THEATER / COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS

MARCH 16 - 28
In the Heights
Broadway Across America
Winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL!, is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home. With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony Award-winning score, IN THE HEIGHTS is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community - a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Experience the next chapter of the classic American story at the most joyous, exciting and award-winning new musical on Broadway. Find out what it takes to make a living, what it costs to have a dream, and what it means to be home...IN THE HEIGHTS.
Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Call 954-462-0222.
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APRIL 6 - 18
The Color Purple
Broadway Across America
From the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, and the moving film by Steven Spielberg, comes a soul-stirring new musical and landmark Broadway event. The Color Purple is an inspiring family saga that tells the unforgettable story of a woman who -- through love -- finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. Set to a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel and blues, this is a story of hope, a testament to the healing power of love and a celebration of life.
Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC

MARCH 12
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Acclaimed by The New York Times as "one of the finest conductors of her generation", Maestro JoAnn Falletta has brought the world-renowned Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) to new levels of prominence.

Following in the footsteps of distinguished predecessors like William Steinberg, Joseph Krips and Michael Tilson Thomas, BPO has, during Faletta's ten-year tenure as Music Director, won numerous awards including the ASCAP/ASOL award for Adventurous Programming. The orchestra is regularly heard on NPR/APR and European Union Broadcasts, and has rekindled its distinguished history of PBS broadcasts and recordings, receiving two Grammy Awards this past season including one for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

Though the Orchestra's permanent home is the Saarinen masterpiece, Kleinhans Music Hall, considered to be one of the finest concert halls in the United States, BPO performs around the world from Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall to the premiere venues throughout Europe. Don't miss a chance to see this revered orchestra in concert when it plays Parker Playhouse, as part of its 75th anniversary tour. This superb program will include pieces featuring Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with BPO Concertmaster Michael Ludwig as soloist, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2."
Parker Playhouse
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MARCH 23
SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS

A staple of the concert repertoire, the Tchaikovsky No. 2 will be masterfully interpreted by Argentinean pianist, Ricardo Roel joining with the Symphony of the Americas under the very able baton of Dr. James Brooks-Bruzzese. A pre-concert lecture, strolling lobby entertainment and a pre-concert wine tasting round out this entertaining evening.
Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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APRIL 23
SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

South Florida Symphony Orchestra, formerly Key West Symphony ends its inaugural season at the Broward Center with Christopher Taylor performing Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto. Add to this the beautiful and haunting music of Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and the exciting and jubilant Beethoven Symphony No 5 and you have a stellar season with many more to come.
Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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MARCH 31
GILBERTO GIL - CONCERT
The String Concert featuring Jaques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil

With a career spanning four decades and nearly 40 albums, seven-time Grammy Award Winner Gilberto Gil returns to weave his musical magic at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts fresh off a highly acclaimed 2009 European Tour. Alongside his son Bem Gil (guitars) and the super talented Jaques Morelenbaum (cellist/producer/conductor), The String Concert is sure to surprise, entertain, inspire, and sizzle.
As a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Gilberto Gil fused bossa nova, samba and salsa with rock and folk music, becoming a true world music pioneer. In the late 1960s he introduced the Tropicália movement alongside Caetano Veloso and went on to become Minister of Culture for Brazil, playing a key role in the constant modernization of Brazilian popular music and culture throughout the world.

"One mark of a great artist," says London's Financial Times "might be the ability to look back on decades of creativity and, ranging over the body of work, reinterpret and re-imagine it, and even inject it with a new vigour...Gilberto Gil is such an artist."

Gilberto Gil is an unstoppable force as a singer, songwriter and legendary performer. Now, this legendary artist and iconic musical freedom fighter comes to the Broward Center, blending his far-reaching musical influences into an extraordinary concert for one night only.
Broward Center the Performing Arts.
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VISUAL ARTS

NOW
The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens
Glimpse a bygone, gentler era, through the display of one of its most gifted painters, William J. Glackens. When Ira Glackens, son of American impressionist William Glackens, died in 1991, he left his substantial collection of works by his father to the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. The original donation included more than two hundred works in a variety of media, later supplemented by another 300 works given by the Sansom Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Ira and Nancy Glackens in the 1950s to oversee their art interests.

The Glackens Collection ranges from the artist’s earliest known painting (Philadelphia Landscape, from 1893) to his last completed canvas (White Rose and Other Flowers, from 1937). The collection also includes works by such contemporaries of William Glackens as Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and John Sloan.

In 2001, the Museum opened a 10,000-square-foot wing that is home to the collection, made possible by the Sansom Foundation, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council.

This new installation for our revamped galleries showcases some of the best-known as well as most popular canvases and graphics from Glackens’s oeuvre, along with three loans from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and one from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibition is curated by Jorge H. Santis, the Museum’s curator and head of collection research.
Open daily. 11 am - 7 pm.  Thursday extended hours until 9 pm.  Closed Tuesdays and select national holidays. Hours are subject to change.
Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. 954-525-5500.

NOW OPEN
Wish You Were Here: Postcard Art from the Past 
These early picturesque scenes of Greater Fort Lauderdale provide a wonderful opportunity to see our community in a more idyllic time and in vivid colors.  Small hand-colored postcards have been greatly enlarged so that the details stand out like never before.  Postcards featured in the exhibit range from the early 1930s to the 1950s and show an array of images from historic beach scenes to beautiful views of the New River.  the postcards are printed on a linen textured paper and represent the American Dream.  Along with expressing the beauty of  Fort Lauderdale, the exhibit gives insight into the history and creation of postcards.  
Fort Lauderdale Historical Society.  954-463-4431.

NOW OPEN
Digging up the Past: An Archaeological Excavation of the Second Stranahan Store
Organized in conjunction with the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, this installation features artifacts uncovered in the 199601997 archeological excavation of the site of the second Stranahan Trading Post.  Build in 1906 by Ed King, the building burned in 1912 and was quickly replaced by the Oliver Building.  Recovered artifacts, historical photos and related trading post merchandise are included in this installation.  
Fort Lauderdale Historical Society.  954-463-4431.

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival & Cinema Paradiso
South Florida's most unique arthouse presenting films from around the world. Visit our website: www.fliff.com

EXPERIENCE THE MOVIES BIGGER THAN EVER BEFORE ON AN IMAX® SCREEN!
Museum of Discovery and Science Blockbuster IMAX®
Theater. Call for listings and show times. 954-463-4629

ONGOING
Historic Walking Tour
Lace up your sneakers and soak up some history with a one-hour guided historic walking tour. Meet at ll:45 AM in the lobby of the New River Inn (Fort Lauderdale Historical Society) and you will be on your way by noon. Available on the first and third Saturday of each month from October until May, cost of the tour is $10. Reservations a must!
Call 954-463-4431 ext.10 for more information and reservations.

ONGOING
Historic Stranahan House Museum
Tour this historic trading post, play a pioneer game and join in literature circles by the New River. Experience a link to the time when the Seminole Indians made friends with a young Ohioan who came to the frontier settlement now known as Fort Lauderdale.
A “must see” in South Florida. 954-524-4736.

FESTIVALS

SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch - FREE
The Riverwalk comes alive the first Sunday of every month as the SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch fills the air with jazz music performed on four stages along the historic New River. Riverwalk Park and a&e District in downtown Fort Lauderdale, 11am to 2pm.
For more information call 954-828-5985