New Jersey Stage 2016 - Issue 10 | Page 2

IT ALL HAPPENS HERE! From the Buena Vista Social Club TM Omara Portuondo “85 Tour” • 10/15 Part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival 2016 Tony Award® winners Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton) and Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) and GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer/songwriter Kenny Lattimore Christian McBride, Music Director in An Evening of Elegant Soul Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music Broadway’s Best with Seth Rudetsky Savion Glover’s Chronology of a HooFer The Hot Sardines Friday, October 7 at 6:30pm Saturday, October 8 at 10:30pm & 2pm Friday, October 7 at 7:30pm Saturday, October 8 at 8pm The tap master and Tony Award® winner chronicles his performance history through photos, words, stories and rhythmic percussion. Hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Fats Waller used to make. When the new music teacher’s instruments go missing, Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and their friends come to the rescue! Broadway stars perform numbers from your favorite musicals! Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, creator of the musical Disaster! Sunday, October 9 at 3pm Saturday, October 1 at 7pm Sponsored by Prudential Squeeze with The English Beat Thursday, October 13 at 7:30pm Squeeze (“Tempted,” “Pulling Mussels”) perform songs from their latest CD and all the hits! The English Beat opens. Produced by John Scher/Metropolitan Entertainment World Music Series sponsored by American Express Mariza with special guest Bebel Gilberto Sunday, October 16 at 7pm Mariza (“Meu Fado Meu”), the new face of Portuguese fado, is one of the biggest stars of the world music circuit. Dream Theater The Astonishing Live An Evening with Wednesday, October 19 at 7:30pm Progressive metal band Dream Theater performs its new concept album The Astonishing, a singular, otherworldly journey. Friday, October 28 at 8pm Patrizio Buanne The “Ambassador of Dolce Vita” performs his hits, Italian songbook standards, favorite American songs and new releases. Produced by John Scher/Metropolitan Entertainment London Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Yuja Wang, piano Saturday, October 29 at 8pm Works by Wagner, Ravel and Shostakovich The American Song series at NJPAC is presented, in part, through the generous support of the Blanche and IrvingLaurie Foundation and David S. Steiner and Sylvia Steiner Charitable Trust. 1.888.GO.NJPAC • NJPAC.ORG • GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE 973.297.5804 • ONE CENTER STREET, NEWARK, NJ