St. Paul s Ordway unveils 4 Broadway shows for upcoming season
The season starts with a beloved Tradition.
Author: Broadway @ the Ordway will kick off in late November (a couple months after its planned reopening) with
Fiddler on the Roof, the performing arts center announced Wednesday. It will run from Nov. 30-Dec. 12, before making way for three more Broadway productions:
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical: Dec. 28, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022
An Officer and a Gentleman: Jan. 20-23, 2022
Waitress: March 8-13, 2022
“We are thrilled Broadway is coming back to the Ordway,” said Christine Sagstetter, interim president and CEO, in the announcement, adding: Nothing can match the experience of a great Broadway musical with the people you love inside our beautiful venue in downtown Saint Paul.”
The Ordway reveals plans for first indoor shows in 18 months
Some enhanced health and safety measures will be in place.
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St. Paul s famed Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will reopen its doors for performances this fall.
The Arts Partnership announced the theater s reopening plans Thursday, with the regular performers – Minnesota Opera, Ordway, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Schubert Club – all expected to resume indoor performances in September.
At that time, the Ordway will have been shuttered for 18 months, which is the longest that Ordway stages have been dark in our 36-year history, interim president and CEO Christine Sagstetter said in the announcement. It began cancelling shows March 13, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(FORT LEE, NJ) After going virtual since March 2021 and creating several productions online, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has announced its return to performing for live audiences in June 2021 in both indoor and outdoor presentations. The Company’s first live audience-facing performance will be presented by the Jamaica Dance Festival outdoors at Rufus King Park. 150-29 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, New York on Saturday, June 12 at 7:30pm. The Jamaica Dance Festival is a program of A Better Jamaica, an advocacy organization for the community.
Minnesota Opera brings audiences up close in its first big COVID comeback REVIEW: Clever camera work offers a rich way to experience Minnesota Opera s first full-scale staging in 15 months.
By Rob Hubbard, Special to the Star Tribune May 24, 2021 11:55am Text size Copy shortlink:
So far away and yet so close.
Audiences aren t allowed into Minnesota Opera s new production of Benjamin Britten s comic opera Albert Herring. And the social distancing goes beyond that: The performers didn t even get within 4 feet of each other, and couldn t sing directly at one another from any closer than 12 feet.
And yet this online-only production is quite a success, thanks in large part to creative camera work. If you ve ever experienced an opera from the top balcony, this is the opposite extreme the faces of performers filling your screen as they give voice to this satirical and somewhat silly tale of a naive innocent who bec