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| | STEELY DANE
The Ultimate Steely Dan Tribute
Sat, Sept 30, 2023 - 7 PM
Fourteen of Dane County’s best jazz and rock musicians have banded together around their passion for Steely Dan music, playing in the same configuration as the Steely Dan touring band including a four piece horn section and three background singers. The show consists of hits and deep cuts that are sure to have you out of your seats singing along. Winner of the MAMA award for best cover band and Madison Magazine’s Best Cover Band, Steely Dane is dedicated to not only faithfully reproducing the Steely Dan and Donald Fagen songbook, but to bringing an energetic live-show experience to the crowd. The songs of Steely Dan form the soundtrack for so many of our lives. The band, more than any other, brought together Jazz, Rock, and R&B sensibilities to form a whole new kind of pop music. | Buy Tickets | |
| | Missoula Chldren's Theatre
THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
Sat, Oct 7, 2023 - 3 PM & 5:30 PM
Envision a kingdom of snow where the residents are Winter Wind Workers, Blizzard Bringers, Icicle Sharpeners and Snow Smoothers, ruled by the Storm King and the Snow Queen. Add to that a Prince looking for a proper Princess to share the throne. Now imagine the Princess and her friend the Pea living in a kingdom of green rolling hills and running rivers with her subjects, The Flower Gardeners, River Runners, Green Shoot Growers and Tree Barkers. Her parents, King Size and Queen Size, do all they can to keep things running smoothly. Who knows, maybe the dancing Dust Bunnies can help? Although the two kingdoms think they have nothing in common (except maybe a pesky Jack Frost that freezes anything and everything), the peace-loving Leprechauns prove otherwise. Throw in some Phony Princesses and you have a real fiasco! This ain’t your grandma’s PRINCESS AND THE PEA. We think you will enjoy its twists and turns. Auditions for area K-12 students will be held on Monday, October 2nd at 4:00 PM in the CAL Center. | Buy Tickets | |
| | Charlie Berens
A GOOD OLD FASHIONED TOUR
Sat, Nov 18, 2023 - 3 PM & 7 PM
BOTH SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT
CHARLIE BERENS is launching his Good Old Fashioned Tour this fall and we are excited to welcome him to the CAL Center on November 18th. Please note: This show is not a part of our regular season, is not available for Show Packages, is not a choice for use with Show Package Ticket Insurance, and no comp tickets will be honored.
Charlie is a comedian, New York Times Best Selling Author, Emmy-winning journalist, musician and creator of the Manitowoc Minute. The Wisconsin native has been featured on Comedy Central, Fox, CBS, Funny or Die, TBS, Variety, MTV News and more. He creates weekly content for his various social platforms and has amassed over 7.5 million followers. Charlie began his career working for MTV News' Choose or Lose. In 2017, Charlie began hosting his weekly comedic online news show, the Manitowoc Minute. Since then, Charlie’s been creating Midwest-focused sketch comedy videos on his social media platforms. In 2020, Charlie paired up with Horseshoes & Hand Grenades alum Adam Greul to release the music/comedy album, Unthawed. The album, which is a mixture of bluegrass, country and Charlie’s comedy, hit #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and #6 on the Bluegrass Comedy chart. Charlie’s first book, The Midwest Survival Guide, was released in November of 2021 and immediately became a New York Times Best Seller! Charlie hosts the Cripescast podcast where he interviews musicians, artists, comedians, creators and more to talk about their story and connections to the Midwest. For mature audiences. | | Sold out |
| | CHRIS KROEZE
Sat, Jan 20, 2024 - 7 PM
Chris Kroeze, from Barron, WI, was Runner Up on NBC’s THE VOICE in 2018. As a child, Chris knew there was a guitar in the corner of the family basement that no one was supposed to touch. When no one was looking, a young Chris Kroeze would sneak down and find it. On his 6th birthday, Chris got a guitar of his own and hasn't put it down since. When he was in middle school, his dad told him every band needed a singer, and the only way to tell if that would be Chris was to give it a try. He was a natural. The pull of small town life and the passion for music never left as Kroeze turned into one of the top country musicians in the Midwest. | Buy Tickets | |
| | UPTOWN
Sat, Feb 10, 2024 - 7 PM
With the class of young Temptations, moves like the Jackson 5, and the energy of Bruno Mars . . . everyone's going UPTOWN! From New York City, the epicenter of contemporary Pop and Soul, UPTOWN is a group of men who combine the smooth stylings of R&B with the fresh hits of today. The perfect mix of Bruno Mars caliber stage presence with the vocals of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. You’ve never seen anything like UPTOWN! Each member of the collective is a soloist, bringing a unique flavor of performance that will have any crowd on their feet dancing and singing along. What gives UPTOWN its edge over their contemporaries is how unique their perspective is on the classics. | Buy Tickets | |
| | Billy McGuigan's
POP ROCK ORCHESTRA
Sat, Mar 23, 2024 - 7 PM
Billy McGuigan and his 11 piece rock orchestra present a high-energy concoction of rock ‘n’ roll mega hits in a unique, live concert experience. Like many of us, the feeling Billy got from watching big rock bands from the 70s was exhilarating! His musical influences left an incredible impact on the type of entertainer Billy was to become. Think of Frank Sinatra and the Sands with the power of the Count Basie Orchestra behind him, the Moody Blues who put symphonic interludes in the middle of a rock song, ELO with an electric horn and string section - rock & roll was transformed. If you remember Bill McGuigan from our Buddy Holly Tribute and the Beatles Tribute, you won't want to miss this show! | Buy Tickets | |
| | John McGivern's
SUMMER STORIES
Sun, Apr 28, 2024 - 2 PM
John takes us through the summer cycle of Memorial Day, school’s end, the 4th of July, summer camp, family vacation, the dog days of August, and the dreaded arrival of Labor Day when it all comes to an inevitable end with the return to school. John’s brilliant talent for comedy and storytelling will send you into summertime feeling like a kid again. John is best known for his Emmy-award winning work on PBS. His one-man-shows, The Early Stories of John McGivern, Midsummer Night McGivern, and John McGivern’s Home for the Holidays tell the stories of being the third born of six kids in a working-class Irish Catholic Family in the Midwest. His stories are personal, funny, touching and familiar. His themes are based in family and remind us that as specific as we might believe our experiences are, we all share a universal human experience. | Buy Tickets | |
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