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����The freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg will be performing its own unique style of Peter and the Starcatcher and its related Peter Pan through January 29. ����The Show Palace Dinner Theatre in Hudson will delight you with its version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from January 7 through February 12. ����The 35th anniversary tour of the musical spoof Forbidden Broadway will be at the Straz Center in Tampa from January 10 through March 12. ����Van Morrison will give three performances of his classic hits at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater from January 17-19. ���� As part of August Wilson’s Century Cycle, American Stage in St. Petersburg will feature Joe Turner’s Come and Gone from January 18 through February 19. ����Opera Tampa will stage Romeo and Juliet at the Straz Center in Tampa on January 20 and 22. ����The Elixir of Love by Donizetti will be performed by the St. Petersburg Opera Company at The Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg on January 27, 29, 31. ���� Billy Crystal will be at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on January 31. ����Ruth Eckerd Hall also will have Steve Martin and Martin Short onstage on February 11. ����The Sarasota Opera will perform Puccini’s famous opera Madama Butterfly from February 11th through March 25th at the Opera House in Sarasota. ����Michael Francis will conduct The Florida Orchestra with the Master Chorale for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 from February 17-19. ����Our own musical star Bertie Higgins will be singing “Key Largo” and other songs at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center on February 25. ����The mega-musical Saturday Night Fever, based on the 1977 film, will be at The Show Palace Dinner Theatre in Hudson from March 25 through April 2. ����Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater will feature the Moscow Festival Ballet performing Sleeping Beauty on March 2. ����And for those who are looking for something new and unusual, Steampunk Circus, a cirque gala, will be at Dance and Circus Arts of Tampa Bay in Clearwater from March 3-5. Each of these performances is sure to entertain you and is worth putting on your dance card, so to speak. 9 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 61 The Beacon 2017, a contemporary dance show with dance works and a film, will be at The Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg on January 13. Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short will perform at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on February 11.


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