Herbie Hancock Flynn Center for the Performing Arts February 6

A couple of jazz giants, an orchestra performing David Bowie's final project and Broadway productions ranging from "Spamalot" to "The Sound of Music" highlight the Flynn Center's 2018-19 schedule.

Tickets for the Burlington performing-arts venue'south side by side flavour go on sale to Flynn Heart members July 17 and the general public Aug. i. The Flynn officially unveils its schedule with a sneak preview at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The schedule (with performances in the primary theater unless otherwise indicated) includes:

September/October

viii p.k. Sept. 21, the season begins with a local bear upon when Vermont comic Josie Leavitt presents her one-woman show "So This Happened" at FlynnSpace. $20.

8 p.m. Sept. 22, musician Mohamed Abozekry (The Nile Project) brings his ensemble Karkade to FlynnSpace to showcase the popular- and classical-music traditions of Arab republic of egypt. $25.

7:30 p.g. Oct. ii, a big name in jazz guitar returns for "An Evening with Pat Metheny." $42-$58.

8 p.thousand. Oct. three, Egyptian vocalizer Dina El Wedidi performs at the College Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington in a testify presented by the Flynn Center. $twenty (tickets available through Higher Footing).

eight p.m. Oct. 6, the Seattle-based Spectrum Dance Theater presents "A Rap on Race," based on a 1970 conversation betwixt writer James Baldwin and anthropologist Margaret Mead. $25-$45.

seven:30 p.g. Oct. 11, the always topical one-act ensemble The Capitol Steps steps onto the Flynn Eye stage one time again. $28-$45.

viii p.k. October. thirteen, The Ambient Orchestra, featuring Maya Beiser on cello, specializes in the music of David Bowie, and on this dark performs music from his terminal work, "Blackstar." $35-$58.

8 p.m. Oct. xviii, the Broadway-comes-to-Burlington flavor gets started with the pilus-band musical "Stone of Ages." $50-$75.

7:30 p.m. Oct. 22, four nights afterward, the Broadway run continues with "Spamalot," a musical based on the oh-so-light-headed picture "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." $50-$75.

vii:30 p.grand. Oct. 25, Ping Chong + Company presents the interview-based theater product "Across Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity." $15-$35.

November

8 p.m. Nov. i, the Vermont chamber group TURNmusic offers the first of iii performances at FlynnSpace, this one featuring soprano Mary Bonhag singing Sarah Kirkland Snider'south vocal wheel "Penelope." $twenty (other concerts planned for February and May).

8 p.chiliad. Nov. ii; 4 and viii p.m. Nov. 3, "Broadway's Next Hit Musical" at FlynnSpace has improvisers creating spontaneous shows based on audience input. $35 per operation.

2 p.m. Nov. iv, hosted at FlynnSpace by violinist and Champlain Valley native Soovin Kim, "The Beethovens of Today" offers world premieres by current top composers, presented in the context of Beethoven'due south career. $35. (A 2d concert will be held in April.)

8 p.m. Nov. 8-9, Liza Jessie Peterson presents 2 nights at FlynnSpace of her one-woman show "The Peculiar Patriot," focusing on life in the American criminal-justice organization. $25.

7 and ix:xxx p.one thousand. November. ten, the high-energy klezmer grouping Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird plays 2 shows at FlynnSpace. $35 per operation.

eleven a.1000., 2 and iv p.m. Nov. xi, Chicago Children'southward Theatre presents "Cherry-red Kite Green Mountain," an interactive slice commissioned past the Flynn Center that continues the venue's offerings for young people on the autism spectrum. $15-$25 (presented at the Flynn'southward Chase Studio).

seven p.m. November. eleven, Due west African kora player Mamadou Diabate performs at FlynnSpace with vi musicians from his native Burkina Faso. $25.

7:30 p.grand. Nov. fourteen-xv, the Broadway musical "Elf," based on the popular Will Ferrell flick, ushers in the vacation season with ii shows. $l-$75 per performance.

8 p.one thousand. Nov. fifteen-xvi, the Middlebury Actors Workshop heads north to FlynnSpace to present its accept on "The Plough of the Screw," a play based on the ghost-story novella by Henry James. $25 per operation.

8 p.m. November. 17, "Night of Drums," part of the New Voices series at FlynnSpace, features Korean pulsate ensemble Sori Mori, affiliated with the Green Mountain Korean Cultural School in Essex Junction, and the 5 Town All-Stars, a Ghanaian drum ensemble led by local percussionist Victor Koblavi Dogah. $15.

vii:xxx p.m. November. 29, the Vermont trio Llamadoll plays music at FlynnSpace to accompany a series of animated and alive-action silent brusk films. $20.

7:thirty p.grand. Nov. 29, the comic Broadway musical "Something Rotten" shows what happens when playwrights compete direct with The Bard himself, William Shakespeare. $l-$75.

December/January

6 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 2, young guitar virtuoso Julian Lage leads his trio in two performances at FlynnSpace, where he wowed at the 2014 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. $40 per operation.

seven:30 p.m. December. 4, the circus troupe Cirque Mechanics works within a 42-foot ring, hence the name of its latest evidence, "42FT – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels." $32-$52.

eight p.m. December. 7-8, Keigwin and Company presents the cabaret-styled performance "Places Please!" in ii shows at FlynnSpace. $30 per performance.

eight p.m. Dec. 14, the modern trip the light fantastic grouping Parsons Dance gives a sensory-friendly performance. $30-$45.

6 p.grand. Jan. ix, "The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System" explores science and imagination in a alive-activeness musical adaptation based on the book serial. $15-$25.

eight p.grand. Jan. 11-12, Bill Shannon combines trip the light fantastic toe and surreal one-act in two performances of his show "Maker Moves" at FlynnSpace. $thirty per performance.

8 p.thousand. Jan. 25, Egyptian political satirist Bassem Youssef presents his standup show "The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword." $25-$45.

February

7 p.m. Feb. 4, Due south African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo returns to the Flynn. $36-$52.

7:xxx p.m. Feb. half dozen, keyboard primary Herbie Hancock ventures into jazz, R&B and funk, and this concert features the latter with musicians including saxophone player Terrance Martin, known for his work with Kendrick Lamar, and guitarist Lionel Loueke, a Burlington Discover Jazz Festival alumnus. $60-$90.

7 p.m. February. xiii, circus troupe Cirque Eloize visits the wild west in its music-filled prove "Saloon." $40-$60.

8 p.m. Feb. 14, the Vermont sleeping accommodation group TURNmusic delivers its 2nd of three concerts (see also November and May). $20.

8 p.m. Feb. xv, multi-instrumentalist Sam Shalabi provides a new soundtrack to the cult classic horror film "Funfair of Souls" at FlynnSpace. $20.

vi and eight:30 p.m. Feb. 17, percussionist Pedrito Martinez and pianist Alfredo Rodriguez play Latin jazz in ii shows at FlynnSpace. $35 per functioning.

viii p.m. Feb. 22, contemporary dance company Candoco features disabled and not-disabled performers in "Allow'due south Talk about Dis" and presents Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder'south "Face In." $25-$forty.

8 p.thousand. Feb. 23, the New Voices serial continues with "From Burma to the Balafon," featuring the Karen Singers of Vermont and the group Sabouyouma led past local musician Osmane Camara of Guinea. $xv.

seven p.m. Feb. 26-27, if there'southward an official state musical of Vermont it has to be Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," based on the story of the state's most-famous family unit, the von Trapps. $l-$75.

March

8 p.one thousand. March 9, the evocatively named Tempest Large sings with the jazzy ensemble Pink Martini and on this night fronts her own band. $25-$45.

8 p.m. March xv, "Quebecfest" is a double neb featuring two traditional bands, Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan, paying tribute to the Canadian province but n of Vermont. $25-$42.

7 p.m. March 18, the Japanese taiko-drum ensemble Kodo returns. $35-$55.

seven p.thousand. March 27, the United States Army Field Ring and Soldiers' Chorus delivers a free functioning.

7 p.m. March 28-thirty, the ensemble Actors from the London Stage tackles the Shakespearean epic "Rex Lear" in 3 FlynnSpace presentations. $35 per performance.

7 p.m. March 31, ballet can have a sense of humor, as Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo demonstrates. $40-$60.

April/May

7:thirty p.m. April 3, Grammy-winner Angelique Kidjo and her eight-fellow member ring bring out the African inspiration for the archetype Talking Heads album "Remain in Light." $thirty-$50.

vii:30 p.m. April iv, rising singer Jazzmeia Horn bears a proper noun that tells you what to await from her music, which on this night unfolds in the cozy confines of FlynnSpace. $xxx.

viii p.1000. April 6, this year's New Voices series concludes with "Globe Party," featuring local Somali Bantu comedian Abow Abraham, Dutch composer/DJ Es-K and the Burlington group Mal Maiz, led by Maiz Vargas Sandoval of Costa Rica. $15.

ii p.yard. Apr 7, the two-part series "The Beethovens of Today," hosted by violinist and Champlain Valley native Soovin Kim, starts in November and ends with a matinee at FlynnSpace. $35.

8 p.m. April twenty, New York dance veterans Ballet Hispanico pay a visit to Burlington. $30-$48.

8 p.m. April 26, Hot Brown Honey presents a rare combination of dance, one-act, striptease and hip hop. $25-$42.

eight p.m. May xix, the iii-part serial by Vermont chamber group TURNmusic ends, as does the Flynn season, with this concert at FlynnSpace (other concerts presented in Nov and February). $20.

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