Musical treasure Patti LaBelle will fill Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium with her legendary rhythm and blues when she headlines the upcoming season of Mississippi State’s Lyceum Series.
Known as the “Godmother of Soul” and ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the “Top 100 Singers of All Time,” the Grammy Award winner will perform Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Doors open approximately 30 minutes before the curtain rises on all shows scheduled for the 2018-19 Lyceum Series, the university’s long-running performing arts program.
Former lead vocalist for Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, the music icon’s classic original songs and her renditions of pop and spiritual standards have created her personal platform of versatility for which she has been known and revered throughout her 50-plus year career. LaBelle’s signature songs “New Attitude” and “On My Own,” a Billboard No. 1 duet with Michael McDonald, are sure to be included in her performance, as are her show-stopping renditions of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and her 1975 original “Lady Marmalade.” First hitting the charts in 1962, she also performed with the genre-bending trio Labelle, and then began a solo career in the 1970s.
A successful entrepreneur known for her best-selling, original recipe Patti’s Good Life sweet potato pie, she’s also an advocate for adoption and finding cures for diabetes, cancer and HIV/AIDS. For more, visit pattilabelle.com.
Lyceum tickets
Lyceum organizers offers traditional season-ticket packages, which include admission to LaBelle’s Nov. 15 concert. A mini-series ticket option also is available and features guaranteed reserved seating at a discounted rate. Mini-series purchases include attendance to three programs, except LaBelle’s concert for which a separate ticket is required.
For ongoing Lyceum patrons, July 16-20 are the season ticket renewal dates, while July 23-Aug. 3 are dates for new purchases of complete season packets. Mini-series tickets go on sale Aug. 6-17; individual tickets, Aug. 18.
General public season tickets are $165 per person; $150 for MSU employees and senior citizens. Excluding LaBelle’s Nov. 15 performance, general public mini-series tickets are available for $85 and $70 for MSU employees and senior citizens.
For LaBelle’s performance, general admission individual tickets for the auditorium’s first balcony are $45; $35 on the second balcony. Reserved seating individual tickets for the auditorium’s first floor front section are $65; $55 for the first floor back section.
Individual tickets for all other Lyceum events are $30 for adults; $25 for MSU employees and senior citizens; $12 for children age 3-12 or with school ID/uniform; and free for MSU students with valid student I.D. Purchases may be made online at lyceum.msstate.edu.
If available, individual tickets may be purchased at the door before each program.
Other Lyceum events
Taking place at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium, additional Lyceum events include:
The group’s albums have been highly praised, winning a variety of a cappella awards, as well as Best Unsigned Band from Billboard Magazine. For more, visit m-pact.com.
In addition to six primary performances, the 2018 Lyceum schedule includes a free play presented Sept. 25-26 by students in MSU’s Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.
As part of an annual Classical Week observance celebrating Greek, Roman and other ancient cultures, Shackouls honors students will deliver their version of “Oedipus.” Staging will begin at 6 p.m. each day in the back courtyard of Griffis Hall, home of the honors college.
For additional MSU Lyceum Series information, contact the Center for Student Activities at 662-325-2930, visit lyceum.msstate.edu, email [email protected], and follow on Facebook @MSULyceumSeries and Twitter @MSU_Lyceum, using hashtag #MSULyceum. Contributions to the Lyceum Series can be made via the MSU Foundation by contacting Lynn Durr at 662-325-8918.
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