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NOVEMBER 2013
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seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the
musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original score, it tells
the fictional story of DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole’ local boy
with a passion for R&B music and Felicia Farrell, as an up-
and-coming black singer who he meets one fateful night on
Beale Street. Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey’s
closed-minded mama and Felicia’s cautious brother, a club
owner), they embark on a dangerous affair. As their careers
rise, the relationship is challenged by personal ambition and
the pressures of an outside world unable to accept their love.
Begin your evening with dinner at Carmelo’s Ristorante Ital-
iano – a delicious house salad, followed by the combination
plate of lasagna, rigatoni with veal meatballs, tortellini with
cream sauce, mushrooms, peas and homemade Italian sausage.
This wonderful meal is complemented with the tiramisu and
chocolate cake for dessert. Coffee, tea, tax and gratuities are
included. This restaurant has a romantic ambience and was
originally built in the 1870’s.
Ticket cost includes transportation, dinner, and orchestra
seat ticket.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Flo Zydowicz
Michael Martin Murphey at One World Theater
Thursday, December 12, $96 pp
Depart SCPL 4 p.m.; Return 10:30 p.m.
For the countrymusic lovers out there,
we have the concert for you! Michael Martin
Murphey is an American singer-songwriter
best known for writing and performing West-
ern music, country music, and popular music.
A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums,
including
Cowboy Songs
, the first album of cowboy music to
achieve gold status since
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
by Marty Robbins in 1959. He has recorded the hit singles
Wildfire
,
Carolina in the Pines
,
What’s Forever For
,
A Long
Line of Love
,
What She Wants
, and
Don’t Count the Rainy
Days
. Murphey is also the author of NewMexico’s state ballad,
Handel’s Messiah at Riverbend Center with
dinner at Romano’s Macaroni Grill
Tuesday, December 3, $92 pp
Depart SCPL 4:45 p.m.; Return 10:30 p.m.
TheAustinSymphony presents
its Christmas tradition, Handel’s
Messiah
,
accompanied by Chorus Austin. Begin your
winter celebrations with this performance full
of rejoicing at the Riverbend Centre, nestled
in the picturesque Texas Hill Country.
Messiah
is one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time,
and very possibly the greatest work ever written in England.
It is also, in all probability, the most performed work in the
history of classical music. In virtually every city of the free
world,
Messiah
is performed at least once every year.
We begin our evening with dinner at Romano’s Macaroni Grill.
Following a Caesar Salad, your entrée choices include: Penne
Rustica (roasted chicken, shrimp, rosemary cream, prosciutto,
parmesan); Lasagna Bolognese (Bolognese sauce, Italian sau-
sage, ricotta, grana padano, pomodoro sauce); or Parmesan
Crusted Sole with lemon butter, capers, sun-dried tomato orzo.
Dessert is chocolate cake. A soft drink, tax and tip are included.
Alcoholic beverages may be purchased on your own.
Ticket cost includes transportation, dinner and performance.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Valerie Weis
Memphis – The Musical with dinner at
Carmelo’s
Wednesday, December 11, $109 pp
Depart SCPL 4:30 p.m.; Return 10:30 p.m.
Broadway Across America
presents
Memphis
at the Bass Concert Hall
in Austin.
Memphis
won Best Musical Tony
Award in 2010. It is set in the places where
rock and roll was born in the 1950s – the
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Friday, November 1, at 8 a.m.
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