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Carl Michael Magic & Illusion
Saturday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, October 22 at 3:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets The art of magic is making the impossible possible. To bring the audience out of their everyday world and connect them to what lies beyond. Surprise, shock and astonishment are simply the means to a greater goal: to awaken the sense of mystery and awe that lies dormant in all of us. For millennia, the secrecy, inexplicably and mystery of magic and illusion have enraptured mankind, tapping into the primal human yearning to pierce the veil of reality. In every...
read moreMeredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN
Friday, June 16 at 7:00 p.m. & Saturday June 17 at 7:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets The historic Ariel Opera House presents the Ariel Players in The Music Man. The Music Man is the classic musical written by Meredith Willson and is loosely based on his small town upbringing. Con man Harold Hill comes to Iowa in 1912 to sell band instruments and uniforms to the unsuspecting residents of River City. Marion, the librarian and piano teacher, sees right through him but eventually falls for his charms when he helps her younger brother overcome his...
read moreThe Ariel’s Summer Tuba-Time! 2017
Monday, July 3, 2017 at 4:00pm Click Here to Pre-Register Now! Tuba and Euphonium players of all ages can come join the fun! Musicians will meet at the Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre at 4:00 p.m. for an on-stage rehearsal. Summer Tuba-Time music books will be available for purchase ($15 incl. tax) at rehearsal. Monday, July 3, 2017 at 7:30pm FREE CONCERT! – 7:30 p.m. at the City Park No tickets required. A fun time to be had by all! Join us at the 2017 River Recreation in Gallipolis City Park to celebrate Independence Day...
read moreDREW HASTINGS- Comedian, Mayor, Farmer & Author
Friday, July 14 at 7:00 p.m. Purchase Tickets Join the Ariel Opera House in welcoming the most unlikely farmer and Mayor you’ve ever met, Drew Hastings. As a Comedian, Drew Hastings has been a well-known standup for 20-plus years with television comedy specials, Tonight Show appearances, and a regular favorite on the National Bob & Tom Radio Show. As a Farmer. A lifelong, loft living, city dweller, he left Los Angeles at age 50 to take up farming in rural Ohio which he describes as “Farmageddon”. As Mayor: he was just...
read moreAuditions for “The Music Man”
Auditions for The Music Man Saturday, February 18, 2017 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.The historic Ariel Opera House is pleased to announce the formation of The Ariel Singers who, along with The Ariel Children’s Chorus, plan to present Meredith Willson’s hit musical The Music Man — this season marking it’s 50th Anniversary. This Tony award winning Broadway musical and Oscar winning movie is about a con man (Robert Preston) coming to a small midwestern town to sell band instruments and uniforms to unsuspecting parents, but falls...
read moreTHE STORY OF JOHN GEE: The Ariel’s Black History Celebration
Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.Free admission ~ donations accepted.The Story of John Gee, Hero of Gallipolis, is presented as part of the Ariel Opera House’s celebration of Black History month. Gee was born in Cincinnati in 1798 and came to Gallipolis between 1818 and 1822 as a free African American. Intelligent, industrious, hard-working and gifted in several areas, Gee built up his business building fine houses (some of which are still standing today), raised a large family, was active in his church and was a philanthropist. He...
read moreAddison Coldren Art Exhibition
Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.Free admission ~ donations accepted.The Ariel’s Artists and Authors Series welcomes local artist Addison Coldren who will be talking and answering questions about her works. Her eye for the “small worlds” in nature is incorporated into her art – from silver jewelry design to photography. Addison’s exhibit will feature several mordançage prints, a photographic process used to manipulate emulsion, as well as paintings, ceramics, and silver jewelry.Addison is a senior at Wittenberg University in...
read moreJUDY! Garland, Joan Ellison, Vocalist
March 25, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Purchase Concert Tickets Joan Ellison has been praised for her “vocal prowess….[and] organic grasp of the classic songs” by Michael Feinstein, and “possess[ing] a crystalline voice that never stops” (Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer). She has been performing Garland tunes with symphony orchestras and in theaters for several years, but the 2016 TheatreZone (Naples, Florida) production of The Boy From Oz marked the first time she had ever actually played Judy. In June 2016, she will make her NYC...
read moreO.O. McIntyre Book Signing with Author R. Scott Williams
Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. Free admission ~ donations accepted. Author Scott Williams will be holding a book signing as part of the Ariel’s Artists and Authors Series for the new release of his story of Gallipolis native O. O. McIntyre titled An Odd Book at the Ariel Opera House where copies of his book will be available for sale. Scott will be talking and answering questions about his work. This comprehensive book tells the story of Odd McIntyre who achieved great fame and fortune in New York in the early decades of the...
read moreThe Homecoming, Philip Armstrong, tenor
April 22, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Purchase Concert Tickets A native of Bidwell Ohio, Philip Keith Armstrong’s musical interest began as a young child singing the National Anthem, a capella, at all the home football & basketball games at area high schools & colleges. He was awarded two full-time Presidential Scholarships to Shenandoah College & Conservatory of Music in VA and Central State University in Wilberforce, OH. Mr. Armstrong earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Akron. As a soloist he has...
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