Upcoming Events
Pink Martini
Pink Martini
Friday, January 30, 2026
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $53 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $53
Balcony $63
Loge $78
Main Floor $98
This show is included in 2025-2026 full season tickets and half season package B. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+. THANK YOU to our generous show sponsors Robert Gelder & Bryan Johnson, Will & Karen Maupin, Ann Vogel & Keith Palmer, and Carolyn & Steve Roll!
In 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Thomas Lauderdale was working in local politics, attending every political fundraiser under the sun… but was dismayed to find the music at these events underwhelming and lackluster. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – and hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals alike, he founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994 to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks.
One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, a Harvard classmate who was living in New York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini as the lead singer, and collaborator. Their first song “Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)” became an overnight sensation in France, was nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, and is still the band’s number one song. Says Lauderdale, “We’re very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America… the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world… composed of people of every country, every language, every religion.”
Featuring a dozen musicians, with songs in 25 languages, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages on six continents. After making it’s European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998, the band has gone on to play with more than 50 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2014, Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
Pink Martini has released 11 studio albums on its own independent label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), selling over 3 million albums worldwide. In 2019, the band released two EPs featuring the vocals of Pink Martini’s newest members Jimmie Herrod and Edna Vazquez. Both vocalists have toured with the band for the past year and are officially part of the group with the release of Herrod’s EP Tomorrow and Vaquez’s Besame Mucho, both of which were co-produced by Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes. In 2024 the band is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary.
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Thank you to all of our 2025-2026 season, series and show sponsors!
Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org
Season Sponsors:
Cascade PBS
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex
Generous Show Sponsors:
Robert Gelder & Bryan Johnson
Will & Karen Maupin
Ann Vogel & Keith Palmer
Carolyn & Steve Roll
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
Fri., January 19, 2024
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $44 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $44
Balcony $54
Loge $84
Main Floor $109
This show is included in 2023-2024 full season tickets and half season package A. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.
America's biggest little orchestra Pink Martini is back at Bremerton's Admiral Theatre in 2024 - featuring China Forbes!
Founded in 1994 by Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini is known for drawing inspiration from music all over the world! The band's sound crosses genres ranging from classical and jazz to old-fashioned pop. Featuring a dozen musicians with songs in 25 languages, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and North America.
Pink Martini has sold over 3 million albums worldwide on their own independent label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog). The band’s debut album Sympathique was released in 1997, and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000. Pink Martini released Hang On Little Tomato in 2004, Hey Eugene! in 2007, and Splendor In The Grass in 2009. In November 2010, the band released Joy To The World, a festive, multi-denominational holiday album featuring songs from around the globe. Joy To The World received glowing reviews and was carried in Starbucks stores during the 2010 and 2011 holiday seasons. All five albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece, and Turkey.
"This is rich, hugely approachable music, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious. And it seems to speak to just about everybody ... From grade-schoolers to grandmothers to the young and hip and beautiful.”
— The Washington Post
Thank you to all of our 2023-2023 season and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org
Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Hill Worldwide Moving Services
KCTS 9 PBS Seattle / Cascade Public Media
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex
Show Sponsors:
Caffe Cocina Coffee Roasting
Robert Gelder & Bryan Johnson
Martha Black & Larry Walker
Tim & Susan Lavin
Seattle Rock Orchestra: The Beatles
Seattle Rock Orchestra: The Beatles
Abbey Road & Let It Be
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $24
Loge $39
Main Floor $54
This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets, half season package A, and the Music Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.
Seattle Rock Orchestra plays The Beatles' much beloved final studio recordings, Abbey Road and Let It Be. The program features songs such as "Across The Universe," "Let It Be," "Get Back," "Come Together," "Something," "Oh! Darling," and concludes with Abbey Road's famous 16-minute medley.
The Admiral Theatre’s 2022-2023 Music Series is generously sponsored by Sheila & Charles Hart
This show is generously sponsored by:
Richard & Stephanie “Taffy” Satter
Bremerton WestSound Symphony
Bremerton WestSound Symphony
80th Anniversary at the Admiral
Featuring Guitarist Mark Hilliard Wilson
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Doors 1:30 p.m. | Show 3 p.m.
Tickets start at $30 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $30
Balcony $30
Loge $30
Main Floor $50
This show is not included in 2022-2023 season tickets. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.
This year the Bremerton WestSound Symphony and Bremerton's Admiral Theatre both celebrate their 80th anniversaries with this special concert event. We look forward to welcoming you for an enjoyable afternoon of great music and community.
Alan Futterman, Music Director
Gary Dahl, Associate Conductor
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Rodrigo - Concerto de Aranjuez feat. Mark Hilliard Wilson on guitar
Bizet - Selections from Carmen with the Bremerton Symphony Chorale
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $44 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $44
Balcony $54
Loge $84
Main Floor $109
This show is not included in season tickets. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.
“Pink Martini is a rollicking around-the-world musical adventure… if the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band.” — Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader/pianist
Pink Martini’s “little orchestra” draws inspiration from the romantic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and ’50s and crosses genres to make an eclectic, modern sound. Their arrangements of Latin music, jazz, cabaret and cinema scores come together in a sound that defies categorization, but is guaranteed to get the audience up out of their seats and dancing in the aisles. This concert will include popular favorites from the band’s 25 year career as well as songs from their latest release, Je dis oui!, taking the audience on a musical trip around the world from France to Iran, Armenia to South Africa and more.
Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3056 or nita@admiraltheatre.org