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The Tivoli Theatre is located at 709 Broad St. For tickets or more information: 423-757-5580.
Thursday: The Price is Right
* When: 8 p.m. today, Nov. 2
* Admission: $89.50, $59.50, $39.50 and $29.50 plus fees
Come on down! The interactive stage version of television’s popular game show returns to the Tivoli Theatre giving audience members a chance to win prizes such as appliances, vacations and possibly a new car. Games include Plinko, Cliffhangers, The Big Wheel and, of course, the fabulous Showcase.
Friday: The Beach Boys
* When: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3
* Admission: Sold Out
What female teen in 1965 didn’t wish she could be a “California Girl”?
More than 50 years after the Beach Boys gave birth to the California sound, they are still creating music and performing with the same style and impact that changed the musical landscape of the 1960s and ’70s.
Saturday: Emmylou Harris
* When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4
* Admission: $99, $75, $55 and $45 plus fees
A 13-time Grammy winner and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris’ contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
She is an avid supporter of animal rights and actively involved in Bonaparte’s Retreat, a dog rescue organization that she founded.
Monday: Amos Lee
* When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6
* Admission: $64.50, $49.50 and $39.50
Amos Lee’s stop at the Tivoli is part of his “An Intimate Evening” solo headline tour.
The singer-songwriter was a schoolteacher and bartender before focusing on music. He’s opened for Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Merle Haggard, Van Morrison, Dave Matthews Band, Adele and Zac Brown Band. His music has been used in soundtracks for film and TV.
The latest of his six albums is “Spirit.” His album, “Mission Bell,” debuted at No. 1 on U.S. rock album charts in 2011.
Wednesday: Straight No Chaser: the Speakeasy Tour
* When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8
* Admission: $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50 plus fees
This male a cappella group formed more than a decade ago while students at Indiana University and became a music phenomena with a clever little mash-up of “The 12 Days of Christmas,” which has notched more than 20 million views on YouTube and become a holiday classic.
While the guys entertain their audiences with comical music parodies, the real show is the smooth blend of their voices.
FIVE QUESTIONS WITH STRAIGHT NO CHASER
Of the original nine singers who formed Straight No Chaser, six are still singing with the a cappella ensemble. Seggie Isho is one of them, a baritone who admits he once considered a cappella singing “kind of boring and stiff” until auditioning for Straight No Chaser.
Isho answered questions about their Tivoli performance in a recent phone interview.
Q: Who writes your arrangements and thinks up those mash-ups?
A: We have a few guys who do all the arranging. We write all the lyrics to our parodies. We do everything in house.
Q: How do you decide which songs will go in the show?
A: We ask our fans on Facebook and Twitter what they want to hear added to the set. They take priority over what we want to do. There have been songs we think the audience will really love and we get a lukewarm response. Those songs get booted and replaced. It takes about a week on tour to really know how the audience feels and what we might continue.
Q: Is this a holiday show?
A: Since it is before Thanksgiving, we aren’t doing a full holiday set. But there will be some holiday songs trickled in to give people a little taste.
Q: What’s new in this show?
A: Jerome Collins is going to be channeling a specific performer we haven’t tackled before. It’s super high-energy, funky and a lot of fun. There is another song where we get the audience involved and we will debut a new parody medley. I can’t give too much away because we want that element of surprise.
Q: Straight No Chaser has stopped at the Tivoli twice in recent years. Why is a third concert worth the cost of a ticket in your opinion?
A: Obviously, they came back a second time, so they like our music. We like to make sure our show is ever-evolving. We never put the same show out in the same city twice. We want to make sure we honor the songs they expect to hear and are coming to hear, but we’re going to give them some new stuff.
People always tell us this is the only concert they can bring their children and grandparents to. Everyone will find something they enjoy whether it’s the comedy, the old standards or songs they hear on the radio today.
Also, we’re extremely good-looking!
Contact Susan Pierce at spierce@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6284.