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11.27.07
Posted in Ryan, Events, Sentinel, Recommendations, Orlando Sentinel, Fundraisers at 5:16 am by Ryan
Our good friend and the website producer for the Orlando Fringe, Mark Baratelli, has returned from his tour of I Love a Piano, and he’s organizing another night of cabaret to benefit a local charity. I’m so sorry I missed the last event, because I love the female voice, but I won’t be missing this one for sure. Look for some more updates from Blogging Fringe as the event draws closer.
Here’s a copy of the event info from http://feeds.orlandosentinel.com/~r/entertainment/stage/theaterblog/~3/190728002/the-girls-women.html:
Last August a group of pretty swell women got together at Mad Cow Theatre to raise money to send Mark Baratelli and his show to the New York Fringe.
Now they’re back, and this time Laura Hodos, Luerne Herrera, Meghan Moroney and pianist Steve McKinnon are raising money for the Coalition for the Homeless.
Here’s the info:
Cast:
Laura Hodos
Luerne Herrera
Meghan Moroney
Pianist Steve McKinnon
Event Title:
A Night With the Girls 2
Date:
December 12, 2007
Time:
8pm
Show Length:
one hour and thirty minutes
Venue:
The Goldman Theater at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center (http://www.orlandoshakes.org/)
Tickets:
$20 suggested donation to the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida
Reservations: email@markbaratelli.com
Available at the door
Cash only
Produced by:
MarkBaratelli.com
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07.28.07
Posted in Ryan, Announcements, Sentinel, Recaps, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Weekly, Newspaper, Blogs at 6:35 pm by Ryan
That’s right. Thursday night, July 26th, 2007 the Orange County Commission met and voted on the building of a new sports arena (for the Orlando Magic, the old one is to be sold and demolished), some renovations on the 70+ year old Citrus Bowl (home of the Capital One Bowl, the Champs Sports Bowl, and… not much else), and of most importance to you, the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center (see if you can get us to stop calling it OPAC any time soon).
“Betsy” Maupin has a bit of news about the PAC in her latest blog. John Kennedy (political blogger for the Sentinel) was giving semi-live updates during the meeting, and my new favorite news aggregator for Orlando, Outside.in, doesn’t have much news at all.
The best coverage of “the venues” by far has been the Orlando Weekly. Searching their site for “Pleasure Dome” or “Venues” will bring up lots of relevant results (including the several reasons why they were not interested in building a new arena or renovating the Citrus Bowl. The Orlando Weekly Blog has also been getting much more frequent updating lately, so if you’re into reading blogs, check out their RSS.
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02.19.07
Posted in Articles, Ryan, Announcements, Sentinel at 10:55 pm by Ryan
From the Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando theater company best known for Shakespeare is changing its name.
Known for the past 12 years as the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, the area’s largest resident theater company will be called Orlando Shakespeare Theater.
Apparently, the backers of the festival are hoping we the people will start calling it “Orlando Shakes” - hence the snappy title. They are even renaming the website to orlandoshakes.org - maybe it will catch on…
Apparently, it’s not too bad that they dropped the “UCF” from the name either. According to the Sentinel, UCF is only supplying about 8% of the festival’s budget, instead of the more than 20% the originally supplied back in the 90’s. Now we will get “in partnership with UCF” like the Orlando Rep.
From what I understand, people are making fun of the pre-ordained nickname… I mean, I didn’t ask to be called “the Blog Guy”, but Chad Cronon seemed to think it fit last year.
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