Musicians Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt; comedian John Cleese, best known for his starring role in Monty Python’s Flying Circus; and the Vienna Boys Choir are new additions to the 2009-10 season at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets for these “just added” programs became available in late August at the same time that the Mondavi Center began selling single tickets for its entire season.
Season tickets are still available for various series, including the choose-your-own plan (five or more events). The center also is offering the Pick 3 discount — a 10 percent savings off regular single-ticket prices — when you buy tickets for three or more performances. Staff and faculty save even more: 10 percent off two tickets (maximum).
The Mondavi Center’s eighth season is set to begin Sept. 25 with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The concert is sold out — just like the orchestra’s first two concerts at the Mondavi Center, in 2004 and 2008.
Next on the center’s calendar is legendary country singer, songwriter and guitarist Merle Haggard, performing at 8 p.m. Sept. 28, in Jackson Hall.
The “just added” events:
• An Acoustic Evening With Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, on stage together — 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, Jackson Hall.
• An Evening With John Cleese, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the English comedian’s “zany and hilarious world of comedy” — 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, Jackson Hall.
• Vienna Boys Choir — 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, Jackson Hall. The choir had been scheduled to perform at the Mondavi Center last March, but problems with Jackson Hall’s acoustic canopy forced the show’s cancellation.
In another change, the Mondavi Center announced that the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, will replace the China Philharmonic Orchestra for its previously announced concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 21. Pianist Yuja Wang is set to join the orchestra for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.
Tickets: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or mondaviarts.org. Ticket office summer hours: noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu