4/27: In the Mood with Dean Mora and His Orchestra

IN THE MOOD

Big Band Concert

Featuring:

DEAN MORA AND HIS ORCHESTRA

One evening only!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

7:30 - 9:00 PM

Dean brings his 15-piece big band to the acclaimed Colony Theatre in downtown Burbank for a concert program of classic big band tunes of the 1930s & 1940s, including: "In the Mood," "Laura," "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Moonlight Serenade," "All or Nothing at All," plus rarely performed tunes like "Rosie the Riveter," and "Any Bonds Today?". Featured vocalists include Kayre Morrison, Damon Kirsche, and The Lindy Sisters!

Toby Holmes, Matt Germaine, Damon Kirsche, Jim Jedeikin (Photo: Dean Mora, Colony Theatre)

Dean Mora & His Orchestra
The Colony Theatre

555 North Third Street

Burbank, California, 91502

(818) 558-7000

Ticket prices range from $20 to $30. To purchase online, click here.

More details and ticket info can be found at the Colony Theatre website.

For more information about Dean Mora and His Orchestra, visit www.morasmodern.com.

"A Passing Wind"—Photos

From our final dress rehearsal of "A Passing Wind," at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts: (Costumes: Anna Frangiosa, Photography: Sandy Flint)

The company of "A Passing Wind": Jered McLenigan (Satie), Ian Bedford (Henri Oller), Maureen Torsney-Weir (Bernhardt), Laura Catlaw (Angèle Thibodeau) and Leah Walton (Elizabeth Pujol).

"Baking our bread daily, making our daily bread," Leah Walton as Elizabeth Pujol and Damon Kirsche as Joseph Pujol

Joseph Pujol (Damon Kirsche) debuts his legendary act for patrons of the Moulin Rouge.

Joseph (Damon Kirsche) and Elizabeth (Leah Walton) backstage. 

Pujol (Damon Kirsche) and Oller (Ian Beford) interrupt Angèle's new act "La Femme Pétomane."

And a few shots of an earlier dress rehearsal:

The Moulin Rouge salutes France at the outbreak of WWI:
Ian Bedford as Henri Oller, Damon Kirsche as Joseph Pujol,  Laura Catlaw as Angèle Thibodeau.

Joseph Pujol, AKA "Le Petomane" (Damon Kirsche) blasts Angèle (Laura Catlaw),
who stands in reluctantly as a German soldier.

Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir)  explains the ephemeral yet eternal beauty of Theatre to Pujol (Damon Kirsche): "Life begets life, chemistry begets chemistry, it's only by spending oneself that one becomes rich."