Warner Bros. presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Pepe Le Pew and other popular animated characters come alive at Orchestra Hall in a multimedia program titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, performed February 3 and 4.
Live accompaniment by Minnesota Orchestra highlights classic animated features
U.S. Bank Pops Season
(January 11, 2012) Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Pepe Le Pew and other popular animated characters come alive at Orchestra Hall in a multimedia program titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, sure to delight audiences of all ages. Conceived and conducted by Emmy Award-winner George Daugherty in partnership with Warner Bros. Studios, the concerts feature classic Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera cartoons shown on a large screen as the Minnesota Orchestra performs the opera-inspired scores of Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, synchronized with the onscreen action. Such cartoon jewels as “What’s Opera, Doc?,” “The Rabbit of Seville,” “Corny Concerto” and “Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl” will be shown, among others. Performances are slated for Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall on Friday, February 3, and Saturday, February 4, both at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $25 to $60, with VIP seating at $65. Tickets for youths aged 6-17 are $20. For tickets, call Minnesota Orchestra Ticket Services at (612) 371-5656 or visit the Orchestra’s website, minnesotaorchestra.org.
This new concert, a sequel to the original Bugs Bunny on Broadway, is created and conducted by Emmy Award™ winner George Daugherty, and produced by Daugherty, Emmy Award™ winning David Ka Lik Wong, and their award-winning IFX Productions.
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony features a new fusion of on-screen Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera classics with live accompaniment by the Minnesota Orchestra, and spotlights some of the original cartoon treasures of Bugs Bunny on Broadway, while adding an enlarged “cast” of Warner Bros.’ animated characters and cartoons to this celebrated melding of classical music and classic animation.
According to creator and conductor George Daugherty, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony will feature a number of Bugs Bunny On Broadway’s most show-stopping cartoons, including Chuck Jones’ brilliant “What’s Opera, Doc?” and “The Rabbit of Seville,”--two Looney Tunes classics that top virtually every published list of “The World’s Funniest Cartoons” anywhere.
In addition, a number of new cartoons from the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes vaults will be added, including the debut of Tweety and Sylvester into the concert with “Tweety’s Circus,” and a specially-created montage of “Looney Tunes in Song,” starring Pepe Le Pew in “A Scent of The Matterhorn,” as well as melodic moments from “Nelly’s Folly, “Tweet and Lovely,” “Bewitched Bunny,” “One Froggy Evening,” and “A Bear For Punishment.” The black-and-white era will be paid tribute to with Friz Freleng’s “Shake Your Powder Puff,” which, as said by Daugherty, was the first-ever Looney Tune which parodied the symphony orchestra world, and laid the ground work for decades of classical music spoofs to come. More at www.BugsBunnyAtTheSymphony.net.
About George Daugherty
George Daugherty is a frequent guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra, and has conducted almost every major American symphony orchestra as well as a long list of international ensembles. He has become well-respected for his unique and innovative symphony orchestra concerts and productions. Additionally, he has received five Emmy™ nominations as a producer, director and music director, and he won a Primetime Emmy™ for his ABC Network production of “Peter and The Wolf”. That production, along with Daugherty’s other television projects (including “Rhythm & Jam” and the Emmy-winning PBS series “Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat”) received a total of 11 Emmy™ nominations and numerous other major awards.
U.S. Bank Pops Season
Warner Bros. Presents
BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY
with the Minnesota Orchestra and starring Bugs Bunny!
Created and conducted by George Daugherty
Friday, February 3, 2012, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
George Daugherty, conductor
Program:
THE DANCE OF THE COMEDIANS
from “The Bartered Bride”
by Bedřich Smetana
THE WARNER BROS. FANFARE
Max Steiner
"MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG"
("The Merrie Melodies Theme")
Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor,
Arranged and Orchestrated by Carl W. Stalling
"BATON BUNNY"
Music by Franz von Suppé
Orchestrated by Milt Franklyn
Based on the Overture to
"Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna"
Animation Direction by
CHUCK JONES and
ABE LEVITOW
Guest Conductor:
MAESTRO BUGS BUNNY
Excerpt from
"WHAT'S UP, DOC?"
Musical Direction by Carl Stalling
Story by Warren Foster
Animation Direction by
ROBERT McKIMSON
“RHAPSODY RABBIT”
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Piano Solo performed by Milt Franklyn
Story by Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese
Animation Direction by
FRIZ FRELENG
I LOVE TO SINGA
Looney Tunes Sings!!
Montage Edited and Created by George Daugherty, David Lik Wong, and Scott Draper
From I LOVE TO SINGA
“I LOVE TO SINGA”
Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Directed by TEX AVERY
From NAUGHTY NEIGHBORS
“WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE A WALK”
Music by Harry Warren and Lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose
Directed by BOB CLAMPETT
From A SCENT OF THE MATTERHORN
“TIPTOE THROUGH THE TULIPS”
Music by Joe Burke, and Lyrics by Al Dubin
Directed by CHUCK JONES
From ONE FROGGY EVENING
“HELLO MY BABY”
Music and Lyrics by Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard
Directed by CHUCK JONES
From BEWITCHED BUNNY
“A CUP OF ARSENIC . . .”
(based on “A CUP OF COFFEE, A SANDWICH, AND YOU.”)
Original Music and Lyrics by Gertrude Lawrence
New Lyrics by Michael Maltese
Directed by CHUCK JONES
From BACK ALLEY OPROAR
"LARGO AL FACTOTUM"
Music by Carl Stalling
after Giocchino Rossini
from “The Barber of Seville”
Directed by FRIZ FRELENG
From ROBIN HOOD DAFFY
“JOIN UP WITH ME, SO JOYOUS AND FREE ”
Music by Milt Franklyn and Lyrics by Michael Maltese
Directed by CHUCK JONES
From HILLBILLY HARE
“SQUARE DANCE” (“SKIP TO MY LOU” / “TURKEY IN THE STRAW”)
Based on American Folk Songs
Music by Carl Stalling and Lyrics by Tedd Pierce
Directed by ROBERT McKIMSON
"ZOOM AND BORED"
Original Score by Carl W. Stalling and Milt Franklyn
Based on "The Dance of the Comedians"
from "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation Direction by
CHUCK JONES
“HOME TWEET HOME”
(Original Soundtrack)
Original Score by Milt Franklyn
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation Direction by
FRIZ FRELENG
"THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE"
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Arranged by Milt Franklyn
Based on the Overture to
"The Barber of Seville"
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation Direction by
CHUCK JONES
ACT II
A SALUTE TO BUGS BUNNY,
FROM HIS FRIENDS AT HANNA-BARBERA
“TOM AND JERRY IN THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL”
Music by Johann Strauss
(Overture to “Die Fledermaus”)
Music Originally Arranged by Scott Bradley
Story and Animation Direction by
WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA
Special Guest Artists
TOM AND JERRY
“SCOOBY-DOO’S HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING”
Montage edited and created by Laura Gibson and Scott Draper
Music by Edvard Grieg
(“In the Hall of The Mountain King” from Peer Gynt)
Original Animation by WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA
Special Guest Artists
SCOOBY-DOO AND HIS FRIENDS
“BEDROCK BALLET”
Montage edited and created by Laura Gibson and Scott Draper
Music by Jacques Offenbach
(“Can-Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld)
Original Animation by WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA
Special Guest Artists
THE FLINTSTONES
"A CORNY CONCERTO"
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Based on "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and
"The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II
Story by Frank Tashlin
Animation Direction by
ROBERT CLAMPETT
"LONG-HAIRED HARE"
(Original Soundtrack)
Original Score by Carl W. Stalling
after Wagner, von Suppé, Donizetti, and Rossini plus the songs
“A Rainy Night in Rio” by Arthur Schwartz
“My Gal is a High-Born Lady” by Barney Fagan
“When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba” by Herman Hupfeld
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation Direction by
CHUCK JONES
"WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?"
Music by Milt Franklyn
Based on music from "The Flying Dutchman," "Die Walküre," "Siegfried,"
"Götterdämmerung," “Rienzi,” and "Tannhäuser"
by Richard Wagner
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES
MERRIE MELODIES "THAT'S ALL FOLKS"
Music Arranged and Orchestrated by Carl W. Stalling
Voice Characterization by Noel Blanc
Program Subject To Change Without Notice.
LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
THE FLINTSTONES, SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Hanna-Barbera.
TOM AND JERRY and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co.
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Tickets: $25-$60, $65 VIP (adults); $20 (youth ages 6-17)
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