Civic Center Music Hall - Featured Shows

Cupid's Wingman // Pops
Feb.24 - 25

Starring Tony DeSare

Smooth and delicious...an apt description of chocolate, champagne, AND Tony DeSare! Singer, pianist, and songwriter, DeSare has a sound that is romantic, swinging, and senual whether he's performing classic standards or original material. After starring in "Our Sinatra" off-Broadway, DeSare has been called a Sinatra acolyte and belongs to a group of neo-traditional upstarts stretching from Harry Connick, Jr. to Michael Buble.

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STOMP
Mar.13 - 18

STOMP, the international sensation, returns with some new surprises! Sections of the show have been updated and restructured, including the addition of two new full-scale routines using props like tractor tire inner tubes and paint cans. USA Today says, "STOMP finds beautiful noises in the strangest places." STOMP. See what all the noise is about.

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Alison Krauss & Union Station feat. Jerry Douglas
Mar.25

ON SALE FRIDAY JAN. 27 at 12:00 pm

In April of 2011, Rounder Records released the eagerly anticipated Alison Krauss and Union Station album, Paper Airplane. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart, Bluegrass Albums Chart and #3 on the Top 200 Album Chart. A truly breathtaking collection of 11 exquisite songs, Paper Airplane is Krauss’ 14th album and the band’s follow-up to 2004’s triple Grammy® winning Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder). It is Krauss’ first release since her 2007 internationally acclaimed, multi-platinum collaboration with Robert Plant, Raising Sand, which won six Grammys including “Record Of The Year” and “Album Of The Year.”

Alison Krauss along with Union Station band members Dan Tyminski (guitar, mandolin and lead vocals), Barry Bales (bass and harmony vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar and harmony vocals), and Jerry Douglas (Dobro and harmony vocals) are continuing their tour in 2012 after a successful run of critically-acclaimed performances in 2011.

Part of Alison Krauss’ incontestable talent is how effortlessly she bridges the gap between roots music and country, rock and pop. A highly sought-after collaborator, Krauss has worked with some of the biggest names in popular music, including James Taylor, Phish, Dolly Parton, Yo Yo Ma & Bonnie Raitt. Since signing with Rounder Records at the age of 14 in 1985 Krauss has sold in excess of 12 million albums and garnered 26 Grammy® Awards, the most for any female and the third most of any recording artist in Grammy® history. Her breathtaking live performances should not be missed.

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The Sunshine Boys
Apr.6 - 7

Jerry Van Dyke and Craig T. Nelson, stars of the hit ABC sit-com "Coach" are re-uniting for the first time to tackle the roles of Al Lewis and Willy Clark in Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys. The duo brings nearly a decade of small screen chemistry to the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre in Oklahoma City for their debut performances on April 6th (8pm) and April 7th (2pm).

The pair's last collaboration resulted in a slew of Emmy nominations for Van Dyke in his role as Luther Van Dam and an Emmy win for Nelson as Hayden Fox. The success of "Coach" is credited in large part to the undeniable charm and onscreen charisma of these two lovable characters. The notable history between the two leading men provides plenty of reason for high-expectations but the on-stage familiarity does not end there. Nelson will be joined by fellow "Parenthood" cast member, Sam Jaeger, in the role of Al Clark's nephew Ben.

This production of The Sunshine Boys will offer theatregoers a rare opportunity to enjoy a live performance from one of TV's most beloved duos in a classic play from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Neil Simon. The Sunshine Boys follows the turbulent, but comical relationship of a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years of on-stage partnership, developed an ever-increasing level of disdain for one another. The resentment reaches an all-time high for the stubborn Willy Clark (Van Dyke), when the wiser Al Lewis (Nelson) decides to break up the act by opting to leave show business.

It is now 1972 and CBS has invited the team to reunite for a television special on the history of comedy, with the pair representing the vaudeville era at its best. Hilarity ensues when Clark is convinced by his nephew Ben (Jaeger), to revive one of the old routines one last time. Unfortunately, getting these two cantankerous actors in the same room for a rehearsal is easier said than done.

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