Adrienne Arsht News

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open on May 11, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and play for eight performances through May 16th. Spring Awakening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America-Miami.

Jonah Bokaer's fascination with the fusion of architecture, technology and choreography is front and center this year, in the United States and Internationally. Consider his 2010 commissioned world premieres: a choreography and architecture commission from Dance Works Rotterdam, Holland; the opening of Pavilion Dance's new building in Bournemouth, England; and Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is also the school's first Artist in Residence. Bokaer, who along with John Jasperse, created CPR - Center for Performance Research, was also instrumental in the architectural design of the performing space and facilities. Greenbelt, which houses CPR, recently became the first New York State L.E.E.D!-NC Gold certified mixed-use structure.*

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, recognized by U.S. Congress as a vital American 'Cultural Ambassador to the World,' will inspire, enlighten and entertain from May 20-23 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in the finale of a 20-city U.S. Tour honoring 2009 TIME 100 Honoree Judith Jamison on her 20th year as artistic director.

Nearly 80 young Spring Awakening fans have taken to the streets of Miami to spread the word about the award-winning musical that has captured their hearts! The GUILTY ONES is the official Spring Awakening fan club and street team that has sprung up in every city the show plays. GUILTY ONES age 14 to 35 are charging through Miami with Facebook posts and Twitter tweets, blogging and sending thousands of emails heralding the arrival of Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award® winner in years.

Nearly 80 young Spring Awakening fans have taken to the streets of Miami to spread the word about the award-winning musical that has captured their hearts! The GUILTY ONES is the official Spring Awakening fan club and street team that has sprung up in every city the show plays. GUILTY ONES age 14 to 35 are charging through Miami with Facebook posts and Twitter tweets, blogging and sending thousands of emails heralding the arrival of Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award® winner in years.

Building on the huge success of last summer's record-breaking lineup, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly announces its blockbuster SUMMER SEASON 2010, featuring three dynamic Miami premieres plus the return of audience favorites for a summer of fun that offers something for everyone! In a world premiere, CAMP KAPPAWANNA brings the adventures of camp straight to the stage for families to enjoy together, with a score by Grammy®-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb and book by local rising star Marco Ramirez. From Australia, TAP DOGS is a high energy, fresh take on tap dance, featuring nine male dancers taking over the stage with raw energy and dynamic talent. Originally created in Israel, the Miami premiere of THE ALUMINUM SHOW is the summer's not-to-be-missed grand finale! Aluminum in all forms is transformed and brought to life in surprising, delightful, and humorous ways in this wildly inventive work of dance, theater, and magic. All of South Florida is sure to be captivated by this stunning visual collage of mind over metal.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open on May 11, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and play for eight performances through May 16th. Spring Awakening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America-Miami.

Grammy nominated musician Lisa Loeb's musical Camp Kappawanna is set to make it's world premiere this summer at Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida from June 17th through the 27th. After the musical's engagement in Miami, it will play at the Epstein Center for the Arts at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida from July 1st through the 3rd.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly announces the premiere of ROCK ODYSSEY, a spectacular theatrical production that will be seen by every fifth-grader in the Miami-Dade County Public School System. In total, more than 26,000 fifth graders will participate in the pilot program, which was created by the Adrienne Arsht Center in conjunction with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The show will afford young people the opportunity to experience live theater in Miami's premier performing arts center, at no cost to them or their schools. ROCK ODYSSEY will run from April 27 - May 8, 2010 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. This arts education program is made possible with the generous support of Miami-Dade County and additional funding from Funding Arts Network.

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., Ailey's Official Vehicle Partner, is providing support to bring Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's inspiring performances to audiences in 20 cities through June. In combination with the tour, Toyota's redesigned 2011 Avalon will welcome audiences at theaters in Richmond, VA; Jacksonville, FL; Miami, FL; and New York City at Brooklyn Academy of Music from June 10th - 20th and at Ailey at the Apollo!, a special benefit evening on May 4th at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater, 'where stars are born and legends are made.'

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announced its 5th Anniversary Broadway in Miami 2010-2011/Broadway Across America season with a line-up of five Tony® Award-winning Miami premiere engagements. The 5th Anniversary season kicks off October 2010 at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House with an all-new production of DREAMGIRLS direct from New York's Apollo Theater; followed by a December limited holiday engagement: NETworks presents Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST- the enchanting, romantic musical for all generations; March brings in two of Broadway's biggest blockbusters and Best Musical Tony® winners: JERSEY BOYS, the story of rock 'n roll Hall of Famers, The Four Seasons, followed by the Latino hit musical IN THE HEIGHTS. June closes the season with HAIR, the 2009 Tony® Award winner for Best Musical Revival.

On the heels of the announcement that internationally famed pop group ABBA was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15 at New York's Waldorf Astoria, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the pop group's hit songs, returns to Miami for a week's run, Tuesday, March 30 through Sunday, April 4 presented by Florida Theatrical Association at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County earned 11 ADDY awards for advertising and marketing excellence at the Advertising Federation of Miami's annual award ceremony. The ADDYs are the advertising and marketing industry's most significant awards competition, with more than 60,000 entries annually. The Adrienne Arsht Center's 11 awards recognized marketing efforts surrounding a number of shows and programs, including its inaugural Masterworks Season, 2009 Jazz Roots series, 2009 Flamenco Festival, and the summer smash hit Fuerza Bruta, which proved to be one of the most successful and longest-running shows in the Center's history.

In THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN, Italian theater company Teatro di Piazza o d'Occasione (T.P.O.) incorporates computer graphics and digital technologies to create a thrilling new experience in participatory theater. The children's cheering carpet, a ground-breaking device that uses touch sensors, transforms the stage into a magical landscape from which beautiful botanical images, rainforest sounds, and brilliant prisms of color emerge in every direction in real-time response to the dancers' movements. Even bigger thrills come when young ones from the audience are invited to touch and explore the glowing interactive garden themselves.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today selected 14 teams of arts organizations and school systems from across the nation to participate in the Partners in Education Institute, May 5-8, 2010 at the Kennedy Center. The Institute, funded by the U.S. Department of Education; the National Committee for the Performing Arts; and the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund, promotes partnerships in communities across the country between arts organizations and local school districts, focusing on the development of arts education programs for teachers.

Today Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC), led by Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton, announces its 2010-11 season, unveiling a World Premiere-packed series of performances at home in Chicago, as well as national and international touring and innovative collaborations with cultural partners in the city.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announced its 5th Anniversary Broadway in Miami 2010-2011/Broadway Across America season with a line-up of five Tony® Award-winning Miami premiere engagements. The 5th Anniversary season kicks off October 2010 at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House with an all-new production of DREAMGIRLS direct from New York's Apollo Theater; followed by a December limited holiday engagement: NETworks presents Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST- the enchanting, romantic musical for all generations; March brings in two of Broadway's biggest blockbusters and Best Musical Tony® winners: JERSEY BOYS, the story of rock 'n roll Hall of Famers, The Four Seasons, followed by the Latino hit musical IN THE HEIGHTS. June closes the season with HAIR, the 2009 Tony® Award winner for Best Musical Revival.

For over 50 years Second City has delivered non-stop belly laughs to the masses, carving out a highly-acclaimed reputation as the mecca of comedy. Now, the theater troupe famous for training comedic legends will delight South Florida with a world premiere production, featuring a mixture of classic Second City sketches and all new scenes that shed a comic light on the issues facing today's Latino population living in the U.S. From English-only legislation, to the first 'Wise Latina' on the Supreme Court, no topic is off limits in this perfect comedic salsa that only Second City can serve.

On the heels of the announcement that internationally famed pop group ABBA was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15 at New York's Waldorf Astoria, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the pop group's hit songs, returns to Miami for a week's run, Tuesday, March 30 through Sunday, April 4 presented by Florida Theatrical Association at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Mad Cat Theatre Company join forces for the first time to present BROADSWORD, the raucous and rollicking play that combines myth, magic, and heavy metal on stage April 29 - May 9, 2010 at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Ziff Ballet Opera House. Tickets are $35, and may be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at (305) 949-6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org.