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It’s a wedding party at THE WEDDING SINGER

October 5, 2024

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Throw back to the days of disco, overdone perms for women and long hair for men, and you’ve got the makings of the party that is THE WEDDING SINGER. The show opens at a wedding reception, where lead singer Robbie Hart (Jake Pearce) is singing with his bandmates Sammy (Paul Gary) and George (Nick Cooper). As part of his speech

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A SIDE-SPLITTING EVENING with THE GOLDEN GIRLS

You don’t need to be a die-hard fan of the ’80s to have a side-splitting evening with THE GOLDEN GIRLS, THE LAUGHS CONTINUE, at the Performing Arts Center downtown. It’s fun for all ages and genders – over 18. It’s a very raunchy spinoff of its namesake sitcom that ran

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Gypsy is on show at the Alhambra

Words by Cessy Newmon Rove over to the Alhambra for an evening

Boeing, Boeing for liftoff off at Alhambra

May 30, 2024

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BOEING, BOEING, currently onstage at the Alhambra, is listed as the most performed French play in the Guinness book of world records. Marc Camoletti’s play (translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans) is a farce: a comedy that seeks to entertain by being exaggerated, improbable and absurd. The trick and

The Wonderment of Disney’s FROZEN

April 28, 2024

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As the last show in this season’s FSCJ Artist Series, FROZEN is Downtown Jacksonville April 27-May 4th. With music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, the show is based on the 2013 film. I previously wrote about my conversation with Lauren Nicole Chapman (Anna) from the

FROZEN WILL WARM YOUR HEART

April 12, 2024

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As the last show in this season’s FSCJ Artist Series, FROZEN will be coming to Downtown Jacksonville April 27-May 4th. With music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, the show is based on the 2013 film. Lauren Nicole Chapman, who portrays Anna, spoke with me about

Party and Escape to Margaritaville at Alhambra

April 6, 2024

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Looking for a getaway evening where you party and sing with the cast when the mood suits you? Then this is the show for you. ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE was not the jukebox musical I was expecting. With the number of these musicals recently in town, I was expecting this show

SIX – A ROCKIN’ HERSTORY

April 3, 2024

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On Tuesday SIX, THE MUSICAL opened at the Performing Arts Center as part of the FSCJ Artist Series. This show lives up to hype around it. It is 80 minutes of high-energy entertainment that will have your eyes glued to the stage. Without giving away fun twists to this unique

SIX Queen Aragon says there’s Something for Everyone

March 28, 2024

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On Tuesday, 4/2/24, FSCJ Artist Series brings to the Center for Performing Arts the Broadway Boleyn touring company of SIX. In an era when women were more property than partner, SIX is derived from stories of the six women who married King Henry VIII. Notorious for his use and abuse

SHAKING IT PROUD DOWNTOWN WITH TINA, THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL

March 6, 2024

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Born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, the girl who was to become Tina Turner was born to a sharecropping overseer and worked picking cotton at an early age. Homelife was tumultuous with an abusive father and a mother who abandoned her to her grandmother at age 11. It can be

Seeing Your Way Around Northeast Florida, One Irish Pub at a Time

February 29, 2024

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Words by Briana Pereira March 17, a day famous for drinking your day away decked out in green apparel while toasting leprechauns. St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect occasion for a bar crawl. A little history behind the holiday and all of its glory before moving on

Cain’t Say No to OKLAHOMA! at the Alhambra

February 24, 2024

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The first collaboration of the writing duo of Rodgers (music) and Hammerstein (book and lyrics), OKLAHOMA! is the epitome of a “book musical”, where dialogue and music intertwine seamlessly to move a story forward. The show may have been written over 90 years ago, but it provides today’s audience with

Ride Down(town) to HADESTOWN for a Helluva Show

February 7, 2024

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Words by Cessy Newmon What a way to go to hell and back. The first of Anaïs Mitchell’s stage endeavors, HADESTOWN intertwines two tales from Greek mythology: Hades & Persephone and Orpheus & Eurydice. It’s a very different approach to a tragic end to the love between two young adults