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Indian Wells Theater
Announces Exciting New Season
Celebrity Favorites Will Take the Stage
PALM DESERT, Calif. (April 6, 2009) - The
Indian Wells Theater at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm
Desert Campus announces its inaugural season as a
full-scale, performing arts venue. The announcement comes as
season tickets go on sale for each of three series: The
Broadway Series of plays, the Indian Wells Pops series of
big band concerts, and “Conversations with…”, a series of
hosted Q & A’s with fascinating people.
The Broadway Series kicks off the season on October 30 with
Hal Linden (television’s Barney Miller) starring in the
critically acclaimed Tuesdays with Morrie, followed by Hal
Williams (Roots: The Next Generations, Private Benjamin,
227, Sanford and Son) and Newell Alexander (Wardell “Bubba”
Owens from Sordid Lives, Las Vegas, Big Love, Days of Our
Lives) starring in the witty and intelligent ART. Next up is
Harold Gould (The Sting, Patch Adams, The Golden Girls,
Maude) as Attorney General Frances Biddle in Trying, and the
series closes with Olympic diver Greg Louganis (Film:
Watercolors, Touch Me; Off Broadway: Jeffrey, The Only Thing
Worse You Could Have Told Me) and Coachella Valley favorite
Teresa Ganzel (The Toy, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson)
starring in The Little Dog Laughed. (Note: Patrons are
warned that The Little Dog Laughed contains nudity and
mature themes.) Each play runs for eight performances.
In the second series of events, Patti Gribow will host,
“Conversations with…,” a series of one-night-only, intimate,
“living-room” discussions with three fascinating individuals
and an amazing group. They have all achieved great
celebrity, but only at the Indian Wells Theater will the
public be able to meet them, hear about their experiences
and ask them what their lives have been like. The series
includes guests Jerry Van Dyke, writer, Larry Gelbart (A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, M*A*S*H),
singer, actor and Hollywood Squares host, Peter Marshall,
and a group of women who made up Dean Martin’s Golddiggers!
The third series features conductor, Richard Stover, who
brings together some of the world’s best musicians to
entrance audiences with the sounds of bold and brassy
popular music performed by the Indian Wells Pops and a host
of celebrity singers. Each concert performs only once, on
Sunday afternoons. The three events each have a unique
style, beginning with A Big Band Christmas, followed by A
Tribute to the Big Bands, and finishing with Andrew Lloyd
Webber at the Pops.
Prices for the series of events range from $100 to $200
depending on which series of events and which performance
dates. Currently, tickets to individual events are not
available, and because performances are limited, the Indian
Wells Theater anticipates selling-out on subscriptions.
“No word better describes the Indian Wells Theater than
‘experience’,” says Anthony Rhine, Director of Special
Events at the campus. It was built to be a welcoming place
where the community could experience the highest-quality
entertainment, enrichment and enlightenment. It was built as
a place where those with incredible artistic experience
could share their talents, their gifts, and their genius in
an intimate, state-of-the-art setting. It was built with the
experience of architects and engineers who knew that ‘not a
bad seat in the house’ couldn’t be just a sales pitch. And
with 300 stadium seats, perfect acoustic tuning, clear
sightlines and plenty of legroom, the Indian Wells Theater
has benefited from, is blooming due to, and stands to excel
as a result of decades of combined experience.”
The Indian Wells Theater seats 300. When the subscriptions
are gone, they’re gone. There will be no extensions. And for
each future season, current subscribers will be given the
first opportunity to renew their seats. For those who
subscribe now, there will always be a seat.
The theater will also have an educational component – The
Educational Initiative – where area students will have the
opportunity to work with some of the talented performers.
These stars will generously take time out of their day to
educate, share and enlighten our students. It is a symbiotic
relationship. Actors recharge their artistic batteries on
stage and students learn lessons directly from the top of
their profession. It’s a combination that couldn’t exist
anywhere else in the world.
For further information, or to order
season tickets, contact the
Indian Wells Theater box office at (760) 341-2883, ext.
78154.
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