April 21 - 26, 2015
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"THE MOST EXCITING MUSICAL BROADWAY HAS SEEN IN YEARS."

- Chicago Tribune

"TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!" raves the New York Post for JERSEY BOYS, the 2006 Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award®-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the true story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30!  JERSEY BOYS features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." "THE CROWD GOES WILD!" cheers The New York Times.

The JERSEY BOYS creative team comprises two-time Tony Award®-winning director Des McAnuff, book writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, composer Bob Gaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

JERSEY BOYS contains authentic, "profane Jersey language" and is recommended for ages 12+

Check out this great video featuring  Frankie Valli!

This month, the QC Theatre Workshop will run an online campaign to help fund its upcoming 2015 productions. The QC Theatre Workshop's first large-scale fundraising effort will begin December 1, 2014. The final day of the campaign will be January 1, 2015. Donations can be made safely and securely through the company's website: QCTheatreWorkshop.org.

In August 2012, the Workshop started from scratch in a former elementary-school gymnasium with its dynamic production of John Logan's RED. In the following two and a half years, the dedicated and dynamic company has presented 10 productions, including such memorable hits as Last Call, Bat Boy: The Musical, and the world premiere of Aaron Randolph III's A Green River, which was later produced at Augustana College, and was highlighted in a documentary feature on WQPT.

"An incredible number of new businesses fail within their first two years," says Tyson Danner, the Workshop's Artistic Director. "Not only have we survived, but we have thrived. That's incredible for any small business, let alone a brand-new nonprofit arts organization. Our success is entirely due to the support we've received from our audiences."

Danner and the theatre's Board of Directors have decided that the growing company is ready to take the next step. This season, the Workshop will begin to pay selected positions in each production, with the goal of paying all directors, designers, staff, and actors by next season.

"Paying artists is the single biggest key to our future success," says Danner. "Not only do they deserve to be compensated for the tremendous amount of time and energy they offer, but it will also allow us to secure the right people for the right positions. Not everyone has the luxury of spending weeks working on a play for free. We want to make sure that - just like everyone can afford to see a play at the Workshop - everyone can afford to participate in our productions."

The funds raised will also go toward supporting the practical costs of producing theatre, such as lighting equipment, sets, props, performance rights, and costumes for the Workshop's upcoming productions of A Steady Rain and Tribes. A Steady Rain will be a reunion of the original trio behind RED: director Tyson Danner and actors Mike Schulz and Thomas Alan Taylor. A Steady Rain performances will take place March 13 - March 29. Following A Steady Rain, the company will partner with Dress for Success Quad Cities for a benefit performance of Nora Ephron's and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore in mid-May. Rounding out its third season, the Workshop will present Nina Raine's Tribes June 12 - June 28.

For further information, please call (563)650-2396 or e-mail info@QCTheatreWorkshop.org, and visit QCTheatreWorkshop.org and Facebook.com/QCTheatreWorkshop.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (November 24, 2014) - The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice has announced that its first year grant award will go to the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa. The grant will be used to expand CWJ's Jobs with Dignity Campaign to the Quad City Area.

CWJ's Jobs with Dignity Campaign will build on existing relationships with labor and community leaders in the Quad Cities Area to offer education and organizing support for low-wage, immigrant, and young workers. CWJ's vision for worker justice includes:

1. Having a union

2. Being paid a livable wage

3. Being paid on time and receiving a paystub

4. Secure, predictable work schedules

5. Workplaces free of discrimination and racism

Since it was first established in Johnson County in 2012, CWJ has become a dynamic organization involving over 250 low-wage workers and members of 30 affiliated community organizations. Through education, direct action, and legal strategies, CWJ has successfully assisted low-wage workers in recovering thousands of dollars in unpaid wages, spurred policy makers to propose improved wage payment laws and reverse discriminatory policing practices, and built a strong base of worker members who now possess impressive organizing and leadership experience.

CWJ's leadership structure requires that low-wage worker members make up majorities in all of its organizational decision-making bodies, reflecting the group's core belief that low-wage workers themselves must lead any successful effort to address the root causes of poverty and oppression. For more information on past and current efforts of CWJ, please visit their website at http://www.cwjiowa.org/home/

About Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice

The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice was established in 2013 to carry on the life work of Richard E. Fallow who fought for Labor and Economic Justice; Environmental Sustainability; and Democracy and Human Rights.  Each year the Endowment will issue a grant in one of these three categories. The Endowment is administered by the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend and managed by Progressive Action for the Common Good - 563-676-7580.

MOLINE, Ill. (November 19, 2014) - Justin Fox- who also had an assist- capped off a late Quad City Mallard rally by scoring the tying goal with just 1:26 left in regulation and went on to score again in the shootout along with Mario Lamoureux- who also provided a goal in regulation- as the host Quad City Mallards (5-3-3) snatched a wild 4-3 shootout win over the Tulsa Oilers (6-4-2) Wednesday night.  With the victory the Mallards extended their regulation unbeaten streak to six games (3-0-3).

Fox and Lamoureux replied for the Mallards after Adam Pleskach gave the Oilers the jump by scoring in the opening round of the shootout.  Mallard goaltender Parker Milner- who made 22 saves in regulation and overtime- stonewalled the final four Tulsa shooters to clinch the win.

For the Mallards to even force the game to overtime and- as it proved- the shootout required a remarkable comeback from a 3-1 deficit in the dying moments of the third period.  Mallards coach Terry Ruskowski pulled Milner for an extra attacker with just under three minutes remaining and the move paid off almost immediately when Evan Haney cut the gap to 3-2 with a one timer from the right wing circle at 17:37 of the third.  Just 57 seconds later Fox followed up a Joe Perry rush to score the dramatic equalizer.

The Mallards' late outburst was actually the second rapid-fire offensive outbreak of the third.  Lamoureux evened the score at one from the slot at 3:10 with the first of three goals in a span of 47 seconds.  Unfortunately for the Mallards, it was the Oilers who ripped off the next two.  Jon Booras's wrist shot form the high slot put Tulsa back on top only 27 seconds after Lamoureux's goal.  A mere 20 seconds after that- at the 3:57 mark- Tommy Mele stretched the margin to two by firing the puck in under the crossbar.

The Oilers had first moved in front when Adam Pleskach broke a scoreless tie from the high slot at 8:41 of the second period.

Forward Antti Pusa returned to the lineup for the Mallards Wednesday night after missing five games while on the team's reserve list.  Pusa was activated yesterday while forward Logan Nelson was placed on reserve.

The Mallards next play at home Friday night at 7:05 p.m. against the Rapid City Rush.  Friday brings the return of $1 Dog/$1 Beer Night presented by 97X and MetroLINK.  Fans can enjoy $1 hot dogs and beers from iWireless Center concession stands during all Friday home games.  97X will follow in the spirit of the evening by presenting hot dog-themed intermission entertainment.

Single game tickets for all remaining Mallards regular season home games- including Friday's tilt- are on sale now at the iWireless Center box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster charge-by-phone toll free at 1-800-745-3000.  The box office is open weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and game days from 10:00 a.m. until the start of the second period.  Tickets are available for $10, $16, $20 and $28.

About the Quad City Mallards
A proud affiliate of the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild and the American Hockey League's Iowa Wild, the Quad City Mallards are in the midst of their eighteenth season and their first in the ECHL.  One of the winningest teams in all of minor league hockey, the Mallards competed in the United Hockey League from 1995 through 2007; in the International Hockey League in 2009-10; and in the Central Hockey League from 2010 through 2014.  The Mallards' proud history has seen them capture the UHL's Colonial Cup Championship three times (1997, 1998, 2001) and secure that league's Tarry Cup four times (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002) for the best overall regular season record.  In 2001, the Mallards made professional hockey history, recording their sixth consecutive season with 50 or more wins, a feat that has yet to be matched.  The iWireless Center provides a unique environment for hockey and features one-of-a-kind seating areas such as the Nest for groups and functions and the exclusive Drake Club.  For more information on the Quad City Mallards or for Mallards tickets go to www.myqcmallards.net.  Fans can also follow the Mallards via Twitter at twitter.com/myqcmallards and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/qcmallards.