Featuring: The Stylistics, The Emotions, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes & Blue Magic. When you think of Valentine's Day few things are more fitting than the smooth sounds of 70's Soul. The Palace Theatre is proud to welcome to The Stylistics {Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart), You Make Me Feel Brand New, Break Up To Make Up}, Harold Melvin's Blue-Notes {If You Don't Know Me By Now, I Miss You, The Love I Lost}, The Emotions & Blue Magic to Albany for a Valentine's Day Soul Jam sure to warm the heart of that special person in your life.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, The Pink Floyd Experience!

Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Their record-breaking status is legendary. Now, get ready for THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE! Complete with 200,000 watts of light...full quadraphonic sound and six brilliant musicians!

Today, Pink Floyd's appeal continues and spans the generations. Their shows were described as theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. The show is not only onstage...it engulfs the audience! THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is a full-on sensory assault - interpretive videos, plane crashes, flying pig, helicopter - it's all there, LIVE! This is the show for the ultimate Floyd Fan!

Since its premiere the show has been touring the United States and Canada to sell out crowds! After packing the house in 2006 and 2008, the Pink Floyd Experience returns to Albany's Palace Theatre this February!

FROM ED SULLIVAN TO ABBEY ROAD!

They look like them and they sound just like them!  "The next best thing to seeing The Beatles," raves the Denver Post.   All the music and vocals are performed totally live!  RAIN covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups. "A thrilling bit of time-warping nostalgia...Boomer Heaven!" raves The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  "Uncanny! RAIN are a quartet of fine musicians in their own right...as The Beatles, they triumph!" cheers the Boston Herald.  "An adoring Valentine to The Beatles," declares the Washington Post.  Sing along with your family and friends to such Beatlemaniac favorites as "Let It Be," "Hey Jude," "My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Come Together" and "Can't Buy Me Love."

PART OF THE PALACE THEATRE'S CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES   
1962, 129 minutes, not rated
#34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

In a small Georgia town in the 1930's, lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man (Brock Peters) accused of raping a white woman. Their father's innate decency affects his two motherless children as they learn about life and that not everything is as it seems from first glance. An outstanding film that only gains in stature as time passes.

Do you want to become a great composer?  Join Cowboy Dave, Composer Wannabe Elmus Parsley and the amazing Albany Symphony for a wild and wacky crash course in writing music.  You and Cowboy Dave must teach Elmus all the elements of music, including Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, and Orchestration before he inflicts the "worst music of all time" on the world.  Classics by Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin and others.

PART OF THE PALACE THEATRE'S CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES   
1944, 107 minutes, not rated
#38 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Wilder-Raymond Chandler script (from the James M. Cain novel) packs fireworks in the account of insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) lured into a murder plot by the alluring Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and the subsequent investigation by Neff's colleague (Edward G. Robinson). An American movie classic with crackling dialogue throughout!

Celebrate with your Playhouse Disney pals when Playhouse Disney Live! comes to your hometown!  In this live show, you're invited to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse as Mickey plans a spectacular music party for all his friends.  The Little Einsteins set off on a musical mission around the world to find a song for the party - with the help of Rocket, of course!  Pooh, Tigger and Darby spring into action to search for music in the Hundred Acre Wood, and Handy Manny and his team of tools find the perfect party beat. Laugh, sing and play along 'cause your favorite Playhouse Disney pals are live on stage and you're invited to join the party!

David Sedaris may well be the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star—his speaking engagements are now consistently standing-room-only, a far cry from his early days as a housecleaner in New York City. Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of his job as a Macy's elf clad in green tights, reading his "SantaLand Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. His original radio pieces can still often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ.

His sardonic wit and incisive social critique have since made him one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. He is the author of a number of popular books, among them "Naked", "Barrel Fever", "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "When You Are Engulfed in Flames". Don't miss your chance to see David Sedaris when he returns to the Palace Theatre!

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Rococo Variations Joshua Roman, Cello

"Theme and Variations" from Orchestral Suite No. 3

Symphony No. 6  "Pathetique"

PART OF THE PALACE THEATRE'S CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES   
1968, 112 minutes, not rated

In this intriguing sci-fi classic, Charlton Heston leads a group of surviving astronauts in a shocking future world where apes are masters and humans are slaves.

PART OF THE PALACE THEATRE'S CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES
1972, 175 minutes, Rated R
#3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Based on Mario Puzo's novel on the violent life and times of Mafia patriarch Don Corleone (Marlon Brando), The Godfather is pulp fiction raised to the highest level; a film of epic proportions, masterfully done and set to Nino Rota's memorable soundtrack. A true modern day classic and a film that must be seen on the big screen to truly appreciate!