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Olney Theatre Offering Discount Season Tickets
Olney Theatre Center is selling an early-bird discount subscription for its 2009 season through Monday. Single-performance tickets go on sale Dec. 15.
Early-bird prices range from $186 to $288, depending on the number of plays in the subscription and whether the tickets are for preview, matinee or evening performances. After Monday, subscriptions will range from $198 to $304.
The theater's season will include the regional premiere of "Is He Dead?," by Mark Twain; the world premiere of "King of the Jews," by Leslie Epstein; the world premiere of "Call of the Wild," based on the works of Jack London; "The Millionairess," by George Bernard Shaw; "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams; "Waste," by Harley Granville Barker; "Night Must Fall," by Emlyn Williams; and "Camelot," by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
For information, call 301-924-3400 or go to http:/
'Carmina Burana' to Be Performed in Concert
Stan Engebretson, artistic director of the National Philharmonic Chorale, will conduct the chorale in Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" at 8 p.m. Nov. 22, at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.
The concert will feature the National Philharmonic's nearly 200-voice volunteer chorale, with soprano Audrey Luna, tenor Robert Baker and baritone Leon Williams as soloists. The program will also include a performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms."
Orff's best-known work was completed in 1936 and conceived as a scenic cantata for the stage, intended for orchestra, chorus and soloists, to be accompanied by dance and mime.
It is based on a collection of 24 secular poems found in a Bavarian monastery in 1803 that celebrate drinking, greed and other indulgences.
Generally performed as a choral concert, it has become one of the most popular choral works, and its songs have been used in many TV commercials and film scores.
Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms," written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is a three-movement choral symphony. Its name is from the use of psalm texts in the choral sections, which Stravinsky was inspired to use after rejoining the Russian Orthodox Church after being away 16 years.
'Nutcracker' and 'Wizard' Coming to Rockville
Tickets for the Rockville Musical Theatre productions of "The Nutcracker" and "The Wizard of Oz" went on sale this week.
Under the direction of Claudia Mangan, the Rockville Civic Ballet, made up of 75 adult and youth dancers, has performed "The Nutcracker" since 1975. The annual production has become a holiday tradition for Rockville.
