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Take A Magic Carpet Ride With Aladdin Tour At Broward Center

The Disneyization of Broadway has brought a whole new world of theater to a new generation of audiences who, hopefully, will be theatergoers for a lifetime. Put the highly entertaining Aladdin, now at the Broward Center in that category.

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Uplifting Come From Away Is Season’s Don’t Miss Highlight

Even writing about it the next day, the warmth still glows. In this time, to quote a lyric from another show, “of cold and darkness, in this terrifying night,” the affirmation of basic human decency engendered by the national tour of Come From Away stays comfortably nestled inside, nurturing hope for the future.

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Dancing Mobsters: Bronx Tale Shouldn’t Work But It Does

The national tour of A Bronx Tale is proof that if producers hire enough really talented people, you can make an inarguably entertaining musical out of damn near anything.

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Nick Duckart Is Coming Home With ‘Come From Away’

Hialeah-born actor Nick Duckart is coming home again from New York City. But he is a long way from the days struggling to sell televisions at Circuit City or vending souvenirs for shows at Lincoln Center. This visit fulfills a long-time dream: appearing in the national tour of the musical Come From Away— but being a crucial part of an emotionally powerful musical with an unusually close-knit company.

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Visually Stunning Anastasia Doesn’t Scrimp In Any Way

In recent years, while producers and designers of Broadway musicals have found subtle ways to slim down the overall effort on national tours. But Broadway Across America’s current sit-down of Anastasia at the Broward Center seems as visually and aurally stunning as the 2017 Broadway edition.

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Powerful Dear Evan Hansen Has Extra Resonance In Broward

Perhaps the artists gifting us this superb tour of Dear Evan Hansen may not quite appreciate how some of its themes resound specifically in South Florida like the deafening battery of cannon fire. A year after the Parkland tragedy and less than a week after two teen suicides, the story does not pluck heartstrings as it has for tens of thousands of fans; it rips them out.

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Performance for Evan Patrons Displaced By Power Outage

Due to a power outage on opening night, the first performance of Dear Evan Hansen was unable to go on as scheduled. A performance has been added for Sunday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. for audience members displaced by the cancelled performance..

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Fresh Look At Fiddler Ditches Some Traditions, Keeps Others

There’s the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there’s the tradition of the musical itself. It’s a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in yet another revival of the now 55-year-old musical from Broadway Across America at the Broward Center. But Bartlett Sher’s new vision mostly succeeds.

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Welcome Hello, Dolly! With Bravura Betty Buckley

There’s not much in life that you can say this about, but the national tour of Hello, Dolly! is everything you hope it will be. For anyone under the age of 50 who wonders if the so-called Golden Age of Musicals was, in fact, all that Golden; for those who have seen Hello, Dolly! about three times too often – this is for you.

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News: Thinking Cap Beats Bway, Danis Leaves FGO, FIU Fosters Plays, Knight Offers Grants, Costume World Moving, Krasja Now BAA President

News of Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Knight Foundation, Broadway Across America and Costume World

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