The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra plays on the Full Sail Live stage, backdropped by imagery created by Full Sailors – imagery that interacts with the music while it’s played, on the billboard-size LED screen behind the musicians.
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Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Broadway ’
Orlando Phil and Full Sail collide in Symphony in HD: Music of the Night
Theatre Review: Memphis The Musical
With today's Broadway dominated by revivals and adaptations, where do you have to go to see a show you haven't already seen on the silver screen? The answer, it appears, is Tennessee. Memphis: The Musical, the 2010 Tony Award winner concludes Fairwinds' 2012/2013 Orlando Broadway Across America season with a weeklong stand at the...
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Theatre Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Did you ever wonder what might happen if you handed the folks who produce the female impersonator revues at the Footlights Theater a ginormous bag of money and told them to go crazy? The answer, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, can be found at the Bob Carr, where the blinged-out lavender caravan known as...
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Video: WarHorse’s “Joey” Makes Surprise Appearance at Orlando’s Abbey
On Wednesday night (3/27/13) the Florida Theatrical Association held a party at The Abbey theater to celebrate Fairwinds' 2013-2014 Broadway Across America touring season. The upcoming lineup of plays, which was officially announced last month, includes award-winning hits like Book of Mormon, Once, and Evita. FTA president Ron Legler, DPAC's Kathy Ramsberger, and Orlando...
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Theatre Review: Million Dollar Quartet at Bob Carr
The Avengers taught us that if one hero is super, four must be fabulous. Million Dollar Quartet, the current offering in the Fairwinds Broadway Series, makes a strong case that the same is true for rock & roll royalty. Director Eric Schaffer's swiftly-paced single-act musical (which started life at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre) is...
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Theater Review: Beauty and the Beast at Bob Carr
After New York Times critic Frank Rich called the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast that year’s “best musical … in any format,” Michael Eisner (then at the peak of his power as Disney CEO) wasted little time turning this “tale as old as time” into the Mouse’s first Broadway blockbuster. Over the...
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Cornerstone Theatre Company presents Good People
The young Cornerstone Theatre Co. will stage a weekend-long run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, a Southie-set exploration of class, loyalty and shame, as the first show of their ambitious first full season.
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Theatre Review: La Cage Aux Folles
At last night’s opening of La Cage Aux Folles, the final touring production in the current Fairwinds Broadway Across America season, I saw something unusual — a significant number of prime empty seats at the Bob Carr. Was Orlando’s theater community still nursing their post-Fringe hangovers, burnt out on GLBT-themed shows? Or is the...
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Theatre Review: The Lion King
Earlier this month, the Broadway production of The Lion King surpassed The Phantom of the Opera as the best-selling show in New York history. Customarily, I’d be the first to complain about the conflation of commercial success with quality. But I have nothing to carp about, because as the touring company currently camping in...
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Theater Review: Billy Elliot The Musical from Fairwinds Broadway Across America
Tony Blair and other Brits are up in arms over Meryl Streep’s “unkind” portrayal of Margaret Thatcher with Alzheimer’s. I hope those Tories haven’t seen the West End hit Billy Elliot, whose Broadway tour opened at Orlando’s Bob Carr last night. One of the best moments in the show (based on the 2000 Universal...
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