Perry Award-winning director Dan Maurer will bring you Elton John and Tim Rice's mega-musical Aida. This high energy, romantic, pop/rock epic won four Tony Awards when Walt Disney’s Hyperion Theatrical Group first brought it to Broadway in 2000. The show features music by pop legend Sir Elton John and lyrics by Sir Tim Rice, who penned the words to such Broadway blockbusters as Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. After their successful partnership creating the music for Disney’s The Lion King, the mouse house tapped them to create a Broadway musical for grown-ups, and Aida was born. Set in ancient Egypt, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida is the story of an enslaved Nubian princess, her conflicted Egyptian captor, and a forbidden love that rocks the ancient world to its core. Described as one part Broadway musical, one part dance show and one part rock concert, Aida promises Kelsey Theatre audience a night to remember. (Rated PG)