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Huntington schedule changes, plus more events and season schedules
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Huntington changes 2003-2004 Huntington subscribers and everyone else who goes to the theater (that’s all of you, right?), get out your calendars and listen closely. Jon Robin Raitz’s The Paris Letter, which was set to be the second of the Huntington’s six offerings for 2003-2004, has been "postponed indefinitely due to artists’ scheduling difficulties." In its place, we’ll get Simon Gray’s Butley, starring Nathan Lane, which had been scheduled as the fourth play on the Huntington bill; its dates are now October 24 through November 30. Filling the slot vacated by Butley is Theresa Rybeck’s Bad Dates, in which Julie White (Mitzi Dalton Huntley on HBO’s Six Feet Under) plays restaurant manager and shoe connoisseur Hayley Walker, who "relates a serious of hilarious tales" about re-entering the dating scene. It’ll run from January 2 through February 1. The rest of this season’s Huntington schedule remains as announced: Ain’t Misbehavin’ September 12 through October 19; As You Like It November 11 through December 21; Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw March 5 through April 4; and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo May 14 through June 13. For tickets and information, call (617) 266-0800 or drop by the Huntington box office at 264 Huntington Avenue; the Web site is www.bu.edu/huntington. José Mateo’s Ballet Theatre 2003-2004 José Mateo, the artistic director of José Mateo’s Ballet Theatre, Boston’s second-largest ballet company and school, has announced its 2003-2004 season. Up first, October 3 through 26, is "Undercurrents," which comprises The Last Circus, a 1990 work set to Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments that the company last performed in 1996; Courtly Lovers, which, set to Haydn’s "Surprise" Symphony (No. 94), premiered last spring; and a new José Mateo work set to music by Robert Schumann. That will be followed, November 28 through December 28, by the company’s annual production of The Nutcracker. The season will wrap up March 12 through April 25 with "The Cuban Condition," a new work by Mateo that promises "a modern perspective on Cuban hybridism and its interaction with contemporary classicism in ballet." José Mateo’s Ballet Theatre performs in the Sanctuary Theatre of Old Cambridge Baptist Church, in Harvard Square. For information and to purchase tickets, call (617) 354-7467. Fall for the Arts! We always thought it would be a good idea for the area’s major arts organizations to get together and offer a kind of fall mixer, but we never got around to mentioning it to any of them. Turns out they didn’t need our help. Fall for the Arts!, which is scheduled for Tuesday September 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Institute of Contemporary Art, will highlight the offerings of the American Repertory Theatre, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, First Night, the FleetBoston Celebrity Series, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Lyric Stage Company, the Museum of Fine Arts, North Shore Music Theatre, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Wang Center, and World Music. Wine, food, and entertainment are promised at this free event, and representatives from each organization will be on hand to tell you about their seasons and give out discounts and invitations to "behind the scenes" events. There’ll also be raffles throughout the evening; the grand prize, "A Year in the Arts," will award the lucky winner complimentary tickets to a different arts venue each month. As a bonus, you get to see the ICA’s "Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art," which will be up September 17 through January 4. This in-depth look at the influence of cartoons in contemporary art will showcase more than 60 works by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Renee Cox, Keith Haring, Arturo Herrera, Kerry James Marshall, Elizabeth Murray, Takashi Murakami, Roger Shimomura, and Andy Warhol. The ICA is at 955 Boylston Street; call (617) 266-5152. At long last Anna? This could be it: Anna Kournikova’s chance to win a tennis tournament. We’re not sure exactly who she’ll be playing, but she and Andre Agassi, who last time we checked was still ranked #1 in the world, will be showing up with Billie Jean King and Elton John for a charity event Thursday September 25 at the FleetCenter that will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the Massachusetts Community AIDS Partnership, which comprises the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and the AIDS Action Committee. A celebrity doubles match featuring Elton and Billie Jean will, we’re told, open the evening; no word as to their opponents (dare we hope for Mitt and Tom?). The action, which starts at 7:30 p.m., will follow the World Team Tennis format, but before that, beginning at 5:30 p.m., there’ll be a VIP reception in the FleetCenter’s Legends Restaurant, with both a silent and a live auction; offerings at the latter event, which will be conducted by Elton, Billie Jean, and the players, will include tickets for two sessions of the 2004 US Open with round-trip airfare for two and accommodation in New York City; Billie Jean King’s "personal seats at Wimbledon" for the men’s and women’s finals with two nights’ accommodation and round-trip business-class airfare for two to London; a tennis racquet signed by Andre Agassi; and an autographed Elton John piano bench. Tickets for the evening of tennis are $25, $50, $75, and $100 and may be purchased at the FleetCenter box office or at Ticketmaster locations or by calling Ticketmaster at (617) 931-2000 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. The VIP ticket package, which includes premier seating and admission to the reception, is available through the Massachusetts Community AIDS Partnership for $300; call (617) 509-9412. Longwood Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004 Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic won’t have Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony all to themselves next year (part of their all-Mahler 2003-2004 season), since the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Francisco Noya, have announced that they too will be performing the work, on April 24, with soprano Diana McVey, mezzo-soprano Alexandra Montano, and the New World Chorale. It’ll be an ambitious season finale for the Longwood, whose members are physicians, hospital staff, and medical students from the Boston area’s hospitals and medical schools, and whose concerts all benefit charitable organizations. Longwood’s 2003-2004 season will kick off on November 1 with a program of Waves, by Berklee College of Music composer-in-residence Vuk Kulenovic, the Dvorák Cello Concerto, with Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Mihail Jojatu, and Richard Strauss’s Tod und Verklärung. That concert will benefit Boston’s Healthcare for the Homeless. The Beethoven concert on December 6 will benefit the Hospitality Program: Italian pianist Maurizio Barboro will be the soloist in the First Piano Concerto, and the LSO will play the Eroica Symphony. Michael Appleman will be the soloist on March 14 in the Sibelius Violin Concerto; rounding out the program, whose beneficiary will be the Dimock Community Health Center, is Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. The Resurrection season finale will benefit the Fenway Community Health Center. All concerts will begin at 8 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street. Season tickets are $75 ($50 for seniors and students); single tickets are $20 ($15 for seniors and students). Call the LSO at (617) 332-7011 or Jordan Hall at (617) 536-2412. Zeitgeist Piano Marathon Got 13 hours you don’t know what to do with? Head over to the Zeitgeist Gallery, in Inman Square, where on Saturday September 13, from noon to 1 a.m., the Fishlung Piano Series will present the gallery’s second annual piano festival. Organized by Gill Aharon, the Zeitgeist’s resident pianist, and making use of his seven-foot grand piano, which occupies the center of the gallery, the festival will showcase a variety of local talents and styles that are expected to include David Maxwell, Greg Burk, Vardan Ovsepian, Gabriel Guererro, Malone’s Trio, Joe Della Penna, Daniel Blake, John McDonald, Dan DeChellis, Manisha Shahane, Steve Lantner, Kobi Arad, Jacques Chanier, Daniela Schaechter, Thomas Luther, Dean Marcellana, Hans Poppel, Gordon Beeferman, and Michael McLaughlin. Visual artist Kristen Mills will paint throughout the evening performances. Your festival pass will allow you to drop in and out during the day, and if you get hungry, you can use it to get a discount on food at the neighboring Druid pub. The Fishlung Piano Series itself is a new-music showcase held at the Zeitgeist on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month; hosted by the Gill Aharon Trio, it focuses on improvised and composed acoustic music centered on the piano. The Zeitgeist is at 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, and the requested festival-pass donation is $10, $5 for children age five and up and for seniors, free for children under five and dogs. For information, call (617) 876-6060 or visit www.zeitgeist-gallery.org.
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