A jukebox musical simultaneously bears a unique burden and boasts a special advantage: Unlike other musicals, wherein your first time seeing it often means your first time hearing the songs in it, a jukebox musical presents songs you’ve likely heard many times before. The result — especially if you’re going in as a fan of those songs — can be a disappointing journey down a distorted memory lane, or it can be a triumph of balancing tribute with storytelling.
Miami, FL – April 25, 2023 – The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) proudly presents the anticipated return of STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN (@statsoperberlin), one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed orchestras, to Miami after 17 years with acclaimed conductor, Daniel Barenboim (@dbarenboim), at the Center’s Knight Concert Hall on December 5 and 6.
If the fact that Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat is an intensely relevant and well-crafted one wasn’t already relevant from its status as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, the fact that I was able to stumble upon two different productions of it playing only a few counties apart in a single weekend is also probably rather telling. Since, regrettably, I can only be in so many places at once, only one of these productions still happens to be running—the Main Street Players’ version, which will be playing until this May 14—but I actually found stopping by Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Theatre and Dance production to be tremendously clarifying as to the piece’s potential and power.
(West Palm Beach, Fl. – April 25, 2023) – The Commodores are coming to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, September 30, 2023. Tickets for the West Palm Beach performance start at $29* and go on sale to the public on Friday, April 21 at 10 a.m. online at kravis.org.
West Palm Beach, Florida (April 24, 2023) America’s favorite blonde, Elle Woods, is ready to prove who’s in charge (again) as Legally Blonde The Musicalcomes to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach for 8 performances May 16 – 21, 2023. The ultimate Broadway tribute to girl power, Legally Blonde will take you from the UCLA sorority house to the Harvard halls of justice with the coming-of-age story of Broadway’s brightest heroine.
Conundrum Stages presents a new live music program called SINGULAR SENSATIONS, spotlighting Cabaret and Musical Theater performers in our Southeast Florida region.
My recent adventure to the Pembroke Pines Performing Arts Theatre’s current production wasn’t my first time seeing Pippin, an endearing, inscrutable little mess of a show that first premiered in 1972. But it was my first time seeing Pippin quite like this, “this” meaning “set” during the “summer of love” as opposed to during the period in which the show actually takes place, which happens to be medieval times.
As the play starts, lead by Krystal Millie Valdes, you can already tell something is different. Not only is this performer giving some sort of house speech, but she’s doing so while accompanying herself on guitar and switching back and forth between English and Spanish – letting us know right out the gate that this play is not like most we have seen in South Florida.
Palm Beach Dramaworks announces that 10 students from Bak Middle School of the Arts and five from Eagles Landing Middle School are the winners of the inaugural Young Playwrights 1-Minute Play Contest.
If you didn’t happen to pick up on the pun I tried to pull off in the title of this review, then I suppose you may not be familiar with the plot of Newsies, a 2011 musical based on a 1992 film that was itself inspired by the true story of the newsboys strike of 1899.
