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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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| | 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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| | 19th Annual Valparaiso Memorial Day Concert
Monday, May 26, 2025 • 3:00pm
Join us for the 19th Annual Valparaiso Memorial Day Concert.
The Valparaiso Community Concert Band invites you to honor Memorial Day with an inspiring afternoon of music and history.
This year’s concert will feature a moving selection of patriotic band music and historical narratives, lasting approximately 60 minutes without intermission.
Admission: Free, but tickets are required. Be sure to reserve yours in advance.
Community Giving Opportunity:
Support the Christian Food Pantry of Valparaiso by bringing non-perishable food items.
We look forward to sharing this special tradition with you!
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| | Midwest Big Band: A Summer Soundscape
featuring
Jim Bulanda
Saturday, June 7, 2025 • 7:00pm
Big band music of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s has gifted American culture with arguably the greatest love songs on the charts. Listening to the crooning of “Rat Pack” members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop on the radio was enough to melt any icy heart until it skipped a beat to the thrill of a saxophone. Band leaders like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller drew crowds and bridged racial divides through the love language of swing.
For the past three years, this professional quality, historical, 18-piece big band has been thrilling audiences across Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland with their world-class talent. Instrumentalists include the best semi-professionals in the Region, some of whom have toured professionally with Ray Charles, played freelance in Los Angeles, or taught music at the high school and college levels. Local vocalist Jim Bulanda, who is famous for his “Tribute to Frank Sinatra Show,” has joined the band to style the jazz standards.
Presented by Memorial Opera House
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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 Duke Street Kings featuring Michael McDermott
playing the songs of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty
Saturday, June 21, 2025 • 7:30pm
Michael McDermott’s brand of rock ‘n’ roll brims with a well-honed style and raw authenticity that can only come from a lifetime on the road and a deep pedigree in the studio. Effortlessly blending folk sensibility, pop hooks, and honest rock, his music resonates with the outcast and the congregation alike—an exploration of life’s dark corners filtered through the heart of a kid who grew up on Chicago’s Irish South Side.
If you’re a fan of Springsteen, Van Morrison, Patti Smith, or John Steinbeck, McDermott’s inspirational rock is in your wheelhouse—waiting late at night with a guitar, spare smokes, and stories of the American heart.
This special performance is a rare opportunity to see an artist of McDermott’s caliber, a songwriter standing among the greats, pay homage to two of his biggest influences—Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Don’t miss this electrifying tribute from one of rock’s most passionate storytellers.
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| | The Penguin Project Presents
The Music Man Jr.
Friday, July 11 • 7:00pm
Saturday, July 12 • 2:00pm
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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| | Bonfire
The AC/DC Tribute
Saturday, September 20, 2025 • 8:00pm
Get ready to rock the night away with BONFIRE, the Midwest’s premier AC/DC tribute band! This high-voltage show delivers all the electrifying energy, hard-hitting sound, and iconic stage theatrics of an authentic AC/DC concert.
From blistering guitar solos to thunderous drums, BONFIRE brings the ultimate rock experience with a wall of Marshalls, explosive cannons, a towering inflatable Rosie, a ringing Hells Bell, and even live bagpipes—all performed by an incredible lineup of musicians who live and breathe AC/DC.
Brace yourself for a night of pure rock adrenaline!
• Jim Hillegonds – Lead Vocals
• Peyton Walter – Lead Guitar
• Dylan Grant – Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals
• Shawn Farrell – Bass & Backing Vocals
• Craig Cutler – Drums
• Craig Brooks – Bagpipes
Don’t miss this explosive tribute to one of the greatest rock bands of all time!
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*when choosing your seats note dancing may be encouraged at the front of the stage
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| | Richard O'Brien's
The 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.”
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS SHOW, AUDIENCE MEMBERS MUST BE 18+
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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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