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Cash on Delivery!
By Michael Cooney, Directed by Patti Earl
Con artist Eric lost his job two years ago and has been defrauding the welfare system ever since in order to hide his joblessness from his wife. Confusion and hilarity ensues when government workers start showing up to check out his numerous deceptions!
When: Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs weekends July 30th through Aug 8th, see other dates)
Where: Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach
Tickets: $14 adults, $13 seniors, $7 students
All I Wanna Do
Some songs remind us of summers past - having fun, goofing off, going to the beach. A few classics that come to mind are "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow, "Under the Boardwalk" by the Drifters, "(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "Love Shack" by The B-52s. The themes of these songs all speak to relaxing, having fun, doing what you want, etc. - in other words, what we all dream of! There are lots and lots of great events this month that can satisfy those summer cravings and make new memories.In addition to all kinds of fun 4th of July celebrations, July brings us great summer theatre such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (UCF), Sleuth (Breakthrough Theatre), Annie (Theatre Downtown), Ragtime (Bay Street Players) and Splash and The Little Red Riding Hood Show (Orlando Shakes), music from the Summer Series by Orlando Philharmonic, the 18th Annual Celebrity Mascot Games, the chilly Sub-Zero show at Orlando Science Center, and the fantastic Target Family Theatre Festival, put on by Orlando Repertory Theatre. Search events by date or browse through a whole month. For more info, check out the website of the event.
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Friday July 30, 2010
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Orlando Museum of Art: Knuffle Funny: The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems 407-896-4231 www.omart.org Author and illustrator Mo Willems has been hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the ‘00s.” Winner of several prestigious Caldecott Honor awards, Willems began his career as a writer and animator for television. He garnered six Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, created Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and was head writer for Codename: Kids Next Door. The exhibition features more than 60 black & white and color drawings created for some of Willems’ best-known picture books, including his three Caldecott Honor winning stories: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Shown: ©2004 Mo Willems. Illustration for Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, 2003. Published by Hyperion Books for Children. When: Saturday, May 22nd through Sunday, Aug 29th Where: Orlando Museum of Art Admission: $8 |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Orlando Landmarks: Photo Transfers by Barbara Ery 407-836-8500 www.thehistorycenter.org Take a tour of Orlando through the lens of Central Florida fine art photographer Barbara Ery. This collection of 30 photo transfers highlights landmark buildings and signs such as the Mt. Vernon Hotel, The Plaza Theatre, the Johnson’s Diner sign, the McNamara Pontiac sign and more. When: Saturday, June 5th - Sunday, Aug 8th - UPDATE: Exhibit has been extended through Sept 12th! Where: Orange County Regional History Center Admission: Museum admission $9 adults, $7 students, $6 children 5-12, free for children 4 and under AND active duty military and family (card carrier + 5 - special from May 28th through Sept 6th) |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Splash 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Summer is here! Time to kick off your vacation and whoop it up with PB&J Theatre Factory. Join us for an all-out beach party! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 1st (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 7 pm, Saturdays @ 4 pm & 7pm, Sundays @ 2 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $15 |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: The Little Red Riding Hood Show 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Part of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Theater for Young Audiences series - Follow a crooked path through the forest to grandmother’s house with Little Red, her resourceful mother, and Malarkey, the biggest and baddest of the big bad wolves. This exciting new adaptation isn’t your Granny’s Little Red Riding Hood! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 8th (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 10:30 am, Saturdays @ 2 pm, Sundays @ 4:30 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $10 |
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Maitland Art Center: William Vincent Kirkpatrick: American Impressionist 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.com Florida Impressionist painter William Vincent Kirkpatrick was born in St. Augustine in 1939. His glorious, dream-inspiring landscapes are the artist’s legacy. After passing away in 2004, his entire estate and collection was kept from the public by his family until only recently. Grab this chance to see the work of this great Floridian. Shown: Country House, Oil on Canvas When: Friday, July 16th - Sunday, Sept 5th - Closed on Mondays Where: Maitland Art Center Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors/students/Maitland residents, free for members |
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Enzian: KidFest: 2010 Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp 407-629-0054 www.enzian.org Create your own movie at Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp! Experience the art of filmmaking as you study cinematic techniques and dive into the production of an independent film. After wrapping the shoot, see your work projected on the big screen with your fellow filmmakers, family, and friends. Open to children entering grades 5-8. No previous experience with filmmaking or equipment is required. Tuition includes instructions and supplies for all classes, admission to all four KidFest films (The Freshman, The Wizard of Oz, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad & Back to the Future), catered lunch and a special red-carpet event for family and friends to see final project. When: Monday, July 26th - Sunday, Aug 1st Where: Enzian Tuition: $350, members $325 |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Summer Camp: A Soldier’s Life 407-836-8580 www.thehistorycenter.org Pick your favorite topic and have a great week at Summer Camp! The History Center is putting on different themed camps from mid-June to mid-August. Sign up today! This week, one of the two available camp themes is A Soldier’s Life. March through U.S. military history in our boot camp! Learn about daily life, skills, and experiences of U.S. soldiers from the Civil War to the present. Presented by Orlando Federal Credit Union. For grades K-5. When: Monday, July 26th - Friday, July 30th from 9 am to 3 pm. Early drop-off starts at 7:30 am, and extended day lasts until 6 pm, for an extra fee of $10 per child, per day. Where: Orange County Regional History Center Fee: $125 per child, members $100 |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Summer Camp: Girls of America 407-836-8580 www.thehistorycenter.org Pick your favorite topic and have a great week at Summer Camp! The History Center is putting on different themed camps from mid-June to mid-August. Sign up today! This week, one of the two available camp themes is Girls of America. Starting with the Civil War, see what life was like for American women throughout history. Learn about struggles they faced, skills they used, and contributions they made. Presented by Orlando Federal Credit Union. For grades K-5. When: Monday, July 26th - Friday, July 30th from 9 am to 3 pm. Early drop-off starts at 7:30 am, and extended day lasts until 6 pm, for an extra fee of $10 per child, per day. Where: Orange County Regional History Center Fee: $125 per child, members $100 |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Summer Camp: Shakespeare’s Players 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Shakespeare’s Players, for rising Grades 7 - 12. Students will work on monologues and scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline, as well as a sonnet, and study Elizabethan movement and dance. Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s summer camps immerse the student in the world of Shakespeare. Their imaginations are nurtured, and focus & teamwork are fostered. Positive reinforcement is the name of the game as young artists explore the beautiful world vision of Shakespeare! Register early to guarantee your space. When: Two sessions available - Session 1: Monday, June 28th - Friday, July 2nd from 9 am to 5 pm each day - Session 2: Monday, July 26th - Friday, July 30th from 9 am to 5 pm Where: Orlando Shakespeare Theater Tuition: $260 per session or $500 for both |
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Mad Cow Theatre: The Heiress 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com Based on Henry James’ novella Washington Square, this romantic and tragic story of love, betrayal and revenge in 1850’s New York first appeared on Broadway in 1947 and has been revived 3 times, winning 3 Tony Awards as well as 4 Academy Awards. When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm, Monday, Aug 2nd @ 7:30 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 22nd, see other dates) Where: Mad Cow Theatre Tickets: $24, $26 |
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Bay Street Players: Ragtime, The Musical 352-357-7777 www.baystreetplayers.org Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories illustrating history’s timeless contradictions: wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, love and hate. It won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and holds Tony awards for Best Score, Book, and Orchestrations. This epic adventure is sure to be one of the largest full scale musical stage productions in our theater’s history. Join us when “there was distant music... simple and somehow sublime, giving the nation a new syncopation, the people called it...Ragtime.” When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 9th - Aug 1st, check other dates) Where: Historic State Theatre, Eustis Tickets: $16, $19 |
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Mount Dora Theatre Company: Bye Bye Birdie 352-383-4616 www.icehousetheatre.com The teens of Sweet Apple swoon as rock and roll’s biggest star, Conrad Birdie, heads off to the Army! Songs include Put On a Happy Face, Gotta Lotta Livin’ to Do and the unforgettable What’s the Matter with Kids Today. When: Thursday, July 29th @ 7:30 pm, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 16th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: IceHouse Theatre, 1100 N Unser St, Mount Dora Tickets: $9.50 - $19.50 |
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Theatre Downtown: Annie 407-841-0083 www.theatredowntown.net This long-running Broadway musical brought us "Tomorrow" and "It’s the Hard-Knock Life." Based on the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, Annie won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Fun fact: Several actresses played Annie on Broadway, including Sarah Jessica Parker. When: Thursday, July 29th - Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 8th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Theatre Downtown, 2113 N Orange Ave Tickets: $18 adults, $15 seniors/students - 1st Thursday after opening weekend all tickets $10 |
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Winter Park Playhouse: Man is the Only Animal Who Blushes...or Needs To 407-645-0145 www.winterparkplayhouse.org Don’t miss the return of this brilliant and humorous one-man show written by and starring Michael Edwards as Mark Twain. An evening of wit, song and good old-fashioned, home-spun humor! When: Thursday, July 29th @ 2 pm, Friday, July 30th @ 7:30 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Winter Park Playhouse Tickets: $25 |
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Moonlight Players: The Pirates of Penzance 352-319-1116 www.moonlightplayers.com In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master’s instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. When: Runs Friday, Jul 30th - Sunday, Aug 22nd Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm, Sundays @ 2 pm Where: Moonlight Players Warehouse Theatre, Clermont Tickets: $15 adults, $12 children |
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Melon Patch Players: The Sunshine Boys 352-787-3013 www.businessmasters.net/melonpatch This play by Neil Simon focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a former vaudevillian team known as "Lewis & Clark" who grew to hate each other over the course of 40+ years and never spoke off-stage during the final year of their act. It is now 1972, and much of the play’s humor comes from efforts to get the two old coots into the same room for a rehearsal for a CBS special on vaudeville. When: Friday, July 30th @ 8 pm, Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 18th - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Melon Patch Theatre, 311 N 13th St, Leesburg Tickets: $15 adults, $7 students |
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Hard Rock Live: Crowded House 407-351-5483 www.hardrock.com/live2 They gave us "Don’t Dream It’s Over" and "Something So Strong" back in the 80’s - now Crowded House is back with a new album, Intriguer. Check out this New Zealand band on tour. When: Friday, July 30th @ 8 pm Where: Hard Rock Live, Universal Studios CityWalk Tickets: $25 - $50 |
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Osceola Center for the Arts: Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. 407-846-6257 www.ocfta.com Make sure you catch one of these performances of Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. - cute & talented young actors ages 4 - 14 will perform all the parts! When: Friday, July 30th @ 7 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7 pm, Sunday, Aug 8th @ 2 pm Where: Studio Theatre, Osceola Center for the Arts Tickets: $10 adults, $5 children |
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New Smyrna Beach Players: Cash on Delivery! 386-423-1246 www.nsbplayers.org By Michael Cooney, Directed by Patti Earl Con artist Eric lost his job two years ago and has been defrauding the welfare system ever since in order to hide his joblessness from his wife. Confusion and hilarity ensues when government workers start showing up to check out his numerous deceptions! When: Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs weekends July 30th through Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach Tickets: $14 adults, $13 seniors, $7 students |
Saturday July 31, 2010
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Orlando Museum of Art: Knuffle Funny: The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems 407-896-4231 www.omart.org Author and illustrator Mo Willems has been hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the ‘00s.” Winner of several prestigious Caldecott Honor awards, Willems began his career as a writer and animator for television. He garnered six Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, created Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and was head writer for Codename: Kids Next Door. The exhibition features more than 60 black & white and color drawings created for some of Willems’ best-known picture books, including his three Caldecott Honor winning stories: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Shown: ©2004 Mo Willems. Illustration for Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, 2003. Published by Hyperion Books for Children. When: Saturday, May 22nd through Sunday, Aug 29th Where: Orlando Museum of Art Admission: $8 |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Orlando Landmarks: Photo Transfers by Barbara Ery 407-836-8500 www.thehistorycenter.org Take a tour of Orlando through the lens of Central Florida fine art photographer Barbara Ery. This collection of 30 photo transfers highlights landmark buildings and signs such as the Mt. Vernon Hotel, The Plaza Theatre, the Johnson’s Diner sign, the McNamara Pontiac sign and more. When: Saturday, June 5th - Sunday, Aug 8th - UPDATE: Exhibit has been extended through Sept 12th! Where: Orange County Regional History Center Admission: Museum admission $9 adults, $7 students, $6 children 5-12, free for children 4 and under AND active duty military and family (card carrier + 5 - special from May 28th through Sept 6th) |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Splash 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Summer is here! Time to kick off your vacation and whoop it up with PB&J Theatre Factory. Join us for an all-out beach party! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 1st (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 7 pm, Saturdays @ 4 pm & 7pm, Sundays @ 2 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $15 |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: The Little Red Riding Hood Show 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Part of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Theater for Young Audiences series - Follow a crooked path through the forest to grandmother’s house with Little Red, her resourceful mother, and Malarkey, the biggest and baddest of the big bad wolves. This exciting new adaptation isn’t your Granny’s Little Red Riding Hood! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 8th (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 10:30 am, Saturdays @ 2 pm, Sundays @ 4:30 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $10 |
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Maitland Art Center: William Vincent Kirkpatrick: American Impressionist 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.com Florida Impressionist painter William Vincent Kirkpatrick was born in St. Augustine in 1939. His glorious, dream-inspiring landscapes are the artist’s legacy. After passing away in 2004, his entire estate and collection was kept from the public by his family until only recently. Grab this chance to see the work of this great Floridian. Shown: Country House, Oil on Canvas When: Friday, July 16th - Sunday, Sept 5th - Closed on Mondays Where: Maitland Art Center Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors/students/Maitland residents, free for members |
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Enzian: KidFest: 2010 Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp 407-629-0054 www.enzian.org Create your own movie at Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp! Experience the art of filmmaking as you study cinematic techniques and dive into the production of an independent film. After wrapping the shoot, see your work projected on the big screen with your fellow filmmakers, family, and friends. Open to children entering grades 5-8. No previous experience with filmmaking or equipment is required. Tuition includes instructions and supplies for all classes, admission to all four KidFest films (The Freshman, The Wizard of Oz, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad & Back to the Future), catered lunch and a special red-carpet event for family and friends to see final project. When: Monday, July 26th - Sunday, Aug 1st Where: Enzian Tuition: $350, members $325 |
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Mad Cow Theatre: The Heiress 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com Based on Henry James’ novella Washington Square, this romantic and tragic story of love, betrayal and revenge in 1850’s New York first appeared on Broadway in 1947 and has been revived 3 times, winning 3 Tony Awards as well as 4 Academy Awards. When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm, Monday, Aug 2nd @ 7:30 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 22nd, see other dates) Where: Mad Cow Theatre Tickets: $24, $26 |
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Bay Street Players: Ragtime, The Musical 352-357-7777 www.baystreetplayers.org Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories illustrating history’s timeless contradictions: wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, love and hate. It won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and holds Tony awards for Best Score, Book, and Orchestrations. This epic adventure is sure to be one of the largest full scale musical stage productions in our theater’s history. Join us when “there was distant music... simple and somehow sublime, giving the nation a new syncopation, the people called it...Ragtime.” When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 9th - Aug 1st, check other dates) Where: Historic State Theatre, Eustis Tickets: $16, $19 |
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Mount Dora Theatre Company: Bye Bye Birdie 352-383-4616 www.icehousetheatre.com The teens of Sweet Apple swoon as rock and roll’s biggest star, Conrad Birdie, heads off to the Army! Songs include Put On a Happy Face, Gotta Lotta Livin’ to Do and the unforgettable What’s the Matter with Kids Today. When: Thursday, July 29th @ 7:30 pm, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 16th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: IceHouse Theatre, 1100 N Unser St, Mount Dora Tickets: $9.50 - $19.50 |
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Theatre Downtown: Annie 407-841-0083 www.theatredowntown.net This long-running Broadway musical brought us "Tomorrow" and "It’s the Hard-Knock Life." Based on the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, Annie won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Fun fact: Several actresses played Annie on Broadway, including Sarah Jessica Parker. When: Thursday, July 29th - Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 8th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Theatre Downtown, 2113 N Orange Ave Tickets: $18 adults, $15 seniors/students - 1st Thursday after opening weekend all tickets $10 |
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Winter Park Playhouse: Man is the Only Animal Who Blushes...or Needs To 407-645-0145 www.winterparkplayhouse.org Don’t miss the return of this brilliant and humorous one-man show written by and starring Michael Edwards as Mark Twain. An evening of wit, song and good old-fashioned, home-spun humor! When: Thursday, July 29th @ 2 pm, Friday, July 30th @ 7:30 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Winter Park Playhouse Tickets: $25 |
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Moonlight Players: The Pirates of Penzance 352-319-1116 www.moonlightplayers.com In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master’s instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. When: Runs Friday, Jul 30th - Sunday, Aug 22nd Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm, Sundays @ 2 pm Where: Moonlight Players Warehouse Theatre, Clermont Tickets: $15 adults, $12 children |
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Melon Patch Players: The Sunshine Boys 352-787-3013 www.businessmasters.net/melonpatch This play by Neil Simon focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a former vaudevillian team known as "Lewis & Clark" who grew to hate each other over the course of 40+ years and never spoke off-stage during the final year of their act. It is now 1972, and much of the play’s humor comes from efforts to get the two old coots into the same room for a rehearsal for a CBS special on vaudeville. When: Friday, July 30th @ 8 pm, Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 18th - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Melon Patch Theatre, 311 N 13th St, Leesburg Tickets: $15 adults, $7 students |
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Osceola Center for the Arts: Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. 407-846-6257 www.ocfta.com Make sure you catch one of these performances of Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. - cute & talented young actors ages 4 - 14 will perform all the parts! When: Friday, July 30th @ 7 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7 pm, Sunday, Aug 8th @ 2 pm Where: Studio Theatre, Osceola Center for the Arts Tickets: $10 adults, $5 children |
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New Smyrna Beach Players: Cash on Delivery! 386-423-1246 www.nsbplayers.org By Michael Cooney, Directed by Patti Earl Con artist Eric lost his job two years ago and has been defrauding the welfare system ever since in order to hide his joblessness from his wife. Confusion and hilarity ensues when government workers start showing up to check out his numerous deceptions! When: Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs weekends July 30th through Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach Tickets: $14 adults, $13 seniors, $7 students |
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Orange County Regional History Center: History Book Club: Manatee Insanity 407-836-7010 www.thehistorycenter.org The manatee has been the subject of frequent debates between environmentalists, biologists, developers, boaters, politicians, lawyers and citizens over the last two decades. Join author Craig Pittman as he discusses his book "Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species." Participate in the discussion of the controversy surrounding the gentle manatee. Refreshments provided by Barnie’s Coffee & Tea. When: Saturday, July 31st - 2 pm to 4 pm Where: Orange County Regional History Center Cost: Free |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Free Community Weekend at the History Center! 407-836-8500 www.thehistorycenter.org Orlando Health is sponsoring this weekend of free admission to the Orange County Regional History Center! Don’t miss the MIX 105.1 Safety Safari, presented by Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and MetroPCS, on Saturday - they will be providing free bike helmet fittings and other activities. When: Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st Where: Orange County Regional History Center Admission: Free |
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Orlando Science Center: Sub-Zero! 407-514-2000 www.osc.org Beat the heat of summer with our new chapter of the Big Bang show, Sub-Zero! This brand new show will introduce the extreme science of cold, showing what happens to matter at exceptionally low temperatures. Sit within a glacial atmosphere and float among the nitrogen-produced clouds throughout our theater. Watch ordinary ice burst into flames before your eyes. And don’t you worry - there will still be plenty of colossal explosions to startle you out of your seat. Sub-Zero shows will be only on Saturdays throughout July, so don’t miss out on this arctic experience!! Due to the reality that some material may be inappropriate for young children, this show is informally rated PG-13. When: Saturday, July 31st @ 7 pm (each Saturday in July, see other dates) Where: Darden Theater, Orlando Science Center Admission: Included in museum admission |
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Orlando Bellydance: Hiplash! 407-579-9765 www.orlandobellydance.com Don’t miss Orlando Bellydance’s Hiplash! Sure to get your hips shaking, this colorful production of world dance takes you on a magic carpet ride through the Middle East and beyond. Features vibrant, jaw-dropping performances in Bellydance, Salsa, Samba, Polynesian, Indian Bollywood, Gypsy Dance, Fusion and more! Choreographed by award-winning dancer/instructor Suspira. When: Saturday, July 31st @ 7:30 pm Where: Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center Tickets: $18, $22 |
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Enzian: KidFest: Back to the Future 407-629-0054 www.enzian.org Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly, a restless teenager who takes a ride in Doc Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) "flux capacitor"-rigged DeLorean and ends up time-traveling to 1955, where he meets his teenage mother (Lea Thompson) and inadvertently becomes the object of her affections. This threatens the relationship she’s supposed to form with his father. Marty has to get his parents to fall in love before he can return to his proper decade. USA, 1985, 116 min, Rated PG, Directed by Robert Zemeckis Back to the Future is part of the Kidfest Summer Movie Series. When: Thursday, July 29th @ 3 pm & Saturday, July 31st @ 12:30 pm Where: Enzian Admission: $5 |
Sunday August 01, 2010
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Orlando Museum of Art: Knuffle Funny: The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems 407-896-4231 www.omart.org Author and illustrator Mo Willems has been hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the ‘00s.” Winner of several prestigious Caldecott Honor awards, Willems began his career as a writer and animator for television. He garnered six Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, created Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and was head writer for Codename: Kids Next Door. The exhibition features more than 60 black & white and color drawings created for some of Willems’ best-known picture books, including his three Caldecott Honor winning stories: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Shown: ©2004 Mo Willems. Illustration for Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, 2003. Published by Hyperion Books for Children. When: Saturday, May 22nd through Sunday, Aug 29th Where: Orlando Museum of Art Admission: $8 |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Orlando Landmarks: Photo Transfers by Barbara Ery 407-836-8500 www.thehistorycenter.org Take a tour of Orlando through the lens of Central Florida fine art photographer Barbara Ery. This collection of 30 photo transfers highlights landmark buildings and signs such as the Mt. Vernon Hotel, The Plaza Theatre, the Johnson’s Diner sign, the McNamara Pontiac sign and more. When: Saturday, June 5th - Sunday, Aug 8th - UPDATE: Exhibit has been extended through Sept 12th! Where: Orange County Regional History Center Admission: Museum admission $9 adults, $7 students, $6 children 5-12, free for children 4 and under AND active duty military and family (card carrier + 5 - special from May 28th through Sept 6th) |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Splash 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Summer is here! Time to kick off your vacation and whoop it up with PB&J Theatre Factory. Join us for an all-out beach party! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 1st (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 7 pm, Saturdays @ 4 pm & 7pm, Sundays @ 2 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $15 |
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Orlando Shakespeare Theater: The Little Red Riding Hood Show 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Part of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Theater for Young Audiences series - Follow a crooked path through the forest to grandmother’s house with Little Red, her resourceful mother, and Malarkey, the biggest and baddest of the big bad wolves. This exciting new adaptation isn’t your Granny’s Little Red Riding Hood! When: Thursday, July 15th - Sunday, Aug 8th (Tuesdays - Fridays @ 10:30 am, Saturdays @ 2 pm, Sundays @ 4:30 pm) - No show on Mondays Where: Margeson Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center Tickets: $10 |
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Maitland Art Center: William Vincent Kirkpatrick: American Impressionist 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.com Florida Impressionist painter William Vincent Kirkpatrick was born in St. Augustine in 1939. His glorious, dream-inspiring landscapes are the artist’s legacy. After passing away in 2004, his entire estate and collection was kept from the public by his family until only recently. Grab this chance to see the work of this great Floridian. Shown: Country House, Oil on Canvas When: Friday, July 16th - Sunday, Sept 5th - Closed on Mondays Where: Maitland Art Center Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors/students/Maitland residents, free for members |
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Enzian: KidFest: 2010 Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp 407-629-0054 www.enzian.org Create your own movie at Young Filmmakers’ Summer Camp! Experience the art of filmmaking as you study cinematic techniques and dive into the production of an independent film. After wrapping the shoot, see your work projected on the big screen with your fellow filmmakers, family, and friends. Open to children entering grades 5-8. No previous experience with filmmaking or equipment is required. Tuition includes instructions and supplies for all classes, admission to all four KidFest films (The Freshman, The Wizard of Oz, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad & Back to the Future), catered lunch and a special red-carpet event for family and friends to see final project. When: Monday, July 26th - Sunday, Aug 1st Where: Enzian Tuition: $350, members $325 |
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Mad Cow Theatre: The Heiress 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com Based on Henry James’ novella Washington Square, this romantic and tragic story of love, betrayal and revenge in 1850’s New York first appeared on Broadway in 1947 and has been revived 3 times, winning 3 Tony Awards as well as 4 Academy Awards. When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm, Monday, Aug 2nd @ 7:30 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 22nd, see other dates) Where: Mad Cow Theatre Tickets: $24, $26 |
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Bay Street Players: Ragtime, The Musical 352-357-7777 www.baystreetplayers.org Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories illustrating history’s timeless contradictions: wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, love and hate. It won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and holds Tony awards for Best Score, Book, and Orchestrations. This epic adventure is sure to be one of the largest full scale musical stage productions in our theater’s history. Join us when “there was distant music... simple and somehow sublime, giving the nation a new syncopation, the people called it...Ragtime.” When: Thursday, July 29th, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 9th - Aug 1st, check other dates) Where: Historic State Theatre, Eustis Tickets: $16, $19 |
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Mount Dora Theatre Company: Bye Bye Birdie 352-383-4616 www.icehousetheatre.com The teens of Sweet Apple swoon as rock and roll’s biggest star, Conrad Birdie, heads off to the Army! Songs include Put On a Happy Face, Gotta Lotta Livin’ to Do and the unforgettable What’s the Matter with Kids Today. When: Thursday, July 29th @ 7:30 pm, Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 16th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: IceHouse Theatre, 1100 N Unser St, Mount Dora Tickets: $9.50 - $19.50 |
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Theatre Downtown: Annie 407-841-0083 www.theatredowntown.net This long-running Broadway musical brought us "Tomorrow" and "It’s the Hard-Knock Life." Based on the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, Annie won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Fun fact: Several actresses played Annie on Broadway, including Sarah Jessica Parker. When: Thursday, July 29th - Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2:30 pm (Play runs July 8th - Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Theatre Downtown, 2113 N Orange Ave Tickets: $18 adults, $15 seniors/students - 1st Thursday after opening weekend all tickets $10 |
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Winter Park Playhouse: Man is the Only Animal Who Blushes...or Needs To 407-645-0145 www.winterparkplayhouse.org Don’t miss the return of this brilliant and humorous one-man show written by and starring Michael Edwards as Mark Twain. An evening of wit, song and good old-fashioned, home-spun humor! When: Thursday, July 29th @ 2 pm, Friday, July 30th @ 7:30 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7:30 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 23rd - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Winter Park Playhouse Tickets: $25 |
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Moonlight Players: The Pirates of Penzance 352-319-1116 www.moonlightplayers.com In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master’s instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. When: Runs Friday, Jul 30th - Sunday, Aug 22nd Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm, Sundays @ 2 pm Where: Moonlight Players Warehouse Theatre, Clermont Tickets: $15 adults, $12 children |
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Melon Patch Players: The Sunshine Boys 352-787-3013 www.businessmasters.net/melonpatch This play by Neil Simon focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a former vaudevillian team known as "Lewis & Clark" who grew to hate each other over the course of 40+ years and never spoke off-stage during the final year of their act. It is now 1972, and much of the play’s humor comes from efforts to get the two old coots into the same room for a rehearsal for a CBS special on vaudeville. When: Friday, July 30th @ 8 pm, Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs July 18th - Aug 1st, see other dates) Where: Melon Patch Theatre, 311 N 13th St, Leesburg Tickets: $15 adults, $7 students |
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Osceola Center for the Arts: Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. 407-846-6257 www.ocfta.com Make sure you catch one of these performances of Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. - cute & talented young actors ages 4 - 14 will perform all the parts! When: Friday, July 30th @ 7 pm, Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm & 7 pm, Sunday, Aug 8th @ 2 pm Where: Studio Theatre, Osceola Center for the Arts Tickets: $10 adults, $5 children |
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New Smyrna Beach Players: Cash on Delivery! 386-423-1246 www.nsbplayers.org By Michael Cooney, Directed by Patti Earl Con artist Eric lost his job two years ago and has been defrauding the welfare system ever since in order to hide his joblessness from his wife. Confusion and hilarity ensues when government workers start showing up to check out his numerous deceptions! When: Friday, July 30th & Saturday, July 31st @ 8 pm, Sunday, Aug 1st @ 2 pm (Play runs weekends July 30th through Aug 8th, see other dates) Where: Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach Tickets: $14 adults, $13 seniors, $7 students |
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Orange County Regional History Center: Free Community Weekend at the History Center! 407-836-8500 www.thehistorycenter.org Orlando Health is sponsoring this weekend of free admission to the Orange County Regional History Center! Don’t miss the MIX 105.1 Safety Safari, presented by Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and MetroPCS, on Saturday - they will be providing free bike helmet fittings and other activities. When: Saturday, July 31st & Sunday, Aug 1st Where: Orange County Regional History Center Admission: Free |
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Enzian: KidFest: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 407-629-0054 www.enzian.org Sinbad sails to ancient lands and finds many an adventure on his journeys. A few of the great special effects by Ray Harryhausen include the ship’s figurehead coming to life and an incredible six-armed living statue. UK|USA, 1974, 105 min, Rated G, Directed by Gordon Hessler Sinbad is part of the Kidfest Summer Movie Series. When: Wednesday, July 28th @ 3 pm & Sunday, Aug 1st @ 12:30 pm Where: Enzian Admission: $5 |
