Uptown
Fri., April 12, 2024
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $31 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $31
Balcony $39
Loge $49
Main Floor $64

This show is included in 2023-2024 full season tickets, half season package A, and the Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.

From New York City, the epicenter of contemporary Pop and Soul, Uptown is a group of men who combine the smooth stylings of R&B with the fresh hits of today. The perfect mix of Bruno Mars caliber stage presence with the vocals of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. You’ve never seen anything like Uptown! Each member of the collective is a soloist, bringing a unique flavor of performance that will have any crowd on their feet dancing and singing along. Regardless of the genre or era of music, The Uptown Show exudes freshness and fun in a way that everyone will enjoy.

Choreography, Vocals and Stage Presence...You do not want to miss out on Uptown.

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Thank you to all of our 2023-2024 season and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org

Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Hill Worldwide Moving Services
KCTS 9 PBS Seattle / Cascade Public Media
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex

Spotlight Series Sponsors:
Sheila & Charles Hart

Show Sponsors:
Bob & Patty Murphy

*SAVE 10% on tickets to all shows in March 2023 by entering the discount code GREEN at checkout. Click ‘Buy Tickets’ then enter the code in ‘Add Promo Code.’

Ray On My Mind - The Ray Charles Story Live
Friday, March 24, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $39
Loge $49
Main Floor $64

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets, half season package B, and our annual Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

This concert/theater work brings the music and the story of the great Ray Charles to vivid life! Portraying Ray, master pianist/vocalist, Kenny Brawner leads his 11 piece orchestra and three sultry vocalists (a la the Raelettees), performing this American legend’s most popular hits: “What’d I Say?”, “I Got A Woman”, “Mess Around”, “Georgia On My Mind”, a blazing hot duet on “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, and many more! The music is interwoven with monologues depicting how gospel, blues, jazz, and country-influenced Ray’s style, while also reflecting on American social history, his epic battle with drugs, and his triumphant return home to Georgia.

Ray On My Mind assembles an orchestra of profoundly accomplished musicians whose performances are ingrained in American popular culture. Members of the orchestra have been heard prolifically on Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and television. They have performed all over the world and recorded with a diverse range of influential musical giants, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Darius Rucker, Jennifer Hudson, Sonny Rollins, Big Daddy Kane, Bo Diddley, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Mighty Sparrow, Roy Ayers, Sam & Dave, Ashford and Simpson, Gregory Porter, Boy George, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, David Murray, Eric Benet, Larry Coryell, John Popper, Lester Bowie, Shaggy, Ron Carter and Rihanna.

The Admiral Theatre 2022-2023 Spotlight Series is generously sponsored by Sheila & Charles Hart

This show is generously sponsored by:
Brown & Brown
Harvey's Butter Rum Batter & Specialty Popcorn
Robison Plumbing

Booker T. Jones
Note by Note
60 Years of "Green Onions" and STAX Hits
Friday, January 20, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $34
Loge $49
Main Floor $69

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets and half season package A. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

“Green Onions” is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.’s. Described as “one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever” and as one of “the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era”, the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.

The track was originally issued in May 1962 on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of “Behave Yourself” on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions that same year. The organ sound of the song became a feature of the “Memphis soul” sound.

Booker T. Jones is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, four-time GRAMMY winner and arguably the most famous Hammond B3 player in history. As leader of the legendary Booker T. and the MGs, this pillar of soul music collaborated with Otis Redding, Albert King, and more during his tenure at Stax Records. Since then, Booker has lent his trademark keyboard chops to and produced classic albums such as Willie Nelson’s multi-platinum hit Stardust and Bill Withers’ Just As I Am featuring the hit song “Ain’t No Sunshine”.

With his Hammond B-3 organ, Booker T. Jones, along with the MG’s, would come to define The Memphis Sound. As leader of the famed Stax Records house band, and one of modern music’s most acclaimed figures, his first recording, “Green Onions,” was an international sensation, selling more than one million copies and claiming a place among Rolling Stone’s top five hundred songs of all time. As a multi-instrumental musical prodigy, his legacy is more than one song or music genre, and has grown with “Time Is Tight,” “Hip Hug-Her,” and the often sampled “Melting Pot” and collaborations with the likes of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam and Dave—and later Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson and Drive-By-Truckers.

“Booker T. Jones is one of the legends of soul music.” – The New Yorker

“Jones’ name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. At 17, he recorded the instrument’s anthem, “Green Onions.” – NPR

This show is generously sponsored by:
HutchCon Construction Inc.
Jim Sund & Anne Mulligan
Blue Architecture
Jim & Gail Smalley