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For over three decades now HOTEL CALIFORNIA have been recreating the legendary sound of The Eagles, and thrilling audiences all over the world. From the quintessential Eagles anthem “Hotel California” thru “Take It Easy”, “Lyin’ Eyes”, “Take It to the Limit”, “Peaceful Easy Feeling”, “One of These Nights”, “Dirty Laundry”, “Already Gone”, “The Long Run”, “Life In the Fast Lane” and “Desperado”, they have evolved into a masterful celebration of The Eagles’ music.

The band set the bar in 1986, and they’ve remained the industry leading substitute for The Eagles ever since. Playing to huge outdoor and arena audiences, sharing bills with some of rock’s legends, and going places no tribute band has gone before. A long run by any measure, but it begs the question – what makes HOTEL CALIFORNIA so special?

Simply put, incredible lead vocal similarity, intensely accurate instrumental work, soaring harmonies, and top-flight live performances, just for starters. These are the band’s hallmarks, and the foundation on which their reputation has been built. With over a century of collective professional experience in the band today, they’re still going stronger than ever!

If you love The Eagles, then welcome to the HOTEL CALIFORNIA – you’ve just found the next-best thing.

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About the Conductor

Betsy Burleigh is Thomas R. Kasdorf Professor of Choral Conducting and professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was chair of the Choral Conducting Department from 2013 to 2024. Burleigh served as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2015, leading performances of Brahms’ Requiem, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and preparing the choir for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). As a guest conductor, Burleigh has led the PSO, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony, and Handel Society of Dartmouth College. She prepared the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus for performances with the Cincinnati Pops. Burleigh served as assistant director of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for 11 years, during which time she prepared the chorus for all performances at the Blossom Festival and oversaw the chorus for Pierre Boulez’s Deutsche Gramophone recording of Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette. Other positions have included directing the Providence Singers, Akron Symphony Chorus, Canton Symphony Chorus, and Mastersingers of Lexington. Acclaimed for her oratorio conducting, Burleigh’s Chorus pro Musica performance of Haydn’s Creation was praised as an “expansive, poetic reading” (The Boston Globe). Her rendition of Orff’s Carmina Burana was called both “nuanced” and “hair-raising” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). She won the 2000 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for best classical/opera performance for Ulmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and conducted The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an Emmy Award-winning concert for the 9/11 Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Burleigh previously held teaching positions at Tufts, Clark, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Cleveland State universities, Longy School of Music, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree with distinction from Indiana University, a Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from the Jacobs School.

Constellation Stage & Screen presents “R.L. Stine's Goosebumps The Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium” on stage October 30-November 15 at the Waldron Auditorium.

Get ready for a frightfully fun adventure with Goosebumps The Musical, based on the wildly popular books by R. L. Stine! When Brooke and Zeke are cast in their school’s spooky new play, The Phantom, they start to wonder if the show is actually cursed. As strange messages appear and rehearsals are disrupted by a mysterious masked figure, they must uncover the truth: is it all an elaborate prank… or is their theater truly haunted? Full of catchy songs, laugh-out-loud moments, and just the right amount of Halloween-season chills, this musical mystery is perfect for kids, tweens, and grown-ups who remember reading by flashlight. Fun for all ages!

See Constellation’s website for more information, including a detailed performance schedule. Learn more and find tickets at https://seeconstellation.org/kids/goosebumps/

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