PREVIEW: FoodCorps at the Michigan Theater

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The Penny Stamps Speaker series is an awesome lineup of artistic and activist personalities that come to the Michigan Theater Thursday evenings during the school year.

What FoodCorps? They connect with and educate children about healthy eating and good food! Ian Cheney & Kurt Ellis, the founders, have also made documentaries and founded other food-based ventures intent on changing our gastric landscape. You can check out more here.

When: Thursday, October 16 at 5:10 PM

Where: The Michigan Theater

Come and learn about the future of food and the big ideas on the way…

Food Corps in action

Preview: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

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What: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Where: The State Theater
When: Wednesday 15 October
How Much: $8 students, $10 general admissions, $7.50 Michigan Theater Members

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is the second film in Michigan Theater’s ‘The Studio Ghibli Collection: A 30-Year-Retrospective,’ which began with Howl’s Moving Castle this past Saturday’s midnight movie and extends into December.

Princess Nausicaä fights to save the damaged planet and surviving people from destroying themselves and each other. Hayao Miyazaki’s post-apocalyptic animated film was released in 1984.

Preview: A Street Car Named Desire – National Theater Live

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What: A Street Car Named Desire
Where: The Michigan Theater
When: 7pm
How Much: $22

Michigan Theater is hosting London’s National Theater Live productions on the silver screen.
The Young Vic Theater staged Tennessee Williams’ “A Street Car Named Desire” this summer 2014 to record ticket sales. The production stars Gillian Anderson (x-files) as Blanche DuBois opposite Ben Foster (Six Feet Under, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley with Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella.

Blanche, an aging Southern Belle, comes to New Orleans to visit her sister Stella and her difficult and unlikable brother-in-law Stanley. Blanche’s presence creates conflict between the couple who have a passionate marriage and love life. Her proper countenance disrupts the married couple’s codependence resulting in emotional violence and the implied sexual abused of Blanche by Stanley, which leads to a breakdown in Blanche’s mental health.

A Street Car Named Desire is a Pulitzer Prize Winning Play and Academy Award Winning Film.

For Tickets Visit the UMS Website: here

Review: Cabaret

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The Musical Theater Department at Michigan is a wonderful group of highly talented individuals who love their craft. Every performance put on by the department has been well crafted and cast. The skills and passions of these student performers are infectious, especially if you happen to know two or three of them personally.
Cabaret is a very emotional production. Set in Weimar Berlin in the lead up to the rise of the Nazi party, the plot follows Cliff Bradshaw, the American novelist who falls in love with Sally Bowels, a Berlin night club performer. Their lives are tossed between the volatile political circumstances of 1930s Germany and the sordid sexual lifestyle of the Kit Kat Klub.
The performances of Sally, Cliff the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub and the club performers were stunning. The vocal and physical talents of the actors and dancers drew the audience into the emotional experiences of the characters in 1930s Berlin.
Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel “Goodbye to Berlin,” and John Van Druten’s play “I Am a Camera,” Cabaret is a multi-award winning Broadway production. The production is staged at the University of Michigan for one more weekend. Be sure to reserve your tickets before they are all sold out:
Thursday Oct. 16 – 7:30pm, Friday Oct. 17 – 8:00, Saturday Oct. 18 – 8:00, Sunday Oct. 19 – 2:00 – At the Mendelssohn Theater
Tickets: $10 Students, $22-$28 general admissions

PREVIEW: Halloween Concert

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What: Halloween Concert

When: Sunday, October 26, 2014 at 4:30pm

Where: Hill Auditorium

Halloween Concert, along with Band-O-Rama (Friday, October 31 at 8pm) and A Grand Night for Singing, is a fundraising tradition at the U-M School of Music. Every year, members of the two university orchestras — University Symphony Orchestra and University Phiharmonia Orchestra — come together to perform a Halloween concert for audiences of all ages. The performers are certainly excited to get out of their tuxedo and concert black clothes to dress up as something funky and fun! Come check out some creative costumes and beautiful music. Audience costumes are welcome! (Disclaimer — despite the candy-full nature of Halloween, there is no food allowed in Hill Auditorium. Boo.)

You can purchase the tickets ($18/15/10/8) online, or at the Michigan League Ticket Office.

Edit 10/20 — The concert is on the Passport to the Arts for October 15-31, so you can actually get the tickets for free. For more details, check out this website!

PREVIEW: Last Days in Vietnam

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Last Days in Vietnam is a documentary by director Rory Kennedy about the evacuation of US forces from South Vietnam.  When the US government orders troops to vacate, there is a looming sense of what this means as Americans and South Vietnamese allies realize what will follow such an exit.

Come out and watch for a detailed account of one of the lesser known parts of the Vietnam War, or just to learn more about a war whose effects are still being felt today.

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Tuesday, Oct 14 4:45
Wednesday, Oct 15 4:30

Trailer:  http://www.lastdaysinvietnam.com