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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CONCERTS & COMEDY
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.
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