Kravis Center Kicks Off 2012 With A Smash Line-Up

(Dennis Miller Is Pictured)

Kravis Center Kicks Off 2012 with a Month-Long Line-Up of Superior Entertainment  

+ Comedy by Jackie Mason & Dennis Miller

+ Hit Shows Like ELVIS LIVES, HAIR

& Neil Berg's 103 YEARS OF BROADWAY

+ World Premiere of DIVORCE PARTY: THE MUSICAL

+ Classic Music from Joshua Bell & Hye-Jin Kim,

Cleveland Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

+ Pop Hits by B.B. King, The Lennon Sisters & The Nylons

+ High Kicks from The State Ballet Theatre of Russia

+ Magical Memories with Larry King & More 

'Celebrating 20 Years of Artistic Excellence and Commitment to the Community' 

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts kicks-off 2012 with another line-up of top-drawer talent & powerhouse performances: 

JANUARY 2012: 

January 1 – 8 p.m.  (Sunday)

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 2012!

"Salute to Vienna"

The Strauss Symphony of America

Imre Kollár, Conductor (Budapest)

Monica Mosser, Soprano (Vienna)

Joachim Moser, Tenor (Vienna)

Dancers from Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine

And International Champion Ballroom Dancers

Welcome the New Year with Salute to Vienna, a genuine recreation of Vienna's world famous "Neuhahrskonzert," now a Kravis Center tradition. This simultaneously produced concert series has inspired diehard romantics all over North America for the past 17 years. Always a festive event, featuring a brilliant live cast of over 75 musicians, stellar European singers and dancers in beautiful costumes. A wonderful way to celebrate the joy and hope the New Year brings. Favorite Strauss waltzes, polkas and famous operetta excerpts - a lighthearted New Year's tradition everyone can enjoy.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall

Tickets start at $27

(Presented by the Kravis Center and Attila Glatz Concert Productions, Inc.) 

January 2 – 8 p.m.  (Monday)

B.B. King

Universally hailed as "King of the Blues," time has no apparent effect on the single most important electric guitarist of the last half-century, other than to make him more popular, more cherished and more relevant than ever.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall

Tickets start at $25 

January 3 – 8 p.m.   (Tuesday)

Linda Eder and Steve Tyrell

Linda Eder, star of Jekyll & Hyde, Drama Desk award nominee and one of the great contemporary voices of our time, continues to captivate audiences across the country with a diverse repertoire that spans Broadway, standards, pop, country and jazz. With a style and voice that recalls paragons such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, Grammy® Award-winner Steve Tyrell has become a leading standard bearer of the Great American Songbook.

Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.

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