There is life after Manhattan Casino, the ambitious musical conceived and staged by the LiveArts Peninsula Foundation that flopped earlier this year. This week, the foundation and American Stage opened a production called The Floridians, a collection of work by playwrights and songwriters from around the state.
Bob Devin Jones, above, who directed and wrote the book and lyrics for Manhattan Casino, appears in a one-man play he wrote about a St. Petersburg peddler, I Got 'Em: The Story of Elijah Moore.
The Floridians, which opened Wednesday and continues through Aug. 31, has three different programs of two plays and two songs each. Evening A: Harry T. Moore: The Most Hated Man in Florida by Larry Parr; Johnnie Brown by Doug Cooney; songs by Steve Blackwell and Bonnie Whitehurst. Evening B: Special by Bill Leavengood; Rednecks with Shaved Heads by Lila Donnolo; songs by Lee Ahlin and Danny Hamilton. Evening C: I Got 'Em: The Story of Elijah Moore by Bob Devin Jones; Travels in Paradise: Remembrances of Harriet Beecher Stowe by M.G. Updegraff; songs by Peter Gallagher and Steven Coy Cook.
See the theater's Web site at www.americanstage.org for dates and show times of each program. Tickets: $18 or $50 for a three-show series. 727 823-7529.
