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16 Broadway Then and Now<br />
Saturday, June 4 | 6 & 8PM<br />
19 Hasan Minhaj<br />
The King’s Jester Tour<br />
Saturday, June 4 | 7 & 10PM<br />
Sunday, June 5 | 8PM<br />
22 <strong>NJPAC</strong> Stage Exchange<br />
Vivid Stage<br />
Tuesday, June 7 | 7PM<br />
25 Jersey New Moves<br />
Friday, June 10 | 7PM<br />
31 Ana Gabriel<br />
Por Amor A Ustedes<br />
Friday, June 10 | 8PM<br />
32 <strong>NJPAC</strong> Stage Exchange<br />
Pushcart Players<br />
Saturday, June 11 | 2PM<br />
35 Nemr<br />
Saturday, June 11 | 7PM<br />
37 Celebrating the Theater<br />
Songs of Leonard Bernstein<br />
Friday, June 17 | 7:30PM<br />
43 The Masked Singer<br />
National Tour 2022<br />
Saturday, June 18 | 8PM<br />
44 Johnny Mathis<br />
Friday, June 24 | 8PM<br />
49 Welcome to Night Vale<br />
The Haunting of Night Vale<br />
Friday, June 24 | 8PM<br />
50 All Grown Up<br />
An Evening with Comedian Eli Castro<br />
Saturday, June 25 | 3 & 8PM<br />
53 Patti Labelle<br />
with special guest Will Downing<br />
Saturday, June 25 | 8PM<br />
Shine Studio Portrait 2018<br />
dear friends<br />
John Schreiber<br />
President & CEO<br />
On behalf of everyone at the Arts Center, I’m so glad to welcome<br />
you to this performance.<br />
We’re always happy to see our theaters full, but I can’t tell you what a<br />
joy and a relief it is to all of us to see crowds coming through the doors<br />
of Prudential Hall and Victoria Theater this particular season.<br />
After that long pandemic hiatus, you’re back, and our artists are back<br />
up on stage where they belong. Thank goodness!<br />
In the middle of the pandemic, there were times when I wondered if<br />
audiences would ever return to <strong>NJPAC</strong> in the numbers they had before.<br />
Would people get used to watching everything and anything on Netflix,<br />
Amazon and YouTube? Even when it was safe to return, would our<br />
community come out for a show? Or had live indoor entertainment<br />
gone the way of the horse and buggy?<br />
I shouldn’t have worried. They did. You did.<br />
In only the past few months, when performers like Los Tigres Del Norte and Eddie Vedder and the<br />
Earthlings have appeared at the Arts Center, we’ve had an absolutely giddy audience filling every<br />
single seat in the house.<br />
When Blippi The Musical was staged here just a few weeks ago, not only was the theater full<br />
to bursting, it was full of children — some 2,000 kids practically levitating with the excitement<br />
of seeing a live show. I was able to greet them at our front doors as they trooped in, proudly<br />
wearing Blippi-orange suspenders and bow ties, and their joy was so palpable. I think I grew<br />
a little younger myself, just basking in their glee.<br />
Plus: Is there anything more adorable than a little kid in a mask, when it’s not even Halloween?<br />
I’m so grateful that all my fears were for naught. The reality is that we want to be back together,<br />
we want to be a part of a community we can see and feel all around us. The desire for shared<br />
experiences, the longing for the camaraderie that comes from being a part of a huge group of<br />
fans of one special rock star, or band, or bow-tied TV friend, never went away.<br />
We’ve been hungry for that experience. And I’m grateful that <strong>NJPAC</strong> has been able to provide it.<br />
And I’m thankful for the remarkable respect that so many in our audiences have shown for the<br />
health and safety protocols we were obliged to put in place. It is heartwarming to me how almost<br />
everyone so carefully donned a mask, brought in a vaccination card, and in countless other ways<br />
made certain that this communal experience would also be a safe one for us all.<br />
Now that some of those restrictions are being relaxed, it almost feels like the old days again.<br />
By the time you read this letter, they may have been suspended entirely.<br />
My fondest hope is that they will be, and we can put the pandemic behind us once and for all.<br />
But please know that we take your health as seriously as we take our own. Whatever protocols we<br />
have in place when you visit the Arts Center, they’re designed to make the environment you’re in<br />
right now as safe as possible. That’s our promise to you, for now, and for always.<br />
I hope that gives you comfort. And that you enjoy your show today. For all of us at <strong>NJPAC</strong>,<br />
you are the real star of the show, and we’re so happy you’re here.<br />
All good wishes,<br />
John Schreiber<br />
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