Irvine Barclay Theatre’s Opening Season Filled With Local Groups : Culture: The new arts facility being built on the UCI campus should be ready to open in mid-October.
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IRVINE — Ten local arts groups have been added to the roster of the Irvine Barclay Theatre, it was announced Tuesday, completing the projected programming schedule for the 1990-91 season.
The $17.6-million facility, formerly called the Irvine Theatre, is under construction on the UC Irvine campus and is expected to open in mid-October.
The latest round of performance dates has been given to five dance companies, two drama troupes and three cultural organizations.
The best-known is Ballet Pacifica, which is based in Laguna Beach and has appeared throughout Orange County. (Related story, F3.) It will present four ballets--”Eight Lines,” “Duetto,” “Interior” and a new work still to be decided--on April 12 and 13. A second program on May 31 and June 1 will feature “Graduation Ball” and “Les Femmes.”
The other dance companies are the Arpana Dance Co., which will stage a full-length production with about two dozen Asian Indian dancers (Nov. 23); the Irvine Ballet, which will present a holiday program (Dec. 14-16) and a children’s production (March 1 and 2); the Irvine School of Dance (June 9), and the Irvine Academy of Performing Arts (June 20-22).
The drama troupes scheduled for performances are the Irvine Civic Light Opera (formerly South Coast Musical Theatre) and the Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children.
The light-opera company will present two musicals still to be decided. The first will run for two weekends (Feb. 15-17 and 22, 23) and the second will run for two weekends (July 12-14, 19 and 20). Theatrefaire is considering performances of “Beauty and the Beast” on March 15-17, 22 and 23.
The cultural groups receiving performance dates are the Irvine Chinese School (Feb. 3), the Friends of Jewish Music (March 24) and the South Coast Chinese Cultural Assn. (May 4).
The complete 1990-91 schedule to date--except for special programming to celebrate the 750-seat theater’s official opening (tentatively set for Oct. 13)--is as follows:
1990:
Oct. 7: South Coast Symphony
Oct. 10: National Theatre of the Deaf
Oct. 26: Empire Brass
Oct. 28: Mozart Camerata
Oct. 29: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
Nov. 2-3: Bella Lewitzky Dance Co. (with a lecture-demonstration Nov. 1)
Nov. 4: UCI Chamber Music Series
Nov. 5: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
Nov. 10: Opera a la Carte doing Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”
Nov. 11: South Coast Symphony
Nov. 15: Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Nov. 16: Royal New Zealand Ballet doing “Coppelia”
Nov. 17: Irvine Camerata
Nov. 18: Irvine Symphony
Nov. 23: Arpana Dance Co.
Nov. 24, 25: Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Co.
Nov. 30: Mozart Camerata
Dec. 1: Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Coronet Band Hometown Christmas
Dec. 2: UCI Chamber Music Series
Dec. 14-16: Irvine Ballet
1991:
Jan. 6: Irvine Symphony
Jan. 12: Seattle Mime Co. doing “Pinocchio”
Jan. 13: UCI Chamber Music Series
Jan. 14: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
Jan. 20: South Coast Symphony
Jan. 22: Children’s Theatre Co. of Minneapolis
Jan. 24-26: Hubbard Street Dance Co.
Jan. 30: Western Opera Theater doing “Lucia de Lammermoor”
Feb. 1, 2: UCI Orchestra
Feb. 3: Irvine Chinese School
Feb. 4: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Feb. 9: Irvine Camerata
Feb. 10: Mozart Camerata
Feb. 15-17: Irvine Civic Light Opera
Feb. 22-23: Irvine Civic Light Opera
Feb. 24: UCI Chamber Music Series
Feb. 25: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
March 1, 2: Irvine Ballet
March 10: Irvine Symphony
March 15-17: Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children
March 17: South Coast Symphony
March 19: Irvine Chamber Orchestra
March 21: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
March 22,23: Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children
March 24: Friends of Jewish Music
April 5: Broadway Celebration
April 6: Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway, duo-pianists
April 7: Mozart Camerata
April 8: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
April 12, 13: Ballet Pacifica
April 14: South Coast Symphony
April 14: UCI Chamber Music Series
April 17, 19, 21: UC Irvine Opera Scenes
April 25: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
April 27: Irvine Camerata
April 28: Irvine Symphony
May 3: San Francisco Mime Troupe doing “Seeing Double”
May 4: South Coast Chinese Cultural Assn.
May 5: Irvine Chamber Music Series
May 10, 11: UCI Orchestra
May 17, 18: UCI Dance International
May 19: Mozart Camerata
May 20: Orange County Chamber Orchestra
May 31: Ballet Pacifica
June 1: Ballet Pacifica
June 7, 8: UCI Orchestra
June 9: Irvine School of Dance
June 20-22: Irvine Academy of Performing Arts
July 12-14: Irvine Civic Light Opera
July 19, 20: Irvine Civic Light Opera
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