The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The first and largest of the four Music Center venues, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Pavilion) was originally called the Memorial Pavilion and was renamed the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in honor of Dorothy Buffum Chandler. The Pavilion has one of the largest stages in the United States and has been the site of unparalleled performances by remarkable music and dance luminaries and virtuosos. It served as home to LA Phil for decades and the site for more than 20 Academy Awards presentations (from 1969-1999). It is now home to LA Opera and Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center.
In conceptualizing the approach to the Pavilion, the architects and designers of Welton Becket & Associates were guided by the idea that the building must not show its back to any part of the city, and, hence, developed the concept of a pavilion. A massive, curved structure with stylized columns, a gently swooping flat roof and a glass façade, the Pavilion was designed to fulfill the functions of three major halls, including a symphony with the accordant acoustics; a grand opera, which requires a sizable stage and house; and a more intimate setting supported by an appropriate sound system or orchestra for light opera, ballet and similar presentations. Like the great music and performances, it would house, the Pavilion’s design reflects elegance and beauty while being contemporary and understated.
Measuring 330-feet long and 252-feet wide and featuring 92-foot high columns that rise from the Jerry Moss Plaza level, the Pavilion’s gracefully curving sides express the functional curve of the auditorium within. The exterior walls are built of charcoal black granite and dark glass, providing a strong contrast to the fluted quartz-chip concrete columns and the broad overhang.
Designer Tony Duquette and Becket’s interior designers applied Becket’s “total design” philosophy to create an atmosphere of grandeur for the Pavilion. Nothing escaped their attention. Hong Kong-based artisans wove special carpets; team members traveled to Bavaria to assure the precise cutting of the crystal that would be used in the building’s chandeliers; and Becket engaged the finest acousticians of the time.
The theatre lobby is an elegant two-story space that wraps around the east side of the building. The lobby is covered in honey-toned Mexican onyx. Crystal sconces and columns faced with hand-cut Byzantine-style mosaic tile from Venice, Italy, complement the onyx walls. There are more than one million mosaic tiles throughout the Pavilion along with 78 wall sconces and chandeliers, most composed of hand-cut Bavarian crystal.
The lobby features a 24-karat gold-leaf dome that was originally built solely for beauty. The design team soon discovered that sound reverberated underneath the dome, causing an echo and making conversation difficult. The leaf dome thus serves two objectives: It contributes an elegant design element to the space and also eliminates the crowding often found in theatre lobbies. The lobby features paintings and sculptures, including busts of LA Phil conductors Alfred Wallenstein and Otto Klemperer, created by Anna Mahler, daughter of composer Gustav Mahler.
The grand stairway from the lobby rises above a gold tiled reflection pool, which features sculptures by Enzo Plazzotta, including a male figure honoring Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and a female figure entitled “Ballet Shoes.” The entire staircase is surrounded with mirrored walls, and stairs are carpeted in olive green and trimmed with white marble. The flooring in the foyer is surfaced with a pale terrazzo. The landing of the staircase on the way to the second level features George Kolbe’s piece, “Beethoven Genius.”
On the second floor of the Pavilion is the Eva & Marc Stern Grand Hall. The Hall extends along the north end of the building and features three-story-high ceilings. The walls are covered with honey-toned Mexican onyx, and the columns are faced with the same hand-cut Byzantine-style mosaic tile from Venice, Italy, as was used in the lobby. Overlooking the Grand Hall are the First and Second Terraces, which form curved galleries similar to balconies. The Terraces provide a spectacular view of three gracefully suspended crystal chandeliers. This floor also features a bronze bust of Mrs. Chandler, sculpted by Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Conrad.
The Becket team devoted two years to the design and creation of the three crystal light fixtures that adorn the Hall. With 27,500 pieces of crystal that create cascades of crystal tiers, each chandelier features 3,500 12-inch colonial prisms that sparkle as they dangle from gold-leafed frames. Each fixture measures 17 feet high and 10 feet in diameter and weighs a ton and a half. The sheer scale and size of the chandeliers demanded they be assembled in the Hall itself.
On the east side of the Hall is the Oval Lounge, which was once called the Oval Room. The main refreshment area in the Pavilion, the Oval Lounge offers an atmosphere of quiet relaxation with walls paneled in black walnut, dark mirrors and a huge oval-shaped antique marble bar.
Above the bar is a shimmering sculpture by Portland, Oregon artist Thomas Hardy. The gold-leafed bronze sculpture, entitled “Sun Birds,” features more than 500 birds, which the artist describes as “an explosion of birds into the air.” Hardy wanted the sculpture to be a “jewel in a dark quiet space.” This effect is achieved by suspending the sculpture from a recessed dome that conceals the room’s main light source, providing a dramatic setting at night. The Lounge also features a bust of Giuseppe Verdi honoring the bicentenary of his birth. It was donated to LA Opera by the Consulate General of Italy-Los Angeles on the company’s opening of Verdi’s Falstaff in 2013.
Other artwork in the Lounge includes Sandi Fox’s “Signature Quilt,” saluting individuals who were instrumental in the early success of The Music Center. In addition to The Music Center logo, the quilt features representations of the original three theatres and the Hollywood Bowl, along with signatures by Yo Yo Ma, Gregory Peck and Natalie Wood. The Lounge is also home to an 18th century Chinese Coromandel screen; Frank Stella’s painting “Ossipee III”; Leonardo Nierman’s tapestry “Music!”; and Los Angeles artist Michael McMillan’s nine-foot-high sculpture “Bunker Hill”. McMillan’s work is an artistic representation of what the location for The Music Center looked like prior to its construction.
Becket employed an unconventional approach to the auditorium, creating a design that is nearly square in shape. The design allows for 90 percent of the audience to be seated within 105 feet of the stage, with the farthest seat located only 130 feet way from the stage. The auditorium seats approximately 3,200 guests and is arranged in four levels: Orchestra (1,442 seats), Founders Circle (471 seats), Loge (443 seats) and Balcony (lower with 350 seats and upper with 400 seats).
The Orchestra level offers continental seating—without center aisles and exits at the sides—to maximize seating. The last row of the Orchestra is only 98 feet from the stage. The three remaining levels rise above the Orchestra floor. The first row of the Founders Circle is only 80 feet back, the Loge is 85 feet back, and the Balcony is 91 feet from the curtain. The angle of vision to the stage is never more than 27 degrees down, including the last row of the Balcony’s second tier. Every seat has a completely clear view to the mid-point of the house curtain at the floor line.
Acoustically, Becket’s goal was to blend reverberance with clarity. A large gold-leaf fiberglass “acoustical cloud” can be moved forward or back and angled according to the needs of the production. The auditorium’s acoustics are also favorably impacted by a curved and sloping ceiling, balconies that are rounded and walls that lean inward as they rise to the ceiling.
The Pavilion stage is one of the largest and most flexible in the nation. At 60-feet wide, 30-feet high and up to 240-feet deep, it is as far from the front of the stage to the back of the stage as it is from the front of the stage to the back of the auditorium.
The stage has two curtains. The main stage curtain features Duquette’s sunburst design, the symbol of The Music Center, and is comprised of seven different materials in shades of gold and bronze. When Duquette was told his design was too difficult to make, he rented the Shrine Auditorium and hired his own seamstresses to create the 3,000-pound curtain that covers the stage.
The orchestra pit uses a mechanically operated floor in three parts, providing flexibility for any size orchestra and the needs of opera performances. In addition, the floor of the pit can be raised as high as the floor of the auditorium to increase the size of the stage. There are 10 dressing rooms on the stage and mezzanine levels and dressing rooms for 200 dancers and chorus members below the stage. The auditorium comprises only one-third of the entire building, with a music library, rehearsal halls and staff offices also housed there.
The floors inside the auditorium are covered in a red carpet on the Orchestra, Loge and Balcony levels with seats on these levels covered in red velour upholstery. The Founders level has a gold theme with gold velour upholstered seats and gold carpet. The walls of the Orchestra level feature wood paneling and four crystal sconces on each side.
The Pavilion’s Founders Room is an elegant lounge used by Founders members before performances and during intermissions. The two-story-high room features walls paneled with wood from the Australian Black Bean tree, which can grow to 100 feet high. The paneling was intricately designed to provide unity with the coffered ceiling trimmed with gold leaf. Floor-to-ceiling windows are spaced between the wall panels and reflected on the opposite wall with floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Dark green carpeting sets off the wood-paneled walls while harmonizing with the antique marble bar. The room features three elegant chandeliers that add a tone of gilded splendor. Two of the Venetian glass chandeliers are from the 1938 MGM musical, The Great Waltz, and the third was commissioned when the room was decorated.
The furnishings in the Founders Room include an 18th century French tapestry depicting an equestrian scene. The original sketch for the tapestry was created by Flemish painter Jacob Jordans. There are two 18th century Chinese red-lacquered chests and an 18th century Venetian secretary, a gift from the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation, which is made of walnut burl wood. Elsie de Wolfe was the first noted female interior designer and a mentor to Duquette. The Founders Room includes a portrait of Mrs. Chandler. The paintings in the room are on loan from LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Featured at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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Sat Sep 23 6:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 2:00 PM
LA Opera Don Giovanni
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and ever...Show More
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and everything, he must now face the music as years of cruelty and debauchery come due.
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Sat Oct 21 7:30 PM
Sun Nov 12 2:00 PM
LA Opera The Barber of Seville
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The dashing Count Almaviva is ready to sweep Rosina off her feet and make her his countess—but not if her greedy guardian Doctor Bartolo has anything to say about it. Enter Figaro: barber, valet and the man with a plan to wreak joyful havoc and le...Show More
The dashing Count Almaviva is ready to sweep Rosina off her feet and make her his countess—but not if her greedy guardian Doctor Bartolo has anything to say about it. Enter Figaro: barber, valet and the man with a plan to wreak joyful havoc and let true love bloom.
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Sat Nov 18 7:30 PM
Sat Dec 09 7:30 PM
LA Opera El Último Sueño de Frida & Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego)
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Mexico’s most iconic artists (and infamously stormy lovers) leap off the canvas in this new musical portrait from Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. When a desperate wish on Day of th...Show More
Mexico’s most iconic artists (and infamously stormy lovers) leap off the canvas in this new musical portrait from Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. When a desperate wish on Day of the Dead reunites Diego Rivera with his wife Frida Kahlo, he jumps at the chance to seek forgiveness. But Frida refuses to return to the world that caused her so much pain, until another departed soul inspires her to look back at the art (and the man) she once loved.
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Tue Nov 21 7:30 PM
LA Opera Rodelinda
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The English Concert, a globe-crossing period instrument orchestra led by conductor Harry Bicket, returns to Los Angeles for a single not-to-be-missed concert performance. This masterpiece of baroque opera is full of brazenly amoral characters doin...Show More
The English Concert, a globe-crossing period instrument orchestra led by conductor Harry Bicket, returns to Los Angeles for a single not-to-be-missed concert performance. This masterpiece of baroque opera is full of brazenly amoral characters doing dastardly deeds. As the men surrounding her plot to take the throne, the grieving queen Rodelinda tries to stay one step ahead of them all, while remaining faithful to the memory of her husband, presumed dead. (Key word: “presumed.“)
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Sat Dec 02 7:30 PM
LA Opera Audra McDonald in Concert
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actress, Audra McDonald—winner of an Emmy Award, two Grammy Awards and a record-setting six Tony Awards—returns to LA Opera in a not-to-be-missed concert. Joined b...Show More
Unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actress, Audra McDonald—winner of an Emmy Award, two Grammy Awards and a record-setting six Tony Awards—returns to LA Opera in a not-to-be-missed concert. Joined by a small ensemble, the Broadway legend brings her luminous soprano voice to an intimate evening of favorite show tunes, standards and original pieces written especially for her.
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Sat Sep 23 6:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 2:00 PM
LA Opera Don Giovanni
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and ever...Show More
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and everything, he must now face the music as years of cruelty and debauchery come due.
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Sun Oct 01 2:00 PM
A TMC Arts Program: Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Ahmanson Theatre
For 46 years, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been one of the most original forces in contemporary dance, bringing artists, art and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate and change lives through the experience of dance.
The c...Show MoreFor 46 years, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been one of the most original forces in contemporary dance, bringing artists, art and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate and change lives through the experience of dance.
The company will perform a program of mixed repertory including Coltrane’s Favorite Things, choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. The work is inspired by and danced to John Coltrane’s 1963 “Live in Copenhagen” interpretation of Richard Rodgers’ “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music. The backdrop for the dance is a reproduction of Jackson Pollock’s landmark painting "Autumn Rhythm." With this dance, Lubovitch reimagines the choreographic possibilities of jazz, creating a vibrant counterpart to the impulsiveness of two 20th century artistic giants.
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Aszure Barton’s poignant BUSK simultaneously celebrates and scrutinizes the essence of what it means to perform, laying bare complex layers of human experience and emotion through mesmerizing multitasking movements.
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Sat Oct 07 11:30 AM
A TMC Arts Program: Arts Grown L.A. The Music Center and Kaleidoscope Festival Present Korean Classical Music and Dance Company
Kaleidoscope Festival, Palmdale, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
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Tue Oct 03 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 6:30 PM
Center Theatre Group Hadestown
Ahmanson Theatre
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated sin...Show More
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today... and always.
HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
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Sun Oct 08 3:00 PM
A TMC Arts Program The Music Center and City of Montebello Present TAIKOPROJECT
City of Montebello, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Utilizing authentic instruments hand-crafted in Japan, TAIKOPROJECT weaves tr...Show More
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Utilizing authentic instruments hand-crafted in Japan, TAIKOPROJECT weaves traditional and modern forms of taiko together and share elements of their Japanese and Japanese-American culture.
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Sat Sep 23 6:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 2:00 PM
LA Opera Don Giovanni
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and ever...Show More
In the heat of the moment, the notorious Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan) murders the father of one of his conquests, unwittingly unleashing an ominous force from beyond the grave that can’t be stopped. Accustomed to getting away with anything and everything, he must now face the music as years of cruelty and debauchery come due.
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Tue Oct 03 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 6:30 PM
Center Theatre Group Hadestown
Ahmanson Theatre
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated sin...Show More
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today... and always.
HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
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Sat Oct 07 10:30 AM
A TMC Arts Program: Arts Grown L.A. The Music Center and Kaleidoscope Festival Present Futa Toro West African Dance Ensemble
Kaleidoscope Festival, Palmdale, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
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Fri Oct 06 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 08 2:00 PM
LA Phil Stravinsky and Shostakovich with Dudamel
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has transcended from a young talented cellist turning heads at the BBC Proms and 2018 royal wedding to a must-see artist performing the world over. In a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Times said, ...Show More
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has transcended from a young talented cellist turning heads at the BBC Proms and 2018 royal wedding to a must-see artist performing the world over. In a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Times said, “His playing is big and bold. He digs deeply for the cello’s deepest, most poignant character.” Mason joins forces again with the LA Phil for one of his specialties: Shostakovich’s ever-shifting and haunting First Concerto. Dudamel leads the LA Phil in Villa-Lobos, including Uirapuru—subtitled “O passarinho encantado” (The Enchanted Little Bird)–which was inspired by a bird in the composer’s homeland of Brazil with the ability to create a stunning variety of songs. A magical avian of a different feather next takes flight with Stravinsky’s original suite from The Firebird.
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Fri Oct 06 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 08 2:00 PM
LA Phil Stravinsky and Shostakovich with Dudamel
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has transcended from a young talented cellist turning heads at the BBC Proms and 2018 royal wedding to a must-see artist performing the world over. In a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Times said, ...Show More
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has transcended from a young talented cellist turning heads at the BBC Proms and 2018 royal wedding to a must-see artist performing the world over. In a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Times said, “His playing is big and bold. He digs deeply for the cello’s deepest, most poignant character.” Mason joins forces again with the LA Phil for one of his specialties: Shostakovich’s ever-shifting and haunting First Concerto. Dudamel leads the LA Phil in Villa-Lobos, including Uirapuru—subtitled “O passarinho encantado” (The Enchanted Little Bird)–which was inspired by a bird in the composer’s homeland of Brazil with the ability to create a stunning variety of songs. A magical avian of a different feather next takes flight with Stravinsky’s original suite from The Firebird.
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Sat Oct 07 3:30 PM
A TMC Arts Program: Arts Grown L.A. The Music Center and Kaleidoscope Festival Present INCA, The Peruvian Ensemble
Kaleidoscope Festival, Palmdale, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
INCA offers a wonderful and colorful array of music and dances from Peru and ...Show More
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
INCA offers a wonderful and colorful array of music and dances from Peru and the Andean region. Their performance includes music and dances from the native Incas (Andean style), from the Hispanic communities of the coastal areas (Criollo style) and the Black people from the villages south of Lima (Afro-Peruvian style).
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Sat Oct 07 12:30 PM
A TMC Arts Program: Arts Grown L.A. The Music Center and Kaleidoscope Festival Present David Prather's Poetry Jam
Kaleidoscope Festival, Palmdale, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
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Tue Oct 03 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 6:30 PM
Center Theatre Group Hadestown
Ahmanson Theatre
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated sin...Show More
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today... and always.
HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
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Tue Oct 03 8:00 PM
Sun Oct 15 6:30 PM
Center Theatre Group Hadestown
Ahmanson Theatre
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated sin...Show More
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today... and always.
HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
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Sun Oct 08 4:30 PM
A TMC Arts Program: Arts Grown L.A. The Music Center and City of Montebello Present Korean Classical Music and Dance Company
City of Montebello, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
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Sat Oct 07 2:30 PM
A TMC Arts Program The Music Center and Kaleidoscope Festival Present TAIKOPROJECT
Kaleidoscope Festival, Palmdale, CA
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Utilizing authentic instruments hand-crafted in Japan, TAIKOPROJECT weaves tr...Show More
Experience the arts in your local community! Our Arts Grown L.A. program brings Music Center Performing Artists to communities and libraries all over L.A. County.
Utilizing authentic instruments hand-crafted in Japan, TAIKOPROJECT weaves traditional and modern forms of taiko together and share elements of their Japanese and Japanese-American culture.
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