Entries from April 1, 2012 - April 30, 2012

Monday
Apr302012

Fear Not!

"CATS: Behind the Curtain" featuring Rain (and Biscuits the cat)

Fear not!  No Blue Meanies will attack you during Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles.  
However, if they do, just remind them that "all you need is love."  See you at the show!

Rain is playing May 1-6 in TPAC's Jackson Hall.  Visit tpac.org/rain for details and tickets.

What's a Blue Meanie? Click here to find out.

– Jennifer

Thursday
Apr262012

Nutty Professor musical puts Nashville in national spotlight

News of our hosting the world premiere of The Nutty Professor musical directed by Jerry Lewis garnered some great press hits for TPAC and Nashvillle.  Check it out:

New York Times

Variety

Playbill

Los Angeles Times

Tuesday
Apr172012

Musical City?

 

What’s Musical City anyway? It’s the new brand campaign for our 2012-13 HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC Series. Yes, Nashville is world-renowned as “Music City”. So we designed Musical City to give musical theater some elbow room at the table, and to put TPAC amongst the great live music venues in this town.

Did you know there was a time when musical theater was a main source of pop songs? While that’s no longer the case, musical theater is still relevant with melodies and lyrics as touching and funny as any written. In a city where great music permeates, musical theater maintains a residence here, too. So our theme and graphic approach to the season was to not take the lazy route and call it a “royal” season (or some other cheap pun or easy graphic based on The Lion King). We instead took a step back, reflected on what TPAC is, and what we contribute to the performing arts/entertainment landscape of our community. Our team brainstormed…concepted…came up with good (and bad) ideas. The final result is here. We played with sound wave graphics, adjusted them to play homage to Nashville’s skyline, and added a sunny “al” (with a marquee light vibe) to the famed Music City moniker.

In the end, our goal was to make you slightly reconsider what Music City means to you. Did we succeed? Let us know.

-Steve