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Tickets on sale for kids’ show
Tickets are now on sale for Storytime Live!, a Nickelodeon stage show featuring Dora the Explorer, the Backyardigans and other popular TV figures. The show will be at Bob Carr Aug. 4 and 5. Here’s...
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Florida Theatrical on way to new home downtown
Florida Theatrical Association, the nonprofit that operates the touring Orlando Broadway Series, is on its way to a new home for its offices and a new theater near Lake Eola. It has hired a general...
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Faith Prince officially in ‘Billy Elliot’ tour
As we heard over the weekend, Faith Prince is out of the Orlando Philharmonic/Mad Cow Guys and Dolls because she’s joining the national tour of Billy Elliot as the dance teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson. The...
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Bob Carr Broadway series to sell 3-ticket packages
This is promising news for those of you who are dying to see a handful of the shows coming to Bob Carr this season but aren’t interested at all in the rest. It’s a three-ticket package for the Broadway...
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Orlando to get its own Abbey Theatre
I had a walk-through yesterday with Ron Legler, president of Florida Theatrical Association, to see the spaces near Lake Eola where FTA is moving its offices and box office and building a new small...
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‘Young Frankenstein’ tix on sale today
Image via Wikipedia The 2010-2011 Orlando Broadway series doesn;’t get under way until late November. But tickets for that first show, Young Frankenstein, go on sale this morning. Here’s the...
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Tickets to ‘Rock of Ages’ tour go on sale Friday
For you hair-band fans, tickets to the Broadway Across America — Orlando presentation of Rock of Ages, the Broadway big-hair musical, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Here’s more: In 1987 on the Sunset...
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Theater review: ‘Young Frankenstein’
By Elizabeth Maupin Every so often, in the Mel Brooks-Thomas Meehan musical version of Young Frankenstein, a bunch of Transylvanian villagers run across the stage in search of the monster. One of them...
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Return to the ’80s with folks from ‘Rock of Ages’
Here’s your chance to meet some of the head-bangers from Rock of Ages, the 1980s “hair band” show that opens at Bob Carr tonight: What: Chat Back Opportunity with cast members from Rock of Ages When:...
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‘West Side Story’ to hold chat-backs in English and Spanish
The national tour of West Side Story, opening tonight in Orlando and running through Sunday, will hold talkbacks in English and in Spanish Thursday at Barnes & Noble on Colonial Drive. This...
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Theater review: ‘West Side Story’ at Bob Carr
By Elizabeth Maupin Elizabeth Maupin on Theater Too much feeling. They seethe with it, the teenage boys of West Side Story – with anger, with frustration, with pain. And their girls throb with it too,...
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‘Billy Elliot,’‘La Cage’ to be part of next Orlando Bway series
Faith Prince and Giuseppe Bausilio in the national tour of 'Billy Elliot the Musical' (photo by Joan Marcus) Billy Elliot the Musical, the Tony Award-winning best musical of 2009, will be only one of...
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‘Wicked’ offers $25 lottery seats
For all those of you who are excited that Wicked is coming back to town, here’s a deal. For every performances of Wicked in Orlando, from Feb. 23 to March 27 (and that’s a lot of performances), there...
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A deal on tickets for ‘Wicked’
Here’s a deal — $46! — on tickets for Wicked (which isn’t my favorite thing in the world, but I know some of you disagree with me).
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‘Wicked’ cabaret will help Broadway Cares and Orange arts-ed center
Cast members from the national tour of Wicked, in Orlando for the next month or so, will perform in a cabaret show to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Orange County Arts Education...
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Upright Citizens Brigade coming to Sak
Here’s welcome news — an appearance of the big-deal comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade at Sak Comedy Lab in April. More from Dave Russell of Sak: Sak Comedy Lab presents UCB touring company – one...
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Theater auditions: Children’s chorus for ‘Joseph’ in Melbourne
Here’s an audition notice from the King Center for the Performing Arts: King Center for the Performing Arts and Theatre of the Stars announces youth auditions for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
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‘Shrek’ cast members to hold talkback
Brian d'Arcy James in the Broadway production of 'Shrek the Musical' If you’re a big fan of Shrek the Musical, which opens in Orlando this week, there’s a chance to talk with members of the cast. Some...
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Orlando invites public to ground-breaking festivities for arts center
Well, we never thought we’d see it, but next week the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is finally breaking ground. And you’re invited. Here’s info from the Dr. Phillips Center office about...
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Dance auditions: National middle-school tour
Here’s an audition notice from John Peros Casting for dancers for a national tour going to middle schools: FMA Live! 2011-2012 national tour dancer auditions (Orlando) Upbeat, multiple award-winning,...
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