Beverly Hills – The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces its Inaugural Season beginning with performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company, which opens the Goldsmith Theater on November 8 and 9, 2013, followed by the play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo, adapted by E. P. Dowdall and directed by Mark Brokaw, from November 26 to December 22, 2013. The romantic tale Parfumerie inspired the films The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, as well as the Broadway musical She Loves Me. As a special program, an exhibition on perfume entitled Timeless Scents: 1370-2013, a history of iconic fragrances through the ages is being created especially for The Wallis by Chandler Burr, former New York Times scent critic.
Program:
- Martha Graham Dance Company
- A new production of Parfumerie, by Miklos Laszlo, adapted by E.P. Dowdall, and directed by Mark Brokaw
- From England, Kneehigh Theatre’s celebrated production of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter
- Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward
- Frederica von Stade in A Coffin in Egypt, west coast premiere of new chamber opera with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Leonard Foglia
- Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Through Life
- E.B. White’s The Trumpet of the Swan adapted by Marsha Norman, with music by Jason Robert Brown
- Jessica Lang Dance in their West Coast debut
- Ballet Jazz de Montreal
- Scotland’s internationally renowned children’s theater companies: Visible Fictions and Catherine Wheels Theatre Company
- Baseball Swing with The All-Star Baseball Jazz Band: A Musical Event in conjunction with the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Concerts by St. Lawrence String Quartet, Rueibin Chen and Ramin Bahrami
- ComposersLA On Stage collaboration with Sundance Institute Film Music Program