"Ozark Wildcat Ozark Wildcat was a wooden roller coaster at the now-defunct Celebration City amusement park in Branson, Missouri. Manufactured by Great Coasters International, it opened to the public on May 1, 2003. After only six seasons, it permanently closed on October 25, 2008, along with the rest of the park. In October 2015, Herschend Family Entertainment announced that it would be removed. It was demolished on December 15, 2015, and its trains were sold to Dollywood. Once riders were carried out of the station, they entered a slow helix turn and the train went up into the chain lift."
"Ozark Festival Orchestra The Ozark Festival Orchestra is an independent, self-sustaining, established orchestra residing in a small city in the Ozarks --- Monett, Missouri, population 7,396. The ensemble of 40 members commissions new works, features regional and national guest soloists, and hosts a Young Artists competition annually. It is uncommon for an American city of this size to host an orchestra, although many small American towns do have a community band. The OFO has a five-concert season starting in October and ending in April or May. The OFO completed its 38th season in the spring of 2018; this was the"
"4th season for the current conductor/musical director, Todd Borgmann. Former musical directors include Ken Meisinger , Dr. Jordan Tang and Dr. David Goza. Ozark Festival Orchestra The Ozark Festival Orchestra is an independent, self-sustaining, established orchestra residing in a small city in the Ozarks --- Monett, Missouri, population 7,396. The ensemble of 40 members commissions new works, features regional and national guest soloists, and hosts a Young Artists competition annually. It is uncommon for an American city of this size to host an orchestra, although many small American towns do have a community band. The OFO has a five-concert season"
"system and provided additional funding. Many visitors to the Ozark Folk Center also visit Blanchard Springs Caverns, float the Buffalo National River, or enjoy trout fishing on the White River, all of which are located in the Folk Center area. The town of Mountain View bills itself as the ""Folk Music Capital of the World"" and local musicians often gather in small groups to play their instruments in the town square after dark during the summer months. Visitors have always been welcome to attend these impromptu free concerts and often bring their own lawn chairs. Food and drink are usually"
"depiction of Ozark people. Ozark musicians include Porter Wagoner and old-time fiddler Bob Holt. Examples of commercial interpretations of traditional Ozark culture include the two major family theme parks in the region, Silver Dollar City and the now defunct Dogpatch U.S.A.; and the resort entertainment complex in Branson. Ozark Folkways in Winslow, Arkansas and Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas interpret regional culture through musical performance and exhibitions of pioneer skills and crafts. Traditional Ozark culture includes stories and tunes passed orally between generations through community music parties and other informal gatherings. Many of these tunes and"
"July, held on July 3 and 4; and the Ozark Mountain Christmas, held throughout the month of December. The latter festival is especially notable because it features the town Christmas tree lighting and lighting of the downtown square, including the courthouse and other downtown buildings. The Ozark Folk Center plays host to several events throughout the year, including live concerts by well-known artist such as the Old Crow Medicine Show and Del McCoury, the Arkansas State Fiddle Championships, and workshops teaching banjo, dulcimer, and other folk crafts. The city hosts a satellite campus of Ozarka College, a two-year institution whose"
"(1995) and (2011), ""Cinderella"" (1996), ""Bye Bye Birdie"" (1997), ""Oliver!"" (1998) and (2009), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1999), ""The Music Man"" (2000), ""Mame"" (2001), ""Grease"" (2003), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (2005), ""Damn Yankees"" (2006), ""West Side Story"" (2007), ""City of Angels"" (2008), ""Crazy for You"" (2012), ""Seussical"" (2013), ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"" (2015), ""Mary Poppins (musical) "" (2016) "" Shrek the Musical "" (2017), and "" The Little Mermaid (musical) "" (2018) East Rockaway High School East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School (often abbreviated ERHS) is a co-educational six-year secondary school in East Rockaway, New York, and the sole high school in"
"the Moon River Theatre. The name came from his signature song. It went on to become the first theatre ever to be featured in ""Architectural Digest"", and also won the 1992 Conservation Award from the State of Missouri. The theatre was designed to blend with the rough terrain of the Ozark Mountains. He had originally planned a marble style theatre reminiscent of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, but soon had a change of mind. The Larson Company of Tucson, Arizona, fabricated a section of rock on Missouri's Highway 76 and the theatre was soon engulfed with waterfalls, koi-filled"
"behind Denver, Kansas City and Minneapolis, Minnesota for cultural attractions, in turn . The Creighton Orpheum Theater is a performing arts center located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The home of the ""Broadway In Omaha"" series and Opera Omaha, the theater has hosted a variety of performers, including W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Al Jolson. Omaha's Union Station plays host to the Durham Western Heritage Museum. Dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of the Western United States, it features the history of Omaha, as well as a variety of special collections including the Byron Reed Collection. El Museo"
"for special showings and events. Rapp and Rapp's 1914 Orpheum Theatre closed in the mid-1980s and now houses a children's science museum. Parkland College in Champaign features a small theatre called the Parkland College Theatre and a planetarium called the William M. Staerkel Planetarium. The area has originated a great deal of musical talent, starting with REO Speedwagon, Head East, Dan Fogelberg and including HUM, Poster Children, Hardvark, The Moon Seven Times, Braid, AMASONG, Castor, National Skyline, Love Cup, Absinthe Blind, Øde Vinter, 酸葬儀 acidfuneral, Headlights and The Beauty Shop. Some lesser known artists like Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, Zirafa and"
"musical with only three weeks of preparation. Starting in 2006, the Oquirrh Hills Performing Arts Alliance (OHPAA) – succeeded in once again making the Empress Theatre a working theatre. Since that time, the volunteers, actors and, board members of the OHPAA have worked tirelessly to improve both the organization and the building itself in order to continue to bring quality family entertainment to this corner of the Salt Lake Valley. Empress Theatre (Magna, Utah) The Empress Theatre has stood for 100 years. Built in 1916 by the Western Theatre Corporation at the end of historic Main Street in Magna, UT,"
"Arizona Onstage Productions Arizona Onstage Productions is a non-profit theater company in Tucson, Arizona. The company was founded by former touring actor Kevin Johnson and is mainly known for producing unusual, thought-provoking and often controversial musicals. Although the small company lacks the resources or theater space of comparatively gigantic companies such as Arizona Theatre Company and the University of Arizona theater department, it has drawn great amounts of praise from local theater critics for its intelligent and irreverent productions. In 2004, the company won three MAC Awards (the local awards for theater in Tucson) for its production of Stephen Sondheim's"
"Thomas Murray and Ed Goetz, are noted for performance- plays and musicals that have included ""High School Musical On Stage!"", ""A Few Good Men"", ""Urinetown"", ""Les Miserables"", ""Footloose"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""Crazy for You"", ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"", ""Oklahoma!"", and """". Murray completed his 100th production at CBC with ""Little Shop of Horrors"". The new theatre, Gundaker Theater, opened in 2003 when CBC relocated to the West County campus. The CBC Music Program is made up of, as a whole, the ""Band of Brothers"". Its focus is primarily Jazz and Rock style"
"science museum. Parkland College in Champaign features a small theatre called the Parkland College Theatre and a planetarium called the William M. Staerkel Planetarium. The area has originated a great deal of musical talent, starting with REO Speedwagon, Head East, Dan Fogelberg and including HUM, Poster Children, Hardvark, The Moon Seven Times, Braid, Castor, National Skyline, Absinthe Blind, Headlights and The Beauty Shop. Some lesser known artists like Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, Zirafa and Spinnerty, d-Lo, Bozak, Melodic Scribes, Øde Vinter, DJ Librarian, UC Hiphop, and Zmick are also worthy of note on simply a local scale. The cities now host"
"Star, Mill Mountain Zoo, and Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea. Mill Mountain Theatre Mill Mountain Theatre (MMT) is the only professional equity theatre in Roanoke, offering a variety of classic and contemporary American plays, musicals and children's shows on the Trinkle Main Stage and the smaller Waldron Stage. Located at Center in the Square in Downtown Roanoke, MMT has proudly served the region and industry for 50 years. Recent offerings have included large musicals (""White Christmas"", ""42nd Street"", ""Hairspray"" and ""Children of Eden""); dramas (""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""On Golden Pond"",); comedies (""A Christmas Story"", ""The Odd Couple"", ""The 39"
"Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of The Opera, West Side Story, and others. The Sitka Summer Music Festival presents an ""Autumn Classics"" festival of chamber music for two weeks each September on the campus of Alaska Pacific University. Orchestras include the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and the Anchorage Youth Symphony. Annually in January, the Anchorage Folk Festival takes place at the University of Alaska Anchorage, featuring concerts, dances, and workshops with featured guest artists and over 130 performances by volunteer singers, dancers, musicians, and storytellers. The city of Anchorage provides three municipal facilities large enough to hold major events such"
"was purchased in the fall of 2013 and has returned to its roots as primarily a music and theater hall. The theatre has hosted such acts from blues to bluegrass, indie to experimental with bands such as The Infamous String Dusters, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, and Mount Eerie as well various children's theater production and community events. OK Theatre The OK Theatre, at 208 W. Main Street in Enterprise, Oregon, is a historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. It was built in 1918 and featured—new for its area and time—a sloped"
"as Little Rock, AR, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Seattle. Festival theatre now provides actors with work in the summer. America's oldest resident repertory theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, is located in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. It was founded by actor Jasper Deeter in 1923. The present Producing Artistic Director is actress and director Penelope Reed. Other notable repertory theatres include the Guthrie Theatre, which was set up as regional repertory theatre concept that is free from commercial constraints in the choice of repertoire. It is"
"Mill Mountain Theatre offers several shows a year including classics and originals. The Roanoke Civic Center also regularly features traveling Broadway shows and a variety of other famous plays. Community theater and college theater are also prevalent in the region. The region has a long history in music and is a featured stop along Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, also known as the Crooked Road. There are several venues throughout the region that host nationally and internationally recognized music acts, including the Roanoke Civic Center, the Jefferson Center, the Salem Civic Center, Roanoke College Gymnasium, and Lane Stadium at Virginia Tech."
"produces a Broadway-style family musical each summer in the last two weeks of July. Originally, Summerstage performances were held in the Leonia High School Little Theater, but now take place at the Civil War Drill Hall Theater. Auditions are held in May and open to all in the NY metro area. Past shows have included ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""Carousel"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Annie"", ""Oliver"", ""Les Miserables"",""My Fair Lady"", and ""How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"". The Leonia Chamber Musicians Society, founded in 1973, is made up of professional musicians who reside in Leonia, has been performing"
"Museum is a premier venue for education in the visual arts. Another major interest in the art is Oregon is the performing arts. The most notable event for the performing arts in Oregon is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a cultural event that has been running in Ashland, Oregon since 1935. The Portland Opera is another walk of the performing arts culture of Oregon and was the world premiere location for both Bernard Herrmann's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Christopher Drobny's ""Lucy's Lapses"". ""Shanghaied in Astoria"" is a musical melodrama that is performed by the Astor Street Opry Company every summer in Astoria."
"downtown Anchorage. Music educator Lorene Harrison worked with the ASO among other area arts organizations. Anchorage Symphony Orchestra The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a professional symphony orchestra located in Anchorage, Alaska. Randall Craig Fleischer is the director and conductor, and Linn Weeda is the assistant director and conductor. The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946, more than a decade before Alaska became a state, by a consortium of like-minded musicians looking for a musical outlet. Their first program collaborated with the Anchorage Little Theatre for a production of Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"". From their original size of"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"Mill Mountain Theatre Mill Mountain Theatre (MMT) is the only professional equity theatre in Roanoke, offering a variety of classic and contemporary American plays, musicals and children's shows on the Trinkle Main Stage and the smaller Waldron Stage. Located at Center in the Square in Downtown Roanoke, MMT has proudly served the region and industry for 50 years. Recent offerings have included large musicals (""White Christmas"", ""42nd Street"", ""Hairspray"" and ""Children of Eden""); dramas (""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""On Golden Pond"",); comedies (""A Christmas Story"", ""The Odd Couple"", ""The 39 Steps""); children's shows (""Willy Wonka Jr"", ""Into the Woods Jr"","
"variety. This essentially feels like the live-theater version of The Crooked Road, Virginia — which makes us wonder why someone doesn't try to market it that way. From time to time, Roanoke has been billed as 'Virginia's Music City.' We are also, arguably, 'Virginia's Theater City.'"" Roanoke Children's Theatre is Roanoke's professional children's theatre. It can be found within the new Taubman Museum of Art in downtown Roanoke. The theatre delivers four shows a year that are geared towards a family audience. The theatre extends their programming in various arts outreach programs throughout the valley and surrounding areas. Mill Mountain"
"Tarrytown Music Hall The Music Hall, in Tarrytown, New York, United States, is located on West Main Street downtown. It is a brick structure in the Queen Anne architectural style erected in the late 19th century. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest theater in Westchester County still used as a theater, and considered one of the county's finest non-residential applications of the Queen Anne Style. In 1901 it was one of the first theaters to show the new form of entertainment called motion pictures. Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong and Miles"
"thing I remember was the Ogden Theatre in the backstage bathroom, making out with all three of ya... For the feminist rock band of Courtney Barnett supported by Waxahatchee they charged $36 end of September 2018. Ogden Theatre The Ogden Theatre is a music venue and former movie theater in Denver, Colorado, United States. Located at 935 E. Colfax Avenue in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill, it was built in 1917 and has a maximum capacity of 1600 for concerts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ogden Theatre was opened in 1919 by John Thompson,"
"of ""jazz, blues, spirituals, hip-hop, rock 'n'roll, gospel, house music, and rhythm and blues"". In 2009, it was announced that campaign to restore the theater was under way. In 2010 the venue for the first time hosted events of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Newark Symphony Hall Newark Symphony Hall at 1020 Broad Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was known for many years as The Mosque Theater. Originally built by the Shriners at a cost of more than $2"
"around Utah. Each show also ends with a musical olio, in which the performers dress up in various costumes and do musical numbers. Desert Star Theater Desert Star Theater is a dinner theater establishment in Murray, Utah. It started out as a small theater called the Gem, which showed silent movies with a piano for music. It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the Iris Theater by owner Tony Duvall. After his retirement, the Iris changed hands several times before being renamed the Vista. The National Register of Historic Places, notes Iris Theater, Apartments and"
"mile east of the tire shop that flows with the Panther Creek into The Roasting Ear Creek. The area epitomizes the Ozark region in general. Nearby Mountain View is the ""Folk Music Capital of the World."" Nearly every family in the vicinity has stringed instruments and many residents are proficient at a variety of traditional mountain instruments including the guitar, harmonica, dobro, upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo. Newnata, Arkansas Newnata is an unincorporated community in Stone County, Arkansas, United States. It is in the Ozark Mountains region of the northern part of the state and is near the town"
"provide striking panoramic views across the area. Live entertainment is held regularly at the Returned Services League club as well as several central hotels and in Kingaroy Town Hall. A half-dozen cellardoors are located either in town of very close to it. The South Burnett Musical Comedy Society (SBMCS) is based in Kingaroy and annually holds a minor production (e.g. a concert) around April/May and a major production (a full theatrical musical) around August to October. Previous productions have included Oklahoma!, Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Jungle Juice, Kismet, The Wizard of Oz, Little Shop of Horrors, Cats, and How To"
"part of the About Face Theatre Company's 2003–2004 season. The About Face production received the two Jeff Awards for New Adaptation and Actor in a Supporting Role-Musical. A 2006 production of the musical by the Arden Theatre Company (Philadelphia) won the Barrymore Award for ""Outstanding Musical"". A loose musical adaptation of ""Winesburg, Ohio"" written by Kevin Kuhlke with music by Heaven Phillips premiered in 2003 as ""Winesburg: Small Town Life"" at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Winesburg, Ohio Winesburg, Ohio (full title: ""Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life"") is a 1919 short story cycle by"
"in a single day, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and ""Christmas with the Crawfords"" in partnership with the Shelterbelt's sister company, SNAP! Productions. Shelterbelt Theatre The Shelterbelt Theatre is a nonprofit theater organization located in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska that specializes in producing original works for the stage. The theatre won best musical and nine more awards at the 2007 Omaha Metropolitan Area Theatre Arts Guild Awards, and won several categories in the 2007 ""Omaha World-Herald"" Entertainment and Arts Awards. The Shelterbelt Theatre is a nonprofit theater organization specializing in producing original works for the stage. While it was previously known"