Public field trips at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
COVID-19
The Ordway has cancelled the student matinee performance of The Color Purple. Refunds will be given but will take longer than usual to process. The volunteer event organizer will disperse refunds as soon as she receives them. If you'd like to convert the cost of your tickets into a donation to the Ordway, please let the volunteer event organizer know via text message or email.
Music Theater
With larger than life characters and a soul-raising, Grammy-winning score of jazz, gospel,...
Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
COVID-19
The Ordway has cancelled all student matinee performances of Danu. Refunds will be given but will take longer than usual to process. The volunteer event organizer will disperse refunds as soon as she receives them. If you'd like to convert the cost of your tickets into a donation to the Ordway, please let the volunteer event organizer know via text message or email.
Concert Hall
Hailing from Counties Waterford, Cork, Dublin and Donegal, Danú is one of today’s leading traditional Irish...
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Concert Hall
Taiko is the Japanese word for drum, and refers to the modern style of playing: high-energy performance combining dance and martial arts with traditional Japanese percussion. HERbeat is a powerful celebration of gender equity in Taiko that puts women center stage!
Performance is 60 minutes.
A Study Guide in PDF format will be posted online 3 to 4 weeks prior the performance.
For more information, visit ordway.org/event/school-herbeat-taiko/.
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Ordway has had to cancel the Ragamala Dance Company school performance on Thursday, February 13th at 12pm. Refunds have been sent to all There are three additional student performances (that have not been cancelled). Those are Thu 13 Feb at 10am and Fri 14 Feb at 10am or 12pm. If you'd like to attend one of those, you may purchase tickets by calling the Ordway Education Hotline directly at 651-282-3115.
Music Theater
Based on the ancient Indian board game...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Music Theater
Music. Fire. Rain. Passion. And that’s just the opening number.
The sweeping, universal tale of Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl in search of her place in the world, and ready to risk it all for love. Guided by the mighty island gods, Ti Moune sets out on a remarkable journey to reunite with the man who has captured her heart. This Tony award-winning musical is a highly original and theatrical Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale, The Little Mermaid.
Based on the 1985...
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Ordway Concert Hall
From Dream Girls to Mean Girls, this installment of Ordway Cabaret takes on the songs and stories of musical theater’s most iconic female characters to critique and celebrate the portrayal of women on stage and behind the scenes through powerful performances and impactful stories with songs from Ragtime, Oklahoma, Waitress, and more! Featuring Christina Baldwin and a cast of Twin Cities-based female performers.
This performance may contain mature themes.
Performance is 90...
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Ordway Music Theater
Music & Movement Series
Back by popular demand! Black Violin is the exhilarating violin/viola hip-hop duo of classically trained musicians Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester and violist Wil “Wil B.” Baptiste. The two met as high school orchestra nerds; today they play genre-bending music, radically fusing hip-hop and pop with classical to create a kaleidoscope of sounds uniquely their own. The group is on a perception-changing, stereotype-shattering mission with their unique...
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Music Theater
Ride the wind and dream with Air Play, a modern spectacle that brings to life the very air we breathe. Flying umbrellas, larger-than-life balloons, giant kites floating over the audience, and the biggest snow globe you’ve ever seen will make you gasp in wonder and laugh until it hurts.
Air Play is a circus-style adventure of two siblings journeying through a surreal land of air, transforming the ordinary into objects of uncommon beauty. Fabrics dance in the wind, balloons have a...
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Ordway Concert Hall
The New Ordway Cabaret performances will feature local performers in a cabaret format, whose performances will question stereotypes and celebrate breaking barriers. The desire to please and provoke continues the tradition of writers like Shakespeare and Puccini, whose works Romeo and Juliet and La Bohème inspired the musicals West Side Story and Rent. In those musicals, and in South Pacific, Spring Awakening, La Cage aux Folles, and many others, the way relationships are...
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Ordway Music Theater
Broadway
Elf The Musical is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, a growing Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities finally cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and help New York remember the true meaning of...
