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| | MegaBeatles!
Saturday, January 18, 2025 • 8:00pm
They’re back! Memorial Opera House Foundation is hosting MegaBeatles! as our annual kickoff concert for the TENTH time. Members of The Crawpuppies and Chris & Lou will present a spectacular trip down memory lane.
This year they will be playing an encore of A Hard Days Night album along with other hits!
Selling out every year, MegaBeatles has been a wonderful way to celebrate the history of Memorial Opera House with our patrons! Make sure you don’t miss the party as we dip into the voluminous hits catalog of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Come on out and spend “A Day in the Life” as we “Twist and Shout” through the night!
Get your tickets soon - this event historically sells out fast!
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| | RED REVOLUTION: The Taylor Swift Experience
Saturday, February 1, 2025 • 8:00pm
Featuring five talented musicians from the Chicagoland area playing your favorite hits from the biggest artist of our generation.....
This is RED REVOLUTION, The Taylor Swift Experience
- Roye Robley - Drums
- Jeremy Andrews - Bass
- Chris Wander - Keys
- Tom Vienna - Guitar
- Tiffany Lidster - Vocals
*when choosing your seats note dancing is encouraged at the front of the stage
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| | Small Town
A John Mellencamp Experience
Saturday, February 8, 2025 • 8:00pm
SMALL TOWN is the Nation’s best and most authentic JOHN MELLENCAMP EXPERIENCE!
This 7 pc band replicates 30+ yrs of the John Mellencamp music Catalog using violin, mandolin, accordion, melodica, keyboards, guitars and drums!! With over 25 chart topping hits like Jack and Diane, Cherry Bomb, ROCK in the USA, Small Town, Pink Houses, Check It Out, Lonely Ol Nights, I need a Lover, Authority Song, Hurts So Good, Scarecrow and many more... This high energy show will have the crowd singing and dancing the night away!
The band is made up of 7 Hoosier natives, John's hometown, and they have replicated the Mellencamp live shows with their 50+ years of cumulative stage experience and musicianship. Small Town has performed at numerous festivals and venues throughout the country including the main stage at the Indiana State Fair and the iconic Cubby Bear in Chicago several times. Small Town has also performed at Bourbon Street, Four Winds Casino, Blue Chip Casino and Hard Rock Casino and many
more!!!
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| | Singin' in the Rain
Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Songs by Arthur Freed and Hacio Herb Brown
Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc.
February 28 - March 16, 2025
Tap your toes and sing along in this splashy adaptation of the celebrated and beloved film!
The "Greatest Movie Musical of All Time" is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original award-winning screenplay in Singin' in the Rain. Each unforgettable scene, song and dance is accounted for, including the show-stopping title number, complete with an onstage rainstorm! Hilarious situations, snappy dialogue and a hit-parade score of Hollywood standards make Singin' in the Rain the perfect entertainment for any fan of the golden age of movie musicals.
Singin' in the Rain has all the makings of a Tinseltown tabloid headline – the starlet, the leading man and a love affair that could change lives and make or break careers! In silent movies, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a hot item but, behind the scenes, things aren't always as they appear on the big screen! Meanwhile, Lina's squeaky voice might be the end of her career in "talking pictures" without the help of a talented young actress to do the talking and singing for her.
Singin’ in the Rain is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
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| | Improv Sketch Show:
Presented by Limelights Youth Theater
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 • 7:00pm
Come Join us for a night of laughter as Limelights Youth Theatre presents a Sketch Comedy Show!! The spotlight shines on these talented students as they bring forth an original sketch that's hand crafted entirely by their own ingenuity and showcases their comedic prowess and unique perspectives. the stage will also transform into an arena of spontaneity when the students perform an improv showcase where our quick-witted students delight in unscripted hilarity! | Buy Tickets |
| | Shine the Light Project, LLC
presents
Guys and Dolls
Friday & Saturday
March 21 & 22 at 7:00PM
Sunday, March 23 at 2 pm
Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
Guys and Dolls is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
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| | Shemekia Copeland
With special guest Funky Mojo Daddy
Thursday, March 27, 2025 • 7:30pm
Experience Shemekia Copeland, one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. The multi-GRAMMY nominee is beloved and honored worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs, as well as for her winning, engaging personality. The Chicago Tribune says, “Copeland is the greatest female blues vocalist working today. There’s no mistaking the majesty of her instrument, nor the ferocity of her delivery.”
Copeland has performed thousands of gigs at clubs,festivals and concert halls all over the world, and has appeared in films, on national television, NPR, and has been the subject of major feature stories in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and internet publications. She’s sung with Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Dr. John,
James Cotton and many others, and has shared a bill with The Rolling Stones. She entertained U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait in 2008, a trip she says, “that opened my eyes to the larger world around me and my place in it.” In 2012, she performed with B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Gary Clark, Jr. and others at the White
House for President and Mrs. Obama. She has showcased on PBS’s Austin City Limits, was featured in a six-minute story on the PBS News Hour and was the subject of a major Washington Post
Sunday magazine piece. In April 2022, she performed at the UnitedNations General Assembly Hall to a worldwide audience of millions as part of
International Jazz Day celebrations. In 2023, Copeland guested on the GRAMMY Award-winning compilation album, Basie Swings The Blues, on the Candid label. She continues to receive regular radio airplay on stations all over the globe. Additionally, Copeland hosts her own popular daily blues radio show on SiriusXM’s Bluesville.
Don’t miss this powerhouse vocalist live, bringing truth, fun, and inspiration through her music.
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| | Elton Jeff
& The Honky Cats
An Elton John Experience
featuring Jeff Gajewski
Saturday, March 29, 2025 • 8:00pm
Elton Jeff & The Honky Cats is not just another tribute band. Their performance is more like a musical journey! With over six decades of chart-topping hits embraced by multiple generations, live music enthusiasts of all sorts will truly enjoy this well-crafted production. Their 8-member big sound includes a 3-piece brass section featuring some of the area’s greatest talent in the region.
In addition to the well-bedazzled “Elton Jeff,” this performance of Elton Jeff & The Honky Cats features some bonus visual elements. MOH patrons can sit back and enjoy the music while their background videos tell us what was going on behind the music, the year the song was released, the album’s artwork, and other random facts about the song.
Elton John fans both young and old will genuinely enjoy this musical celebration and keep you “hoppin’ & boppin' where your feet just can’t keep still!“
We are delighted to host Elton Jeff once again, after two consecutive years of sold-out shows. So, don't wait to get your tickets - they won't be available for very long!
For a deeper dive into their performance, visit them at www.eltonjeff.com
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“Honky Cat” is a song composed by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It was used as the opening track for Elton’s fifth studio album, Honky Château, released in 1972. The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is this very song title to which our band proudly owes its namesake.
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| | Echoes of Pompeii
A Tribute to Pink Floyd
Saturday, April 12, 2025 • 8:00pm
Echoes of Pompeii is comprised of a 10-piece band (orchestra) to give fans the true sound of a Pink Floyd concert. From synthesizers, delayed vocals, slide guitars and female backup singers, they leave no stone unturned when it comes to their sound.
They grab the audience with state-of-the-art visuals such as lasers, lights, video, and iconic images that Pink Floyd was well known to produce. Audiences will transcend from a calm moving coma state of mind into a standing ovation all night long, as if they were riding a celestial roller coaster.
So please take your seat, buckle up and get ready to take flight!
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| | Arts Olympiad 2025 Event
Saturday, April 26, 2025 • 9:00 - 5:00
Deadline to sign up: March 26, 2025
Are you ready to showcase your talents and creativity? Join the Arts Olympiad 2025, an exciting event for young performers and designers! Click buy tickets for details to sign up. Please note, this is NOT a spectator event.
Who Can Participate?
Open to students aged 12-18 who are current middle or high schoolers.
Schools and theatre programs can register full troupes or smaller groups.
Individual Events:
- Monologue - Duet/Group Acting
- Musical Theatre - Solo/Duet/Group
- Designer Portfolio Competition
Judged by professional theatre experts, participants will compete in each category to be awarded Best in Show and All-Around Outstanding performance. To avoid bias, adjudicators from area schools/programs will not be chosen.
Sign up today and take the stage at the Arts Olympiad! Don't miss the chance to compete, create, and celebrate your artistic talents. | Buy Tickets |
| | Forever Plaid
Written and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Stuart Ross
Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt
May 9 - May 25, 2025
Forever Plaid is one of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory. This deliciously fun revue is chock-full of classic barbershop quartet harmonies and pitch-perfect melodies!
Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who discovered that they shared a love for music and then got together to become their idols – The Four Freshman, The Hi-Lo's and The Crew Cuts. Rehearsing in the basement of Smudge's family's plumbing supply company, they became "Forever Plaid". On the way to their first big gig, the "Plaids" are broadsided by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end that the story of Forever Plaid begins....
Singing in close harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with overzealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the 1950s.
Forever Plaid is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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| | Shine the Light Project, LLC
presents
Heathers The Musical: Teen Edition
Friday & Saturday
June 13 & 14 at 7:00PM
Sunday, June 15 at 2 pm
Heathers The Musical: Teen Edition is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously handsome new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized butt... but J.D. has another plan for that bullet. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Penguin Project Presents
The Music Man Jr.
July 11 & 12, 2025
There's trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian in this adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway classic.
Based on Meredith Willson's six-time-Tony-Award-winning musical comedy, The Music Man JR. features some of musical theatre’s most iconic songs and a story filled with wit, warmth and good old-fashioned romance. The Music Man JR. is family entertainment at its best — a bold, brassy show that will have the whole town atwitter!
Master showman Harold Hill is in town and he’s got “seventy-six trombones” in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure? The story follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize. The catch? He doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold’s power just might help him succeed in the end in spite of himself.
The Music Man JR. is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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| | 
presents
Oliver!
July 25-27, 2025
Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart's classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and audience members alike.
The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.
Oliver! Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
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| | Rocky Horror Show
Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien
October 17 - November 2, 2025
The original kitschy rock ’n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is more fun than ever!
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
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| | Roald Dahl's
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Book by David Greig
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Based on the novel by Roald Dahl
November 28 - December 14, 2025
Based on the famous novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory features an original score composed by Marc Shaiman with lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray) and a book by David Greig. The score also pays homage to the Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley score from the 1971 film with songs from the motion picture including "Candy Man," "I've Got a Golden Ticket," "Oompa Loompa Song," and "Pure Imagination."
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory…but only to a lucky few. Young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world of pure imagination including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's army of curious Oompa-Loompas.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
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