CenterStage Opening Night Tickets On Sale

From the RTD, July 2, 2009

Tickets for the grand opening performances at Richmond CenterStage are now
on sale. The show, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Carpenter Theatre, will include
a performance by each of CenterStage's nine producing resident companies.
Tickets range from $35 to $100 and can be purchased at Tickmaster (search for
"Carpenter Theatre").

The performers at the single-ticket show are:

• African American Repertory Theatre (poetry readings celebrating Langston Hughes)
• Elegba Folklore Society (performance of "Mandiani")
• Richmond Ballet (performance of Stoner Winslett's "Windows IV")
• Richmond Jazz Society
  (octet of Virginia jazz musicians performing "Generations of Jazz")
• Richmond Shakespeare Theater
  (songs and sonnets by Shakespeare, with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra)
• Richmond Symphony Orchestra
  (Bernstein's overture from "Candide" and Shostakovich's "Festive Overture")
• School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community
  (a medley from "Les Misérables")
• Theatre IV Barksdale
  (excerpts from "High School Musical," "Thoroughly Modern Millie, "The Sound of Music" and others)
• Virginia Opera (excerpts from "La Bohème").