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UCLA Live Announces Its Eclectic 07/08 Design for Sharing Family Series Presenting a West Coast Premiere and Popular Favorites

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UCLA Live’s Program Series includes special family-friendly events for all ages. The 2007/08 Series will present award-winning family entertainment.  UCLA Live’s Design for Sharing Family Series is named for its acclaimed outreach program, Design for Sharing, one of the largest, most accomplished university-based outreach organizations in the country. Intended for children and their families to experience together, the 07/08 series boasts the West Coast premiere of an international circus-theater sensation starring Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, the triumphant return of a beloved Grammy-winning roots-rocker and a silent film comedy classic with live accompaniment on the magnificent Royce Hall grand pipe organ.
Designed by UCLA Live director and family-man David Sefton, the Family Series runs February through April 2008. It includes a matinee of the spellbinding “Aurelia’s Oratorio,” a theatrical concoction of illusion and fantasy featuring Aurelia Thierre and created by her mother, Victoria Thierre Chaplin, pioneers of the “new circus” which spawned the likes of Cirque du Soleil. Aurelia was also influenced by her brother, James Thierre, whose wildly successful “The Junebug Symphony” had two sold-out runs at UCLA Live. Back by popular demand, 21st century troubadour Dan Zanes makes his fourth UCLA Live appearance in a homespun hootenanny mixing blues and roots classics with pop and multi-cultural folk songs.

In the annual audience favorite Royce Hall Organ and Film program, an original interactive score will be performed to the silent-era comedy “Safety Last” starring screen legend Harold Lloyd in his famous clock sequence, one of the most enduring cinematic images of all time.
These performances will be held at Royce Hall or Freud Playhouse on the UCLA campus. Series and Choose-Your-Own subscriptions consist of multiple events sold at a discount when applicable, and are on sale now. Single tickets are on sale as of July 23 (July 16 for current subscribers and donors). Discounted ticket prices are available for kids 12 and under. To purchase tickets visit www.UCLALive.org or call         310-825-2101           .
 
UCLA LIVE’S 07/08 FAMILY EVENTS
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Royce Hall
Dan Zanes and Friends
Roots-rocker Dan Zanes, a 2006 Grammy-winner for “Best Musical Album for Children” and Parents’ Choice Gold Award recipient, creates family music that appeals to adults as much as kids. His rollicking Brooklyn-based band will be joined by special guests including local musicians from L.A.’s Latino community, in the spirit of his upcoming CD (in Spanish) highlighting the folk songs of Spanish-speaking Americans. Former leader of the legendary ’80s alt-rock band the Del Fuegos, Zanes’ music videos for children are in regular rotation on the Disney Channel’s “Playhouse Disney.”

Sunday, March 9, 2008, at 2 p.m., Royce Hall
Royce Hall Organ & Film—“Safety Last” (1923)
Starring Harold Lloyd
With live organ accompaniment

The grand Royce Hall Skinner organ accompanies the great silent film comedy “Safety Last,” starring the legendary Harold Lloyd and including one of the most famous images in cinematic history: Lloyd clutching the hands of a clock on the side of a skyscraper as he dangles above moving traffic. Regarded as the “third genius” of silent film comedy, Lloyd appeared in more than 200 films and performed many of his own daredevil feats. Full of white-knuckle stunts and brilliant visual gags, the film, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, is one of the American Film Institute’s “100 Most Thrilling American Films” and has been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

WEST COAST PREMIERE
Wednesday–Friday, April 9–11, 2008, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 12 at 2 and 8 p.m.; Freud Playhouse
“Aurelia’s Oratorio”
Directed and designed by Victoria Thierre Chaplin
Performed by Aurelia Thierre

Dreams come to life and the miraculous unfolds in the West Coast premiere of the international theater hit, “Aurelia’s Oratorio,” a dazzling combination of illusion, clowning, acrobatics and puppetry inspired by the magic of the music hall and circus. Sister of visionary ringmaster James Thierre—who last wowed UCLA Live audiences in two sold-out shows of his “The Junebug Symphony,” a surreal fusion of circus, theater and music—the bewitching Aurelia Thierre (Charlie Chaplin’s grand-daughter) evokes a similar topsy-turvy world of wonder in this spectacular production created for her by her mother, Victoria. Best suited for children age 9 through adult.

Tickets: Series and Choose-Your-Own subscriptions consist of multiple events sold at a discount when applicable, and are on sale now.  Single tickets are on sale as of July 23 (July 16 for current subscribers and donors). Discounted ticket prices are available for kids 12 and under. Tickets may be purchased online at www.UCLALive.org, via phone at         310-825-2101           , in person at the UCLA Central Ticket Office at the southwest corner of the James West Alumni Center, and at all Ticketmaster outlets.

UCLA Live’s Design for Sharing (DFS) has provided outstanding outreach programs in the performing arts for kids and the community since its creation in 1969. Supported by the generosity of dedicated individuals and annual memberships, DFS offers a range of programs including Demonstration Performances featuring UCLA Live artists for more than 25,000 school children annually, My Special World hands-on workshops for kindergarten to third grade and a tremendous Ticket Distribution program serving hundreds of social service and community organizations.

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Candice Courtney Mc Fadyen

Candice Courtney Mc Fadyen is currently studying Theatre and Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She is extremely active and outgoing. She enjoys theatre, writing, and music.