Irvine Barclay Theatre’s Opening Season Filled With Local Groups : Culture: The new arts facility being built on the UCI campus should be ready to open in mid-October.

Ten local arts groups have been added to the roster of the Irvine Barclay Theatre, it was announced Tuesday, completing the projected programming schedule for the 1990-91 season.

The $17.6-million facility, formerly called the Irvine Theatre, is under construction on the UC Irvine campus and is expected to open in mid-October.

The latest round of performance dates has been given to five dance companies, two drama troupes and three cultural organizations.

The best-known is Ballet Pacifica, which is based in Laguna Beach and has appeared throughout Orange County. (Related story, F3.) It will present four ballets--”Eight Lines,” “Duetto,” “Interior” and a new work still to be decided--on April 12 and 13. A second program on May 31 and June 1 will feature “Graduation Ball” and “Les Femmes.”

The other dance companies are the Arpana Dance Co., which will stage a full-length production with about two dozen Asian Indian dancers (Nov. 23); the Irvine Ballet, which will present a holiday program (Dec. 14-16) and a children’s production (March 1 and 2); the Irvine School of Dance (June 9), and the Irvine Academy of Performing Arts (June 20-22).

The drama troupes scheduled for performances are the Irvine Civic Light Opera (formerly South Coast Musical Theatre) and the Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children.

The light-opera company will present two musicals still to be decided. The first will run for two weekends (Feb. 15-17 and 22, 23) and the second will run for two weekends (July 12-14, 19 and 20). Theatrefaire is considering performances of “Beauty and the Beast” on March 15-17, 22 and 23.

The cultural groups receiving performance dates are the Irvine Chinese School (Feb. 3), the Friends of Jewish Music (March 24) and the South Coast Chinese Cultural Assn. (May 4).

The complete 1990-91 schedule to date--except for special programming to celebrate the 750-seat theater’s official opening (tentatively set for Oct. 13)--is as follows:

1990:

Oct. 7: South Coast Symphony

Oct. 10: National Theatre of the Deaf

Oct. 26: Empire Brass

Oct. 28: Mozart Camerata

Oct. 29: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

Nov. 2-3: Bella Lewitzky Dance Co. (with a lecture-demonstration Nov. 1)

Nov. 4: UCI Chamber Music Series

Nov. 5: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

Nov. 10: Opera a la Carte doing Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”

Nov. 11: South Coast Symphony

Nov. 15: Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Nov. 16: Royal New Zealand Ballet doing “Coppelia”

Nov. 17: Irvine Camerata

Nov. 18: Irvine Symphony

Nov. 23: Arpana Dance Co.

Nov. 24, 25: Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Co.

Nov. 30: Mozart Camerata

Dec. 1: Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Coronet Band Hometown Christmas

Dec. 2: UCI Chamber Music Series

Dec. 14-16: Irvine Ballet

1991:

Jan. 6: Irvine Symphony

Jan. 12: Seattle Mime Co. doing “Pinocchio”

Jan. 13: UCI Chamber Music Series

Jan. 14: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

Jan. 20: South Coast Symphony

Jan. 22: Children’s Theatre Co. of Minneapolis

Jan. 24-26: Hubbard Street Dance Co.

Jan. 30: Western Opera Theater doing “Lucia de Lammermoor”

Feb. 1, 2: UCI Orchestra

Feb. 3: Irvine Chinese School

Feb. 4: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Feb. 9: Irvine Camerata

Feb. 10: Mozart Camerata

Feb. 15-17: Irvine Civic Light Opera

Feb. 22-23: Irvine Civic Light Opera

Feb. 24: UCI Chamber Music Series

Feb. 25: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

March 1, 2: Irvine Ballet

March 10: Irvine Symphony

March 15-17: Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children

March 17: South Coast Symphony

March 19: Irvine Chamber Orchestra

March 21: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

March 22,23: Irvine Valley Theatrefaire for Children

March 24: Friends of Jewish Music

April 5: Broadway Celebration

April 6: Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway, duo-pianists

April 7: Mozart Camerata

April 8: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

April 12, 13: Ballet Pacifica

April 14: South Coast Symphony

April 14: UCI Chamber Music Series

April 17, 19, 21: UC Irvine Opera Scenes

April 25: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

April 27: Irvine Camerata

April 28: Irvine Symphony

May 3: San Francisco Mime Troupe doing “Seeing Double”

May 4: South Coast Chinese Cultural Assn.

May 5: Irvine Chamber Music Series

May 10, 11: UCI Orchestra

May 17, 18: UCI Dance International

May 19: Mozart Camerata

May 20: Orange County Chamber Orchestra

May 31: Ballet Pacifica

June 1: Ballet Pacifica

June 7, 8: UCI Orchestra

June 9: Irvine School of Dance

June 20-22: Irvine Academy of Performing Arts

July 12-14: Irvine Civic Light Opera

July 19, 20: Irvine Civic Light Opera