Film Screening CRAIG FERGUSON Tickets: $5 Tickets: $39.50/$49.50 VT Series Event SAT, OCT 20 • 1PM WED, OCTOBER 31 • 7PM It was his long-running role Return To Iwo Jima (narrated by on The Drew Carey Show that first introduced comedian Craig Ed McMahon) is the first of three Ferguson to American audiences. Then, in 2005, Craig was nationally-televised documentaries given hosting duties on the The Late Late Show, which he produced by Academy Award and 16- appeared on through the end of 2014. Ferguson’s late night time Emmy Award-winning producer/ talk show was a hit, earning its first Emmy nomination a year writer, Arnold Shapiro. It chronicles the into its run. Mixed in with his work on TV were several high- 40th anniversary of the famed WWII profile big-screen roles, often voice-over work, in movies such battle and the first time American and as How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Winnie the Pooh (2011), Japanese veterans came together and Brave (2012). in peace on the black sands of Iwo In September 2014, he began hosting Celebrity Name Game, Jima—February 19. 1985. Mr. Shapiro a game show produced by Courtney Cox and David Arquette. will be on hand to talk about the film In February 2016, he also began hosting a history-based talk with veterans of that iconic battle and show, Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. He continues to tour to answer questions following the internationally as a stand-up comedian. screening.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 15 NOVEMBER ROSANNE CASH with JOHN LEVENTHAL
Tickets: $39.50/$49.50/$59.50/$69.50
THU, NOVEMBER 8 • 7:30PM She Remembers Everything, Rosanne’s Cash’s highly anticipated follow up to her Grammy- NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: winning masterpiece The River and The Thread, is a powerfully insightful and strikingly universal Mr. Smith Goes to Washington collection of new songs. Both confessional (1939) and cathartic, the record reverberates with an urgency of a woman who owns her story and her Tickets: $6 voice. Songs from this release (October, 2018) will be featured in concert along with select SAT, NOVEMBER 3 • 1PM & 7PM songs from her storied career and from Norma Rae – the new musical Cash is writing with John Not Rated (129 min) Just in time for Leventhal, based on the 1979 hit film. Election Day! James Stewart stars in Frank PHOTO BY PATRICK McBRIDE Capra’s classic that established Stewart One of the country’s pre-eminent singer/songwriters, as a leading man. Nominated for eleven Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums, earning four Academy Awards (and winning for Best Grammy Awards and nominations for 11 more. She’s VT Series Event Original Story), Mr. Smith is considered to also an author whose four books include the best- be one of the greatest films of all time and selling memoir Composed. was selected by the Library of Congress for Ms. Cash was awarded the 2012 SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement award for preservation in the United States National Sound Recordings and the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Arts. In 2015, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.
16 thevirginia.org REO SPEEDWAGON BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR Presented by Pacific Coast Concerts Presented by Champaign Park District Youth Theatre and Outback Concerts Tickets: $12 Child/$14 Adult Tickets: $59.50/$79.50/$99.50/$199 (VIP) On Sale Now (limited availability)* THU, NOVEMBER 15 • 7PM FRI, NOVEMBER 16 • 7PM SAT, NOVEMBER 10 • 7:30PM SAT, NOVEMBER 17 • 2PM & 7PM This is a rescheduled concert, originally set on The award-winning animated film and stage play comes to life in this romantic and February 8. All former tickets will be honored. beloved take on the classic fairytale. Based on the original Broadway production Formed loosely in the late ’60s at a well-known that ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, and the college in Champaign, IL, REO Speedwagon Academy Award-winning motion picture, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR is a (named after the precursor to the light truck) fantastic adaptation of the story of transformation and tolerance. rode to shows in a station wagon, hopping from small gigs to even tinier gigs, just to get their name out. It worked, as fans quickly VIRGINIA SPECIAL EVENT: First Man (2018) realized there was much more going on here than your average college party band. Tickets: $8 MON-WED, NOVEMBER 19-21 • 7PM FRI-SAT, NOVEMBER 23-24 • 7PM SAT-SUN, NOVEMBER 24-25 • 1PM Rated G (161 min) This riveting true story of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon focuses on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961–1969. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Shea Whigham, and Jon Bernthal, and depicts the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission. Directed by Damien Chazelle and written by Nicole Perlman and Josh Singer, based upon the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, by James R. Hansen.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM* 17 NOVEMBER
98°, AT CHRISTMAS Tickets: $49.50/$69.50/$79.50/$99.50 VT Series Event
WED, NOVEMBER 28 • 7:30PM In five short years (1997-2002), 98° sold a staggering 10 million records, scored a chart-topping single, “Thank God I Found You” with Mariah Carey, and collaborated with their idol, Stevie Wonder, on “True to Your Heart” for the 1998 animated Disney film,Mulan . Their four-million-selling album, 98° and Rising, spawned the top-5 favorites “Because of You,” “I Do,” and “The Hardest Thing,” while 2000’s Revelation, which sold two million copies, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and yielded a trio of hits, “Give Me Just One Night,” “My Everything” and “The Way You Want Me To.” Last year, 98° released their first full-length Christmas album in 18 years, Let It Snow, to glowing reviews from both fans and critics alike.
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HOLIDAY CARD PHOTO OP MEET SANTA CLAUS AT THE VIRGINIA THEATRE! REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: FREE FREE Listeners’ Choice MON, NOV 26, 5-8PM Sponsored by MON, DEC 3, 5-8PM WED, DEC 5, 5-7PM Hickory Point Tickets: $5 MON, DEC 10, 5-8PM TUE, DEC 11, 5-7PM Bank SUN, DECEMBER 2 • 2PM We’re opening up the Virginia’s WED, DEC 19, 5-7PM beautifully decorated Mezzanine Lobby Ho ho ho, Santa Claus is coming to town! Stand up and be counted and help us for photographs this holiday season! The Champaign Center Partnership and choose which of the following holiday Drop by or call our box office (217-356- the Champaign Park District are excited to favorites we show today! Watch our 9063) to reserve your 15-minute slot welcome St. Nick to downtown’s historic website (thevirginia.org) or listen to (space is limited). Bring your camera Virginia Theatre. You and your family can Rewind 92.5 FM for details on voting, or arrange to have a professional visit with Santa in the theatre’s Mezzanine starting this fall. photographer meet you at the theatre, Lobby once weekly during the holidays. The “candidates”: and capture a special memory for the Santa will take pictures with each visitor • When Harry Met Sally whole family. (parents, bring your cameras!) and every • Home Alone child will receive a candy cane. Kids of all • Jingle all the Way ages are encouraged to have their holiday • Die Hard wish lists ready to share with Santa.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 19 MICHAEL McDONALD Tickets: $49.95/$59.95/$69.95/$79.95 DECEMBer SUN, DECEMBER 9 • 7:30PM Michael McDonald’s This Christmas, An Evening of Holiday & Hits Tour is coming to the Virginia – and there’s no better way to get into RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, the spirit of the holiday season! THE BROADWAY MUSICAL Two notes. That’s all it takes to recognize Tickets: Adult–$52.50/$62.50, Senior (55+)– the voice of Michael McDonald. Distinctive $45.50/$55.50, Child (12 & Under)–$32.50/$42.50 and soulful, it is one of the most yearningly emotive instruments of our time. To this, add THU, DECEMBER 6 • 7PM formidable songwriting and keyboard skills, and you have an artist who has been a singular VT Series Event The beloved TV classic musical presence for four decades. From Rudolph the Red-Nosed ‘70s-era hits like Steely Dan’s “Peg,” to Doobie Brothers classics such as Reindeer soars off the screen “Takin’ It To The Streets,” through two highly-acclaimed Motown albums, and onto the stage this holiday genre-busting guest spots and innovative concept shows, the five-time season. Come see all of your Grammy Award-winning McDonald is both timeless and ever-evolving. favorite characters including Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster, HOLIDAY IN WHOVILLE Clarice, Yukon Cornelius and, Tickets: $3 Standard/FREE for children 2 & under of course, Rudolph, as they FROM LAS T come to life. YEAR SUN, DEC 16 • 1-5PM Join us at the Virginia Theatre It’s an adventure that VT Series Event for a real holiday treat! Watch Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole teaches us that what makes Christmas (1966 TV short) showing at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm. you different can be what makes you special. Don’t During the event we will have pictures with Santa, caroling, hot miss this wonderful holiday tradition that speaks to the chocolate, and trolley rides through Downtown Champaign. misfit in all of us.
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Tickets: $6 (or see all five for $24)
Enjoy five classic Christmas tales shown in a historic setting and savor a nice cup of complimentary hot chocolate, too. Share the holiday cheer with your family and friends at the Virginia Theatre this winter.
MON, DEC 17 • 7PM The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Rated G, 109 min
ANDREW PETERSON presents TUE, DEC 18 • 7PM BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Rated G, 101 min Presented by Gather Round Production WED, DEC 19 • 7PM Tickets: $25/$30/$35/$40 VT Series Event White Christmas (1954) Rated G, 120 min WED, DECEMBER 12 • 7PM Storied Nashville singer-songwriter and author Andrew THUR, DEC 20 • 7PM Peterson presents the Advent song cycle Behold the Lamb A Christmas Carol (1951) Rated G, 86 min of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ. Running for almost two decades, Behold the Lamb features an all- star cast of Nashville songwriters and session musicians FRI, DEC 21 • 7PM performing Peterson’s original folk-roots infused rendition SAT, DEC 22 • 1PM & 7PM of the Christmas story as it is foreshadowed in the Old It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Testament and brought to bear in the New. Join us for the Rated PG, 132 min third year of this unique show in Champaign.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 21 JANUARY
TUE/THU, JAN 8 & 10 Beauty and the Beast (2017) Rated PG, 130 min NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: TUE/THU, JAN 15 & 17 Purple Rain (1984) Charade (1963) Rated R, 112 min All Screenings 7PM Tickets: $6 TUE/THU, JAN 22 & 24 The Big Sick (2017) Rated R, 120 min SAT, JANUARY 12 • 1PM & 7PM Rated G (115 min) Help us celebrate Cary Grant’s birthday this month when we revisit the always-popular film that REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: everyone said was “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made!” “Bad Movie Mondays”– Tremors Audrey Hepburn plays Regina, a woman Tickets: $5 suddenly widowed when her husband is murdered in Paris. To make things MON, JANUARY 28 • 7PM worse, she is being pursued by several suspicious men who are after the fortune Rated PG-13 (96 min) Sneak out to her husband had stolen. Filmed on the historic Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign, and location, Charade casts a spell that’s be very, very quiet…because we’re showing this camp classic equal part spy thriller, screwball comedy, as part of Rewind 92.5’s “Bad Movie Mondays.” Extra credit if and classic romance. you can tell us what your six degrees to Kevin Bacon is!
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TUE/THU, FEB 5 & 7 Stand By Me (1986) Rated R, 89 min NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Top Hat (1935) TUE/THU, FEB 26 & 28 All Screenings 7PM Black Panther Tickets: $6 (2018) Rated PG-13, 135 min
SAT, FEBRUARY 9 • 1PM & 7PM Not Rated (101 min) Starring that DAVID SCHROEDER, Wurlitzer Pipe Organ original dancing dynamic duo, Fred The Virginia proudly welcomes David Schroeder as our Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Top Hat house organist at regular performances on the theatre’s is the most successful and best original, fully-restored, 750-pipe Wurlitzer Hope-Jones II known picture in the long history of Orchestral Organ. Mr. Schroeder plays frequently on movie their partnership. The film centers nights and before some live events at the Virginia (please on a case of mistaken identity when check our website for days/times). a dancer (Astaire) woos a model David Schroeder is the Director of Bands and Chorus (Rogers) after she mistakes him for at Bismarck-Henning Jr/Sr High School in Bismarck, a business manager instead of the Illinois, as well as Organist and Parish Music Director petty annoyance she initially thought for Trinity Lutheran Church, Danville. He received his he was. Undergraduate degree in Comprehensive Music Education from the University of Illinois, where he played in both the Symphonic Band and Marching Illini. He is member of the Central Illinois and Central Indiana chapters of the American Theatre Organ Society.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 23 FEBRUARY
Champaign Park District DANCE ARTS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE
Tickets On Sale: Fall, 2018
FRI, FEBRUARY 15 • 7PM SAT, FEBRUARY 16 • 2PM Don’t miss this yearly spring performance by students of the Champaign Park District’s Dance Arts School. The show includes ballet, Irish, and contemporary dance. REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: “Bad Movie Mondays”– Flash Gordon (1980) YOUTH THEATRE WINTER MUSICAL Presented by Champaign Park District Youth Theatre Tickets: $5
Tickets: $14 Adult/$12 Child | On Sale Fall, 2018 MON, FEBRUARY 25 • 7PM Rated PG (111 min) If you have never THU, FEBRUARY 21 • 7PM before experienced the unparalleled camp of Flash Gordon, the pure, FRI, FEBRUARY 22 • 7PM unadulterated silliness of the picture may take you by surprise. SAT, FEBRUARY 23 • 2PM & 7PM Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and with a soundtrack performed by Queen, Flash Gordon was a self-aware space opera that gained almost instant cult-classic status.
24 thevirginia.org MARCH THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID VT Series Event TUE/THU, MARCH 5 & 7 Tickets: $40 Big (1986) PG, 130 min SAT, MARCH 2 • 7:30PM TUE/THU, MARCH 26 & 28 All Screenings 7PM Wonder Woman That’s What She Said is returning to the (2017) Rated PG-13, 149 min Virginia Theater for its 5th installment of local women sharing personal stories. This special NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Gaslight (1944) night will make you belly laugh and ugly cry and Tickets: $6 everything in between. SAT, MARCH 9 • 1PM & 7PM We all have a story to share. That’s What She Not Rated (114 min) The film that Said captures a few local gave us an entirely new term for manipulation. After the death stories from women who of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) have something to say! falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles This “ultimate girls’ night Boyer). Back in London, Paula begins to notice strange out” show features local goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night, women in an intimate and lights that dim without being touched. As she fights to performance that retain her sanity, she begins to doubt her new husband’s true everyone can relate to! intentions...
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 25 MARCH/APRIL NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Metropolis (1927)
REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: PECHA KUCHA NIGHT Tickets: $6 “Bad Movie Mondays”– CHAMPAIGN-URBANA Xanadu (1980) VOLUME 29 SAT, APRIL 6 • 1PM & 7PM Not Rated (153 min) This influential Tickets: $5 presented by the Champaign- film portrays a futuristic city sharply Urbana Design Organization divided between the working class and MON, MARCH 25 • 7PM city planners, but a working class prophet Tickets: $10 in advance/$15 at the door predicts the resolution to their differences Rated PG (96 min) when she falls in love with the son of the For our final “Bad SAT, MARCH 30 • 8:20PM city’s mastermind. A silent expressionist Movie Monday,” masterpiece from German director Fritz Pecha Kucha (it draws its we’ve really upped Lang, who took over 17 months to shoot name from the Japanese the ante with this it, Metropolis is widely regarded as a term for “chit chat”) is a 1980 box office (and critical) flop! pioneering work in dramatic science fiction. fast-paced event filled Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Gene with cutting edge art & Kelly and Michael Beck, and features design, quirky humor, music by Newton-John, Electric Light and sometimes surprising emotion. PK Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes. Nights—held in hundreds of cities all over The film earned terrible reviews and was the world—are dedicated to providing an inspiration for the creation of the accessible outlets to inspire creative Golden Raspberry Award to memorialize communities. The format is simple: every Fri, Aprilthe worst 13 films • 7pm of the year. All the more presenter brings 20 images that are reason to spend a Monday night with it! displayed for 20 seconds each.
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Tickets: $10 Child/$12 Adult | On Sale Winter, 2019
THU, APRIL 25 • 7PM FRI, APRIL 26 • 7PM SAT, APRIL 27 • 2PM & 7PM Title to be announced.
REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) Tickets: $5 SUN, APRIL 28 • 2PM (DOORS OPEN AT 1PM) 21ST ANNUAL ROGER EBERT’S FILM FESTIVAL Rated PG-13 (143 min) Fasten your capes and polish your presented by The College of Media at Illinois shield—the Virginia Theatre is showing a superhero classic, The Avengers! Don your favorite costume and fly on over Festival Passes on sale Thur, Nov 1, 2018, 10am to have super fun at this special screening hosted by our Individual Tickets on sale Mon, April 1, 2019, 10am friends from Rewind 92.5 FM!
WED-SUN, APRIL 10-14 Held every April inside downtown Champaign’s historic Virginia Theatre, Ebertfest was founded in 1999 by the late Roger Ebert, a University of Illinois Journalism graduate and Pulitzer Prize-winning VIRGINIA THEATRE 360 TOUR film critic. The festival celebrates films that haven’t received the recognition Experience the Virginia Theatre like never before they deserved during their original runs, giving these pictures (and their with our new 360o virtual tour! creators) a well-deserved second look. For more information on dates, times, Available online at www.thevirginia.org and film titles, visit ebertfest.com. or search for us on Google Map.
Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 27 MAY All Screenings 7PM
TUE/THU, MAY 7 & 9 Spirited Away NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: (2001) Rated PG, 135 min The Thin Man (1934)
Tickets: $6 REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: The Sandlot (1993) SAT, MAY 25 • 1PM & 7PM Not Rated (93 min) Come celebrate Tickets: $5 SWAN LAKE presented by CU Ballet the 85th birthday of the film that THU, MAY 30 • 7PM launched a beloved 6-film franchise! Tickets: $12 Child (12 & under)/ Based on the Dashiell Hammett novel, $12 Student/$24 Adult/$19 Senior (55+) Rated PG (96 min) The Thin Man stars William Powell and You’re killin’ me, Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, Smalls! Batter up with Powell and Loy setting the VT Series Event for this very special standard for on-screen chemistry and event with the team easy banter. The director encouraged FRI, MAY 3 • 7PM from Rewind 92.5 FM and more as we improvisation with his actors and SAT, MAY 4 • 11AM & 4PM celebrate the boys of summer. A cult incorporated off-the-cuff details in the Swan Lake is the ultimate ballet! This roman- favorite, The Sandlot is the quintessential picture’s final cut, and the results were tic fable of ill-fated passion and forgiveness coming-of-age baseball film that Roger a fresh and spontaneous style that’s is told through beautiful choreography amid Ebert called the summertime version of still fun to watch to this day. magnificent sets – a timeless classic. A Christmas Story. Wear your baseball or All performances include the full ballet. softball uniform and get FREE admission!
28 thevirginia.org TWIST AND SHOUT 10TH ANNUAL DANCE RECITAL presented by Twist and Shout, REWIND 92.5 FILM SERIES: JUNE Dance and Cheer Space Jam (1996)
On Sale Spring, 2019 Tickets: $5
SAT, JUNE 1 • 11AM & 6PM SAT, JUNE 15 • 7PM Twist and Shout’s annual recital showcases the accomplishments over the previous nine Rated PG (88 min) It’s game time! Feel free to wear a months of the program’s students aged 18 jersey - and put on your game face - when you come root months-18 years. Join us for one of these for the Looney Tunes at this special event with Rewind family-friendly shows! 92.5 FM. The live-action/animated sports comedy Space Jam stars the legendary Michael Jordan along with a whole bunch of Looney Tunes cartoon characters who ART IN MOTION help him win a match against a group of aliens. ANNUAL DANCE RECITAL presented By Art In Motion NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: On The Waterfront (1954) Dance Studio Tickets: $6 On Sale Spring, 2019 SAT, JUNE 22 • 1PM & 7PM THU, JUNE 6 • 6:30PM FRI, JUNE 7 • 6:30PM Not Rated (108 min) A longshoreman and wannabe prize fighter (Marlon Brando) witnesses a murder at the hands of his crooked SAT, JUNE 8 • 6:30PM boss’s cronies and finds himself tangled up with the mob, struggling to stand up to a This special recital showcases Champaign’s corrupt union. Drawn from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of Malcolm Johnson, Art in Motion Dance Studio, with over 25 with original story by Budd Schulberg. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards (winning 8, years in serving the community. including Best Picture, Actor, Director, and Best Supporting Actress).
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NEWS-GAZETTE FILM SERIES: Stage Door (1937)
Tickets: $6
SAT, JULY 13 • 1PM & 7PM Not Rated (92 min) It’s Ginger Rogers’ birthday! Come watch Rogers and Katharine Hepburn star in a film adapted from the play of the same name about two young actresses aspiring to see their names in lights. Widely thought of as one of the very best glimpses into a life on the stage, Stage Door opened to great reviews and still packs an emotional punch today. real answers. AtAt RobbinsRobbins Schwartz,Schwartz, wew eunderstand understand that that your your questions questions neeneedd toto be answered quicklyquickly andand more importantlimportantly,y, correctlcorrectly.y. WiWithth nearlynearly 5050 yearsyears of of experience experience in ineducation educatio law,n law, our o ur The Champaign Park District thanks these sponsors atattorneystorneys skillfullyskillfully provideprovide practical practical options, options, reasonable reasonable ssolutionsolutions and strongstrong advocacy.advocacy .By By networking networking across across our for their support of the Virginia Theatre's oourffic esoffices throughout throughout Illinois, Illinois, we a rewe able are toable ensure to ensure that someone that 2018-2019 Performing Arts Season! issomeone readily availais readilyble to available respond to everyrespond question. to every question.
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ACCESSIBILITY HEARING ASSIST DEVICES GO BEHIND-THE-SCENES Transfer seats are offered on both levels at Assisted listening devices are available the Virginia Theatre along with wheelchair- upon request at the Virginia Theatre AND TOUR THE HISTORIC accessible seating located on platforms box office. A variety of styles—including VIRGINIA THEATRE! at the back of our Main Floor and in the earpiece buds, headsets, and “induction” BY APPOINTMENT front row of Main Floor Section 5. Up to 18 neck loops—can be used to enhance a wheelchairs may be accommodated at a guest’s enjoyment of films, spoken word Did you know that the Champaign given event, with one additional companion events, and most live performances at the Park District’s Virginia Theatre is seat available per wheelchair. Virginia. Devices may be obtained at no listed on the National Register cost before the show. A credit card, driver’s of Historic Places? And did you Tickets for accessible and companion license, or other form of ID is required. know that its original—and fully- seating can be purchased online, at the restored—1921 Wurlitzer Pipe box office, or by calling 217-356-9063. For more information about assisted Organ has over 750 pipes, or what The theatre also features a wheelchair lift listening devices, accessible seating, or (totally unexpected) features for guests accessing the stage from the any other accommodation at the Virginia the painters uncovered in 2013, auditorium, an elevator allowing access Theatre, please call 217-356-9063. during a $5.5 million renovation? from the stage to the downstairs dressing Come for a free, one-hour tour at rooms, and an elevator allowing access to PARKING downstate Illinois’s premier 1920s the building’s upstairs Mezzanine Lobby Parking is available in metered spaces on movie palace and live performance and restrooms.* the streets surrounding the Virginia Theatre space to find this out and more! *Please note that the Virginia’s mezzanine and in the Hill Street Parking Deck one Tours are offered by appointment. and upper balcony seating are still block north of the theatre on Randolph St. To schedule, call 217-356-9063, or accessible only via stairs. (123 West Hill). After 6pm, the lots at both mitch.marlow@ champaignparks. Busey Bank (to the east of the theatre) com. Donations to the Virginia and Hickory Point Bank (just north of the Theatre Restoration Fund are theatre) are available for free event parking. encouraged.
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Tickets On Sale Fri, July 20 – 10AM 33 SECTION KEY For more on ZONES, see seating map on preceding page. MF: Main Floor Level | Mezz: Mezzanine Level Bal: Upper Balcony Level RED TYPE = VT Series event $67.50 (Zones 1 & 2) DISCOUNTED SUBSCRIBER PRICING INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICING DATE TIME EVENT (To Subscribe, pick 4 or more VT Series events) AVAILABLE FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 - 10AM ADD UP YOUR ORDER HERE ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4 ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4 # OF YOUR X = SUBTOTAL CONCERTS SEATS PRICE Su, 7/1/18 3pm ICE CREAM & INDEPENDENCE $17.50 (Zones 1 & 2) $14.00 $11.00 $19.50 Adult $15.50 Adult $12.50 Adult X $ = $ (Ice Cream $17.50 Senior (55+) $14 Senior (55+) $11 Senior (55+) Social 1:30pm) $9 Child (12 & under) Sa, 8/9/18 8pm TAJMO: The Taj Mahal and $113.00 $77.00 $63.00 $41.00 $125.00 $85.00 $69.00 $45.00 X $ = $ Keb’ Mo’ Band Su, 9/23/18 7pm DANNY GOKEY: HOPE $75 Gold Circle (MF) $35 (MF Rows $25 (Bal Rows X $ = $ ENCOUNTER TOUR Sec 2-4, Rows A-D) E-S, Mezz, Bal EE-MM) Rows DD-GG) Th, 10/11/18 7:30pm AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT $63.00 $54.00 $45.00 $36.00 $69.50 $59.50 $49.50 $39.50 X $ = $ AND ROBERT EARL KEEN Sa, 10/13/18 7:30pm THE O’JAYS $107.50 $89.50 $80.50 $62.50 $119.50 $99.50 $89.50 $69.50 X $ = $ Th, 11/8/18 7:30pm ROSANNE CASH with JOHN $62.50 $53.50 $44.50 $35.50 $69.50 $59.50 $49.50 $39.50 X $ = $ LEVENTHAL Sa, 11/10/18 7:30pm REO Speedwagon $119.00 $99.50 $79.50 $59.50 X $ = $ W, 11/28/18 7:30pm 98O at CHRISTMAS $89.50 $71.50 $62.50 $44.50 $99.50 $79.50 $69.50 $49.50 X $ = $ Su, 12/9/18 7pm MICHAEL McDONALD $72.00 $63.00 $54.00 $45.00 $79.95 $69.95 $59.95 $49.95 X $ = $ W 12/12/18 7pm ANDREW PETERSON presents $36 MF & $31.50 Bal $27 Sec 1&5; $22.50 Bal $40 MF & $35 Bal $30 MF Sec $25 Bal Sec X $ = $ Mezz Sec 2-4 Sec 2-4 Mezz Sec 1&5 Sec 1&5 Mezz Sec 2-4 Sec 2-4 1&5; Mezz Sec 1&5 BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD 1&5 THEATRICAL/SPOKEN WORD Th-Sa, 7pm Th-Sa MARY POPPINS JR $14.00 Adults/$12.00 Child: All seats Th X $ = $ 7/19-7/21/18 2pm Sa (presented by Champaign Park F-10a X $ = $ District Youth Theatre) F-7p X $ = $ Sa-2p X $ = $ Sa-7p X $ = $ Th-Su, 7pm Th-Sa A CUTC production of ANNIE $22.00 Premium $16.00 Adult/$12.50 $24.00 Premium $18.00 Adult/$14.00 Th X $ = $ 8/2-8/5/18 2pm Sun Student & Senior (55+)/ Student & Senior (55+)/ F X $ = $ $9.00 Child (12 & under) $10.00 Child (12 & under) Sa X $ = $ Su X $ = $ Th-Sa, 7pm Th-Sa DISNEY’S THE ARISTOCATS - KIDS $12.00 Adults/$10.00 Child: All seats Th X $ = $ 9/20-9/22/18 2pm Sa (presented by Champaign Park F X $ = $ District Youth Theatre) Sa-2p X $ = $ Sa-7p X $ = $ DISCOUNTED SUBSCRIBER PRICING INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICING DATE TIME EVENT (To Subscribe, pick 4 or more VT Series events) AVAILABLE FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 - 10AM ADD UP YOUR ORDER HERE
# OF YOUR ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4 ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4 X = SUBTOTAL THEATRICAL/SPOKEN WORD SEATS PRICE Th-Sat 7pm Th-Sa BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR $14.00 Adults/$12.00 Child: All seats Th X $ = $ 11/15-11/17/18 2pm Sa (presented by Champaign Park F X $ = $ District Youth Theatre) Sa-2p X $ = $ Sa-7p X $ = $ Th, 12/6/18 7pm RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED $56 Adult/$50 Senior (55+)/ $47 Adult/ $62.50 Adult/$55.50 Senior (55+)/ $52.50 Adult/ X $ = $ $41 Senior/ $45.50 Senior/ REINDEER: THE MUSICAL $38 Child (12 & under) $29 Child $42.50 Child (12 & under) $32.50 Child Sa, 3/2/19 7:30pm THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID $36.00: All seats $40.00: All seats X $ = $ Sa, 3/30/19 8:20pm PECHA KUCHA NIGHT $10.00 in advance, $15.00 at the door: All seats X $ = $ CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Volume 28
COMEDY W, 10/31/18 7pm CRAIG FERGUSON $44.50 (Zones 1 & 2) $35.50 (Zones 3 & 4) $49.50 (Zones 1 & 2) $39.50 (Zones 3 & 4) X $ = $
DANCE F-Sa, 2/15- 7pm F CPD DANCE ARTS Tickets On Sale Winter, 2019 2/16/19 2pm Sa ANNUAL RECITAL F-Sa, 7pm F SWAN LAKE $21.00 Adult/$16.00 Senior (55 +)/ $24.00 Adult/$19.00 Senior (55 +)/ F, 7p X $ = $ 5/3-5/4/19 11am Sa presented by the CU BALLET $10.00 Student/ $10.00 Child (12 & under) $12.00 Student/ $12.00 Child (12 & under) Sa, 11a X $ = $ 4pm Sa Sa , 4p X $ = $ Sa, 6/1/19 11am & TWIST & SHOUT 10TH ANNUAL Tickets On Sale Spring, 2019 6pm DANCE RECITAL Th-Sa 6/6- 6:30pm ART IN MOTION ANNUAL Tickets On Sale Spring, 2019 6/8/19 DANCE SHOWCASE
SPECIAL FILM EVENTS (To order Reel Deal, News-Gazette, or Rewind Film Series titles: thevirginia.org or call 356-9063) Sa, 8/11/18 2pm & 6pm 2018 PENS TO LENS $12 Pass/$8 Standard/FREE Ages 18 & Under 2p X $ = $ 6p X $ = $ M-Su, 8/20- 7pm M-Sa 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY $8.00: All seats 8/26/18 1pm Sa-Su (in 70mm) 11/19-21,11/23-25 7pm FIRST MAN (in 70mm) $8.00: All seats Su, 12/16/18 1pm, 2pm, HOLIDAY IN WHOVILLE $3.00: All seats 3pm, 4pm 4/10-4/14/19 Various ROGER EBERT’S FILM FESTIVAL Festival Passes on-sale Thu, Nov 1, 2018; Individual Tickets on sale Mon, April 2, 2019 Presorted Standard U.S. Postage PAID Champaign, IL Permit No. 287
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