A new day for the performing arts dawned in Raleigh with the opening of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Three new theaters join Memorial Auditorium to offer an additional 2,470 seats daily for arts lovers of the Triangle to experience the magical and the glorious. With the addition of Fletcher Opera Theater, Meymandi Concert Hall and Kennedy Theatre, Raleigh is taking the performing arts to magnificent new heights.

January 22-27
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Cats is an award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T. S. Eliot. The show has been performed around the world in numerous productions and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

January 29-February 3
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This is a Disney Channel Original and also the most successful movie/musical of its time. With a plot described as a modern retelling of Romeo & Juliet, High School Musical is a story of two high school juniors from rival cliques: Troy Bolton, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, a shy transfer student who excels in math and science. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school musical, and as a result, divide the school. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring others along the way not to "stick with the status quo."