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Four things to do in KC this weekend
The cast of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City's "The Pirates of Penzance" take to the seas during a performance.
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"The Pirates of Penzance" @ The Kauffman Center
The Kauffman Center audience will travel the high seas this Saturday at 7:30 p.m., as the Lyric Opera of Kansas City will perform "The Pirates of Penzance."
According to the Lyric Opera, the show will feature lyrics with high energy, colorful sets and more. "The Pirates of Penzance" will be conducted by Hal France, who conducts shows around the globe, with music written by 19th century
composer Arthur Sullivan.
The show features a pirate named Frederic, played by Jonathan Johnson, who falls in love, but must stay true to his pirate ways. "The Pirates of Penzance" runs for an approximate two hours and 15 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.
Tickets can be purchased at the Lyric Opera's website, starting at $50.
Dan + Shay @ The Midland
The musical duo Dan + Shay will stop at the Midland Friday at 8 p.m. on their "Obsessed Tour."
According to the Midland, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney make up the country music duo that debuted together in 2014. Their debut album, "Where It All Began," reached No.1 on Billboard's Country Album Chart. The duo is best known for their singles "Nothin' Like You" and "19 You + Me." Dan + Shay are touring after the 2016 release of their newest album, "Obsessed," which peaked on Billboard's Country Album Chart at No.2.
Tickets can be purchased for Friday night's show on the Midland's website for $25.
I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard' @ The Unicorn Theatre
A two-actor show will take the stage at the Unicorn Theatre starting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. for the opening weekend of "I'm Gonna Pray for You so Hard."
According to the Unicorn Theatre, the show will focus on a father, played by Theodore Swetz, and his daughter, played by Dina Thomas, who wants to make her father proud. Swetz is a famous playwright, and Thomas is an up-and-coming off-broadway actor.
Both actors have performed in previous productions at the Unicorn Theatre; Swetz in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" and Thomas in "Bad Jews."
Tickets for the show can be purchased and a schedule of showtimes can be found at the Unicorn Theatre website. Ticket prices start at $30.
'Round About Midnight' @ The Kauffman Center
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra will close out its 2016-2017 season with their performance of "Round About Midnight"
Friday, April 21, at 8 p.m. at the Kauffman Center.
According to the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra will tribute two jazz artists who helped make the music style what it is today trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane. The orchestra will perform their own renditions of the two artists' works, including "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "On Green Dolphin Street." Along with those two works, the Orchestra will perform other classics by the artists.
Tickets for Friday night's show can be purchased at the Kauffman Center website, starting at $26.50.
Bob Schieffer to accept award on behalf of Charlie Rose
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William Allen White Day is an annual ceremony that honors University students and well-known journalists. This year's keynote and ceremony will take place on April 20 at 3 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Bob Schieffer, a retired journalist for CBS known for his work on "Face the Nation," will open the ceremony with a Q&A interview, according to a press release from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Schieffer is attending the event in place of Charlie Rose, the host and executive editor of Bloomberg's "Charlie Rose," PBS's
"Charlie Rose: The Week" and co-anchors "CBS This Morning." Rose is receiving this year's William Allen White National Citation award and was set to be the keynote speaker, but cannot attend due to health reasons.
Schieffer said that he thinks Rose deserves this award because he has
carved out a unique place in American journalism.
"What I have always liked about his interviews is he listens, which is the key to interviewing," Schieffer said. "He has become a status symbol, for people to be asked to be on Rose's show, and he has continued to do that since coming to CBS."
Schieffer said he is looking forward to coming to the University and is happy to do this for Rose, with whom he has been friends for 30 years.
Ann Brill, the dean of journalism, said the recipient of the event's award is chosen by the William Allen White Foundation Board of Trustees through a voting process.
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Schieffer said Rose, who has interviewed figures like Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, has been a tremendous asset to CBS.
"It gives me the opportunity to come and see the students and, for me, getting to come and talk is kind of like my focus group," he said. "I get to find out what is on the students' minds."
["Rose] is literally known around the world, not just by people in the entertainment world or the American news world,"
career spanning a number of decades and the work he does," Brill said. "It's a great honor because there are many prestigious people on that list and if you look at the list of people who have won this award, it's a really impressive group of people."
Schieffer said.
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"The Board talked about things like Rose's amazing
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Bob Schieffer will be accepting the William Allen White Award on behalf of Charlie Rose.
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