Adults $15, Seniors $12, Students/Children $10

Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador with a career spanning 30 years, and the sizzlingly talented California cellist Natalie Haas have a performance partnership of ten years duration. They have been featured on NPR’s Performance Today, Thistle & Shamrock and Mountain Stage, and represented Scotland at the Smithsonian Museum’s Folklife Festival. We are thrilled to have them. Funded in part by NYSCA.

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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Keeping the Beat: Contemporary American
Performed by Footworks

Donations Welcome

Three dancers and one musician demonstrate how unique U.S. dance forms have developed from multi-cultural roots. Footworks presents live music and authentic American traditional dance in an energetic, engaging performance with plenty of audience participation. Footworks will convey the joy of dance to all while illuminating the historical and diverse perspectives of various American percussive dances. Funded in part by NYSCA.

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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM

Carrie Hooper
Soprano

Adults $5, Seniors $4, Students/Children $3, Family $20

"The shining, soaring soprano voice of Carrie Hooper is something to celebrate," according to the Buffalo News. Her repertoire ranges from Verdi and Handel to Stephen Foster and Andrew Lloyd Webber. She has degrees from Mansfield University and University of Buffalo and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as a Fulbright Scholar. She presently gives private lessons and teaches at Elmira College. Benefit for the Morgan Opera House.

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Adults $8, Seniors $6, Students/Children $5

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Donations Welcome

In 1861 men from the Town of Ledyard heard President Lincoln’s call and joined up to save the union and end slavery. What motivated them? Who did they leave behind? How were lives changed? The original material has been collected by Judy Furness, Ledyard Town Historian, and will be read by family members and neighbors. Hear (and maybe even sing) the music of that time.

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Free Admission

Award-winning storyteller Jay Stetzer will captivate all ages through a unique interplay of the spoken word, mime and audience participation in "Bear-ly Serious Stories and Songs from Around the World." This program will conclude our summer reading program "One World, Many Stories." Bring your favorite bear and a picnic lunch. Co-sponsored by Aurora Free Library and NYSCA.

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Saturday, August 20, 2010, 7:30 PM

Susan May and the Stars of Tomorrow

$5 for all

Susan May and the Stars of Tomorrow sing and dance the songs from World War II. Remember the great tunes from the early 1940's? The songs to which you could sing and dance? Songs like: "Happy Days," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," "White Cliffs of Dover," and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Join us for the music that brought us through the war. Benefit for the Opera House.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Someone Like You

Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, Children $8

Starring Leslie Goddard and her friends from Broadway. Aurora-born Leslie (Jersey Boys, Hairspray), performs with her talented friends Lauren Kling (Hairspray) and Gretchen Bieber (Hairspray) featuring Jasper Grant (Musical Director of The Color Purple on tour) on piano with special appearance by David Baum (Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line). Using musical theater, pop/rock songs, and dance, the performers will create characters similar to themselves that reveal their journeys to fulfilling their Broadway dreams. Funded in part by NYSCA.

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$5 for all

Happily, the Klezmer Kings have become an annual fixture at Morgan Opera House. Dana Mandel and his revolving bevy of klezmorim (professional musicians) love the opportunity to envelop us in the sounds and rhythms of eastern European music. We reciprocate, sometimes with singing and dancing, always with clapping. Benefit for the Morgan Opera House, funded by Lifespan Therapies of Moravia and King Ferry.

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Adults $10, Seniors $8, Students/Children $5

Re-examine the legend of Lizzie Borden in this psychological thriller. Using inquest statements and testimony from her infamous trial for the brutal hatchet murders of her father and step-mother, the play recreates the tumultuous Borden household. Garrett Heater's play seeks not to discover who committed the murders, but creates a detailed and engrossing plot regarding why the murders were committed.

All of us at the Morgan Opera House hope that you will find many occasions to join us this season. We look forward to welcoming you in person.

Created: April 11, 2004. Last updated: May 6, 2011 by K. Wikoff. Designed by Karin Wikoff, with assistance from dan taylor.
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