Coming Events At The Tivoli Theatre And Memorial Auditorium

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Black Jacket Symphony performs Hotel California

Tivoli Theatre

Friday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 pm EDT

Back by popular demand! The Black Jacket Symphony performs the Eagles' Hotel California in its entirety. This network of top-notch musicians reproduce classic albums in a live environment, spending an enormous amount of time, energy and resources to perform the album in its entirety—note for note—with first-rate lighting and video production. All seats reserved at $25 and $30 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com and at the Auditorium box office. Call (423) 642-TIXS or 757-5050.

Closed Door Entertainment Presents Grease

Tivoli Theatre
Fri-Sat, September 14-15 at 7:30 pm EDT
Sunday, September 16 at 2:00 pm
Closed Door Entertainment, a non-professional theatre troupe from north Georgia, presents this classic high-energy 1950s nostalgic musical. All seats reserved from $20 to $28.50 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office and online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com. Call (423) 642-TIXS or 757-5050.

CSO Season Premiere: Heroes—Napoleon to Superman

Tivoli Theatre

Saturday, September 22 at 8:00 pm EDT

This grand Opening Night concert features performances of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, originally dedicated to French hero Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Metropolis Symphony by American composer Michael Daugherty, whose music is heavily influenced by pop culture—in this case Superman! Tickets are available now at the CSO box office and online at chattanoogasymphony.org. Call the CSO box office at (423) 267-8583.

Sister Act

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium

Tuesday-Wednesday, September 25-26 at 7:30 pm EDT

Broadway's feel-amazing musical comedy smash, launching nationally from Chattanooga! Sister Act tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a wannabe disco diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a crime and the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look—a convent! All seats reserved from $32.50 to $57.50 plus convenience fees. $20 discount for age 17 and under. Presented by TAPA. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

Carl Hurley & Jeanne Robertson
Tivoli Theatre
Tuesday, October 2 at 2:00 pm EDT
DOUBLE FUNNY Tour 2012! These two stars of Sirius/XM satellite comedy radio go together like sausage and grits, sunshine and flowers, George and Gracie. Their side-splitting stories will lighten your heart, lift your spirit, and tickle your funny bone. For tickets call toll free (800) 955-4746 or email sue@carlhurley.com.

CSO Pops: The Beatles' Revolver & Rubber Soul
Tivoli Theatre
Saturday, October 6 at 8:00 pm EDT
CSO favorites JEANS 'N' CLASSICS return to perform some of the Beatles' greatest hits! Voted #3 and #5 in Rolling Stones' Top 500 albums of all time, Revolver and Rubber Soul include classics like Eleanor Rigby, Girl, What Goes On and of course, Yellow Submarine. Tickets are available now at the CSO box office and online at chattanoogasymphony.org. Call the CSO box office at (423) 267-8583.

Eric Church in Concert
Tivoli Theatre
Monday-Tuesday, October 8-9 at 7:30 pm EDT
For his first ever live album, ERIC CHURCH will record back-to-back concerts at the Tivoli Theatre. Be part of this country music mega-event—who knows, you may be seen on Eric’s concert DVD! Tickets are $37.50 and $47.50 plus convenience fees. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday, Sept. 14 at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

Mike Epps: I'm Still Standing Tour
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
Saturday, October 13 at 8:00 pm EDT
This stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer and rapper is best known for playing "Day-Day Jones" in Next Friday and its sequels, and also appearing in The Hangover, as "Black Doug." All seats reserved from $39.50 to $46.50 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

CSO Masterworks: Beethoven & Brahms
Tivoli Theatre
Saturday, October 20 at 8:00 pm EDT

Special guest pianist Alexander Schimpf joins the CSO for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, a standard classic in piano-orchestral repertoire. Also featuring Overture to the Magic Flute by Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major by Beethoven, and Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73 by Brahms. Tickets are available now at the CSO box office and online at chattanoogasymphony.org. Call the CSO box office at (423) 267-8583.

A Song for the Children featuring Vince Gill
Tivoli Theatre
Friday, October 26 at 8:00 pm EDT

Annual benefit concert for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hamilton County. Tickets go on sale at 10am on September 17th at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.


LATER SHOWS ON SALE NOW AT MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM BOX OFFICE 

Comedian Ron White: Moral Compass Tour
Tivoli Theatre

Sunday, November 4 at 7:00 pm EST
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
Comedian Ron "Tater Salad" White, best known as the cigar smoking, scotch drinking funnyman from the "Blue Collar Comedy" phenomenon returns to Chattanooga with his new stand-up show Moral Compass. All seats reserved from $44.75 to $54.75 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

Thomas Friedman Lecture
Tivoli Theatre
Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00 pm EST
FREE ADMISSION
The George T. Hunter lecture series welcomes the renowned author, reporter, and columnist—the recipient of 3 Pulitzer Prizes and the author of 6 bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat. Sponsored by the Benwood Foundation and UTC.

Randy Owen in Concert
Tivoli Theatre
Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 pm EST
Come celebrate the Mary Ellen Locher Foundation's 10th Anniversary with Ft. Payne's own Randy Owen, former lead singer with the group Alabama, in this Pink Carpet Country Celebration! All seats reserved at $51.50 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

Sesame Street Live! Elmo Makes Music
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
Friday-Sunday, November 23-25 - 5 SHOWS!
Mark your calendar for a musical event like no other—monsters making music! Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and all their Sesame Street friends are taking to the stage to share their love of music in Sesame Street Live Elmo Makes Music. All seats reserved from $12 to $28, with a limited number of “Sunny Seats” available at $50. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office, online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com, or call (423) 642-TIXS.

Closed Door Entertainment presents A Christmas Carol
Tivoli Theatre
Friday-Saturday, November 23-24 at 7:30 pm EST
Sunday, November 25 at 2:00 pm

Closed Door Entertainment, a non-professional theatre troupe from north Georgia, presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic. All seats reserved from $20 to $28.50 plus convenience fees. Tickets are on sale now at the Auditorium box office and online at ChattanoogaOnStage.com. Call (423) 642-TIXS or 757-5050.


Pro-Rodeo In Cleveland Is Friday, Saturday

The Pro-Rodeo is coming to Tri-State Exhibition Center Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Cowboys and cowgirls from across the region will rope, race and ride, hoping to have the fastest time of the night. Spectator will enjoy barrel racing, team and individual calf roping and bull riding.  There will also be a rodeo clown and mechanical bull rides. The kids' area includes ... (click for more)

Tobacco Free Chattanooga Commends Friends Of The Festival

Tobacco Free Chattanooga commends the decision by Friends of the Festival to designate smoking zones for the 2013 Riverbend Festival. The Festival’s recent policy change on the website states,  "Riverbend has designated smoking areas. Please refrain from smoking unless you are in one of seven areas designated for smokers ."   Officials said, "The new policy ... (click for more)

Head Of BB&T's Chattanooga Commercial Banking Operations To Plead Guilty To Making Fraudulent Loans

The head of BB&T's Chattanooga commercial banking operations has been charged by federal authorities with making fraudulent loans. Tracy Brown is set to plead guilty to bank fraud on June 4. Authorities said Brown "appropriated the identities of three customers and took out fraudulent loans in their names. In October 2012, a customer of BB&T, D.M., went to the Ooltewah ... (click for more)

Green Infrastructure Master Plan Underway For Chattanooga

LDA Engineering has been selected to lead the team to develop and recommend a green infrastructure master plan for the city of Chattanooga to complement traditional “gray” infrastructure, namely man-made sewer and stormwater structures, with sustainable green alternatives, officials said Wednesday.   “We are honored to be selected to develop Chattanooga’s green infrastructure ... (click for more)

Thanks, Sheriff

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department is very responsive and professional out in Apison, and I appreciate that.  We have some fine deputies serving Hamilton County.    I took a minute to call and tell them thank you, I hope my neighbors will also. Brian Wood Apison (click for more)

Roy Exum: Hypocrisy And Horses

I am still wincing over the fact a horrendous bill passed in the state legislature that would make whistle-blowers into criminals would have actually gone into law had it not been for Governor Bill Haslam’s eleventh-hour veto. Called the “Ag-Gag bill,” similar efforts in other states have also soured because it is no more than a Catch-22 trick to protect those who abuse animals, ... (click for more)