As one of the finest performing arts facilities in North Carolina since 1932, Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium experienced a dramatic rejuvenation in 1989-90 with completed renovations totaling over ten million dollars. Rich with history, this elaborately appointed landmark continues to nourish an outstanding repertoire of performing arts events in grand tradition, providing sophisticated beauty, comfort, and convenience for patrons and performers alike.

Home to the North Carolina Symphony and the North Carolina Theatre, Memorial Auditorium has gratified audiences with outstanding performances in opera, ballet, orchestral music, theater, comedy, and popular music concerts, featuring some of the world's most celebrated artist such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Itzhak Perlman, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, The Moody Blues, Amy Grant, Toto, and Prince, as well as outstanding Broadway musical presentations of Cats, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, and Rent, just to name a few.

From the exquisite entrance atrium lobby with the grandeur of a central twin floating staircase and 14 Doric columns, to the main auditorium with its state-of-the-art stage, high coffered beam ceiling, sound reflective mahogany walls, intricate sound and lighting systems and 2,277 luxurious wide-berth seats, Memorial Auditorium is designed to lend a highly professional yet introspective atmosphere to any performance no matter what the scale.

Eighty-thousand square feet of stage, house, rehearsal hall, lobbies and public areas make Memorial Auditorium one of the most decisively versatile facilities in the Southeast, affording extensive flexibility for a wide variety of functions. Stage level dressing rooms complete with mirrors, dressing tables, showers and restroom facilities, an elegant rehearsal hall for small theater productions, dinners, and meetings, plus a state-of-the-art box office are just a few of the additional outstanding features and amenities offered, insuring that each event or special performance will be a highly professional and inspiring occasion.

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1 - Broadway Series South at Memorial Auditorium
Wed, Jun 24, 2009-Sun, May 9, 2010

2 - Carolina Ballet's Messiah
Wed, Nov 25: 8:00 pm
Fri, Nov 27: 8:00 pm
Sat, Nov 28: 2:00 pm, 8:00 pm
Sun, Nov 29: 2:00 pm

3 - Cirque Holidaze
Tue, Dec 1: 8pm
Wed, Dec 2: 8pm
Thu, Dec 3: 8pm
Fri, Dec 4: 8pm
Sat, Dec 5: 2pm, 8pm
Sun, Dec 6: 2pm, 7pm

4 - A Christmas Carol
Tue, Dec 8-Fri, Dec 11: 7:00pm
Sat, Dec 12-Sun, Dec 13: 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Mon, Dec 14-Wed, Dec 16: 7:00pm

5 - Carolina Ballet's Nutcracker
Fri, Dec 18: 7:30 pm
Sat, Dec 19: 11:00 am, 3:00 pm, 7:30 pm
Sun, Dec 20: 2:00 pm, 6:00 pm
Tue, Dec 22: 2:00 pm, 7:30 pm
Wed, Dec 23: 2:00 pm, 7:30 pm
Sat, Dec 26: 2:00 pm, 6:00 pm
Sun, Dec 27: 2:00 pm, 6:00 pm

6 - Band of the Irish Guard
Mon, Jan 25, 2010: 8pm

7 - Xanadu
Tue, Feb 9, 2010: 8pm
Wed, Feb 10, 2010: 8pm
Thu, Feb 11, 2010: 8pm
Fri, Feb 12, 2010: 8pm
Sat, Feb 13, 2010: 2pm, 8pm
Sun, Feb 14, 2010: 2pm matinee, 7pm

8 - Get the Led Out - The American led Zeppelin
Sat, Feb 20, 2010: 8p

9 - Ballet Folklorico De Mexico
Sun, Feb 21, 2010: 8pm

10 - The Pink Floyd Experience
Mon, Mar 1, 2010: 8pm

11 - Little House on the Prairie
Tue, Mar 16, 2010: 8pm
Wed, Mar 17, 2010: 8pm
Thu, Mar 18, 2010: 2pm, 8pm
Fri, Mar 19, 2010: 8pm
Sat, Mar 20, 2010: 2pm, 8pm
Sun, Mar 21, 2010: 2pm

12 - Peking Acrobats
Thu, Mar 25, 2010: 8pm

13 - One Night of Queen
Sun, Mar 28, 2010: 8pm

14 - Riverdance
Tue, May 4, 2010: 8pm
Wed, May 5, 2010: 8pm
Thu, May 6, 2010: 8pm
Fri, May 7, 2010: 8pm
Sat, May 8, 2010: 2pm, 8pm
Sun, May 9, 2010: 2pm, 7pm