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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 @ 6:00 PM
Bollywood Berkeley 2012

Doors open 60 minutes before show time.
$20.00 (balcony) & $25.00 (orchestra)
(ticket prices include facility fee)
PLEASE NOTE: ALL AGES REQUIRE A TICKET

BOLLYWOOD BERKELEY 2012 - Get pumped for the BIGGEST collegiate Hindi-Film Dance competition in the United States! Now in its 11th year, Bollywood Berkeley showcases not only the artistic and technical features of Bollywood dancing and the incredible talent of the top teams from around the nation, but also the dazzling costumes and enthralling scenery typical of Bollywood films and dances.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 @ 8:00 PM
Cedric the Entertainer
VALENTINE'S DAY COMEDY SHOW
Doors open 60 minutes before show time.

Advance tickets: $70.00 & $60.00
Day-of-Show tickets: 75.00 & $65.00
(ticket prices include facility fee)

CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER - You've seen him in the hit movies Barbershop, Be Cool, Madagascar, Intolerable Cruelty, The Honeymooners, Man of the House, Big Momma's House, Johnson Family Vacation, and The Original Kings Of Comedy. Now catch him LIVE at the Paramount in his Valentine's Day Comedy show!
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 @ 8:30 PM
Bill Cosby

Doors open 60 minutes before show time.
$67.50 | $57.50 | $47.50 | $37.50
(ticket prices include facility fee)

BILL COSBY - Over the past century, few entertainers have achieved the legendary status of William H. Cosby Jr. His successes span five decades and virtually all media, remarkable accomplishments for a kid who emerged from humble beginnings in a Philadelphia project. Bill Cosby is quite simply a national treasure.
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THE STING (1973) - This stylish and remarkably clever film is still one of the most entertaining con-men movies ever made. In Chicago during the Great Depression, small-time confidence man Hooker (Robert Redford) seeks revenge against gangster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) for the murder of his partner. Hooker teams up with Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), "the greatest con man in the world", and the duo launches an intricate scheme to defraud Lonnegan of his ill-gotten fortune. The chemistry between Redford and Newman is delightful and the pair seem to be having as much fun as the audience. With perfect period sets and Marvin Hamlisch's arrangement of Scott Joplin's ragtime music, George Roy Hill directs a twisting plot from a screenplay by David S. Ward with exquisite detail. The film garnered seven Oscars in 1974, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Writing, and Best Director.
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TREY SONGZ WITH BIG SEAN - Don't miss catching this singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor LIVE at the Paramount. You've heard his album, Passion, Pain & Pleasure. Look for his follow-up album, Chapter 5, soon to be released!
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In addition to Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, the program will feature works by two of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime: Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff and composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
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The program opens with Schubert's delightful Overture in C Major and continues with composer Ned Rorem's Letters from Paris. Andrew Sords makes his debut with OEBS playing one of the greatest concertos ever written, Brahms' richly harmonic Violin Concerto.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17 @ 8:00 PM
Chrisette Michele
S.F. Jazz Spring Season
Doors open 60 minutes before show time.

Tickets: $65.00 | $50.00 | $35.00 | $25.00
(ticket prices include facility fee)

CHRISETTE MICHELE - She's one of R&B’s most creative singer/songwriters. Since releasing an acclaimed hip hop-inflected album last year, Michele has taken her music in an entirely new direction with an ambitious homage to a triumvirate of jazz legends: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Tapping into her early love of jazz and American Songbook standards, Michele displays the improvisational skills and scat chops that she’s largely kept under wraps during her rise as an R&B diva. She premieres her latest project in the spectacular Paramount Theatre, a perfect setting in which to revisit the glories of jazz history.
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THE CINEMA EVENT OF A LIFETIME!
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival in association with American Zoetrope, The Film Preserve, Photoplay Productions, and BFI presents the U.S. premiere of Abel Gance’s legendary NAPOLEON in its complete restoration by Academy Award-winning historian, documentarian and archivist Kevin Brownlow, in four special screenings. These screenings also mark the U.S. premiere of the renowned orchestral score, written over 30 years ago (and twice expanded since), by Carl Davis, who will conduct the Oakland East Bay Symphony.
The spectacular presentation at the Paramount will be climaxed by its finale in "Polyvision" - an enormous triptych, employing three specially installed synchronized projectors, that will dramatically expand the screen to triple its width.
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David Requiro makes his OEBS debut playing Dvorak's Cello Concerto, written during the composer's final year in New York. Also on the program will be works by Filipino composers, including a new work by Filipino jazz composer Victor Noriega.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27 @ 8:00 PM
Paco de Lucia
S.F. Jazz Spring Season
Doors open 60 minutes before show time.

Tickets: $75.00 | $60.00 | $45.00 | $25.00
(ticket prices include facility fee)

PACO DE LUCIA - One of the world’s most revered guitarists, he is a peerless virtuoso who has single-handedly reinvented the flamenco vocabulary. Paco de Lucia returns to the Bay Area for his first performance in four years with a thrilling 8-piece Spanish ensemble featuring flamenco vocals and dance.
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Daniel Bernard Roumain blends his Haitian roots with classical and techno textures. Bay Area native and musical prodigy Taylor Eigsti returns home to present the World Premiere of a work he's writing for jazz piano and orchestra. And jazz vocalist Paula West will delight us with a set backed by the orchestra.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15 @ 8:00 PM
Another Night In Treme
S.F. Jazz Spring Season
Doors open 60 minutes before show time.

Tickets: $75.00 | $55.00 | $45.00 | $25.00
(ticket prices include facility fee)

ANOTHER NIGHT IN TREME - New Orleans music legends and stars of the blockbuster HBO series Treme bring to SFJAZZ another rollicking night of Crescent City sounds! "Another Night In Treme" will feature a cast of legendary New Orleans artists distilled from the vibrant musical patchwork that defines the Big Easy. Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement about the artist roster, but remember, our first "A Night in Treme" show in 2011 sold out and tickets will move quickly.
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