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Love Your Shorts Film Festival’s Summer Rewind to Screen August 25

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Love Your Shorts Film Festival’s mid-year bonus, the Summer Rewind, will be presented Friday, August 25th, at the Ritz Theater featuring some of the most talked about films from February’s 13th annual festival. The 11 shorts (below) represent all of the festival’s categories: Comedy, Drama, Animation, Documentary, Sci-Fi/Horror, International, Florida Flavor, and E for Everyone. The films will start at...

Ritz Theater Launches 100th Anniversary Season

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Beginning in July, the Ritz Theater at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center will begin a year-long celebration marking its 100th Anniversary of entertaining the community. “In a country less than 300 years old, celebrating a centennial milestone is quite the achievement. The Ritz Theater has seen her hometown of Sanford, FL, grow and change immensely in her time. No matter what...

Mysterious & Spooky Altogether Kooky, The Addams Family Comes to The Ritz Theater

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The Ritz Theater in Sanford invites families to join us and sing along to the “mysterious and spooky altogether kooky” The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy opens Friday, October 8 at 7:30pm and runs through October 17 with evening and matinee performances. “The Addams Family Musical is based on the classic cartoon and beloved television show that has become...

The Beloved Tony Award-Winning Musical ‘Once’ will be Taking the Stage at Theater West End

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The beloved Tony award-winning musical Once will be taking the stage at Theater West End starting on May 14 through May 30. The broadway smash hit includes a cast of actors that also play their own instruments onstage, a rare sight for Theater West End audiences. Once has been described as “a show that demands that its audience listen,” by...

The Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center Presents Mamma Mia!

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Move over Meryl Streep: There’s a new Mamma Mia in town! On March 6, the WDPAC will be opening its latest community production of Mamma Mia. It’s a story of love and hidden pasts. When young Sophie Sheridan is about to married, she discovers that her estranged father could be one of three men! To figure out the paternal mystery,...

Theater West End rolls out AstroTurf fun with “Great American Trailer Park Musical”

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Hey, neighbor! It’s about time for you to come on down to Theater West End, or as we like to call it now… Armadillo Acres II. Starting January 24, director Derek Critzer will wow you with the boisterous and sometimes downright loud tenants of America’s favorite fictional trailer park at the center of The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Be...

Theater West End Kicks Off Second Season with ‘Once On This Island’ in Historic Downtown Sanford

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An enchanting musical tale, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND tells the story of forbidden love between two people from different worlds. Originally inspired by The Little Mermaid and Romeo & Juliet, this award-winning musical is set on an island in the French Antilles where social prejudices run deep and Caribbean music plays hot. Dazzling choreography, lush ballads and rousing choral numbers...

Theater West End to stage Central Florida Regional Premiere of ‘If/Then’ in Historic Downtown Sanford

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Theater West End is proud to present the Central Florida Regional Premiere of the Broadway musical If/Then, featuring music by Tom Kitt, with lyrics and book by Brian Yorkey. If/Then opens in Historic Downtown Sanford on August 16 and runs through September 1. With unforgettable songs and a deeply moving story by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning creators of Next...

Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Opens Today at Theater West End

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Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill opens today at Theater West End and runs May 3rd - May 12th. The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty,...

Andrew Lippa’s Darkly-Brilliant ‘Wild Party’ Premieres in Historic Downtown Sanford

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The buzz is in the air! Fresh off the success of an extended sold-out run of West Side Story, Theater West End presents Wild Party, with book, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, March 29 - April 14 in Historic Downtown Sanford. The musical is directed by Artistic Director Derek Critzer, with music direction by Austin Paul McElwain, and choreography...