MCB's website now has the schedule for their fall tour of the MidWest. Dates are Oct. 28-Nov. 12, and they will be travelling to some locations with a mixed program and to others with their new production of the Petipa Don Q.

Fall Tour 2006

September 15, 2006
University of Florida
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Gainesville, Florida
www.performingarts.ufl.edu
Tickets: (352) 392-2787

Dances at a Gathering (Chopin/Robbins)
Western Symphony (Traditional American-Kay/Balanchine)

October 28, 2006
University of Northern Iowa
Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
Cedar Falls, Iowa
www.gbpac.com
Tickets: (319) 273-7469

Piazzolla Caldera (Piazzolla/Taylor)
Sonatine (Ravel/Balanchine)
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Tschaikovsky/Balanchine)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Stravinsky/Balanchine)

October 30, 2006
Fort Hays State University
Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center
Hays, Kansas
www.fhsu.edu/beach-schmidt/
Tickets: (785) 628-5306

Piazzolla Caldera (Piazzolla/Taylor)
Sonatine (Ravel/Balanchine)
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Tschaikovsky/Balanchine)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Stravinsky/Balanchine)

November 2, 2006
Orpheum Theater
Omaha, Nebraska
www.omahaperformingarts.org
Tickets: (402) 345-0606

Don Quixote (Minkus/traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky)

November 4, 2006
University of Kansas
The Lied Center of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
www.lied.ku.edu
Tickets: (785) 864-2787

Don Quixote (Minkus/traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky)

November 7, 2006
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Lied Center for Performing Arts
Lincoln, Nebraska
www.liedcenter.org
Tickets: (402) 472-4747

Don Quixote (Minkus/traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky)

November 8, 2006
Lincoln, Nebraska

Children's performance TBD

November 10, 2006
University of Iowa
Hancher Auditorium
Iowa City, Iowa
www.hancher.uiowa.edu
Tickets: (319) 335-1160

Don Quixote (Minkus/traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky)

November 12, 2006
University of Minnesota
Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Minneapolis, Minnesota
www.umn.edu/umato/
Tickets: (612) 624-2345
Don Quixote (Minkus/traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky)

Thank you for the heads up, bart. The dates are now on the Calendar.

Here's a review of the Topeka performance of "Don Quijote," which apparently won a standing ovation. (Thanks, dirac, for the Link.)

Has anyone seen MCB on this mid-west tour?

The new Don Q has already been done in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and comes to the Kravis in West Palm Beach for six performances starting Nov. 17.

http://capitaljournal.cjonline.com/stories...nt_review.shtml