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Attention:News, Entertainment Editors, Education Editors, Community Events Editors

Contact: Carrie Christensen, Communications Coordinator, Lied Center for Performing Arts, 402-472-4734,

[email protected]

News release website:http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases

Lied Center to Grow A Show at First New Musical Theatre

Festival in Lincoln

ASCAP New Musical Theatre Workshop Joins Festival with Master

Classes and Concert

Lincoln, Neb., August, 27, 2013The Lied Center for Performing Arts is thrilled to announce

the Lincoln premiere of the ASCAP New Musical Theatre Workshop. This exciting event, heldannually in New York and Los Angeles, hits Lincoln September 1012, 2013 and offers artists

the opportunity to Grow A Show withthe help of renowned industry experts. The workshop

will center on staged readings of selected new works from across the United States.The Lied

Centerhas developed a musical theatre festival to accompany this prestigious workshop, whichincludes master classes and a concert which will incorporate local talent and visiting Broadway

guest artists.

Annually, composers and playwrights submit new musical theatre works for development at

workshops hosted by theAmerican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers(ASCAP) in

New York or Los Angeles. This year, ASCAP specifically invited the Lied Center forPerforming Arts to host an additional New Musical Theatre Workshop in Lincoln. This event

brings some of the finest emerging musical theatre writers to the Lied Center this fall.

Guest artists and Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin will be honoredguests at the workshop and festival. Broadway legend Karen Morrow will also join Sklar and

Beguelin in conducting workshops, as well as performing in a concert alongside local talent,

directed by Alisa Belflower, Associate Producer in Musical Theatre Development with the LiedCenter for Performing Arts and Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies in the Hixson-Lied

College of Fine and Performing Arts. Michael Kerker, Director of Musical Theatre for ASCAP,

is the Executive Producer.

The entire festival will be free and open to the public, sa id Lied Center Executive Director Bill

Stephan. Imagine a chance to see a brand-new musical as it is created, before it hits the streets

of Broadway and becomes a smash-hit. This festival gives you that opportunity.

The new works selected for workshop and presentation are: CROSSING OVERby Stephanie

Salzman and Deborah Brevoort, CROSS THAT RIVERby Allan Harris and THREADSby

Michael McLean. CROSSING OVERbegins in the world of Amish hymn and ends in the worldof Hip Hop, R & B and Pop. It centers around a young Amish woman as she embarks on

Rumspringa, the time when Amish teenagers are released from the bonds of their daily life and

allowed to enter into mainstream society. CROSS THAT RIVERis the story of Blue, a Louisianaslave who steals his masters prize stallion and rides west to freedom, after witnessing the selling

of his father and the brutal whipping of another slave. THREADS is a musical about women and

clothes and what holds them together. A grandfathers passionate desire to fill his
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granddaughters wardrobe throughout her life with perfect outfits, reveals that people are so

much more than what they wear.

It is the Lied Centers objective to identify a new Broadway musical through the workshop

process, which could be produced and presented at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The

Lied Center does so much more than present touring shows and community productions, saidStephan. The Lied has a long history of commissioning new works.

The ASCAP New Musical Theatre Workshop and Lied Center for Performing Arts New Musical

Theatre Festival is an unprecedented opportunity for students, the Lied Center, the University ofNebraska-Lincoln and the local community. It provides a chance to participate in the creative

process with nationally renowned musical theatre writers and artists.

TheASCAP New Musical Theatre Workshopand the surrounding festival is made possible bygenerous support from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and the Hixson-

Lied endowment, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and the

UNL Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Program.

Ticket Information

All events are free and open to the public. To attendfestival activities,please register with

Festival coordinator Becky Key Boesen: [email protected] call 402-472-3215. Toreserve tickets to the free main stage concert, please contact the Lied Center ticket office at 402-

472-4747.

About the Lied Center for Performing ArtsThe Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. The Lied

Center, opened in 1990, is Nebraskas Home for the Arts. The facility offers major regional,

national and international events designed to attract, entertain and inspire a statewide audience.The Lied Center and its programs are made possible through the generous 2013/2014 season

support of Christina Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust, Friends of Lied, Ameritas, Union

Bank and with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.For more information visitwww.liedcenter.org.
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Media Contact:

Carrie Christensen

Communications Coordinator

605.675.9007

[email protected]

Comedy Legend Jim Belushi and the Chicago Board of Comedy to Perform at Lied Center

(LINCOLN, Neb.November XX, 2013) Nebraskas Home for the Arts, the Lied Center for

Performing Arts welcomes comedy legend Jim Belushi to the stage on Nov. 15 at 7:30PM.

With more than thirty years of experience and an alumnus of Saturday Night Liveand

Chicagos famed Second City, Jim Belushi is now bringing to the stage an improvised comedy

sketch show featuring members of the Chicago Board of Comedy.

The Lied Center prides itself on providing programming for everyone who loves the performing

arts, said Bill Stephan, Executive Director of the Lied Center for Performing Arts.Over the

years the Lied Center has enjoyed bringing the biggest names in comedy to the people of

Nebraska. Mr. Belushi joins a long list of legendary comedic performers like Bill Cosby and Joan

Rivers who have performed on the Lied Center stage.

Jim Belushi began his acting career in Chicago, Ill. studying at three of the top theatres: The

Goodman, The Apollo, and The Second City. After his two-year stint on Saturday Night Live,

Jim appeared in over 75 movies, including Red Heat, About Last Night, The Principal, and

K-9, and five television series, including eight years on According to Jimand, most recently,CBSs The Defenders. In 2011, Jim gained rave reviews on Broadway as Harry Brock in Born

Yesterday.However, drama and comedy are not the only facets to Jims breadth of talents. For

the past fifteen years, he has been singing, dancing, and playing harmonica in the Blues

Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and with his own band, The Sacred Hearts. Together they have

produced four albums and performed all over the world. Belushi is thrilled to be getting back to

his improv roots with this incredibly talented and hilarious group of actors. In conjunction with

The Chicago Board of Comedy, Jim has also recently opened The Comedy Bar, a stand-up club in

his hometown of Chicago in River North.

Accompanying Belushi are Megan Grano, Robert Belushi, Larry Joe Campbell, Joshua Funk, JonBarinholtz, and Brad Morris, all of who are classically trained professional improvisers who tour

regularly nationwide.

Ticket Information

Tickets for Jim Belushi and the Chicago Board of Comedy on Nov. 15 are available at

LiedCenter.org,at the Box Office on 12th

and R Streets, or by phone at 402-472-4747. Tickets

start at just $25 for adults, $12.50 for students.
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Media Contact:

Carrie Christensen


605.675.9007

[email protected]

Lied Center Employee Recognized as a Friend of American Indian Education

(LINCOLN, Neb. November XX, 2013) Nebraskas Home for the Arts, the Lied Center for

Performing Arts is proud to announce that Nancy Engen-Wedin of Education and Creative

Initiatives has been selected by the Nebraska Department of Education, Office of Multicultural

and Native American Education as a recipient of the Friend of American Indian Education

Award.

Engen-Wedin was recognized on Oct. 7 at the Nebraska Department of Educations Native

American Student Achievement Symposium. The symposium is an annual event hosted by NDE

in conjunction with Educational Service Unit #1 (ESU1).

In 2008, as part of the celebration of the 10thAnnual Native American Education Symposium,

the Nebraska Department of Education, Office of Native American Education inaugurated an

award to honor those who have promoted the cause of American Indian Education in the state

of Nebraska. Consideration for this award is given to individuals who have shown dedication to

promoting the use of tribal language or culture in the education of American Indian students in

Nebraska, the increase of American Indian educators in schools that serve American Indian

students, and family and community engagement among American Indians.

This award was created to celebrate the contributions of people like Nancy who have a long

term dedication to improving American Indian education in our state, said Carol Rempp,

Program Coordinator at the Office of Multicultural and Native American Education. She has

worked tirelessly to get the grants needed for on-going funding of programs and bring a variety

of people together from UNL, NDE and the partner schools to make these programs successful.

It was truly my pleasure to present the 2013 Friend of American Indian Education Award to

Nancy.

Engen-Wedin was acknowledged for her many years of service to the Umon

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Nation Schoolthrough the Lied Center and the Indigenous ROOTS Teacher Education Program through UNLs

College of Education and Human Sciences, which provides American Indian students with

opportunities to become certified elementary education and bilingual teachers to work in area

reservation schools. Since 2001, the Lied Center, Umonhon Nation School District, and University

of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences have partnered to provide

professional development in Pre-K through 12 arts integration for teachers, staff and students

enrolled in the Umonhon Nation School District. The program was established through the
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Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is

designed to assist arts and cultural organizations throughout the nation to develop and/or

expand educational partnerships with their local school systems.

Since the program began, the Lied Center and Engen-Wedin have worked to enrich the lives of

at-risk youth through all art forms including dance, music, theater and visual arts. In 2011, theLied Centers Partners in Education program received national recognition when it was featured

in a Kennedy Center publication presenting six programs across the country whose research on

K-12 student learning was compelling. Engen-Wedin led this research effort which was funded

by the Kennedy Center, National Endowment for the Arts and the Dana Foundation.

About the Lied Center for Performing Arts

The Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. The Lied Center,

opened in 1990, is Nebraskas Home for the Arts. The facility offers major regional, national

and international events designed to attract, entertain and inspire a statewide audience. The Lied

Center and its programs are made possible through the generous 2013/2014 season support of

Christina Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust, Friends of Lied, Ameritas and Union Bank. For

more information visitwww.LiedCenter.org.
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Media Contact:

Carrie Christensen


605.675.9007

[email protected]

Lied Center Recognized as a Top 100 Theatre Venue by Pollstar

(LINCOLN, Neb. December XX, 2013) Nebraskas Home for the Arts the Lied Center for

Performing Arts was once again recognized as a Worldwide Ticket Sales Top 100 Theatre

Venue by Pollstar, the leading trade publication in the worldwide concert industry.

The Lied Center also received this prestigious distinction in June 2013.

Receiving recognition from such a reputable publication in our industry is extremely exciting,

said Bill Stephan, Executive Director of the Lied Center for Performing Arts. We are honored to

be listed next to some of the most respected theatres in the world and believe that this truly

cements Nebraskas position as an international performing arts destination.

Other theatre venues on the list include the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and Radio City Music

Hall in New York. A number of Midwest locations were also identified including the Orpheum

Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Saint Paul, MN), and

the Orpheum Theater (Omaha, NE).

All rankings are based on tickets sold worldwide as reported to Pollstar for shows played

between 1/1/2013 and 9/30/13.

About the Lied Center for Performing Arts

The Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. The Lied Center,

opened in 1990, is Nebraskas Home for the Arts. The facility offers major regional, national

and international events designed to attract, entertain and inspire a statewide audience. The Lied

Center and its programs are made possible through the generous 2013/2014 season support of

Christina Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust, Friends of Lied, Ameritas and Union Bank. For

more information visitwww.liedcenter.org/events.
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