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Welcome to our 2001-2002 Performing Arts Series. From the dance of Australia to the music of Mali, South Africa, this year's season is bound to include a new experience around every corner. Join us for a thrilling season of theatre, art, music and dance!

So click around our new website! Give us a call, or reserve your tickets on-line at any time day or night, and then get ready to sit back, relax, and watch the curtain rise on a whole new fine arts encounter. Learn more about each group by clicking on their photos to the right. 

Seven Nations 
Friday, September 28 @ 7:30 p.m.
For the past nine years, Seven Nations has won over audiences worldwide with their truly hybrid sound. Their equally at home in front of 40,000 fans at an International Celtic Festival or as subjects of their own PBS Special. Don't miss the band often described as the Dave Matthew's Band with bagpipes.
Tickets: $7 Adults, $6 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $5 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free  

Rhythm Ranch: Fall Musical  
Thursday-Sunday, October 18-21
This rip-roaring "Singing-Western" musical is full of slapstick comedy and country music that's sure to inspire you to laugh and tap your feet at the same time. In the true tradition of melodrama, the ultimate question is: Will the ranch be saved or not?" There is a hero, a villain and a damsel in distress all wrapped up in a story about a wish you can make come true. 
Tickets: $9 Adults, $8 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $7 Students, and SAU Students with current valide student ID are free

Bangarra Dance 
Saturday, November 3 @ 7:30 p.m. (Parents Weekend) 
Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of the youngest and the oldest of Australia's dance companies, dating its living traditions at least 40,000 years with the indigenous people of Australia, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. This special USA tour follows their exciting performances in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. 
Tickets: $15 Adults, $12 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $10 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free

Winnie the Pooh: Children's Musical 
Saturday-Sunday, December 1-2 
Join us for a great adventure with buzzing bees and honey. What could be sweeter than an afternoon with Christopher Robin and all his cuddly friends? Dramatized from the stories of A.A. Milne, this classic musical tale is sure to be a hit with our younger audiences. 
Tickets: $6 Adults; $5 Faculty, Staff, Alumni, Senior Citizens, Students and Children; SAU Students with current valid student ID are free

A Klezmer Expedition: Double Bill Concert 
Friday, February 1 @ 7:30 p.m. 
Celebrate the evening with a fascinating mosaic of songs with the Gerard Edery Ensemble and the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, featuring the passionate singing in Ladino, Hebrew, and Yiddish music grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary. The concert is sure to be delicate and refined, yet exuberant and foot-stomping. 
Tickets: $10 Adults, $8 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $6 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free

How I Learned to Drive: Play 
ADULT CONTENT
Friday-Sunday, February 22-24 
Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a surprising and devastating tale of survival. The play explores the troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man, whose driving lessons "extend beyond the rules of the road." Uncle Peck's lessons are a slow, meticulous and caring seduction in a play that brilliantly defies thematic conventions.
Tickets: $8 Adults, $7 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $6 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free

Rokia Traore 
Saturday, March 23 @ 7:30 p.m. 
A new diva is due to arrive in America this year and she is coming to the Galvin Center! Quickly establishing herself as the voice of the new generation of African artists, you are sure to be enthralled by her elegance, strength, yet intimate and delicate voice. 
Tickets: $10 Adults, $7 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $6 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free

Macbeth 
MATURE SUBJECT MATTER
Thursday-Saturday, April 11-13 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." St. Ambrose's theatre department is brewing up Shakespeare's timeless classic Macbeth. Don't miss this ride through rivalry, passion, murder and mystery. 
Tickets: $8 Adults, $7 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, $6 Students, and SAU Students with current valid student ID are free