Join UCI Staff Assembly & the Claire Trevor School of the Arts as they present select performances for UCI Staff. Fifty complimentary tickets have been set aside for UCI Medical Center staff to attend one of the performances listed below. To reserve complimentary tickets go to the UCI Arts Promo Site and use the Promo Code that was emailed out to you via ZotMail (email subject: Night at the Arts – Featuring “Dance Escape” and “Sweet Smell of Success”). If you don’t have access to the code, please contact us with your email address, and we can send it to you.
Requests will be filled in the order they are received, while supplies last. Free tickets must be ordered in pairs (sorry no single ticket orders). Limit 2 tickets per Staff member.
For public ticket prices and additional information on the Claire Trevor School of the Arts performances please call 949-824-2787 or visit their website.
Dance Escape
April 16-18, 2015
Chad Michael Hall, Artistic Director
Join us for a multi-disciplined program of exciting dance works, including original choreography by nine graduate students from CTSA’s Department of Dance.
Sweet Smell of Success
May 30-June 6, 2015
Myrona DeLaney, Director
Andrew Palermo, Choreographer
Daniel Gary Busby, Musical Director/Conductor
Sweet Smell of Success (Music by the late Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics by Craig Carnelia, Book by John Guare, 2002). In celebration of the life of the late American music theater composer Marvin Hamlisch, Sweet Smell of Success begins thus: Good Evening, Mr. and Mrs. America. It’s New York, 1952. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour capital of the universe. The show is based on the 1957 movie of the same name, which tells the story of a powerful newspaper columnist named J.J. Hunsecker (a dramatic interpretation of New York columnist Walter Winchell) who uses his power and connections to ruin his sister’s relationship with a man he deems inappropriate. Sweet Smell dapples with the taboo subject of sibling incest, or, at very least sibling erotic attachment and jealousy. Set against a backdrop of the elegant and glamorous 1950’s New York, various geometric love situations are served up sumptuously in a glorious jazz score that serves to underpin both the longing, the desperation, the deceit and the sweet lovemaking and death for which New York High Society is infamous.
