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Wick Theatre Defies Odds To Reopen Boca Raton Venue
In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals’ optimism and pessimism, welcome and suspicion, encouragement and derision. Workers and administrators are racing to transform the site in time for the first performance of The Sound of Music slated for September 19 and the first scheduled museum tour November 5.
Wick Theatre Schedule
Sept. 19-Oct. 20: The Sound of Music Nov. 7-Dec. 22: White Christmas Jan. 9-Feb. 9: 42nd Street Feb. 20-March 23: The Full Monty April 3-May 4: Steel Magnolias: May 15-June 15: Ain’t Misbehavin’ Tickets are $58 per show. $52 …
Wick Auditions
The Sound of Music is cast but the theater is holding auditions for all other roles its other shows for both Equity and non-Equity actors . Sunday, Aug. 4, noon to 5 p.m. by appointment only for principals and singers …
Zero Hour’s Jim Brochu Honors Broadway’s Character Men In One-Man Musical Memoir
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu — best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour — wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly.. So Brochu created a new one-man musical, Character Man, that bows Thursday for a month-long run at Broward Stage Door..
On The Boards Podcast: FAU’s Richard Gamble Talks About Summer Rep And Theater Education in the 21st Century
Bill Hirschman’s interview with FAU Associate Professor Richard Gamble who talks at length about FAU’s 27th Summer Festival Rep (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Side By Side By Sondheim and The Man Who Came To Dinner) and looks more generally at how theater arts is being taught on the collegiate level.
Adam Who? Slow Burn’s The Wedding Singer And Clay Cartland Do It Their Way
There’s not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which opens Friday for a brief two-weekend run in Boca Raton.
Playing A Dolphin, Dracula and Mothra In Same Show: Everyday Challenge At Summer Shorts
Imagine you’re Ken Clement in City Theatre’s Summer Shorts opening this week. One minute he’s a dolphin, a few minutes later he;s Dracula and still later he has to find his inner Mothra. Performing in the annual festival of short plays, a rite of summer now in its 18th edition, requires talents they don’t dwell on in drama school.
Theatre At Arts Garage and Dramaworks Stage Concert Musicals This Summer
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling in dates on their calendars as well, as early as tomorrow night. Palm Beach Dramaworks and the Theatre at Arts Garage are mounting “concert versions” of musicals – classics in Dramaworks’ case and new works at the Garage in Delray Beach.
Talkin’ In The Green Room With: New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez
Actor, playwright, designer, dancer, choreographer, artistic director of New Theatre and probably a few other job descriptions we’ve left out, Ricky J. Martinez is one of the most hyphenate artists in mainstream theater in South Florida. It’s what the affable and passionate Martinez calls being a “theatrician.”
On The Boards Podcast: Alan Jacobson On Starting Plaza Theatre In A Tough Economy
The latest podcast entry is Bill Hirschman’s interview with Alan Jacobson, founder and artistic director of the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, about opening, and maintaining, a successful arts organization in difficult economic times.
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