Civic Box Office - Santa Cruz Tickets

Ticket price <10 ($0-$9.99) = $1.50
Ticket price <$20 ($10-$19.99) = $2.50
Ticket price <$60 ($20-$59.99) = $3.50
Ticket price >$60 ($60.00+) = $4.50

Ticket prices often increase day of show, so please purchase your tickets early for best availability and price. Please let us know of any accommodations you may need.

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Civic Auditorium Seating Map

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Parking

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Upcoming Special Events

Ticket prices include 5% City Admission tax when applicable, service charges are extra.

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Sunday, December 7, 2008: Grey Bears Dinner. Join the Grey Bears as they provide a free Christmas dinner with loads of entertainment. A turkey dinner will be served with all the trimmings. This event is free for all seniors and promises to be a good time for all. Please call 831-479-1055 for more information or visit www.greybears.org.

Thursday, December 11 through Saturday, December 13, 2008: Dad’s Club Basketball Tournament. Details to be announced—for more information visit Santa Cruz High Boys Basketball.

Friday, December 19 through Sunday, December 21, 2008: The Nutcracker presented by Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre. Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre will bring this beloved holiday classic to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium stage, augmented by eighty local dancers and performers, plus 55 professional musicians conducted by John Larry Granger. Ticket prices, not including service charge, range from $60.00 -$12.00. Saturday and Sunday 1pm performances now offer a “Nutcracker Sweet” Meet and Greet Package. This $60.00 package, plus service charge, includes seats in the dress circle and a chance to meet your favorite Nutcracker characters an hour prior to the performance. Call (831) 477-1606 for more information or visit www.scbt.org.

Saturday, January 24, 2009, 8:00 pm: Santa Cruz County Symphony Concert 3: Triumph and New Beginnings. Program includes Schubert’s Overture in C, D. 591, Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring pianist, Daniel del Pino, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No .5. Although Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony was nicknamed his “Fate Symphony”, his Fifth Symphony is also about fate, but with a much more positive conclusion. Daniel del Pino celebrates Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday with a performance of his First Piano Concerto. Ticket prices (not including service charges) range from $16.50-61.50 for adults and $10.50-61.50 for seniors 62+ or Students with valid ID. Tickets are available at the Civic Box Office, SantaCruzTickets.com or by calling (831) 420-5260. For more information, visit www.santacruzsymphony.org or call the symphony office at 462-0553.

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 2:00 pm: Santa Cruz County Symphony Family Concert: The Colors of Music. How composers “color” a piece of music by using specific instruments or combinations of instruments is explored and led by Maestro John Larry Granger. The orchestra welcomes members of the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony to share the stage, creating the largest philharmonic on the Central Coast of California. The concert is presented in a highly accessible style, using elements of humor, movement and audience participation. Ticket prices in advance (not including service charges) are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors 65+, children 12 & under or students with valid ID. Ticket prices increase by $2 day of show. Call or visit the Civic Box Office for group discounts. Tickets are available at the Civic Box Office, SantaCruzTickets.com or by calling (831) 420-5260. For more information, visit www.santacruzsymphony.org or call the symphony office at 462-0553.

Saturday, March 21, 2009: Santa Cruz County Science Fair. The Science Fair has continued to grow every year showcasing the amazing and creative projects by the talented youth of Santa Cruz County. It is a volunteer event at most schools and brings out the best in original and inventive thinking. Winners can go on to the state level science fair and some to the international science fair. For more information visit www.science.santacruz.k12.ca.us.

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8:00 pm: Santa Cruz County Symphony Concert 4: Mythical Moods. Program includes Moncayo's Huapango, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring pianist, Chetan Tierra, and Nielsen's Symphony No. 2. Mythical Moods opens with a very lively piece by Mexican composer, Jose Moncayo entitled, “Huapango”. Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto highlights the inventive prowess of composer Prokofiev. This piece is performed by Chetan Tierra in his hometown. Carl Nielsen’s Second Symphony focuses on early ideas of human emotions and parts of the human anatomy that reflect those emotions. Ticket prices (not including service charges) range from $16.50-61.50 for adults and $10.50-61.50 for seniors 62+ or Students with valid ID. Tickets are available at the Civic Box Office, SantaCruzTickets.com or by calling (831) 420-5260. For more information, visit www.santacruzsymphony.org or call the symphony office at 462-0553.

Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:00 pm: Santa Cruz County Science Fair Awards Ceremony. For more information visit www.science.santacruz.k12.ca.us.

Saturday, May 2, 2009, 8:00 pm: Santa Cruz County Symphony Concert 5: Genesis of Genius. Program includes Haydn: The Creation with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus. This performance will be honoring the 200th anniversary of Franz Josef Haydn, the “Father of the Symphony”. Witness the wonderful collaboration between the Santa Cruz Symphony along with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus as they perform Haydn’s beautiful oratorio, “The Creation”. Ticket prices (not including service charges) range from $16.50-61.50 for adults and $10.50-61.50 for seniors 62+ or Students with valid ID. Tickets are available at the Civic Box Office, SantaCruzTickets.com or by calling (831) 420-5260. For more information, visit www.santacruzsymphony.org or call the symphony office at 462-0553.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7:30 pm: Garrison Keillor. The charming, witty and always entertaining author and humorist comes to Santa Cruz in a one-man show to share his touching and often hilarious stories about growing up in the Midwest, the people of Lake Wobegon, and “late-life fatherhood.” Ticket prices (not including service charges) are $40, $36 and $32 for this reserved seating show. Tickets are available at the Civic Box Office, SantaCruzTickets.com or by calling (831) 420-5260. For more information, visit ArtsLectures.ucsc.edu.

Other ticketed events available through the Civic Box Office:

November 21 through December 14 at the UCSC Main Stage – Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Wind in the Willows

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm & Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 3:00 pm at the Christ Lutheran Church – SC Chamber Players: Unaccompanied! Music for Solo Instruments

Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 7:00 pm at the Rio Theatre – Kennan & Karen Ward’s Pacific Migrations

Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:30 pm at the UCSC Recital Hall – New Music Works 30th Anniversary

Sunday January 25, 2:00 pm at the Mello Center – Santa Cruz Symphony Concert 3: Triumph and New Beginnings

Saturday, January 31, 2009, 8:00 pm at the First Congregational Church – SC Chamber Players: A Handel Adventure: Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, A Baroque Opera

Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:30 pm at the UCSC Recital Hall – Valentina Lisitsa

Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2:00 pm at the Mello Center - Santa Cruz County Symphony Family Concert: The Colors of Music.

Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8:00 pm & Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 3:00 pm at the Christ Lutheran Church – SC Chamber Players: Danza Espanolas

Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 8:00 pm & Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 3:00 pm at the Christ Lutheran Church – SC Chamber Players: Six By Seven: The Music of Les Six

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 8:00 pm & Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 3:00 pm at the Christ Lutheran Church – SC Chamber Players: Strings Attached

Sunday May 3, 2:00 pm at the Mello Center – Santa Cruz Symphony Concert 5: Genesis of Genius

All Shakespeare Santa Cruz, UCSC Arts & Lectures shows, and more!

Visit the Civic Box Office, call (831)420-5260, or buy online at santacruztickets.com.

Share Your Memories of the Civic

The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is celebrating 60 years of outstanding contribution to cultural and civic life in Santa Cruz. Since March 28, 1940 the Civic Auditorium has hosted an extraordinary array of events which chronicle social and community life here for over half a century. Now a permanent Auditorium lobby exhibit is planned to document this remarkable history.

The City of Santa Cruz invites the public to commemorate the Civic's contributions by loaning archival material for the exhibit. Civic staff seeks memorabilia: photographs, posters, programs, tickets, autographs, video clips, and other artifacts to record the Auditorium's expansive 60 year history. Original artifacts can be loaned for duplication purposes, and then returned to the owner.

If the Civic's walls could talk, the stories they could tell:

• From Howdy Doody to Megadeth numerous concerts including: Laurie Anderson, Tony Bennett, the Buena Vista Social Club, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Jerry Garcia Band, Nanci Griffith, Ben Harper, B.B. King, the Pat Metheny Group, The Ramones, Carlos Santana, The String Cheese Incident, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more.

• Eleanor Roosevelt to Jesse Jackson to the H.H. Dalai Lama

• The Miss Cal Pageant to Gloria Steinem

• The Civic's 1939 dedication ceremony to First Night Santa Cruz 2000

• Santa Cruz Follies to the Santa Cruz County Symphony to Omega Nu to the Cabrillo Music Festival to A Gay Evening in May

• Basketball to boxing to roller derby to ice skating to the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions
  

• Wedding receptions to graduations to high school dances and Sweet 16 parties.

Memorabilia holders are asked to call the Civic Auditorium at 420-5243.
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Directions to the Civic Auditorium

From the south: Highway 1, exit at Ocean Street/Beaches, right on Water Street, left on Center Street to the Auditorium. From the north (Highway 17): Highway 17 to Ocean Street/Beaches (where Hwy 17 ends), right on Water Street, left on Center Street to the Auditorium. From the north (Highway 1): Highway 1 to Mission Street, right on Walnut Street, left on Chestnut Street, right on Church Street to the Auditorium. For further directions, call (831) 420-5240. For Parking information please click on this link, http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pw/trafeng/parking/parking.html

Civic Events

Call (831) 420-5260 for information and to purchase tickets for Civic Auditorium events. Cash, check, VISA, MasterCard accepted. Please let us know of any accommodations you may need.
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Ticketmaster Events

As of February 20th, 2007, the Civic Box Office will be hosting it’s own ticketing software with new exciting features and reduced service charges. We will no longer be affiliated with Ticketmaster (with the exception of sales for the Santa Cruz Dayz events scheduled for February 22nd and 23rd). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause—please visit www.ticketmaster.com or call (408)998-TIXS to purchase tickets to events at other venues. Tickets to Civic events can be purchased by calling the Civic Box Office at (831) 420-5260 and through the links provided in the event listing above.

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Civic Auditorium Panoramas:

Show Related Policies:

Click here for information on ticket policies for UCSC events.

We look forward to seeing you at the Civic—please note the following general policies:

• There are no refunds or exchanges on tickets – please check your tickets carefully at time of purchase to insure they are for the correct performance date and time.
  
  
• Event date and time, and occasionally line-up are subject to change – refunds related to re-scheduled events will be announced for postponed or cancelled events. Please provide a contact number or email at time of purchase so we may contact you in the event of such changes.
  
  
• Unfortunately, tickets cannot be replaced in most instances if lost, stolen, or destroyed—please keep tickets away from high heat.
  
  
• Tickets are valid only for the event and seat for which it is issued; and are not transferable or redeemable for cash.
  
  
• Many events may not be suitable for small children. In most cases children (regardless of age) must have a ticket and sit in a seat—please call (831) 420-5260 for specific event limitations.
  
  
• There are no in-and-out privileges for most events—once you exit the building there is no re-entry -- please plan accordingly.
  
  
• For the safety and enjoyment of all patrons, cans, bottles, and food from outside vendors are not allowed into the Auditorium. This includes water bottles as we cannot sample water from every bottle and the risk of illegal substances entering the facility is too great to allow. There are water fountains in the lobby—we will gladly supply a cup if you request one from the concession stand.
  
  
• Cameras and recorders are restricted for most events -- please call for information on a specific event. Use of cell phones to record images is also prohibited and is grounds for eviction from the facility. In all instances, patron shall not re-broadcast without permission.
  
  
• Smoking is not allowed within the Auditorium or within 20’ of any door or window or publicly accessible area, therefore there are no ‘smoking areas’ around the facility. In tandem with the no ‘in-and-out’ privileges, those wishing to smoke may have to wait until they are willing to leave the event.
  
  
• Please arrive early for performances as late seating may be restricted.
  
  
• Please turn off all cell phones and pagers. We do have a payphone in the lobby should you need to make an emergency call.
  
  
• Your ticket is a revocable license-- management reserves right to eject disorderly patrons without refund.
  
  
• Tickets purchased from unauthorized sources may be lost or stolen and are void.
  
  
• Use of your ticket assumes all risk and danger in participating in event and authorizes permission for use of your image or likeness in rebroadcast.
  
  
• SantaCruzTickets will not sell your information to third parties. Basic contact information and information about your order is shared with producers of the events you purchase. Producers may share contact information – please check with individual producers for regarding their policy. You may opt out at anytime by updating your preferences in My Account, or by calling Santa Cruz Tickets
  

Should you have any concerns, please bring them to the attention of staff as our goal is to make your experience an enjoyable one!

Civic Specifications:

Visit www.iatse611.org for sound and lighting specifics; and stagehand contacts.

Lighting Rep plot

• Hardwood floor (63' x 90') and stage (37' x 51')

• 8600 square feet of display space for trade shows

• Fixed and moveable seating for up to 2000

• Complete box office services

• Dressing rooms

• Four conference rooms for groups of 10 to 75

• State of the art lighting and sound systems

• Indoor basketball and volleyball

• Industrial kitchen

• Accessible parking
  

• Excellent local transportation

• Located in the heart of downtown Santa Cruz

• Nearby cafés, restaurants, boutiques, entertainment, etc.