![]() ![]() 941-72 Virtual Venice Symphony season closes Solo tickets are also available for $35 the day prior to each performance. Tickets are $75-$99 per car (with up to four occupants). “Leonard Bernstein’s New York” runs Friday through May 9 at 6099 Central Ave., St. Artistic Director Eric Davis directs Emanuel Carrero and Julia Rifino. Michael Raabe is the musical director. It features songs from “West Side Story,” “On the Town,” “Wonderful Town” and more. Petersburg’s freeFall Theatre explores that relationship in the revue “Leonard Bernstein’s New York,” which is presented as a drive-in concert, with patrons watching from their cars. He led the New York Philharmonic and the city was the subject or backdrop for several of his Broadway musicals. Leonard Bernstein had a love affair with New York. ![]() Tickets are $15, $12.50 for student s(who must call the box office for reservations). ![]() Friday and Saturday at the Bazaar on Apricot and Lime, 821 Apricot Ave., Sarasota. The play is presented by the Players Teens, a performance group that is part of the education department at the Players Centre for Performing Arts. In Ian McWethy’s comedy “Bad Auditions by Bad Actors,” a casting director has just one day to find the perfect leads for a community theater production of “Romeo and Juliet.” But the director is not expecting a depressing array of performers, including ill-trained method actors and those who don’t know what to do with their hands. For more information: Players Teens stage ‘Bad Auditions’ The production stars Nick Duckart as Arthur, with Britney Coleman as Queen Guenevere, and Alex Joseph Grayson as Lancelot. Tickets are $20 for individuals and $30 for householders and you have 48 hours to watch the roughly 90-minute production. The theater has won permission to video record the live performance and offer it for home streaming, which it will do Monday through April 11. But you still have a chance to see this Lerner and Loewe musical about the world of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. (I had second thoughts about writing this review only because I want this theatre experience not to change in response to the greater audiences it deserves.The outdoor Asolo Repertory Theatre production of “Camelot” pretty much sold out before it opened last month. Petersburg-a fifteen minute drive from downtown-this little theatre stands alone in a tree-lined half-block, with its own ample parking lot and user-friendly staff and policies. The setting of Freefall Theatre couldn't be better. Another unusual offering, Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" (the musical version) was compelling and effective as it paired the play with flamenco music and dance. This is a review not only of this show, however, but of arguably the best little professional theatre in all of the Tampa Bay area! Their production of "Cabaret" went into multiple "encore" performances, thanks to audiences clamoring for more. And their solos and harmonies in a score based in blue-grass accompanied by a live instrumental group of five, captured the pathos of the story without sapping its beauty and strength. But the liveliness and passion of the teenaged sons of the miners, their humor, their idealism, and their heroism, completely captivated the audience throughout the two-hour show. We saw a little-known play from 2010-"The Burnt Place Boys." It's the story of the consequences on a family of a West Virginia mining disaster, when the mining company is ready to reopen a mine that is the gravesite (the "burnt place") of many of the fathers of the small community. "Intimate musical theatre" might seem like an oxymoron. Last Sunday (when Freefall had a Father's Day special-Dad's got in free) our chairs were in the top row, but we still were never more than 30 feet away from the actors, and (because of the smart "pitch" of the risers) we had great sight-lines for the action performed on a rectangular stage viewed "in the round."įreefall's artistic director is exceptionally talented, so the plays (often musicals), other directors, and casts are always well-chosen, the conception is imaginative and engaging, and the pacing is impeccable. The theatre itself is simple, small, and intimate-something unusual and precious these days. ![]() I've been to several Freefall Theatre productions over the past couple of years, and have never had anything but an exceptional and satisfying theatre experience. ![]()
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