It’s a rock show and a circus, non-stop singing and dancing, with music, lasers and acrobatics.  With its abundance of tricks and images, Cirque Dreams ROCKS is as close to 21st century vaudeville as you’re likely to get! A cast of astonishing Cirque Dreamers transform a carnival funhouse into a rock ‘n’ roll party with an original live band on stage.  The music has something for everyone – from  “Call Me Irresponsible”, “King of the Road”, “Womanizer”, “Beautiful,” to  “Zoot Suit Riot,” “The Heat is On,” and “In the Summertime.”   And for good measure, they throw in “Let it Ride,” “Apologize,” “No More Mister Nice Guy,” “Never Gonna Let you Go” “Like a Prayer,” “I Love the Nightlife” and decades more.

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Photo by: Erinn Chalene Cosby

September 26, 2013
7:30 p.m.

Few entertainers have achieved the legendary status of Bill Cosby, with a career spanning five decades and virtually all media.  In the 1960s, his stand-up act was a coast-to-coast sensation, spawning a string of hilarious, best-selling comedy albums, which went on to win eight Gold Records, five Platinum records and five Grammy Awards. His role on TV’s “I Spy” made him the first African-American to co-star in a dramatic series, and in the 1980s, he again rocked the television world with the “The Cosby Show”.

With hit movies like “Uptown Saturday Night” and best-selling books like Fatherhood, Bill Cosby is quite simply a national treasure with the unique ability to touch people’s hearts.  In the course of his remarkable career, Bill Cosby has earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, received the Kennedy Center Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.  Along the way he has also amassed 4 Emmys and 9 Grammys.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company, formed in 1954, was one of the early touring companies of American modern dance.  The Company has performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries and still spends more than half of each performance season touring in American cities.  The inspiration behind the company and still one of its major choreographers, Paul Taylor was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, received an Emmy Award for Speaking in Tongues, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1993. Awards for lifetime achievement include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship – often called the “genius award” – and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. Other awards include the New York State Governor’s Arts Award and the New York City Mayor’s Award of Honor for Art and Culture. In 1989 Taylor was elected one of ten honorary American members of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

October 24, 2013

For more than thirty years, Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan followed similar, but separate careers.  Raised in the south, both of them were daughters of country music stars and grew up watching their fathers perform on the Grand Ole Opry. They each appeared on the Opry as a child and continued on to have their own illustrious music careers.  Pam Tillis is the winner of three Country Music Association awards, two Grammy awards and an International Bluegrass Music Association award.  Since 1990, she has charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard country charts, including “Maybe It Was Memphis” and “Mi Vida Loca.”  Lorrie Morgan was only 13 when she made her first major appearance in 1975, singing “Paper Roses” with her dad.  She is the youngest person ever to become a member of Opry, and has 14 Top-10 songs, including “Watch Me” and “Five Minutes.”  On stage together, they provide harmonies for one another and charm the audience with stories about their songs.  Just don’t ask who is “grits” and who is “glamour”!

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November 2, 2013

Audra Ann McDonald didn’t waste any time starting her career.  She made her Broadway debut as a replacement in The Secret Garden while she was still in school at Juilliard, won three Tony awards in five years, and, at age 27, became the first person to win three before the age of 30.  She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, including leading roles in Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, and Carousel.  Her first starring role on Broadway was in Marie Christine, written specifically for her by Michael John LaChiusa after he saw her audition for Carousel.  In 2007 she joined the cast of Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett, and spent the first 9 months of 2012 singing Bess in Porgy and Bess on Broadway. She has won five Tony Awards, sharing the record for most Tonys won by an actor with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury.

November 5, 2013
7:30 p.m.

This is truly a case of “Back by popular demand!” Before they had even finished signing autographs last November, people were asking when we would bring them back. So we did. Straight No Chaser are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. In addition to excelling at the art of harmonization, these men also enjoy giving the audience something more to look forward to by incorporating humor and dance into their performances. In 2006, their YouTube video “The 12 Days of Christmas” went viral, and they have never looked back. When they were here in 2012, Straight No Chaser sold out faster than has ever happened at Reynolds. So don’t wait to get your tickets!

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November 18, 2013
7:30 p.m.

The characters are the ones we all remember from the TV show, but THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare.  Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family.  A man her parents have never met.  And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.  Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.  Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.   Come meet the family. We’ll leave the lights off for you!

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November 25, 2013
7:30 p.m.

Lisa Ling is executive producer and host of Our America on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a former field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, and a contributor to ABC News’ Nightline and National Geographic’s Explorer.  At the age of 21, she covered the civil war in Afghanistan, and later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime’s hit show The View, which won its first daytime Emmy during her tenure.  She was a special correspondent for CNN’s Planet in Peril series and is a contributing editor for USA Today’s USA Weekend magazine. She is the co-author of Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood and Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home, which she penned with her sister, Laura.

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December 9, 2013
7:30 p.m.

2013 marks the 20th Anniversary of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s remarkable arrival onto the music scene. In its first years, having secured their legendary residency at the Derby nightclub in Los Angeles, they reminded the world—in the middle of the grunge era, no less—that it was still cool to swing, big band style. Today the high-energy nine-piece ensemble continues the party.  The band’s originals rocketed the group into its first phase of stardom when “You & Me and the Bottle Makes Three (Tonight)” and “Go Daddy-O” were featured in the 1996 indie film Swingers. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy hit pop music superstardom with their appearance in front of millions during the halftime show of the 1999 Super Bowl.  In 2004, they recorded a Christmas album, Everything You Want For Christmas, and since then their Christmas shows have become legendary.  Join us for a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Swingin’ Holiday!

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January 21, 2014
7:30 p.m.

For the first time ever, we will transform the Reynolds Performance Hall stage into an ice skating rink.  Broadway On Ice is a celebration of the beauty, grace and artistry of figure skating, embraced by the magic of the Broadway musical.  Even our Steinway grand piano will be on the ice, as we present the grandiose spectacle of Broadway on Ice – and bring Broadway’s most memorable show-stoppers to life!

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