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In celebration of MusicalFare's 20^{th anniversary season, the return of one of the most acclaimed and cherished productions in our history. FALSETTOS is the Tony award winning story of a family that somehow manages to stay together by reinventing itself. The Buffalo News awarded the 1995 production five stars and called it "a delight" and "very funny" and "very moving."}

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host of PBS's NOVA scienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe. Tyson first appeared on PBS in 2004, hosting a NOVA 4-part mini-series, Origins.

Tyson's professional interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. He obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Andes Mountains of Chile.

In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by the President to serve on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond Commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget.

In addition to dozens of professional publications, Tyson is a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title Universe. And among Tyson's nine books is his memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith, Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto's planetary status.

Tyson is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium, part of the American Museum of Natural History.

A product of the public school system through high school, Tyson earned his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. He is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid 13123 Tyson.