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Purdue News
February 7, 1997
"La Boheme" is a glimpse at the lives, loves, sorrows and joys of four impoverished artists living on the Left Bank in Paris in the early 19th century. The National Company's production has been applauded by New York's Newsday as a "well-mounted, strongly sung and intelligently directed production."
The entire opera will be performed in Italian with English supertitles projected above the stage -- a trademark of the New York City Opera National Company. The supertitles, on individual slides, are projected a line or two at a time onto a screen just below the proscenium. The process is designed to paraphrase enough of the text to clarify the action without intruding upon the drama or vocal performance.
Tickets are $26, $21 and $15 for the public and $16 and $11 for Purdue students. Family Circle tickets (second balcony) are $7 and $5. All tickets are on sale at campus box offices and Ticketmaster outlets. Charge by telephone at (765) 494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW.
CONTACT: Jeff Langford, Convocations publicist, (765) 494-5045; e-mail, jilangford@convos.purdue.edu
The first performance is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Warren Performing Arts Center, 9301 E. 18th St., Indianapolis. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students. Additional information is available by calling (317) 898-9722. The show will feature a glee club member returning home to Indianapolis. Dustin Davis of Greenfield is in his freshman year of industrial engineering at Purdue.
On Saturday, Feb. 22, the glee club will perform an 8 p.m. concert in the Carmel High School Auditorium, 520 E. Main St., Carmel. Tickets are $8 for reserved seating, $5 for general admission. Three glee club members are Carmel High School graduates: Greg Bayman, a junior in industrial engineering; Casey Cannady, a sophomore majoring in management; and Jake McDuffee, a sophomore majoring in English and secondary education.
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Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
