Ordway Center for Performing Arts Sing-A-Long Sound of Music

The Ordway Center for Performing Arts is hosting a two day Sing-A-Long Sound of Music event! It's an interactive three performance Sound of Music extravaganza! The Sound of Music will play on the big screen, and everyone is encouraged to sing-a-long to all of your favorite songs, as you can read the subtitles with the words to the songs on the screen! Movie-goers are encouraged to dress up as your favorite Sound of Music character! There are even prices for the best dressed! You can contact the Ordway Center directly for tickets!

St Paul Ordway Center Memphis tickets

Get ready to rock and roll! Ticket King has Memphis tickets for select dates starting at $129/ticket. Memphis will be running at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts from March 13, 2012 through March 25, 2011.

Memphis is set in, not surprisingly, Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s. The story of Memphis is of fame and forbidden love. The musical Memphis won four 2010 Tony Awards, one of which was Best Musical!

Be sure to get your tickets to see Memphis next Spring at the Ordway! Ticket King has the Memphis musical tickets you want!

Minneapolis/St. Paul Theatre tickets, Orpheum Theatre tickets, Ordway Center tickets

For all you theater-goers out there, here is a list of the Twin Cities theater ticket events coming up for the next six months or so!

At the Minneapolis Orpheum Theatre, the schedule includes shows such as Mamma Mia! which is now a major motion picture and one of my classic favorite movies from the 80's, Dirty Dancing! Check the Orpheum Theatre seating chart to find the seats that work best for you!




Orpheum Theatre tickets:

January 12-17 Dream Girls
February 9-14 Young Frankenstein
March 9-14 Mamma Mia!
March 26-28 Wizard of Oz
April 13-18 Avenue Q
May 14-16 Cats
June 1-13 Dirty Dancing



Playing at the St. Paul Ordway Center is the long-running musical South Pacific, which was a musical first starting in 1949 and then was made into a major motion picture in 1958! I have put the Ordway Center seating chart below so you know where you would be sitting for the seats you buy!



Ordway Center tickets:

Now-January 3 Beauty and the Beast
March 18-21 August: Osage County
May 4-16 South Pacific

Beauty and the Beast Musical Ordway Center tickets and Harlem Globetrotters tickets

As I previously posted, I bought Beauty and the Beast tickets for my two oldest nieces for their Christmas present and Harlem Globetrotters tickets for my three nephews. Did I mention that both of these event tickets we bought were for the same day!?

My husband and I started off our day by packing a "Daycation bag" as we coined it, with a change of clothes in it. (A day vacation). We gathered up the three boys, ages 11, 5 and 3 and drove to the Target Center to see some Harlem Globetrotter action.
We had to borrow money from my 11 year old nephew to pay for parking! Ha! We are so used to being able to park in a ramp and pay for it with our debit card on the way out we completely forgot to get cash! Walking through the Target Center parking ramp skyways, we walked past the new Target Field where the Twins will be playing next season! I knew the field was close to the Target Center, but I didn't realize HOW close!!! I am so excited for the next Twins season (which might have something to do with the Christmas present from my Mom, which was Twins tickets for five Twins games next season! Thanks Mom!)

Once we sat down, the entertainment of the Harlem Globetrotters started within a few minutes! We had GREAT seats, behind the players benches, center court, row C! Ticket King has such great seats to theater, concerts and sporting events!

I had never seen the Globetrotters before, and what a great time we had! My youngest nephew, Vincent, who is 3, watched the whole thing! He didn't get bored and want to leave, he watched the whole thing. I think a lot of the jokes went over his head, since he didn't laugh too much, but what did make him laugh is when one of the players pretended to fart in another players face. He was belly laughing at that! The other thing he laughed out was when the Globetrotters mascot came out, which was a big blow up version of Globie the mascot, and he was running around dancing to different songs. One song was the one that goes "I get knocked down, but I get up again" and everytime the song says "knocked down" Globie would trip himself and fall over. The two youngest got a kick out of that!

After the game was over, all of the Globetrotters were available for autographs. The boys got an autograph from Bones, and also got their picture taken with them!


After we left the Target Center, our busy day continued. We dropped off three boys and picked up two girls and changed into our nicer clothes! We went to dinner at TGI Fridays with Olivia and Mayci before going to Beauty and the Beast at the Ordway Center.


Beauty and the Beast was absolutely amazing! It was just like the Disney movie, with the addition of a few songs that were not in the movie. There were slight changes to help it run smooth as a play/musical, but for the most part it was very similar, which I love! I cannot stand when movies/plays differ from the original story (when I love the original story that is!)


My 8 year old niece leaned over to me during Act I and said "Thank you for taking us to this, it's just like the movie!" How cute is that!?

The Beast even rises up into the air at the end, as he transforms into the human version of the Prince! Just amazing! If you have not seen Beauty and the Beast at the Ordway, I highly recommdend buying your Beauty and the Beast tickets right away, if there are any left! It is my favorite play or musical I've ever seen! It's been a few years since I've seen the Broadway version of The Lion King, which was amazing as well, but this might have been better!

Tommy, my husband, and I, ended our long day 12 hours after we left our house. We dropped the girls off at home, showed their Mom's the pictures, and went home and crashed about 1 a.m.! What a wonderful day!

I love buying people tickets to events for their gifts for the memories we will create by going to the event together! Check with Ticket King to see what events are coming up so you can create those long lasting memories as well!

Orpheum Theatre tickets:

Dream Girls
Young Frankenstein
Mamma Mia!
Wizard of Oz
Avenue Q
Cats
Dirty Dancing

and Ordway tickets:

August: Osage County
South Pacific

St. Paul Ordway Center South Pacific tickets

The uber popular musical South Pacific will be playing at the St. Paul Ordway Center for Performing Arts from May 4-16, 2010. Ordway Center South Pacific tickets are available now through Ticket King. Ticket King, your source for theatre tickets, has South Pacific tickets available for as low as $105 each! This is going to be a hugely popular musical event, so you'll want to be sure to get your Ordway Center South Pacific tickets as soon as possible!



The musical South Pacific first came out in 1949, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. South PacificSouth Pacific was nominated for ten Tony Awards, and won all ten of them, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto.



South Pacific has had many revivals and tours, along with other adaptations, such as the 2005 concert held at Carnegie Hall on June 9th. The concert included all of the songs, but was cut down to a shorter time. The South Pacific concert starred Reba McEntire (one of my favorite country music singers!) and Alec Baldwin!



In 1958, a South Pacific movie was made by the same name, and won an Academy Award.



The story takes place in the South Pacific during World War II, and much of the story line follows how love works during war time.



The new stage revival of South Pacific has won many Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Lighting, Best Sound Design of a Musical and many others.

In order to ensure you get to see this great musical while the tour is in St. Paul, be sure to buy your South Pacific tickets now for the St. Paul Ordway Center for Performing Arts! Contact Ticket King today!

St. Paul Ordway Center August: Osage County tickets

The Ordway Center in St. Paul, Minnesota will be hosting the play August: Osage County from March 16-21, 2010. August: Osage County opened on June 28, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. August: Osage County tickets became available on Broadway on December 4, 2007, and August: Osage County ran on Broadway through June 28, 2009. The U.S. National Tour began in July 2009 at Denver's Temple Buell Theatre.




August: Osage County won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play along with the Drama Desk Award and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

August: Osage County tickets for the Ordway Center in St. Paul are available now through Ticket King, with prices starting as low as $85 per ticket. If you're looking for holiday shopping ideas for the theatre lover in your family, be sure to buy your Ordway Center August: Osage County tickets now!

The play August: Osage County is about a family named the Westons, from rural Oklahoma. The title of the play comes from Osage County, Oklahoma, which is northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. August: Osage County centers on the Weston family after the head of the house hold disappears and leaves the family to deal with many issues including abuse, alcoholism, suicide, infidelity and more. Violet Weston, is the mother/wife of the family, and is addicted to prescription drugs. The role of Violet Weston is played by Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons....who you might also recognize from the long running TV show Rosanne. Estelle Parsons played Rosanne's mother, Beverly Harris from 1989-1997.



August: Osage County is written by Tracy Letts and directed by Anna D. Shaprio. Buy your Ordway Center tickets now before it's too late to catch this hot new play, August: Osage County.

St. Paul Ordway Center La Boheme tickets

The opera La boheme is coming to the St. Paul, Minnesota Ordway Center for Performing Arts from Saturday March 6, 2010 to March 14, 2010, for a total of eight performances. Ordway Center La boheme tickets are available now through Ticket King starting at $175 per ticket.


La boheme has been around since 1896, when the world premiere performance took place in Turin, Italy. Opera America, an organization promoting opera, says that La boheme is the second most frequently performed opera in the U.S. There are many different play bill pictures that are out there for different performances that have taken place of La boheme, a few of which I have posted here.





The story of La boheme is set in Paris around the year 1830. La boheme revolves mostly around two characters, a poet named Rodolfo and a seamstress named Mimi, as well as other poor bohemians.





Rodolfo and Mimi fall in love, but ultimately break up because Rodolfo is jealous of Mimi's flirting, but also because she is sick, most likely with tuberculosis, or "consumption", and feels that because he is poor, he cannot help her, and would like Mimi to find a wealthy man that can care for her. After some time passes, Mimi and Rodolfo meet again and cannot fight their love.



La boheme was composed by Giacomo Puccini, an Italian composer, who also composed Madama Butterfly, another popular opera, and La boheme is based on Scenes de la vie de boheme by Henri Murger.




To sure to buy your La boheme tickets as soon as possible for the Ordway Center in St. Paul soon, before La boheme Ordway Center tickets run out!

Beauty and the Beast Musical Ordway Center for Performing Arts tickets

I am so excited to be living in Minneapolis again after three years in Connecticut. I thought living less than three hours from The Big Apple would be awesome! I thought I would be able to go into New York City and see any Broadway show that I wanted! Little did I know how expensive it would be to go to a play or musical in New York City! The theatre ticket prices are higher, it's expensive to drive and park or take the Amtrak, let alone get a hotel for a night! Needless to say, I did not frequent Broadway while living on the East Coast. Being back in Minneapolis, I can now afford to go to a Broadway show. Not only are the Minneapolis and St. Paul ticket prices much more affordable, I don't have to take an Amtrak into the city and stay in a hotel!



I am extremely pumped that I got my Beauty and the Beast tickets for the Ordway Center for Performing Arts. (A Christmas gift so some very special people in my life...cannot say who, in case they are reading my Blog!) Beauty and the Beast is one of my all time favorite Disney movies, and has defiantly been towards the top of my list of 'must see' theatre shows. St. Paul Ordway Center Beauty and the Beast tickets are available for the following dates while Beauty and the Beast is running at the Ordway: December 15, 2009 through January 3, 2010. Ticket King has tickets for the January 2, 2010 matinee performance starting at $115 in the orchestra section row E. Beauty and the Beast tickets for the Ordway Center will be an excellent Holiday gift for those in your life, along with many others, so I would buy your Ordway Center Beauty and the Beast tickets before it's too late!




Beauty and the Beast musical tickets have been available since 1994, when the Disney film of the same name was adapted for Broadway, and Beauty and the Beast ran on Broadway through 2007, becoming the sixth-longest running production in history. The Beauty and the Beast musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Beast Original Score. Out of those nine Tony Awards that Beauty and the Beast was nominated for, the only Tony Award that Beauty and the Beast won was for Best Costume Design.



Minneapolis and St. Paul are becoming more and more popular, it seems, as far as getting such high caliber broadway theatre shows such as Beauty and the Beast, Grease, The Lion King, etc into town, but who knows when the next time will be that Beauty and the Beast tickets are available in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area! Buy your tickets NOW online at www.TicketKingOnline.com or give Ticket King a call!