BROADWAY & BEYOND Set for Tonight at New Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

By: Nov. 15, 2014
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Single tickets are still available for Broadway & Beyond at the Walt Disney Theater a variety show featuring luminaries from Broadway and beyond, including international music and dance performers. The performance will open the Walt Disney Theater during the Grand Premiere of Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts presented by Dr. Phillips Charities and Balfour Beatty Construction.

The sold out pre-show party and dinner, a black tie event with 1,300 guests, begins with a cocktail reception on the Seneff Arts Plaza followed by a three-course seated dinner in a tented pavilion. Following the dinner, doors open for the first show in the Walt Disney Theater at 8:00 p.m. with a curtain time of 8:30 p.m.

Single tickets are available for the 8:30 p.m. performance of Broadway & Beyond at the Walt Disney Theater. The tickets for this one night only, star-studded event are $250.00, $175.00 and $125.00 and include the "Broadway & Beyond" performance, a champagne toast and dessert reception, with dancing and other specials surprises, under the stars on the Seneff Arts Plaza.

Tony nominee Norm Lewis returns to his Central Florida home to appear in the Broadway & Beyond at the Walt Disney Theater. The 90-minute show will also feature performances from a range of stars including television and Broadway's Michael Urie, leading soprano, Deborah Voigt; rising Latin superstar, Ektor Rivera; world-renowned Argentinian dance duo, The Lombard Twins; The Broadway Kids;

Sierra Boggess (Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, The Little Mermaid); NBC The Voice's, Chris Mann; legendary jazz singer, Jane Monheit; popular all-male singing string quartet, Well-Strung; YouTube viola sensation, Jeremy Green; and a full 26-piece orchestra, made up of members of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. (All performers are subject to change.)

Broadway director and producer, Richard Jay-Alexander, and musical director and conductor Mary-Mitchell Campbell, conceived and created the show especially for the Grand Premiere of the Dr. Phillips Center. Read more about Jay-Alexander and BROADWAY & BEYOND in this BWW Exclusive.

Tickets are currently on sale and may be purchased by calling the Dr. Phillips Center Box office at 844.513.2014 or by visiting the Box office at 455 Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801 between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. or online at drphillipscenter.org.

ABOUT THE DR. PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS:

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to developing and operating a new state-of-the-art performing arts center in downtown Orlando, Fla. Opening in November 2014, the performing arts center will begin to fulfill its vision of Arts For Every Life®; to be a gathering place for creativity and discovery; a vibrant urban destination where artists, audiences and students will come to experience, explore and learn. The two-block community-gathering place features the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater, 300-seat Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, CNL Arts Plaza, School of Arts, the DeVos Family Room, and other event rental spaces. Future expansion plans includes a 1,700-seat acoustic theater, rehearsal room and commercial development spaces. The Dr. Phillips Center is a public-private collaboration with the City of Orlando, Orange County, the State of Florida and generous donors.



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