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Storybook Weekend featuring Alice In Wonderland
April 30, 2011
1:30pm & 7:00pm
Grand Theater • Wausau
Tickets $20, $18 students/seniors & $14 upper balcony
To order tickets online please visit www.onartsblock.org or call the Grand Theater Box Office at(715) 842-0988.
(Tickets prices include $3.00 sales tax and Grand Theater facility charge).
For group sales please call 715-842-4447.
DONT BE LATE FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT DATE!
When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole, she finds herself in an amazing wonderland. So begins a curious adventure involving the strangest characters. Alice meets the vanishing Cheshire Cat, is invited to a never-ending tea-party and plays an extraordinary game of croquet with the fearsome Queen of Hearts. With spectacular sets, costumes and a few surprises - Don't be late for this very important date!
The production values represented by Wausau Dance Theatre's "Alice in Wonderland" could easily rival any professional, nationally touring theater or dance presentation ever presented at the Schauer Center. In fact, the sets, costumes, and props were by far superior to most traveling productions that have appeared on our stage. -- Tom Robbins, Director, Schauer Arts Center
"...I was amazed and absolutely thrilled to see a dynamic production with music, choreography and costumes that was so true to the spirit of Alice. The fast paced production was seamless, the choreography was masterful and witty. From the tumbling row of cards to the hilarious Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, from the scurrying White Rabbit to the Mad Hatter, the huge caterpillar and the formidable queen of Hearts, there was not one character that did not delight me. Lewis Carroll would have been bowled over with the intricacies of this production that so mirrored his fantasy, humor and the whimsical nature of his books." Valerie Pegg, Director,The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Michigan Technological University.
Storybook Weekend Events
April 30, 2011
11:30am-3:00pm
Great Hall on ArtsBlock
Storybook Weekend Events in conjunction with Alice In Wonderland will include a "Mad Hatters Tea Party" in the Great Hall adjacent to the Grand Theater. Join us for croquet with the Queen of Hearts, life size chess, teacup painting, games, crafts and activities for the whole family. You can even adopt a pink flamingo. Special guests include "Dizzy the Clown" and Caricature artist Jason Anhorn. Storybook Weekend events are FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
The Women's Community, Inc. presents
Taking Steps Against Violence
5K/10K Run Walk
April 30, 2011
Great Hall on ArtsBlock
Registration 7:30 am Event Starts 9:00 am. Visit www.womenscommunity.org for more info.
Woodson Art Museum
April 9 – June 19, 2011
Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor, an accomplished and innovative master of digital imaging processes, brings fresh insight to the “fantasy and fantastic” at the heart of Lewis Carroll’s enduring masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Using sources ranging from snapshots to 19th-century daguerreotypes and tintypes, she constructs richly colored dreamlike, surreal narratives. Taylor’s forty-five composite images push the boundaries of new media.
Maggie Taylor, Birds of a Feather, 2007
Maggie Taylor, The Dormouse, 2006
Maggie Taylor, It All Seemed Quite Natural, 2006
Maggie Taylor, These Strange Adventures, 2006
Maggie Taylor, Will You Walk a Little Faster?, 2008
April 9 – June 19, 2011
Mad About Teapots: From the Racine Art Museum
Fancifully fun, slightly disturbing, and delightfully whimsical. Expect the unexpected from a teapot fit for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's classic story that turned tea-time etiquette on its head. A collection of more than twenty teapots, selected by exhibitions curator Andy McGivern from hundreds in the Donna Moog collection at the Racine Art Museum, captures that sense of surprise. Ceramic artists fashion this fundamental teapot object into varied forms – a bellhop, and inverted giraffe, a pileated woodpecker, a persimmon – to express their creativity and skill.
Jeff Perrone, Plum Blossom Prawn, 1987, earthenware
David Regan, Pot Belly Stove Teapot, 1990, porcelain
Michael Corney, Teapot, Dice with Cup, 1991, porcelain
Cindy Kolodziejski, Tilted Teapot, 1990, whiteware
Leslie Rosdol, Untitled, 1996, porcelain and rhinestones