GREAT GIFT FOR
THE HOLIDAYS!
100 SARASOTA SCENE | DECEMBER 2017
discover there is something really
different and exciting going on.”
“There’s something socially
exciting going on, too,” Hopkins
added. “The birth of rock and roll
was really the beginning of the
African-American and white races
coming together musically, especially
in the south. And that’s our
storyline: the social storyline, the
musical storyline and stories of the
people that created it and spread it
around.”
Some of those people include Ray
Charles, James Brown and Chuck
Berry, according to this production’s
director, Catherine Randazzo.
“We call it guitar theater,” Randazzo
said. “When people think of
a cabaret, they probably envision
a chanteuse in front of a piano. In
this situation, Rebecca and Richard
have found all different kinds
of music and the various ways it’s
played. This show needs guitars,
drums and saxophone. And those
people playing them are singing
at the same time. So not only are
they presenting a story through the
music, they are the ones embodying
its rhythms and are bringing that to
the stage. It’s exciting. It’s electric.
And it makes for a dynamic evening
of cabaret.”
“Once,” with book by Enda
Walsh and music and lyrics by Glen
Hansard and Markéta Irglová will
play from November 8 to December
31 in the Gompertz Theatre, on the
corner of Cocoanut and First Street
in Sarasota. Single tickets range
from $46-49 and four-show mainstage
subscriptions that include this
show cost $59.
“Blue Suede Shoes” will play
from November 29 to April 1, 2018
in the Goldstein Cabaret, on Palm
Avenue next to the Keating Theatre,
which is located at 1241 N.
Palm Ave. Single tickets range from
$34-38, with a three-show cabaret
subscription package starting at
$39. For more information, call the
box office at 941.366.9000 or visit
floridastudiotheatre.org.
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