The Crescent Circus Brings Family-Friendly Fun for All at Pompano Beach Cultural Center

Abracadabra! An exciting new magic and circus show will soon be appearing at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center.  Experience a one-of-a-kind interactive performance by The Crescent Circus, an award-winning husband and wife duo who enchant audiences with a dazzling mix of magic, circus arts, and comedy. Pompano Beach Arts is proud to present this family-friendly evening of entertainment which will astound audiences with lightning-fast illusions, extraordinary feats of balance, incredible juggling and more! Join us at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center on January 26, 2024, at 7pm. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children under 10. For more information: www.pompanobeacharts.org

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This Month, the Imperial Theatre Turns 100

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This Month, the Imperial Theatre Turns 100!

Did you know the Imperial is one of the few Broadway theatre that has never been renamed?

100 years ago, Broadway’s Christmas wish came true with the opening of the illustrious Imperial Theatre. Situated on 45th Street in the heart of the theatre district, the theatre was the 50th to be developed by the Shubert Brothers in New York. In its hundred years of operation, it has become one of the premiere musical theatre houses.

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Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Gets the Royal Treatment at Broward Center

It’s no longer an insider secret that Slow Burn Theatre Company, the resident professional theater company of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, has been delivering outstanding, often family-oriented musicals, for the past nine years. In addition to multiple local awards, the company recently garnered a major Carbonell (South Florida’s Tonys) in the category of Theatrical Excellence. Which they well deserve. For just when you might think they’ve reached the pinnacle in stagecraft and acting expertise, they come out with a new, blockbuster winner.

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How Tyler Johnson Grimes Gave New Life To ‘A Christmas Ghost Story’

Though Tyler Johnson Grimes hasn’t always been the biggest fan of A Christmas Carol, he also didn’t find it hard to start getting excited about putting his own spin on the classic story. After his successful, Carbonell-nominated turn as the sound and Foley designer of last season’s radio play version of It’s A Wonderful Life, Grimes was tapped by New City Players’ team of artistic leaders to write an original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ famous holiday tale, a task for which his extensive background in playwriting left him exceptionally well prepared. 

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Entertaining song and dance-packed musical production, Bye Bye Birdie, takes flight at Wick Theatre in Boca Raton

If you can remember Elvis Presley’s teen-traumatizing entry into the Army after being drafted in the late 1950s, you’ll no doubt feel a strong tug of déjà vu at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton where Bye, Bye Birdie – a musical comedy based on a singer’s soldierly stint, but which blazes a circuitous story of its own, is now playing.

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The Cher Show

The brand-new production, featuring Bob Mackie’s dazzling original Tony Award-winning Broadway costumes, makes its South Florida premiere at the Arsht Center. South Florida Cher fans will kick off 2024 with a spectacle featuring
35 hits spanning the star’s entire illustrious career.

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Enter, Grapefruit: The Play that Made a Fruit Heavy

Starting on December 1, and running though December 10, the new, experimental theater company out of Miami, Lakehouseranchdotpng, premiered its solicited version of “Enter, Grapefruit.” The show is a one-woman performance, with the silent help of another cast member, and it is an ode to Gilda Radner, a comedian famous for her work in the early days of Saturday Night Live and who died in the late 80s after a surprising cancer diagnosis. The writer, Charisma Jolly, also performs the show. For me, it was an experience quite unlike any I’ve come across, so far. Before I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the performance, I’d like to take a moment to broach the subject of the company’s venue and the setup of the stage. First off, Lakehouseranchdotpng is only in their second year of programming, so their performance venue is nothing special. In fact, it is so small, I was surprised. “Enter, Grapefruit” was held at Artistic Vibes in Kendall, and it was a difficult space to find. 

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Pretty Woman in Miami

Pretty Woman: The Musical is back on tour across the country, and it is currently staged at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. The musical is based on the beloved 1990 movie starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, growing the want for a musicalization of the nostalgic moment in cinema. South Florida Theater Magazine was there on opening night, and it was a fun time, watching the movie come to life on stage in such a satisfying way. Vivian (Ellie Baker) stole the show from her first note.

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