January 2021
Book and Lyrics by Douglas Jones
Music by Ron Barnett
This stirring drama with music is a classic tribute to the great American who freed herself and hundreds of others from the bonds of slavery. Her courage helped to change the world. Share her adventurous life with your students in this accurate and deeply moving musical history lesson.
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Cahoots, NI
In this ambitious new undertaking, Cahoots NI will live-broadcast a performance in Belfast from an extensive (yet socially distant) set where magic and illusion have no boundaries, bringing an immersive theatrical experience directly to your audience’s own home or classroom. Throughout the hour-long performance, audiences will interact with lively lecturers, enter themed rooms filled with illusion, and encounter problems and puzzles in an attempt to unlock magical powers and graduate with flying colors.
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Streaming on Broadway On Demand
Margery Williams’ award-winning classic tale of a stuffed toy rabbit made real by a child’s enduring love is retold in a modern and delightfully electric holiday musical. In an era of virtual reality and Minecraft, this musical captures the joy and magic of the book you know and love, with a 16-bit digital twist. This happy, hoppy, holiday show will get the entire family into the spirit of the season.
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Streaming on Broadway On Demand & Interactive Pick-A-Path
Back by popular demand! Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., really? Martin’s Dream answers this question and more as it brings this historical figure to life through the power of story, speech and song. Watch as Dr. King tells the story ofhis life, from his childhood in the Deep South all the way to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Created and performed by the talented and charismatic Deondra Kamau Means, this one-man show explores the real person behind the pictures, a funny intelligent, passionate man whose faith, family and education made him one of the most revered people in our nation’s history.
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Latvia's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
lizzard of Souls pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of an innocent 17-year-old farm-boy turned soldier. Though he is underage, and his dad, a former marksman, is overage for the army, they are both conscripted into one of Latvia’s first national battalions. The thrill of training is soon followed by reality, as shells burst around them in the endless mud. He grows up on the battlefield, fighting at the side of his father and brother, their lives are constantly in jeopardy.
Adapted from the book by Aleksandrs Grins, which was banned in the U.S.S.R., the story was based on Grins’ own war experiences in a Latvian battalion, and the film is the biggest box office success in Latvia in the past 30 years.
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Win the Ultimate Valentine’s Dream Date
Valentine’s Day, 2021: You and your guest park in front of the WHBPAC in a rock star packing space. The marquee is lit with your names or your declaration of love. We whisk you off to the stage for a romantic, candlelit dinner for two, complete with a bottle of champagne. After eating, snuggle in together in our deluxe velvet seats for a private viewing of a movie of your choice. We’ll provide you with movie snacks, but our guess is you’re not going to be interested in food at this point. (We promise the projectionist won’t peek.)
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Virtual Cinema
Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages — a massive, self-contained retirement community located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this utopia lie a small group of Villages residents and one interloper who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise.
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Switzerland's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
Lisa, once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven, the famous theatre actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukaemia, the relationship between them has become even closer. Lisa does not want to accept this blow of fate, she does everything in her power to bring Sven back on stage. For her soulmate she neglects everything else and even risks losing her husband. Her marriage goes awry, but Lisa only has eyes for her brother, who reflects her deepest longings and awakens in her the desire to be creative, to feel alive again.
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Because you may be by yourself, but you're not alone
Join WHBPAC as we watch the wicked and the wacky, the worldly and the woebegone – together! This bi-weekly assemblage of patrons and staff will leave you warm, well-rounded, and – on the whole – well prepared to weather whatever the fates might weave for us next.
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Sudan's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.
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Virtual Cinema
Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy, rocks the art world; 350 years after his death, many people, even entire nations are obsessed with his paintings. Aristocrats cherish, experts rule, art dealers investigate, collectors hunt, museums battle. The epic documentary MY REMBRANDT dives deep into the art world of Old Masters, exploring the motives of its elite.
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Japan's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family.
Weaving together multiple timelines and genres with a contemplative pacing and keen sense of place, hallmarks of Kawase’s work, TRUE MOTHERS is “is a deeply touching celebration of women who assume duties of love, support and compassion” (Awards Watch).
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Ukraine's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
A prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival and Ukraine’s official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards, Atlantis is a gorgeous and visionary sci-fi drama. Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A Wall is being build-up on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
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High School
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest art forms.
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.
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Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman who has supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter and learns that the power she needed was inside her all along.
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France's Official Submission to the Academy Awards
Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, have been secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody’s point of view, including Madeleine’s family, they are simply neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madeleine’s daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.
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Elementary School
Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek. One day, Shrek finds his swamp invaded by a band of banished fairytale misfits who have been cast off by Lord Farquaad, a tiny terror with big ambitions. When Shrek sets off with a wisecracking Donkey to confront Farquaad, he’s handed a task — if he rescues feisty Princess Fiona, his swamp will be righted. It’s a “big bright beautiful world” as Shrek rescues the princess, vanquishes Farquaad and finds true acceptance but a fairytale wouldn’t be complete without a few twists and turns along the way.
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Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek. One day, Shrek finds his swamp invaded by a band of banished fairytale misfits who have been cast off by Lord Farquaad, a tiny terror with big ambitions. When Shrek sets off with a wisecracking Donkey to confront Farquaad, he’s handed a task — if he rescues feisty Princess Fiona, his swamp will be righted. It’s a “big bright beautiful world” as Shrek rescues the princess, vanquishes Farquaad and finds true acceptance but a fairytale wouldn’t be complete without a few twists and turns along the way.
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“Stuffed” is a documentary feature film about the surprising and unique world of taxidermy. Through the eyes and hands of passionate renowned artists across the world, the film allows the audience to dip into & explore this diverse subculture, where sculptors must also be scientists. It is a genre of art, formed by a collection of people who have a fanaticism for nature, matched only by their desire to protect it. They love animals and see life where others only see death. In an unexpected twist, “Stuffed” reveals the importance of preserving nature, using taxidermy as its unlikely vehicle, and the taxidermist as its wild driver.
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Sure, you could celebrate Valentine’s Day this year by buying into the rampant consumerism – snapping up all the fancy chocolates and teddy bears to try and show a loved one you care.
Or you could celebrate the loves in your life by actually being a better person. You could give a fellow New Yorker the rest of their life just by giving up an hour of your time and a pint of your blood. New York’s blood supply is critically low, and the pandemic is affecting the ability of NYBC to carry out drives. You can help change that.
And hey, it may not be candlelight and roses, but you’re guaranteed to get a cookie at the end.
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Lauren Greenfield’s postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, workaholic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously autobiographical and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream, and the personal costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism, and greed.
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Streaming on Broadway On Demand
The classic fairy tale of “Rapunzel” comes to life in an exciting world-premiere musical adaptation adventure featuring everyone’s favorite long-locked lady in a tower. But don’t forget the array of other characters braided in this hairy fairy tale, comically played by onlytwo actors! Yes, your read that correctly. ONLY TWO ACTORS! This fresh new adaptation will make your audiences throw their heads of hair back in laughter and delight as two incredibly talented and versatile actors untangle this hairy fairy tale like you’ve never seen it before!
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This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more – it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: ‘But why is this art?’
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A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. The film examines the women’s complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
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Savage Pianos is the foremost dueling piano show in the Northeast known for their craftsmanship, deep repertoires, and unique personalities. Fronted by Steve Savage, a classically trained pianist from the Berklee College of Music, Savage Pianos is the ultimate hybrid of all modern forms of entertainment: Two performers on two facing pianos taking turns playing audience requests and curated playlists. What sets Savage Pianos apart from the rest is their unique ability to engage the audience with comedy, witty banter and excellent musicianship. Whether you sit on stage with the guys (complete with tableside drink service), or prefer to be out in the audience – they’ll be putting their unparalleled spin on your requests all night long. This will be an engaging, interactive experience you won’t want to miss!
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Darlene Love is the Queen of Rock and Soul! Hers was the voice that helped launch a hundred hits: The No. 1 smash “He’s a Rebel,” “(Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” all of which she sang during the glory days of the girl-group era, as well as the countless songs she sang backup on for artists Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Cher, Aretha Franklin, and more.
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Four-time Grammy-award winning contemporary Blues and Americana artist Keb’ Mo’ returns to WHBPAC on the heels of his celebrated 2019 release, Oklahoma. Hailed internationally as one of the greatest Blues artists of his generation, Keb’ Mo’ has consistently made music that reflects his own interests and passions. In the process, he’s earned a reputation for his ability to draw upon his bottomless roots-music expertise to make deeply expressive, highly personal music.
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Catch this two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash when he performs some of his best loved songs and greatest hits from across his illustrious career, alongside material from the forthcoming Sky Trails band album.
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Duke University’s renowned a cappella group has performed across the country and even in Britain in venues ranging from dorm hall common rooms to massive sports arenas. These award-winning vocalists are sure to entertain audiences of all ages!
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A charming and charismatic performer, Tyrell’s warmth radiates from the stage. With a career spanning television, film, radio and Broadway, his powerful range makes him a hit with jazz-lovers of all ages.
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Two Shows - 7pm & 9:30pm!
Unfortunately due to the pandemic, the Fab Faux has made the decision not to tour in the foreseeable future, and has cancelled their rescheduled date of July 17, 2021 with us. As so much time has passed since your original purchase, we will be unable to refund the credit card you originally used and will instead have to send you a check. Please confirm with Allison that the address you used for your order is the best address to mail it before October 23. We will not send a refund check without that confirmation.
You may also choose to donate the cost of your tickets back to the theatre — a gesture that would be much appreciated, as we are a small non-profit organization.
If you have any questions, please contact us at 631-288-2350, ext. 102.
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Marshall Charloff & the Purple Xperience bring the hits of Prince straight from Paisley Park to the PAC stage. The Purple Xperience re-imagines the Prince legacy with its sultry grooves and high energy stage performance that will have you out of your seat all night long dancing to hits like “Raspberry Beret” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” The group embodies the image, intensity and sounds of the iconic musician’s life and legacy; with their nonstop energy and an array of changing scenery, it’s an entertaining trip you’ll never want to end.
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Dubbed “The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz,” Jay Leno, famed late night television host, stand up comic, and host of Jay Leno’s Garage, knows a thing or two about a thing or two. His side-splitting show covers all of his career highlights; from his early days as a lot boy at a Ford dealership to following Richard Pryor’s sell-out acts at The Comedy Store, to eventually earning the coveted Tonight Show spot from Johnny Carson. His observational style of comedy and witty banter with the audience are the hallmarks of a true career comedian.
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Justin Willman is the star and creator of the hit Netflix original series Magic for Humans. He’s a regular guest on The Tonight Show, Ellen, and Conan and his online videos have logged over a 100 million views. The L.A. Times calls him “…a new breed of comic who’s making magic cool again for grown-ups.” His routine is fresh, hip, and gives magic a modern spin for the 21st century.
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Laura Benanti, renowned Broadway and TV performer, presents a one-woman production, Tales from Soprano Isle, marked with humorous monologues, witty stories, and flawless soprano vocals from both classic Broadway productions as well as recognizable, modern tunes. Benanti hilariously combines stand-up comedy, relatable real-life storytelling, and her professional, angelic voice for an evening of uproarious fun.
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You've Got A Friend
You’ve Got a Friend is a musical experience that brings together five-time Grammy nominee Michael Feinstein and American Idol alumni Haley Reinhart. From Gershwin to Carole King and beyond, these two entertainers expand the Great American Songbook into the modern era. This is an evening of music you won’t want to miss!
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Jefferson Starship rose from the ashes of one of the quintessential Haight/Ashbury acts, Jefferson Airplane. The music that defined a generation and spanned decades is alive and well and more relevant than ever in pop culture. Songs such as “Volunteers,” “White Rabbit,” and “Somebody to Love,” continue to reverberate throughout the collective consciousness today.
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Los Lobos has sold millions of records, won prestigious awards and made fans around the world. But perhaps its most lasting impact will be how well its music embodies the idea of America as a cultural melting pot. In it, styles like son jarocho, norteño, Tejano, folk and country, doo-wop, soul, and R&B blend with rock ’n’ roll and punk to create a new sound that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Los Lobos has enjoyed critical success, winning the Grammy® for Best Mexican-American Performance for Anselma from its 1983 EP …And a Time to Dance. A year later, the group released its full-length, major-label debut, How Will the Wolf Survive? Co-produced by T. Bone Burnett, the album was a college rock sensation that helped Los Lobos tie with Bruce Springsteen as Rolling Stone’s Artist of the Year 1984.
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Returning for his third headlining show, LI native Jeff LeBlanc is a homegrown success story. Since releasing his first album, he has epitomized success as an independent artist – netting millions of streams, achieving both satellite and commercial radio play, selling-out headline shows and touring the country with a wide range of artists such as Boz Scaggs, Chaka Khan, Chris Stapleton, Michael McDonald, Tori Kelly, Chris Isaak, Brett Dennen and more. His soulful vocals and lush melodies are the perfect soundtrack to the WHB vibe.
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Drawing most of their sound from their native New Orleans, The Subdudes blend blues, gospel, funk, and R&B with their own harmony vocals. Staying true to their Midwestern roots, BoDeans bring their rootsy American rock and pop by way of Wisconsin. This double-bill promises to be a night of rocking and rollicking night of fun!
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