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Contact: Christina Chapple
Date: 7/29/04
 
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LEGENDARY SINGER AT SLU’S COLUMBIA – A concert by the legendary, velvet-voiced singer Lou Rawls is one of nine events in the 2004-05 season of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. Season tickets for the season, which will extend from October 2004 through July 2005, will be on sale Aug. 2-Sept. 3 at the downtown Hammond theater’s box office, 220 E. Thomas St.

CIRCUS EXCITEMENT AT COLUMBIA – Aerialists, gymnasts, contortionists, clowns, dancers, human puppets, and ornate costumes and backdrops will be in the spotlight on Feb. 17 when the Moscow Circus performs “A Russian Winter’s Tale” during the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts’s 2004-05 season. Tickets for the theater’s nine-event season package will be on sale throughout August.
 

2004-05 COLUMBIA THEATRE SEASON TICKETS ON SALE AUG. 2
      HAMMOND – Patrons of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts can purchase 2004-2005 season tickets throughout the month of August.
      “Season tickets are going on sale earlier this year because we have changed the season’s dates,” explained Donna Gay Anderson, director of the Columbia and Fanfare, Southeastern’s annual fall arts festival.
      “Instead of following the calendar year, the curtain will go up on the Columbia’s season in October, when we partner with our long-standing anchor festival, Fanfare.”
      Season tickets will be available from Aug. 2 to Sept. 3 at the Columbia box office, located in the downtown Hammond theater’s lobby, 220 E. Thomas St. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m., weekdays. The box office’s telephone number is 985-543-4371.
      Prices for the season packages are $292, Orchestra 1 and the Loge; $240, Orchestra 2 and Balcony 1; and $199, Orchestra 3. 
      The season ticket package includes nine events from October through July 2005:
     October 21: “Earl Long in Purgatory,” a comedy-drama starring John McConnell of “The Kingfish” and “A Confederacy of Dunces” fame.
     December 3: The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra’s popular holiday concert.
     January 28: “Forbidden Broadway Shoots for the Stars,” the latest edition of a long-running New York hit that fondly skewers Broadway hits and divas. 
     February 17: Moscow Circus’s “A Russian Winter’s Tale,” an exciting European-style circus.
     March 11: The LPO in an evening of beloved Russian classics by composers such as Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich.
     April 8: “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” a rip-roaring stage version of the popular MGM movie musical. 
     April 29: a concert by the incomparable, multiple Grammy-winning songster Lou Rawls.  
     May 20: The LPO’s salute to the music of a host of popular films.
     June 4: “Best of Broadway Featuring the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” a musical review of the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway hits.  
     July 16: An evening of songs by the legendary singer Judy Collins.
     Tickets for individual events – including Fanfare 2004 tickets – will go on sale Sept. 7. Additional information about the Columbia 2004-05 and Fanfare seasons is available online at www.selu.edu/Columbia. A brochure is also available by calling the Columbia office, 985-543-4366.