Smith Center Presents!

Sean so of th e

The Smith Center at O hlone College Sean so of th e

Smith Center Presents!

the smith Center and O hlone College welcome you to another season

of performances with some of the most well-known and highly talented group of

professionals that we have yet offered on our three stages. This season we have:

Barry Henley, a multi-talented professional Speaking of breathless, the actor whose credentials include many of the fast-paced improv comedy Smith Center Presents! most popular television comedies and dramas, of ComedySportz leaves with an impressive resume that also extends you gasping with laughter. across multiple films and theater productions. The longest running show Henley’s performance will include vignettes from in the South Bay, there’s his award-winning play, Jungle Bells, and will a reason their audiences review the history of black theater, television and keep coming back — this film artists and performers group is just plain funny! in America. With humor geared for all audiences, you can bring Making a return visit to the the whole family and have Smith Center this season a great time. is Sweet Can Circus. If you’ve ever seen them, you We have two great musical know that a “circus act” is events featured as well, an inadequate description the Spanish Brass, exploring the possibilities for this eclectic ensemble. of the brass quintet repertoire, from Bach to They are so much more. Dixieland, P aul Posnak, a classically trained Sweet Can blends aspects pianist who is equally comfortable in the jazz of dance and drama, inter- tradition and has transcribed note for note the weaving classic circus feats playing of piano greats Fats Waller and George that will leave the audience Gershwin. I t will be a fabulous season. breathless with surprise.

www.smithcenter.com Smith Center Box Office 510.659.6031 ComedySportz Spanish Brass S EP 9 OC T 15

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M ission Peak Brass Band Smith Center Presents! Oc t 14 Fri at 8pm Comedy Sportz Improv Comedy Sep 9 Fri at 8pm Smith Center Presents! Smith Center Amphitheatre Spnisha Brass Not comedy about sports, but comedy Luur Metalls as a sport! Clean, fast and fun improv Oc t 15 Sat at 8pm comedy for all audiences. ComedySportz is the award-winning interactive comedy Founded in 1989, five Spanish musicians show where two teams of “act-letes” created Spanish Brass—one of the most compete for audience laughs and points lively and innovative musical projects while improvising scenes, games and on the international scene—quickly musicals based on audience suggestions. gained world renown for its unsurpassed Named Editor’s Choice by T he Wave performances, eclectic repertoire, Magazine, and Best Local Theatre and engaging educational activities, and Best Comedy by Metro Magazine creative collaborations.

Bliss Dance Company O hlone Community Band Sep 16 -17 Fri-Sat at 8pm Oc t 26 Wed at 7pm Smith Center Amphitheatre

Servant of Two Masters A Classic Italian Comedy by Carlo Goldoni Ohlone Fall Theatre Production N ov 4-5 Fri-Sat at 8pm N ov 10-12, 17-19 Thu-Sat at 8pm N UMmi Studio Theatre Prepare for high spirits, fast-paced F remont Symphony comedy and preposterous situations as From the New World Truffaldino, the deceptively zany servant Sep 24 Sat at 8pm serves first one, then another master, outwitting them all! As ridiculously Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait narrated hilarious today as he was 250 years by award-winning actor Aldo Billingslea; ago at the height of the Italian farcical Dvorak’s New World Symphony; tradition of commedia dell’arte, Truffaldino Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 prevaricates his way through with soloist Iris Hsu, 2011 Young one narrowly averted disaster Artist Winner. after another, all for the sake of filling his poor belly! O hlone Wind Orchestra Oc t 9 Sun at 2pm

The Smith Center at O hlone College T he Nutcracker StarStruck Theatre P aul Poznak D EC 3-4, 16-18 JA N 6-22 F EB 11

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O hlone Community Chorale D3ec Sat at 3pm Smith Center Presents! Centerville Presbyterian Church, Fremont Paul Posnak Classical & Jazz Piano T chaikovsky’s N utcracker F eb 11 Sat at 8pm F remont Symphony StarStruck Theatre: D3ec Sat at 2pm & 7pm Posnak’s distinguished career as a The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D4ec Sun at 2pm concert pianist and recording artist in Jan 6-22, 2012 both classical and jazz has brought him …A family tradition, with Broadway’s musical adaptation of international recognition. He earned a choreography by Yoko Young Mark Twain’s classic American story— doctoral degree from the Julliard School and dancers from Yoko’s Dance the irresistible story of growing up in and won the Loeb prize, Juilliard’s & Performing Arts Academy, this America’s Heartland. highest award. He has toured with some beloved classic is the perfect of the world’s leading performers, such way to celebrate the beginning of the as Luciano Pavarotti, and performed in holiday season! some of the finest venues. Smith Center Presents! “ Brilliant, exultant…a keyboard virtuoso.” W inter Dance Showcase B arry “Shabaka” Die Westdeutsche Allgemeine D ec 2-3 Fri-Sat at 8pm Henley “ Posnak is a unique master of the piano, D ec 4 Sun at 3pm Actor, Writer, Director, and Historian no matter which style he plays.” N UMmi Studio Theatre F eb 10 Fri at 8pm The Charlotte Sun-Herald

Dramatic and imposing, Henley has O hlone Jazz/Rock Combos a distinguished career in television T he Lafayette String Quartet D9ec Fri at 7:30pm and film, equally skilled at comedy and celebrates its 25th season with drama. His television appearances all four original Christmas Extravaganza: include Law and Order SVU, Grey’s members Ohlone Wind Orchestra Anatomy, Heroes and Numb3rs, roles Mission Peak Brass Band in films such as State of Play, Collateral, Ohlone Community Band Four Brothers and Miami Vice, and F remont Symphony presents Ohlone Tuba Ensemble theatre performances including Lafayette String Quartet D ec 10 Sat at 2pm Waiting for Godot and Richard II. F eb 25 Sat at 8pm Henley’s performance will take us Berkeley City Ballet: Nutcracker Brahms’ String Quartet No. 1 in C minor; through the history of black artists Mozart’s String Quartet No. 16 in D ec 16 Fri at 7:30pm in stage and cinema beginning E-flatM ajor; Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade D ec 17 Sat at 1pm & 5pm in New York in the 1820s, “Splendid, powerful and riveting D ec 18 Sun at 1pm & 5pm through the 1960s black arts in every way.” The New York Times movement, to today’s black Christmas at the Mission artists in contemporary Ohlone Chamber Singers theater and film, and will D ec 17 Sat at 8pm include excerpts from his D ec 18 Sun at 4pm internationally acclaimed Old Mission San José, fremont play Jungle Bells. M usic Sweet Can Ensembles M3 AR

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A nnual Dance Production Smith Center Presents! A pr 26-28 Thu-Sat at 8pm S weet Can Circus-based Performance Student Repertory Theatre M ar 3 Sat at 8pm O ne Act Plays, Bill II M ay 3-5 Thu-Sat at 8pm T The Smith Center continues to provide Sweet Can performs amazing circus ickets N UMmi Studio Theatre high quality artists to the community feats in the midst of an everyday world, at affordable prices. telling a magical story that draws us in, transforming life into art, and creating a M ission Peak Brass Band www.smithcenter.com world where anything can happen. M ay 4 Fri at 8pm Performance: ger ne al seniors youth Dangling in the air by a silken thread (under 12) or balancing on one hand, Sweet Can O hlone Wind Orchestra $20 $18 $18 reveals the magic in the mundane, M ay 6 Sun at 2pm Smith Center Presents! propelled by the infectious musical Theatre & Dance concoctions of composer EO, they Department* $15 $12 $10 O hlone Symphony Orchestra force us to take an honest look at the M ay 6 Sun at 5pm Music limitations and possibilities or our own Department* $15 $10 $8 imaginations. *Some department ticket prices are lower “ These performers apply physical O hlone Community Band challenge and emotional complexity M ay 9 Wed at 7:30pm Parking Permit $2 to the simplest of tasks, while conjuring effortless grace during the Events and ticket prices subject to O hlone Community Chorale nearly impossible.” SF Weekly change without notice. M ay 11 Fri at 7:30pm Centerville Presbyterian Church All performances are in the Jackson Student Repertory Theatre fremont Theatre unless otherwise noted. O ne Act Plays, Bill I Smith Center Box Office M ar 7-9 Wed-Fri at 8pm O hlone Jazz/Rock Combos (510) 659-6031 N UMmi Studio Theatre M ay 11 Fri at 7:30pm Tuesday-Thursday 12-7 pm;

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