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TBPAC accepting subscriptions for next season
By Times Staff Writer
Published March 27, 2005
TAMPA - Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center today begins accepting subscription orders for the 2005-06 Broadway season. Wicked, the new musical by Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Winnie Holzman (book), deconstructs The Wizard of Oz by telling the story of what happened in Emerald City, Munchkinland and the rest of Oz before Dorothy blew in from Kansas.
Wicked, adapted from a novel by Gregory Maguire, tells of the two witches of Oz: Elphaba, the green-skinned, sympathetic Wicked Witch of the West; and Glinda the Good, a bratty blond. The pair meet at sorcery school, where they loathe each other at first but come to an uneasy detente; the musical follows their changing relationship through the years.
The newest show on the schedule is Little Women, another adaptation from a novel, the beloved classic by Louisa May Alcott. Maureen McGovern will play matriarch Marmee in the tour.
The rest of the TBPAC season is made up of revivals, including two more musicals centered on female characters, Annie and Evita. Cathy Rigby returns as Peter Pan to open the season. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Patrick Cassidy as the biblical Joseph and American Idol's Amy Adams as the Narrator, winds it up. The revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change will run in the Jaeb Theatre.
Priority is given to current season subscribers, but new subscribers will also be able to sign up starting today. Tickets to individual shows will be available at a later date. Call the center at 813 229-7827 for information, or go to www.tbpac.org
Broadway 2005-06
Oct. 11-16, Peter Pan
Nov. 8-13, Evita
Dec. 13-18, Annie
Jan. 18-Feb. 5, Wicked
March 7-12, Little Women: The Musical
April 18-23, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Feb. 17-May 14: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
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TBPAC also announced three additional touring shows for 2006, all of which have played the center before. These are not part of the Broadway series, but when tickets go on sale, Broadway subscription holders will get priority. They are: Movin' Out (Feb. 14-19), Mamma Mia! (May 9-14), The Producers (June 13-18) and Stomp (July 25-30). On-sale dates will be announced in the St. Petersburg Times when they are available.
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The Asolo Theatre has announced the 2005-06 schedule, the company's 47th season and the last one under producing artistic director Howard J. Millman, who is retiring. Also released this month is the 2005-06 schedule of plays by the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, its first full season under director Greg Leaming.
Subscriptions are on sale now; single tickets go on sale in October. Performances are at the Florida State University Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota. 941 351-8000 or toll-free 1-800-361-8388; www.asolo.org
Asolo Theatre
Nov. 11-Feb. 2, Laughing Stock by Charles Morey; Nov. 18-Feb. 26, Enchanted April by Mathew Barber; Nov. 25-Dec. 29, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Redmond and Eberle Thomas; Jan. 6-April 8, Trying by Joanna McClelland Glass; Jan. 20-April 27, Anything to Declare? by Pierre Veber and Maurice Hennequin, translated by Greg Leaming; Feb. 24-May 6, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, adapted by Christopher Sergel; March 10-May 6, Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde; May 13-June 4, Crowns by Regina Taylor.
May 6-June 16, in rotating repertory in the Cook Theatre: Rounding Third by Richard Dresser; String of Pearls by Michele Lowe.
FSU/Asolo Conservatory
Dates to be announced, Pericles by William Shakespeare; What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton; Five by Tennessee by Tennessee Williams; Mirandolina by Carlo Goldoni.
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Alley Cat Players has announced its mainstage season, opening with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, adapted by Nina Shengold, April 8-23. The schedule also includes How His Bride Came to Abraham by Karen Sunde, Aug. 12-27; and Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, with one cast performing both plays in repertory, Nov. 11-Dec. 10. Performances are at the Isaac Center, 610 E North St., Tampa. 813 231-8478; www.alleycatplayers.org
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