MONROE ARTS CENTER

PO Box 472 1315 11th Street

Monroe, WI 53566

Summer 2015 www.monroeartscenter.com

Monroe Arts Center opens the 2015

-2016 Entertainment Season with a

variety of informative, entertaining,

and inspiring programs. This up-

coming season marks MAC’s 40th

year of presenting high quality and

affordable entertainment for the

entire family.

Five concerts are

scheduled for the

Sunday Concert

Series at MAC.

The new season

opens on September 13 with the

melodious sound of piano, cello,

and violins by the Mosaic Cham-

ber Players of Madison. Next,

Balalaika and Piano Duo performs on October 18

with a musical

repertoire ranging

from Russian and

Eastern European

folk to classical

and contemporary

compositions. On

November 15 The Damen Trio

brings a program of both classical

and jazz works played on the ma-

rimba, flute, and cello. Returning

to the MAC stage

for a breathtaking

musical perfor-

mance on Decem-

ber 13 are cellist

Ben Capps and

pianist Vassily

Primakov. Per-

music ranging from Elvis to Pucci-

ni, Gospel to Pop, and Country to

Broadway. It’s like Duck Dynasty

goes to Carnegie Hall.

A special

PAC

concert

by musi-

cian and

vocalist

S. Carey

is scheduled for March 19, 2016.

Best known as the drummer and

supporting vocalist of the Grammy

Award-winning indie folk band

Bon Iver, Carey also tours with his

own band. His blend of music,

which stems from his love of jazz,

modern classical, and Americana,

is described as “simultaneously

restful and rhythmic, complex and

simple, and always evolving.”

Cherish, Windy, Never My Love,

Along Comes Mary, Everything

That Touches You, and Six Man

Band are some of the hits by one of

the most popular and successful

bands in American music. Now on

their highly-acclaimed Anniversary

Tour, The Association will per-

forming along with them are

clarinetist Alexey Gorokholinsky

and pianist Natalia Lavrova. The

final concert of this series takes

place on May 22 when the Madi-

son Youth Choirs performs their

spring program.

Five

shows are

scheduled

to take

place at

Monroe

High School Performing Arts

Center (PAC) in the upcoming

season. On October 2 the Gram-

my-winning trio Los Lonely Boys

will heat up the stage with their

infectious mix of Rock, Blues,

Tex-Mex, Conjunto, and Tejano.

The three Garza brothers play an

explosive and thunderous style of

music they often refer to as

“Texican Rock n’ Roll.”

Direct from the stages in Bran-

son, Missouri and America’s Got

Talent in Las Vegas, the uproari-

ously funny musical comedy of

3 Redneck Tenors happens on

November 7. Billy Bob, Billy

Joe, and Billy Billee,

who are actually clas-

sically trained veteran

artists, will entertain

with their vocal prow-

ess and a smorgas-

bord of songs and

CELEBRATING FOUR DECADES OF

ENTERTAINMENT

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form in Monroe on May 14, 2016.

They have sold over 80 million

records, tapes, CDs, and DVDs,

along with six gold and three plati-

num discs. They were nominated a

total of seven times for Grammy

Awards, nominated for the Golden

Globe Award for Best Original

Music for their music in the film

Goodbye Columbus, and in 2011,

their hit song Windy was featured

in its entirety on the hit television

show Breaking Bad.

An incredible line-up of four shows

will be com-

ing to the

MAC stage.

On Novem-

ber 21, New

Odyssey is

the first

show to take

the stage in

the 15-16

seasons.

Just three guys who bring an unbe-

lievable show of great music, re-

markable vocals, audience partici-

pation, and comedy, along with

arrangements of favorite songs in

almost every style and genre, per-

formed on 30 different instruments.

The sharp-suited, classically vin-

tage Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets

perform on February 27, 2016 with

their new tribute production

“Everything Old is New Again.”

Backed by a live band, this crazy

foursome serves up the “best of

their best” doo-wop and rock 'n' roll

music, with stirring vocal harmo-

nies, humor, and captivat-

ing choreography music.

The upbeat musical “A

Closer Walk With Patsy Cline” will be presented on

March 12, 2016. Wearing a

stunning array of elaborate

show costumes, “Patsy”

performs 22 of Cline's

greatest hits such as Walk-

in’ After Mid-

night, Sweet

Dreams, and I

Fall to Pieces.

“A Closer Walk”

is a loving

tribute to

Cline’s spirit and a cele-

bration of the music of

her life.

Hailed as a “certified lunatic and

master of the impossi-

ble,” Tomáš Kubínek

-Miracle Man will

bring his comic geni-

us, virtuoso vaudevil-

lian antics, and all-

round charm to MAC

on April 2, 2016. His

brilliant and outra-

geous theatrics leaves

audiences clutching their sides with

laughter, breathless, and madly in

love with this consummate

master of whimsy, who beau-

tifully balances the absurd and

the profound.

Holiday performances include

“It’s a Wonderful Life: Live

From WVL Radio Theatre” on December 6, and The

Dickens Carollers on

December 12.

On October 15, Marvel Comics

illustrator Jerry DeCaire brings his

artistic talent to MAC with the

special presentation Science of

the Superhero. Watch favor-

ite superheroes such as Thor,

X-Men, The Phantom, and

Wolverine come alive as

DeCaire’s live hand-

drawing demonstrations are

projected onto a large

screen. DeCaire will illus-

trate how math and science

merge, as well as comment

on the history of comics and

other nuances of comic art.

Numerous MAC-

sponsored community

events are also planned for

the new season. Broad-

cast on Big Radio,

“Showcase of Talent” brings some

of the most talented individuals in

the area to the stage for two con-

secutive nights of entertainment in

January. Other annual events in-

clude the

Holiday

Silent

Auction,

Underwrit-

ers Pre-

view Party,

A Taste of

Spring, the

rebroadcast of “A Christmas Car-ol Radio Show,” and much more.

Single tickets and money-saving

ticket packages are now available

for purchase. For information or to

request a season brochure, contact

the Monroe Arts Center at 608-325

-5700, or 888-596-1249, or online

at www.monroeartscenter.com.

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MAC Annual Meeting Announced

Proposed By-Law Change The Monroe Arts Center annual

meeting is set for 6:00 pm

Tuesday, September 8, in MAC’s

Wesley Hall, 1315 11th Street,

Monroe, WI. The Board of

Directors will hold a business

meeting immediately after the

annual meeting. All members are

invited.

This year’s annual meeting agenda

includes election of new directors,

approval of the 2015-2016 budget,

and a proposed change in the by-

laws. The current by-laws and

proposed change follow.

MAC members are encouraged to

consider the by-law change and

attend the annual meeting.

Current By-Law, Article V,

Section 3:

Article V

Board of Directors

3. Directors shall be elected to

three year terms. The terms of

the Directors shall be stag-

gered such that one-third of

the Directors shall be elected

each year. No Director may

serve more than twelve (12)

consecutive years.

Motion to Amend:

RESOLVED; that Article V,

Section 3 of the By-laws is

amended to read as follows:

Article V

Board of Directors

3. Directors shall be elected to

three-year terms. The terms of

the Directors shall be staggered

such that one-third of the Direc-

tors shall be elected each year.

There will be no limit on the

number of three-year terms a

Director may serve.

The Monroe Arts Center held a

ground breaking ceremony for the

new addition on July 21st.

Construction began

the following week.

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This exhibit features the unique photographs of Madison pho-

tographer Cameron Gillie, as taken with a pinhole cam-

era. Gillie's passion in photography has always been photo-

graphing the wonders of the world that we all are so closely

intertwined with, but in our day-to-day life between work and

home, rarely stop to appreciate.

Gillie will serve as judge for the 26th Annual photo Contest &

Exhibit that will be on display in Wesley Hall.

Both exhibits will be open from Sept. 4 to Oct. 23 with an

opening reception on Friday, Sept. 4.

GALLERY RECEPTION

Sept. 4, 5 pm-7 pm

Gallery talk at 5:30 pm.

Awards presented at 6 pm.

ArtsBeat Edited by Becky Venden

Monroe Arts Center PO Box 472/1315 11th Street

Monroe, WI 53566 www.monroeartscenter.com

The Pinhole Thing by Cameron Gillie

and 26th Annual Photography Contest & Exhibit

Spin by Cameron Gillie