Ever wonder how the Passport to the Arts performances are selected each season? Usually it begins back in those 90 degree July days and there are spreadsheets involved. Not even kidding–the process gives me renewed and great appreciation for the pros who do this on a grand scales all year.
Sometimes the season begins in the middle – and I’m pretty sure this time I saw the IRT‘s 2015-2016 season schedule first. To Kill a Mockingbird caught my attention only a shade before the listings for The Great Gatsby, and a world-premier of April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream. The dates for To Kill a Mockingbird worked perfectly, and with Harper Lee’s recently published work, it’s a classic made all the more timely.
Since there are five events in each season, starting the middle provides a place to balance the season. (And did I mention a Passport subscription is the only way to get these experiences?)
This year is Phoenix Theatre‘s 10th anniversary of A Very Phoenix Xmas. The all-new every year variety show is always a hit and we try to build it in about every other season–not wanting to miss the other incredible work they produce outside the month of December. We have a feeling Year 10 isn’t something to be missed (and we’re celebrating our own year 10 at IndyHub too!) so that one was set was pretty quickly.
When we saw the Dance Kaleidoscope choreography team from 2014-2015’s hit Ray & Ella, was again together for Voices of a Generation in a mainstage production–we simply couldn’t pass it up. This is one of two Saturday night concerts we’ve planned this season, hearing from several of you that you often get stuck in the office on weeknights.
Subscribers last year were absolutely over the moon with praises for the Pops! Series production we saw last November at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, so it was an easy pick to remember our pre-Spotify radio favorites with Classic FM: Radio Hits of the Decades. We’re pretty sure the whole of Hilbert Circle Theatre will find themselves toe-tapping at some point in the night!
Closing the Passport season can be a tough place to be, for any great production. That may be exactly why we’re feeling so good about our season closing stop at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It will be March – we’re hopeful the sun will be shining and the ground will be thawing. Last year, you told us you wanted to see more of the IMA’s collections – and go deeper into the galleries. Message received! For Secrets of the IMA think staircases to nowhere, murals left hidden where new hallways and galleries were constructed. It’ll be a curator-led, never-seen-before or to-be-seen-like-this-again experience, exclusively with IndyHub’s Passport to the Arts.
This time, the 8th IndyHub Passport to the Arts presented by Lilly season came together in September, definitely later than usual, but with nary a spreadsheet in sight. I call that a good trade. It’s five productions you’ll only experience this way with a subscription Passport to the Arts. What are you waiting for?
