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Introducing the "Floridians' collection
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.
- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic