By Mille Appleton
Photo by Stephen Ironside
Come one, come all! The Walton Arts Center is offering student discounts for spring shows, beginning with “The Drowsy Chaperone” Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Seeking to cure his “non-specific sadness”, the main character listens to a recording of his favorite fictional musical “The Drowsy Chaperone” and is transported into the musical himself complete with over-the-top costumes, painted backdrops and sparkling furniture.
Half-price tickets are available for “The Drowsy Chaperone”, though each show has a different discount.
Cyro Baptista’s “Banquet of the Spirits”, an exploration of jazz and other melodies from the Middle East, Africa and India, has $10 tickets available for Feb. 6.
To buy tickets, students can order them online on the WAC Web site using the student promo code found at www.waltonartscenter.org/student_discounts, or order them over the phone or at the box office.
When attending the show or picking up tickets students must present a student ID with a limit of two tickets per show per ID.
Other shows for the spring semester include “One Night of Queen”, a 2-hour concert celebrating the legendary rock band performed by Gary Mullen and ‘The Works’, Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific”, a beautiful love story set on a tropical island during WWII, and the ever-popular “Grease”, starring American Idol’s Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel.