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ENTERTAINMENT IN Classical Music, Ballet, DIRECTORY
and Opera
THE SOUTHWEST In Arizona, the excellent Rodeos and
Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Wild West Shows
Opera, and Ballet Arizona Fiesta de los Vaqueros
The Southwest’s blend of cultures has regularly host noted touring productions, all perform at the Phoenix Tucson. February.
made the region a thriving center for as well as regional the ater, dance, and Symphony Hall building. The ∑ tucsonrodeo.com
arts and entertainment. The large cities musical events. Almost every city and city’s $14-million refurbishment Frontier Days Rodeo
of Phoenix, Santa Fe, Tucson, and major town has a lively nightlife that of the Spanish Baroque-style Prescott. July.
Orpheum Theater makes it a
Albuquerque have vibrant artistic includes country music, jazz, and rock, stunning addition to more than ∑ worldsoldestrodeo.com
communities and offer opera, ballet, as well as dinner theater and standup 20 major venues for arts, sports, New Mexico State Fair
classical music, and major theatrical comedy. Sports fans will be happy here and entertainment in and and Rodeo
productions. The smaller resort towns with major league and college football, around Phoenix. Arizona Albuquerque. September.
∑ exponm.com
of Sedona and Taos are famous for their baseball, and basketball teams playing Theater Company and
resident painters and sculptors and across the region. Actors’ Theater occupies the Rawhide
Herberger Theater Center, Orpheum Theater, the location of several Tel (480) 502-5600.
offering a regular program presitigious award ceremonies ∑ rawhide.com
frontier towns such as of performances. With more
Tombstone (see p96), which than 20 theater companies in Nightlife Sports
stages daily mock-gunfights Phoenix, there is an impressive In almost every town there Arizona Cardinals
and tours of its Victorian choice of plays, as well as are restaurants, bars, and Tel (800) 999-1402.
buildings. There are also touring Broadway shows nightclubs that offer country ∑ azcardinals.com
Western towns built originally and big-name entertainers. music and dancing. Among
as film studios, such as Old New Mexico’s major cultural the most famous country Chase Field
Tucson Studios (see p90). activities are based in Santa music venues is the Western Tel (602) 462-6500.
Tours of the sets are available. Fe and Albuquerque. Santa theme town of Rawhide ∑ azchasefield.com; arizona.
Rawhide, north of Scottsdale, Fe has more than 250 art in Scottsdale, where well- diamondbacks.mlb.com
has an Old West museum, an galleries and is also respected known bands play. The Talking Stick Resort Arena
old-fashioned ice cream parlor, for its performing arts. The Museum Club in Flagstaff is Tel (602) 379-7867.
a famous music venue, and Santa Fe Opera performs a venerable Route 66 estab-
Western theme attractions. both traditional and lishment (see p55), that Classical Music, Ballet,
and Opera
contemporary operas in its hosted such top country
open-air arena between late music names as Hank Williams
Sports Albuquerque Philharmonic
Displaying traditional cowboy skills at one of the region’s rodeos June and August. The Santa in the 1950s and still offers Orchestra
The three most popular spectator Fe Chamber Music Festival, a lively selection of South- Tel (505) 433-7445.
Information cowboy skills such as roping steers sports in the Southwest, as in the held at venues throughout western bands.
The best source of events and breaking wild horses have rest of the country, are football, the city in July and August, is Major cities offer virtually El Paso Symphony Orchestra
Tel (915) 532-3776.
information is in the been transformed into categories baseball, and basketball. The one of the finest in the US. every type of evening
entertainment guides of local of rodeo contest, offering winners region’s largest concentration of The Albuquerque entertainment. Jazz bars Herberger Theater Center
newspapers. Phoenix’s The substantial money prizes. Rodeos major teams is in the Phoenix Philharmonic Orchestra and cafés are gaining in Tel (602) 254-7399.
Arizona Republic, Tucson’s owe their name to the Spanish area. There is only one major offers free classical concerts popularity, and standup New Mexico Jazz Workshop
Arizona Daily Star, the Santa Fe word for round-up, harking back league football team in the by accomplished amateur comedy and rock music is Tel (505) 255-9798.
New Mexican, and Albuquerque to the 19th century, when herds South -west, the Arizona musicians, and the El Paso available in countless venues.
Journal are the most useful. of cattle crossed New Mexico on Cardinals, in Phoenix. The Symphony Orchestra performs Clubs and arenas based in Orpheum Theater
Most of these newspapers also their way to California. Arizona Diamondbacks baseball throughout the year in the Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Tel (602) 262-6225.
have websites. There are several Today’s rodeo circuit is highly team joined the majors in 1998 town’s historic 1920s Plaza and Santa Fe are regular stops Phoenix Symphony Hall
regional magazines that review competitive and dangerous, and is based at the $275-million Theater. New Mexico Jazz for big stars on US tours. Tel (602) 262-6225.
events and nightlife. Most hotels attracting full-time professionals, Chase Field in Phoenix. Workshop stage more than However, the entertainment Santa Fe Chamber
offer magazines, such as Where whose high pay reflects this Professional basketball is 30 concerts each year. capital of the region and, Music Festival
and Key, that feature dining, risky career. Nevertheless, the represented by the Phoenix Suns, some would say the Tel (505) 982-1890. ∑ sfcmf.org
attractions, and entertainment. allure is comparable with the who share the Talking Stick world, is Las Vegas Santa Fe Opera
You can book tickets for most magic of the circus. Among the Resort Arena with a football (see pp130–31). Tel (505) 986-5900.
events through Ticketmaster largest and most popular rodeos team, the Arizona Rattlers. While The Las Vegas Strip
outlets, or at www.ticketmaster. are Tucson’s Fiesta de los tickets may be hard to obtain on a single night hosts Nightlife
com, their online booking service. Vaqueros, Albuquerque’s New for league games, it is easy to as much top talent as
Mexico State Fair and Rodeo gain entrance to the many all the other cities in The Museum Club
and Prescott’s Frontier Days college games in any sport the Southwest do in a Tel (928) 526-9434.
Rodeos and Rodeo (see pp36–9). throughout the region. Phoenix’s year: everything from ∑ themuseumclub.com
Wild West Shows
The Southwest offers plenty warm climate also attracts the Broadway shows and
Since Buffalo Bill’s first Wild West of opportunities for visitors to Cactus League, a series of dazzling home-grown Tickets
shows in the 1880s, the Southwest sample the atmosphere of the training games for 15 major productions to a range Ticketmaster
has been a mecca for Western- Wild West, either in the many league baseball teams in Spectacular outdoor setting of the Santa Fe of free music in the Tel (800) 745-3000.
style entertainment. Traditional ghost towns or in historic February and March. Opera company casinos.

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