Tag Archives: Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Florida’s 2013-2014 Season Champions New & Newish Works

Encouraging trends emerge while poking among the entrails of the new season schedules for South Florida theater. Among them: an emphasis on new and newer works as producers and artistic directors try to seduce younger audiences, meaning people under 70.

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Local Teens Reveal Secrets Of Building The Next Generation Of Theatergoers

Teenagers may hold the survival secrets for South Florida theaters to build a crucial new generation of patrons. Students say they seek theater that is relevant, affordable, accessible, less elitist, touching the head and the heart, marketed through cyber-word of mouth, and pumped with sensory candy. Above all, their interest has to be stimulated as early as elementary school.

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Million Dollar Quartet Rocks The House: Four Musical Legends Come to Life

The roots of rock and roll are encapsulated in Million Dollar Quartet, a rollicking yet poignant musical about one historic night in Memphis when four country boys turned icons sang and played their way into history.

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War Horse Will Close Newly-Announced 2012-2013 Season For Broadway Across America in Fort Lauderdale

War Horse, one of the most stunningly theatrical plays to overwhelm mainstream New York audiences last year will close out the six-show season on Broadway Across America’s slate for 2012-2013 in Fort Lauderdale. The Tony Award-winning play, that’s right a play, will join another play, Agatha Christie’s BBC Murders, in the theater series that has stuck for several years to an exclusive diet of musicals.

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Cirque Dreams Holidaze Entrances Kids Of All Ages

The most satisfying spectacle amid all the glitter, spangles and amazing feats at the first matinee of Cirque Dreams Holidaze was the blaze of delight in the face of the little girl in Row K at the Broward Center at first matinee.But it kids of far more advanced chronological ages were also entranced.

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StageBill Blog: Looking Back At The Year of the Sea Change

In real life, we rarely have the clarity of identifiable watersheds as heroes discover in dramas. But five years from now, you’ll likely look back on the past 12 months and recognize not a turning point, but an unmistakable moment within a slow sea change in South Florida theater.

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A Toast to Jon & Juan’s Wedding

It’s like every wedding you’ve ever attended: family conflicts, inappropriate behavior, dancing, moments that will make you laugh, and moments that will make you unabashedly teary-eyed. But unlike most traditional weddings, there’s no bride, but two very adorable grooms.

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A Gentle Rain at the Broward Center With The Beatles

Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles invokes the right alchemy of sounds that summon a hazy kaleidoscope of personalized memories for Boomers .If the group isn’t electrifying or transporting, it recreates every original lick and every inflection to earn the audience’s investment.

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