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Review: PUFFS at Theatre South Playhouse


by Joseph Harrison - February 02, 2025

If you are a fan of a certain 'boy who lived' then Theatre South Playhouse’s delightfully humorous and nostalgic production of Matt Cox’s PUFFS or SEVEN INCREASINGLY EVENTFUL YEARS AT A CERTAIN SCHOOL OF MAGIC AND MAGIC could be right up your (Diagon) alley....

Review: MAMMA MIA! Wins Me Over at Last — Dr. Phillips Center


by Aaron Wallace - January 17, 2025

Silly stories like this work better on stage, where the particulars of the real world aren’t around to underscore implausibility. It’s quite a setup: 20-year-old bride-to-be Sophie has never known a father, but by the time the prologue is over, she has already swiped her mom’s diary, identified thre...

Review: JERSEY BOYS at Titusville Playhouse


by Joseph Harrison - January 12, 2025

In the realm of musical theatre, jukebox musicals have their supporters and their detractors. People who are already fans of an artist or group whose music forms the score of such shows are already pre-programmed to like a production due to their familiarity with and affinity for the music used in t...

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT Sizzles and Shakes at Dr. Phillips Center


by Albert Gutierrez - December 19, 2024

When SOME LIKE IT HOT began on Broadway, it was celebrated for updating a classic film to modern audiences in ways and themes not readily apparent from the original source material. After having played a successful year-long run on Broadway, the show concluded on December 30, 2023. Nine long months ...

Review: 4 LOST SANTAS + AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS at Opera Orlando


by Joseph Harrison - December 08, 2024

When it comes to the holidays in the opera world there are few standards as beloved as Gian Carlo Menotti’s AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS. The first opera written expressly for television and first broadcast on NBC on Christmas Eve 1951, the piece has been produced countless times over the last 73 ye...

Review: WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD at Titusville Playhouse


by Joseph Harrison - December 07, 2024

It’s not often that audiences have the chance to experience a completely new musical here in Central Florida, but that is what is happening every night (and select days) on stage at Titusville Playhouse with the premiere of WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD which plays on the Titusville, FL stage through Decem...

Review: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA by Central Florida Vocal Arts


by Joseph Harrison - November 16, 2024

The feelings that one gets when sitting in the audience for a musical production can run the gamut from sadness and heartbreak to joy and excitement. But it is a rare experience when a production causes one to experience the full breadth of human emotion – becoming transfixed and transported to an e...

Review: ANNIE at Theatre South Playhouse


by Joseph Harrison - November 03, 2024

“The sun'll come out, tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun…” If you are now belting out this tune in your living room, then you are not alone. The song, from the classic musical ANNIE, is one that has captured hearts ever since it was first heard when this uplifting show pr...

Review: ANASTASIA at Titusville Playhouse


by Joseph Harrison - October 27, 2024

History, romance and a captivating mystery told in a breathtakingly magical way – that’s the thrilling combination you get with ANASTASIA, the latest production from Titusville Playhouse. The beloved musical, inspired by the classic 1997 animated film, takes audiences on a “Journey to the Past” thro...

Review: The BOOK OF MORMON Makes Welcome Return to Dr. Phillips Center's Front Door


by Aaron Wallace - October 25, 2024

The show works because it forces us to identify with these well-meaning Mormon kids, which has the double effect of indicting our own sense of cultural supremacy while also softening the slurs toward its Latter-Day Saints. ...

Past Shows

Disney's Freaky Friday, A New Musical


Set your watches!!! Mark your calendar!!! It’s almost time for…. Standing Ovation Academy’s presentation of “Disney’s Freaky Friday, A New Musical” Book by Bridget Carpenter ...

Mean Girls Jr.
Mean Girls Jr.
6/3 - 6/4/2023


The Plastics have deemed Broadway Junior worthy of their presence in  Mean Girls JR!  This "fetch" musical from book writer Tina Fey ( 30 Rock ...

Disney’s Aladdin Jr
Disney’s Aladdin Jr
6/3 - 6/5/2022


Disneys Aladdin JR. is based on the 1992 Academy Award-winning film and the 2014 hit Broadway show about the diamond in the rough street rat ...

Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride
5/13 - 5/22/2022


FATHER OF THE BRIDE BY CAROLINE FRANCE Mr. Banks learns that one of the young men he has seen occasionally about the house is about ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
2/12 - 2/20/2022


2/19-20/2022 (Final Weekend) Saturday 7:30 PM, Sunday 2:30 PM - Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, Produced by Standing Ovation Academy, Directed by Jennifer Wade. We ...

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