Blippi: Join The Band Tour Children’s ProgramStage Production 02 October Blippi, the blue-and-orange clad children’s entertainer, is going places – specifically Disney World. Blippi and best friend Meekah are starring in a series of videos in which they explore Disney World and its adjoining parks as well as Disney Cruise Lines. It’s another giant step for the show, which began on YouTube and was picked up by Netflix, attracting more than a billion views along the way. Yes, with a “b.” In this new show, Blippi, Meekah and all of their friends discover the joy of making music. Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Gabby’s Dollhouse Live! Children’s ProgramStage Production 12 October When Gabby dons her cat ears and enters her dollhouse, her toys come to life and adventure always follows. Based on the popular children’s program, Gabby’s Dollhouse Live! brings Gabby and her Gabby Cats to life on stage with a brand-new story about finding the colors to fix a broken rainbow. The show features spectacular puppets, dynamic staging and songs from the series including “You Can’t Spell Meow Without Me.” Straz Center for the Performing Arts
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Arts + CultureFilmSpecial EventStage Production 22 October Get your fishnet stockings, corsets and platform shoes out of mothballs and get ready to “do the Time Warp again” again! The Rocky Horror Picture Show 50th Anniversary Spectacular Tour salutes the film that launched midnight movie mania. Enjoy a shadow cast performance, a costume contest and a Q&A with three of the film’s original cast members: Barry Bostwick (Brad), Nell Campbell (Columbia) and Patricia Quinn (Magenta). The highlight will be a screening of the original, uncut 1975 film. Audience members will receive a bag of props, so leave yours at home. Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Off Book: The Improvised Musical Arts + CultureComedyStage Production 05 December Planning is so overrated, or at least you might think so after seeing Off Book: The Improvised Musical. Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino will take the stage armed with their wits and little else and will create an entirely improvised musical right before your very eyes and ears. The duo regularly work with big name comedy folk including Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg and Amy Poehler. We don’t know what will happen exactly, but we can almost guarantee it will be memorable. Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Dog Man: The Musical Children’s ProgramStage Production 07 March Comic book creators George and Harold have reached fifth grade and are ready for a challenge: making a musical based on one of their characters, Dog Man, a part-human, part-canine crime fighter. No problem, right? No. There are problems, all right, and that’s what fuels this charming stage adaptation of the popular children’s book series, which is itself a spin-off of Captain Underpants, all from the mind and pen of author Dav Pilkey. Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Dog Man: The Musical Children’s ProgramStage Production 07 March Comic book creators George and Harold have reached fifth grade and are ready for a challenge: making a musical based on one of their characters, Dog Man, a part-human, part-canine crime fighter. No problem, right? No. There are problems, all right, and that’s what fuels this charming stage adaptation of the popular children’s book series, which is itself a spin-off of Captain Underpants, all from the mind and pen of author Dav Pilkey. Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Dog Man: The Musical Children’s ProgramStage Production 08 March Comic book creators George and Harold have reached fifth grade and are ready for a challenge: making a musical based on one of their characters, Dog Man, a part-human, part-canine crime fighter. No problem, right? No. There are problems, all right, and that’s what fuels this charming stage adaptation of the popular children’s book series, which is itself a spin-off of Captain Underpants, all from the mind and pen of author Dav Pilkey. Straz Center for the Performing Arts