Lied Center to open season Aug. 20

The Lied Center will kick off its 2004-2005 season Aug. 20 with a free outdoor concert to help celebrate Lawrence’s 150th anniversary.

“Sesquicentennial Celebration” will feature the Lawrence City Band under the direction of longtime conductor Robert Foster. The 7:30 p.m. concert will be preceded by the Family Arts Festival in the center’s garden courtyard.

Here’s a look at the rest of the season:

  • “Pilobolus Too,” education residency, Sept. 25-Oct. 1
  • Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Co., 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1
  • Flamenco Vivo/Carlota Santana, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7
  • Cypress String Quartet, who will premiere a new work commissioned of composer Dan Coleman by the Lied Centers of Kansas and Nebraska to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 2 p.m. Oct. 14
  • Prague Philharmonia; Bohumil Kulinsky, conductor, Ivan Zenaty, violin soloist, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19
  • Amazones: The Women Master Drummers of Guinea, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22

    • THE VIRSKY UKRAINIAN NATIONAL DANCE CO. will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Lied Center.

  • The Aquila Theatre Company in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” school-only performances, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Oct. 26
  • The Aquila Theatre Company in H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27
  • “Fosse,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30
  • “A Star-Spangled Spectacular,” a concert with John Philip Sousa and his band, 3 p.m. Nov. 7
  • Trout Fishing in America, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12
  • Camerata Sweden, 2 p.m. Nov. 14
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16
  • Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20
    • For more information about these events or to order tickets, call 864-2787 or visit www.ku.edu/~lied
  • A Scottish Christmas with Bonnie Rideout, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2
  • Pharaoh’s Daughter, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5
  • Scholastic’s “The Magic School Bus-Live!” 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Feb. 12
  • Brentano String Quartet, 2 p.m. Feb. 13
  • “Fiddler on the Roof,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19
  • Pick Up Performance Co. in “Dancing Henry Five,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23-24
  • Teatro Lirico D’Europa in Bizet’s “Carmen,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26
  • “The Rainbow Fish,” school-only performance, 10 a.m. March 3
  • Philadanco! (Philadelphia Dance Company), 7:30 p.m. March 4
  • Drum Drum, 7:30 p.m. April 1
  • Zuill Bailey, cello, with Robert Koenig, piano, 2 p.m. April 3
  • “Miss Saigon,” 7:30 p.m. April 5-6
  • Jubilant Sykes, baritone, 7:30 p.m. April 15
  • Ping Chong’s “Native Voices-Secret History,” an experimental theater piece based on personal stories of American Indians in Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. April 28
  • “42nd Street,” 7:30 p.m. May 11