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Golden Girls - The Laughs Continue
2024-03-03 19:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Morris Performing Arts Center, 211 N. Michigan Street, South Bend, IN, 46601, United States
The Golden Girls are back! Miami’s sassiest seniors have returned for one more hurrah. 2024 finds Sophia out on bail, after being busted by the DEA for running a drug ring for retirees. Blanche and Rose have founded CreakN, a thriving sex app for seniors. And Dorothy is trying to hold it all together, with help from her much younger, sex-crazed love interest. Relive the heartfelt hilarity of four ladies who never stopped being your friends!
There will be a 20-minute intermission. The Tour is produced by Murray & Peter Present and Innovation Arts & Entertainment. Get tour info at GoldenGirlsTour.com. This production is rated 18+ only (adult theme comedy).

Fans who purchase a Photo Experience ticket will meet the actors after the show, take pics on the main stage, and score autographs. If you purchase merch at the venue, the actors will autograph it during the Photo Experience. Please remain in your seats after the show for instructions and the Photo Experience will begin shortly after the performance concludes.
Admission to the performance is not included in the Photo Experience ticket. This is a separate upgrade that must be purchased in advance, in addition to a show ticket.

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Under the Big Top
2024-03-09 19:30
Indiana Trust Pops Series takes you “Under the Big Top” to an unforgettable performance that will transport you to the magical world of Circus Flora. Making its debut in South Bend, this immersive experience will thrill and delight audiences of all ages with Circus Flora’s incredible skills, performing breathtaking aerial acts, acrobatics, juggling, and more.
Single tickets are on sale on August 1, 2023. Secure your seat with a Season subscription. Visit www.southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to save your seats and get the best prices!
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Movies at the Morris: Wonder Woman
2024-03-10 14:00
Movies at the Morris Presents: “Wonder Woman” on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00pm Tickets are required for this free event.
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. Get Free Tickets Now

Disney's ALADDIN
2024-03-19 19:30, 2024-03-20 19:30, 2024-03-21 19:30, 2024-03-22 20:00, 2024-03-23 14:00, 2024-03-23 20:00, 2024-03-24 14:00
Discover a whole new world at Disney’s ALADDIN, the hit Broadway musical.
From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of ALADDIN, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It’s an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.
Hailed by USA Today as “Pure Genie-Us,” ALADDIN features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony® and Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Newsies) with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast), Tony Award winner Tim Rice (The Lion King, Aida), and book writer Chad Beguelin (The Wedding Singer).
Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Something Rotten!),this “Fabulous” and “Extravagant” (The New YorkTimes) new musical boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley (Mary Poppins), Gregg Barnes (Kinky Boots), and Natasha Katz (An American in Paris). See why audiences and critics agree, ALADDIN is “Exactly What You Wish For!” (NBC-TV)
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THE CLASSIC ROCK SHOW
2024-03-26 20:00
The Classic Rock Show celebrates the very best of classic rock. Paying tribute to its favorite rock heroes, The Classic Rock Show thunders through performances from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, The Who, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, Queen, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and many more. Performed with note-for-note precision, bringing the original era-defining recordings back to life on stage, with an amazing sound and light show to match. Anthem after anthem, riff after riff, and solo after solo, culminating in a show-stopping guitar duel that is definitely not to be missed.
The 100 best seats in the house include a VIP Experience:
THE CLASSIC ROCK SHOW will be offering an incredible VIP Meet & Greet Soundcheck package for all our shows! On arrival at the venue at 5 pm on the show day, each guest will be given a special Classic Rock Show VIP Meet and Greet Soundcheck Experience tour pass and tour poster and will then be invited by the show road manager into the venue auditorium for the private Soundcheck experience. The Classic Rock Show musicians will treat the VIP audience to a special bonus performance of two classic rock songs not featured in the evening show, and then afterward, they will come down from the stage to meet all the guests. The musicians will be happy to chat with the VIPs, sign tour posters, and have photos taken. Audience members can expect to be treated to a memorable and personal experience! Buy Tickets Now

STOMP
2024-04-02 19:30
STOMP is explosive, inventive, provocative, witty, and utterly unique—an unforgettable experience for audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered armfuls of awards and rave reviews and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. Year after year, audiences worldwide keep coming back for more of this pulse-pounding electrifying show. As the Boston Globe says, “If you haven’t seen STOMP, GO! If you have seen it, take someone and share the pleasure!”
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A Night at the Opera
2024-04-06 19:30
The passionate melody and lyrics of arias, duets, trios, and choruses by Mozart, Bizet, Puccini, Verdi, Masagni, and Wagner come to life when the South Bend Lyric Opera join the Symphony for this dynamic performance.
Single tickets are on sale on August 1, 2023. Secure your seat with a Season subscription. Visit www.southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to save your seats and get the best prices!
The South BendSymphonyOrchestra is grateful to Jack M.Champaigne and his support of the Masterworks. Buy Tickets Now

Brit Floyd - P·U·L·S·E
2024-04-10 20:00
Brit Floyd returns to the stage in 2024 with P·U·L·S·E, their biggest and most spectacular production to date, a celebration and faithful recreation of Pink Floyd’s legendary final Division Bell tour, complete with a stunning laser and light show, iconic circular screen, inflatables and theatrics. The 2 and a half hour plus show features classic tracks from Pink Floyd’s magnificent catalogue of albums, including the Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Division Bell, Meddle and much more. In 1994 the Division Bell Tour was the highest-grossing tour in rock music history, playing to over 5 million people in 68 cities and proved to be the epic finale and notable footnote to one of the most influential rock bands in history.
Taking to the stage to perform note for note renditions of all these classic Pink Floyd tracks is the band of musicians that audiences have become to love and respect worldwide over the years, featuring long time guitarist/vocalist and musical director Damian Darlington, who has performed well over 2500 Pink Floyd music related concerts throughout his career.
The band also features Ian Cattell, Edo Scordo, Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila and all the other expert musicians that have joined the ranks of Brit Floyd over the course of the last decade.
Having performed over 1,000 shows since its launch in Liverpool, England in January 2011, Brit Floyd have circled the world, sold out tours across Europe, North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East, and performed concerts at some of the world’s greatest venues, including London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall; the awe inspiring Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado; the historic Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and ‘The Showplace of the Nation’, NYC’s Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.
The Brit Floyd show has become a phenomenon, widely regarded as the world’s greatest rock tribute experience!
Brit Floyd’s VIP M&G Soundcheck Experience
On arrival at the venue at 5:00pm on the show day, each guest will be given a special Brit Floyd VIP Meet and Greet Soundcheck Experience tour pass and lanyard and will have an exclusive opportunity to browse through all the show merchandise and to chat to the show personnel pre-show. The VIPs will then be invited by Brit Floyd’s tour manager into the venue auditorium for the private soundcheck experience. Brit Floyd’s musicians will treat the VIP audience to a special bonus performance of two classic Pink Floyd songs not featured in the evening show, and then afterwards will come down from the stage to meet all the guests. The musicians will be happy to chat with the VIPs, sign merchandise and have photos taken. Brit Floyd fans can expect to be treated to a memorable and personal experience! Buy Tickets Now

South Bend High School Music Fest
2024-04-15 19:00
Over 275 students and teachers from the four area South Bend High Schools, will gather together, for the first time, on the stage of The Morris Performing Arts Center, located 211 N. Michigan Street. to present a joint concert on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Students from the bands, choirs, orchestras, and jazz ensembles from Adams, Clay, Riley, and Washington high schools, will gather at the Morris during the afternoon for a joint rehearsal. That rehearsal will be followed by a dinner for the students in the Palais Royale. Many of these musical ensembles received Gold Medals at the recent Indiana State School Music Association.
The concert will be the first time such an event has been held at The Morris. It will be an opportunity for many of the students to be in the hall and perform on this prestigious stage
The concert will feature 20 musical ensembles and is part of the Arts Equity program initiated by the Morris Performing Arts Center. This program is designed to offer opportunities for more diverse performers and cultivate more diverse audiences at The Morris. Reserve Free Tickets

Back to the 1980's
2024-04-20 19:30
Back to the 80’sis a power-packed evening of the decade’s #1 hit songs, including The Power of Love, Time After Time, Material Girl, Another One Bites The Dust, Footloose, Addicted to Love, and many others. Featuring the music of such 80’s iconic stars as Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Huey Lewis & The News, Phil Collins, Queen, Joe Cocker, and others, Back to the 80’s contains all-new arrangements by Grammy-winner Jeff Tyzik and features three incredible vocalists.
Single tickets are on sale on August 1, 2023. Secure your seat with a Season subscription. Visit www.southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to save your seats and get the best prices!
The South Bend Symphony Orchestra thanks Indiana Trust Wealth Management for supporting the Indiana Trust Pops Series.
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Theresa Caputo LIVE! The Experience
2024-04-24 19:30
For over a decade, Theresa Caputo, known worldwide as the Long Island Medium, and star of the new Lifetime Series Raising Spirits, has shared her messages of comfort and healing with more than a million and a half audience members worldwide. Through personal stories about her life and explaining her gift to communicate with those who have passed on, the beloved television personality and best-selling author delivers healing messages to audience members, comforting them with the revelation that their deceased loved ones are still with them– just in a different way. Recognized as one of the most renowned mediums for over 30 years, Theresa Caputo Live: The Experience is the awe-inspiring event you won’t want to miss.

VIP Tickets
A limited number of PRE-SHOW VIP photo opportunities are available as a package paired with best seats. Patrons will receive a VIP keepsake item and are invited to arrive for a pre-show photo with Theresa taken by a professional photographer. Please note the pre-show photo opportunity requires guests to arrive 2.5 hours prior to doors (3.5 hours prior to showtime).

SCHEDULE / EVENING SHOW:
VIP PATRON / DOORS OPEN 3:30 PM doors open
VIP PATRONS LINED UP AT 4:00 PM
VIP PHOTO OP 4:30 PM
Doors 6:30 PM
Show time 7:30 PM Buy Tickets Now

Comedian Hasan Minhaj
2024-04-25 19:00
Get Tickets Hasan Minhaj is a two-time Peabody Award-Winning comedian best known for his breakout Netflix special HOMECOMING KING and his critically acclaimed, political satire show PATRIOT ACT WITH HASAN MINHAJ for Netflix which won a Peabody, an Emmy, and a Television Academy Honor. His second one-hour comedy special THE KING’S JESTER premiered on Netflix in October 2022. Hasan was a senior correspondent at Comedy Central’s THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART and headlined the 2017 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER. He’s the co-founder and chief executive officer for 186K Films that will produce its first feature “For The Culture” with Amazon Studios.
This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of phones, smart watches and accessories, will not be permitted in the performance space.
Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches and accessories will be secured in individual Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times, and can access them throughout the event only in designated Phone Use Areas within the venue. All devices will be re-secured in Yondr pouches before returning to the performance space.
Anyone seen using a device (phone, smart watch or accessories) during the performance will be escorted out of the venue.
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Little Women
2024-04-26 20:00, 2024-04-27 14:00, 2024-04-27 20:00, 2024-04-28 14:00
Produced nationally and internationally, Little Women has been praised by critics for its ambition in bringing the timeless, captivating story to vivid musical life on stage. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March, each determined to live life on her own terms. Little Women embodies the complete theatrical experience, leaving audiences filled with a sense of adventure, joy, heartache, and a lifting of the spirit. The powerful score soars with the sounds of personal discovery, heartbreak, hope, and everlasting love – the sounds of a young America finding its voice.
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Toast – The Ultimate Bread Experience
2024-04-30 19:00
TOAST is the No. 1 Tribute in the world to the 70’s hit band, BREAD! With a surprising fidelity rarely heard from a live tribute band, their sound is often described as “spot on” to the original recordings. Audiences everywhere rave about how closely their live performances sound like the cherished records they listened to back in the day.
“Bread virtually invented soft rock in the early Seventies, and the group’s biggest hits — ‘Make It With You,’ ‘If,’ ‘Baby I’m-a Want You’ and ‘Everything I Own’ — remain staples on lite-rock radio.” – Rolling Stone
Over their career, Bread scored 13 hits on Billboard’s Top 100! The two surviving members of Bread (David Gates & Robb Royer) are happily retired and enjoying their time with family and the fruits of their musical careers. Enter TOAST – The Ultimate Bread Experience, who does everything possible to keep the legacy of Bread alive. TOAST presents a “feel-good” show that includes all of Bread’s top hits and brings all the memories flooding back quickly which makes their concert truly “rise” to the top as one of the favorite concerts of audiences everywhere! Buy Tickets Now

Dvořák's New World
2024-05-04 19:30
”Dvořák’s New World” unpacks Antonín Dvořák’s prediction that the future of classical music would be found in the United States rather than Europe. Florence Prices’ most famous work,”Ethiopia’s Shadow in America,” concludes the Masterworks series.
The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to Jack M. Champaigne and his support of the Masterworks. Buy Tickets Now

Wheel of Fortune Live!
2024-05-20 19:30
Wheel of Fortune LIVE! brings America’s Game® to your hometown! One of the greatest game shows of all time has been adapted into a stage show to give more fans access and more chances to win at “Wheel of Fortune LIVE!” Guests are randomly selected to go on stage and feel like they stepped into the game show itself. The live stage show is the only way you can have the chance to spin a replica of the iconic Wheel. At Wheel of Fortune LIVE!, contestants are selected from the audience to go on stage for the chance to call consonants, buy vowels, and maybe even solve puzzles to win fantastic prizes, including trips to destinations like Paris and Hawaii or up to $10,000 in cash. Everyone gets in on the fun and a chance to win at Wheel of Fortune LIVE! because there are audience games too!
VIP 1 — Ultimate Experience
Spin the Wheel!
Official Photograph with the Wheel of Fortune Set
Exclusive Wheel of Fortune VIP Merchandise Item
Wheel of Fortune VIP Laminate
Commemorative Ticket
VIP 2 — Spin the Wheel Experience
Spin the Wheel!
Official Photograph with the Wheel of Fortune Set
Exclusive Wheel of Fortune Tote Bag
Exclusive Wheel of Fortune VIP Merchandise Item
Wheel of Fortune VIP Laminate
Commemorative Ticket
VIP 3 — Wheel of Fortune Merchandise Package
Exclusive Wheel of Fortune Tote Bag
Exclusive Wheel of Fortune VIP Merchandise Item
Wheel of Fortune VIP Laminate
Commemorative Ticket
PLEASE NOTE: PURCHASE OF VIP PACKAGE DOES NOT GUARANTEE PARTICIPATION IN THE GAME SHOW. Contestants are selected at random from all registered audience members. Information on how to register will be provided.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to US & Canada legal residents, 18+ (Residents of PR ineligible to participate as contestants). For complete rules & regulations, including eligibility requirements & free method of entry, visit or call the box office. Void where prohibited. © 2024 Califon Productions, Inc. “Wheel of Fortune®” is a registered trademark of Califon Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Buy Tickets Now

An Evening with Valerie Jarrett
2024-05-23 18:00
The Keynote speaker for this year’s Thought Leadership Conference is Valerie Jarrett, the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Offices and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Ms. Jarrett has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and worldwide. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns to reform our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.
Jarrett will present on May 23 at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday evening, in the “Continuing the Conversation” portion of the conference in the Morris Performing Arts Center, followed by the book signing at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required (contact the Morris Performing Arts Center box office at 574-235-9190). Get Tickets Now The Keynote speaker for this year’s Thought Leadership Conference is Valerie Jarrett, the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Offices and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Ms. Jarrett has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and worldwide. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns to reform our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.
Jarrett will present on May 23 at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday evening, in the “Continuing the Conversation” portion of the conference in the Morris Performing Arts Center, followed by the book signing at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required (contact the Morris Performing Arts Center box office at 574-235-9190).

Thunderstruck - America's AC/DC Tribute
2024-05-24 19:30
Thunderstruck expertly recreates the AC/DC live concert experience just the way fans remember it. Each member obsesses over the tones and structures of each song, the energy of each performance, as well as every piece of gear, to bring the power and entertainment of a genuine AC/DC show back to the stage. Buy Tickets Now

MAMMA MIA!
2024-05-31 20:00, 2024-06-01 14:00, 2024-06-01 20:00
A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads.
And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget!
Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale of love, friendship, and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits of ABBA. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited decades ago.
For nearly 25 years, people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story, and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good show.
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