Timothy D. Turner served
as Musical Director & Pianist for “Love Crossing, a Celebration of Love in Song, Dance and Stories”
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The
Mikado, Rocket 88, NESkimos, The Cocktail Hour and
more Friday • 11 LOVE CROSSING Hey, did you happen to save your
Orlando Broadway Dinner Theater tickets when the venerable home of buffets
and belting it out went belly-up at the end of 2004? Probably not; odds are,
you tossed the now-worthless ducats into a homemade bonfire when you realized
you had bought entry to a joint that didn't exist anymore. If you held onto
them – or even if your patronage was obvious in other ways – a group of
similarly inconvenienced performers wants to reward your undying devotion to
drama with a song in its heart. The new Ghostlight
Theatre Ensemble, a production company founded by three OBDT veterans who
found themselves out of work when the ax fell, has commandeered the Studio
Theatre to present Love Crossing, a Celebration of Love in Song, Dance and
Stories. Ghostlight co-founder Karla Schultz
says the show is a specially compiled and choreographed evening of material
that ranges from traditional musical theater to Sinatra and Nat King Cole to
more contemporary stage selections. There's even a narrative "through
line" for the five-person cast to follow as they bounce from one
romantic melody to another. Love Crossing runs for one weekend only,
but Schultz promises that anyone who shows up within that time frame bearing
an unused ticket to an OBDT show will receive the group rate ($8). She'll
even extend the courtesy to patrons whose faces she recognizes from her
tenure as an actor and server at the once-indomitable Edgewater Drive
establishment. Just don't expect peach cobbler; we're not in PoliGrip Land any more, Toto. (8 p.m. at
Studio Theatre; also 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday;
407-862-8218; $10; group rate $8) |
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