Skip to content

Summer Stage Under the Stars

Summer Under The Stars

Dart Auditorium

500 N. Capitol Avenue

Lansing, MI 48906

LCC's annual performing arts festival featuring a variety of music, theatre and dance.  In addition to the free performances that audiences enjoy at LCC's beautiful outdoor stage and in Dart Auditorium, this year The American Shakespeare Collective will present their first fully produced production during Summer Stage in partnership with LCC Performing Arts.

SUMMER 2013
Wednesday - Sunday,
June 19-23
7:00PM
Schoolhouse Rock LIVE!
Directed by John Lennox
Music Director: John Dale Smith; Choreographer: Karyn Perry
Originally Adapted and Produced for the Stage by Theatre BAM, From the Series Created by George Newall and Tom Yohe, Based on an Idea by David McCall, Book by Scott Ferguson, George Keating and Kyle Hall, Music and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Kathy Mandry, George Newall and Tom Yohe

Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher, is nervous about his first day of teaching.  He tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such songs as "Just A Bill," "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly," and "Conjunction Junction."  The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, and more through clever, tuneful songs is a pop cultural phenomenon and lighting up stages everywhere!

Free
LCC Outdoor Amphitheatre
Wednesday,
June 26
7:00PM
Layers: LCC Faculty Jazz Quartet
This hour-long concert features Dennis Therrian (piano), Jon Gewirtz (sax), Ed Fedewa (bass) and Mike Daniels (drums) performing original compositions and tunes from the Great American Songbook.

Free
LCC Outdoor Amphitheatre
Wednesday - Sunday,
July 24-28
7:00PM
The Odyssey: A Play by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Deborah Keller
This dramatic adaptation of Homer's myth begins with a modern young woman who is struggling to understand Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey.  A classical muse appears, and the young woman becomes the goddess Athena--a tireless advocate for Odysseus in his struggle to get home.  With her trademark irreverent and witty twist on classic works, Zimmerman brings to life the story of Odysseus's ten-year journey, depicting his encounters with characters such as Circe, the Cyclops, Poseidon, Calypso, the Sirens, and others.  Presented by LCC's 2nd Semester Theatre Studio class.

Free
LCC Outdoor Amphitheatre
Tuesday - Thursday,
July 30 - August 1
7:00PM
The C/d Community Dance Project
The annual LCC-Happendance collaboration presenting three nights of brand new choreography.

Free
Dart Auditorium

 

Dates and events are subject to change.
Call 517-483-1488 for the latest information.

 

Art, Design and Multimedia at Lansing Community College

Communication, Media and the Arts Department
Gannon Bldg, Room 131
Phone: (517) 483-1546
Additional contact information »