Centenary Statge Company opens the 2024-25 season with Curtain Up! featuring The Great American SOULbook, Saturday, September 21 at 8pm. This high energy group delivers a journey through the decades of Motown, R&B and other iconic soulful music that inspired generations and highlights the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and beyond.
The show is performed by the American Soul Band, featuring four choreographed male lead singers who will remind you of The Temptations with their smooth harmonies and moves, while covering many of the biggest hits from the decades that followed. Deanna Carroll, who toured for years as Dianna Ross in Lady Supreme, is joined by incredible background singers, bringing the songs of the most iconic Ladies of Soul to life.
This show will wow audiences with the music of The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Luther Vandross, Sam and Dave, James Brown, Anita Baker, Babyface, Peobo Bryson, R. Kelly and so many more.
Music lovers across the generations will be singing and dancing to hits of Motown and classic R&B. The Great American Soul Book continues the audiences journey forward, as they pay homage to the most recent decades of soulful huts made famous by the next generations of superstars,
Tickets are $35 for all orchestra seating and $30 for the balcony. Ticket prices increase by $5 the day of the performance.
The Centenary Stage Company box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5pm and two hours prior to performances and is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Ave. Hackettstown, NJ.
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For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908-979-0900.
The 2024-25 Summer Season of Performing Arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of our exclusive summer sponsor Explore Warren and grantors like the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, the CSC corporate sponsors, including Platinum Season Sponsor the House of the Good Shepherd, Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Heath Village, Visions Federal Credit Union, and Fulton Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.
CSC's Curtain Up! presents The Great American SOULbook
The Great American SOULbook delivers a journey through the decades of Motown, R&B and other iconic Soulful music that inspired generations. This is no oldies show. It is a high energy tribute that highlights the music that made us groove, made us move, and filled dance floors and concert halls in the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond!