Now Playing Onstage in Anchorage - Week of 3/10/2013

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Theatre Artists United
3/8-3/17/2013
It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent '60s, should have at its center a social and political rebel. Jesus' meteor-like rise in renown provides, as the title suggests, a parallel to contemporary celebrity worship. As his radical teachings are evermore embraced, Judas increasingly questions the enlightened motives of this new prophet, resulting in betrayal. Christ's final days are dramatized with emotional intensity, thought-provoking edge and explosive theatricality. Propelled by a stirring score, by turns driving and majestic, satirical and tender, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR illuminates the transcendent power of the human spirit with a passion that goes straight to the heart.Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
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SEMINAR
Perseverance Theatre
3/8-3/31/2013
In Seminar, four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. He is recklessly brilliant and under his unconventional teachings, each student is challenged as writers, professionally, and personally. Some thrive and some are pushed to the brink in this provocative new comedy from Theresa Rebeck. This contemporary hit played Broadway last season and Perseverance is one of the first regional theatres in the country to produce this new play.
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SEMINAR
Perseverance Theatre
3/3-3/31/2013
Mainstage: - Teresa Rebeck; dir: Cynthia Croot.
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ALASKA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Discovery Theatre
3/5-4/27/2013
Join the award-winning Anchorage Youth Symphony in its 20th season under the artistic direction of Linn Weeda. Each concert features the Anchorage Youth Philharmonic with debut conductor William Waag. The 150 members of the Alaska Youth Orchestras come from throughout south central Alaska to participate in the "2nd best orchestra in Alaska." Anchorage Youth Symphony's program this year is filled with some of the brightest and most interesting work in the repertoire. The season kicks off with Copland's beautiful and rhythmic Appalachian Spring - a Pulitzer prize winning ballet written for the incomparable choreographer Martha Graham. The evening concludes with Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi's brilliant and poetic description of his beloved Rome. AYS's second concert starts with Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, a work written after the famous composer received an honorary degree. Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky is an important addition per Artistic Director Linn Weeda as it was part of the very first orchestral concert he ever played. It is a brilliant work filled with exciting rhythms and brilliant orchestral color. The concert ends with Smetana's Moldau that depicts the mighty river that flows through the Czech Republic. This Magnificent work is being performed in recognition of AYS's recent tour to central Europe. The final concert of the season features the winner of AYS's concerto competition, and will also include Borodin's magnificent Symphony No. 2. Borodin was a brilliant and world famous chemistry professor at Moscow University who composed in his spare time.
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