Arts Center Management Announces the 2025 BROADWAY AT LPAC Season Lineup

01 Wednesday May 2024

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The popular Lauderhill Performing Arts Center Series kicks off its blockbuster
three-show season in January 2025

For Immediate Release
Contact: Kevin Barrett
kevinbarrettgm@gmail.com / 954-234-5982
Contact: Carol Kassie
carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244

May 1, 2024

LAUDERHILL, FL: ACM Theatricals, a division of Arts Center Management, will once again partner with the City of Lauderhill to produce the Broadway at LPAC Series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. The 2025 lineup will feature the musicals 9 to 5, Legally Blonde,and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Subscriptions are on sale beginning May 1. Single tickets will go on sale September 1.

“The 2024 Broadway at LPAC Season had the best attendance since the inception of the series,” says Lauderhill City Manager Desorae Giles-Smith. “A Chorus Line, Memphis and Hello Dolly! proved to be the perfect trifecta of shows for our audience. Lauderhill is looking forward to another spectacular season in 2025!”

The ACM Theatricals creative team for all three Broadway at LPAC musicals will once again include South Florida’s dynamic theatrical duo of Artistic Director Michael Ursua and Choreographer Alex Jorth.

Arts Center Management is a multi-faceted theatre management, consulting, and production company where the focus is to help theatres and theatre companies improve their programming and operations. The company was founded by ACM President and CEO Kevin Barrett in 2014.

“It’s an honor to work with the City of Lauderhill and help them expand their arts and cultural programming,” says Barrett. “The city has big plans to make Lauderhill an arts and cultural destination and we are very happy to play a role and help them achieve that goal.”

The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has hosted hundreds of theatrical events and productions since it opened its doors in January 2016 and has grown its audiences to include theatre patrons from not only Broward County, but from Miami/Dade and Palm Beach counties as well.

Subscriptions to the Broadway at LPAC Series are on sale now and various subscription packages are available for as low as $99 for all three shows. Patrons may contact the LPAC Box Office at (954) 777-2055 for more information.

The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center is located at 3800 NW 11th Place (33311), adjacent to Central Broward Park and Broward County Stadium on the northeast corner of Sunrise Boulevard and State Road 7. For more information about LPAC visit https://www.lpacfl.com or call the box office at (954) 777-2055.

For more information about ACM Theatricals, Producer Kevin Barrett, or the Broadway at LPAC Series, please contact Kevin Barrett at kevinbarrettgm@gmail.com / 954-234-5982.

The 2025 Broadway at LPAC Series:

9 to 5
January 16 – February 2, 2025
Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton
Book by Patricia Resnick
Based on the Twentieth Century Fox Film

Legally Blonde
February 27 – March 16, 2025
Book by Heather Hach
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer motion picture

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
April 10 – 27, 2025
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jushua Logan
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

About Kevin Barrett:

ACM President and CEO Kevin Barrett has successfully managed many performing arts centers in his 32-year career, including Springfield Symphony Hall in Massachusetts (1995-1999), the Coral Springs Center for the Arts (1999-2016), Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center (2016-2022) and the Delray Beach Playhouse (2016-present). Barrett began working with the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center in 2014 and was instrumental in bringing the successful Broadway at LPAC Series to the City.

About Michael Ursua:

As a director Michael Ursua has led multiple regional and local productions to success including Sister Act, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Peter Pan. For the past two seasons he has served as Director and Artistic Director of the Broadway at LPAC Series – helming A Chorus Line, Memphis, The Full Monty, 42^nd Street, Always Patsy Cline!, and Hello, Dolly! He has also served as musical director and conductor for numerous national tours, and local and regional productions, and has worked with talents such as Lee Roy Reams, Sally Struthers, Andrea McArdle, and Leslie Uggams.
Ursua is also an actor with an extensive list of stage credits, including roles in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, La Cage aux Folles,and The Secret Garden. He is also the creator, producer, and host of the wildly popular “Florida Sings Showtunes”, an online entertainment program that was designed to support local musical theatre artists during the pandemic. He has received a Silver Palm Award for his contributions to the South Florida theatrical community and is the recipient of numerous Carbonell nominations.

About Alex Jorth:
Alex Jorth has spent nearly 20 years working as an actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer throughout the United States. Since earning his BFA and dance minor from Millikin University, the years have seen him bringing Christmas cheer alongside the world famous Rockettes, retelling American History with the Muppets, cutting loose in the national tour of Footloose, setting choreography for students and professionals alike, and so much more. As a resident of Florida, Alex has worked with such companies as Walt Disney World, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Asolo Rep, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Actors’ Playhouse, Slow Burn Theatre Company, The Wick Theatre, Free Fall Theatre Company, and others.

Angie Radosh Stars in HELLO, DOLLY! at LPAC

18 Monday Mar 2024

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Award-Winning Actress
Angie Radosh to Star
in
Hello Dolly!
at LPAC
April 4 – 21

…a musical shot through with enchantment.”
Howard Taubman ~ The New York Times, January 17, 1964

For Immediate Release
Contact: Carol Kassie
carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244

March 18, 2024
LAUDERHILL, FL: Hello Dolly! one of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, will close out the 2024 Broadway at LPAC season. The production, which will star three-time Carbonell Award-winning actress Angie Radosh as the irrepressible Dolly Gallagher Levi, will run from April 4^th through April 21^st at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center.

“I am absolutely thrilled and humbled at the idea of doing this role…it has been on my bucket list for a long time,” Radosh says. “Every actor has their bucket list and as the years go by, the list gets shorter and roles pass us by….when I first read The Matchmaker so many years ago, I fell in love with the character of Dolly Levi and then, seeing Carol Channing in Hello Dolly! …well, that really made me appreciate the character even more….and here I am getting ready to finally bring this wonderful woman to life!!”

Hello, Dolly! is based on Thornton Wilder’s 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1954. The musical, with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, and book by Michael Stewart, follows the romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallagher Levi, turn-of-the century matchmaker and ‘woman who arranges things’, as she travels to Yonkers, New York to find a match for the ‘well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire’ Horace Vandergelder.

Hello, Dolly! premiered on Broadway on January 16, 1964, at the St. James Theatre. Opening with Carol Channing in the title role, the show ultimately ran for 2,844 performances, making it – at the time – the longest-running Broadway musical in history. Among its many awards, Dolly garnered 10 1964 Tonys (including Best Musical, Author, and Composer/Lyricist) and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.

Michael Ursua will do double duty as the show’s Director and Music Director, and Alex Jorth will serve as the production’s choreographer. Hello Dolly! is produced by Kevin Barrett and Arts Center Management.

“Hello Dolly! happens to be one of my all-time favorite musicals and its composer and lyricist, Jerry Herman, remains my favorite composer,” Ursua says. It is an absolute classic in musical theatre. The characters are loveable, and the audience can identify with their desire for romance and adventure. They bravely choose to step out of their comfort zones for love and yes, for money (which is really just a way to live generously of course). And Dolly helps each of them find their way and find each other. In the end it is community that is the prize. I am encouraged by these characters … encouraged to be brave, to love more, to be more generous and to dance whenever, however, with whomever I can.”

Ursua has assembled a stellar cast to populate Dolly’s 1898 New York setting – along with Radosh, Christopher Dreeson will star as Horace Vandergelder, with Sam Joseph as Cornelius Hackl, Ally Rosenblum (Star of LPAC’s 2023 production of Always…Patsy Cline) as Irene Molloy, Kristi Rose Mills as Minnie Fay, Joel Hunt as Barnaby Tucker, Erica Kaylee as Ermengarde, Dru Loman as Ambrose Kemper, Britte Steele as Ernestina, and Lovell Rose as Rudolph.

Ensemble members are Bryce Bayer, Nia Bourne, Kalista Curbelo, Eytan Deray, Alexandra Dow, Desir Dumerjuste, Stephen Eisenwasser, Eli Flynn, Santiago Garza, Amanda Lopez, Michael Materdomini, Izaiah Scott, Caroline Slagle, Larry Toyter, Alexandra Van Hasselt, and Herbert Welch.

Tickets for Hello Dolly! are on sale now and can be purchased online at https://www.lpacfl.com, or by calling the LPAC box office at 954-777-2055.Tickets range in price from $45 to $65.

The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center is located at 3800 NW 11^th Place (33311), in the Central Broward Regional Park on the Northeast corner of Sunrise Boulevard and State Road 7. For more information about LPAC visit https://www.lpacfl.com.

For more information about Hello Dolly!, to speak with anyone involved in the production, or to arrange to see a performance, please contact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244.
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Hello Dolly!
April 4 – 21
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Book by Michael Stewart
Based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Tickets: $45-$65
For tickets: https://www.lpacfl.com or
Call 954-777-2055
Performances:
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2 pm
Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm
All performances will take place at
The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center (LPAC)
3800 NW 11^th Place
Lauderhill, FL 33311

Hello, Dolly! photos by Morgan Sophia

FUNNY WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE on Multiple Florida Stages in February & March

11 Thursday Jan 2024

Posted by Carol Kassie in Arts Center Management, Clients, Delray Beach Playhouse

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Funny Women of a Certain Age
Will Bring Laughter to South Florida Stages in
February and March

Fighting ageism AND sexism one joke at a time.
These ladies prove that indeed #funnynevergetsold.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Carol Kassie
Carol@CarolKassie.com /561-445-9244

January 11, 2023

POMPANO BEACH, DELRAY BEACH, CORAL SPRINGS, LARGO, & AVENTURA, FL:
Carole Montgomery’s Funny Women of a Certain Age is a show straight from the unfettered mouths and uninhibited minds of the funniest, most daring, most experienced people in comedy: women who have seen it all! Arts Center Management will bring this brilliant and vibrant group of comedians to various South Florida venues in February and March.

Award-winning veteran stand-up comic Carole Montgomery has had a long and varied career as a comedian, writer, director, and producer, with an extensive background in television, and as a comedy club headliner throughout the United States (including two extremely successful Las Vegas productions). Frustrated by the way women have been portrayed on television once they hit 50, she created Funny Women of a Certain Age to give older women comics a chance to be seen and heard. Montgomery will be joined on stage in February by comedians by Juila Scotti and Leighann Lord and in March by Vanessa Hollingshead and Tampa Bay comedian Trish Keating.

Funny Women of a Certain Age premiered on Showtime television in 2019; the special was the highest-rated premiere stand-up show for the network that year. It made history as the first TV comedy special to feature female comics over the age of 50. A second, and then a third iteration of the special garnered similar ratings. The national tour was launched in the spring of 2022, and since then the show has played in numerous venues across the country.

Funny Women of a Certain Age will be performed at various venues throughout South Florida in February and March. Venues, dates, and ticketing websites are listed below. Ticket prices vary.

For more information about Funny Women of a Certain Age, to speak Carole Montgomery, or to attend a performance, please contact Carol Kassie at Carol@CarolKassie.com .

Funny Women of a Certain Age dates, venues, and showtimes:

Feb 8-9 – Pompano Beach Cultural Center, Pompano Beach
Showtime: 7:30 pm
https://www.pompanobeacharts.org/events/funny-women-of-a-certain-age

Feb 12-14 – Delray Beach Playhouse, Delray Beach,
All performances sold out.

Feb 15 – Coral Springs Center for the Arts, Coral Springs,
Showtime: 8:00 pm
https://www.thecentercs.com/events/detail/funny-women-of-a-certain-age

March 21 – Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo
Showtime: 7:30 pm
https://www.largoarts.com/ticket_detail_T42_R669.php

March 22 – Aventura Cultural Arts Center, Aventura
Showtime: 8:00 pm
https://www.aventuracenter.org/events/detail/funny-women-of-a-certain-age-2024

About the Funny Women:

Leighann Lord is a veteran standup comedian who has appeared on HBO, Comedy Central, The View, and Showtime’s Even More Funny Women of a Certain Age. She has performed for the troops in the Middle East and her Dry Bar comedy special, I Mean Business, has had over one million views. Leighann is a former co – host of the Emmy – nominated StarTalk with Neil de Grasse Tyson, and she has received the AHA Humanist Arts Award. Leighann is the author of several humor books.

Julia Scotti is an American transgender stand-up comedian. She was a stand-up comedian pre and post-transition, with a period in between when she was a middle school language arts teacher. Juli returned to her comedy career in 2011 and appeared on the 11th season of “America’s Got Talent”, where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals. She has had a documentary produced about herself called Julia Scotti: Funny that Way.

Vanessa Hollingshead is an actress and stand-up comedian who has performed on many comedy programs including Comedy Central Presents, Live At Jongleurs, Just For Laughs, The Jim Breuer Show, and Funny Women of a Certain Age. She has also acted in a number of films, including a role in the 1999 film, “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”. Vanessa also runs comedy workshops for aspiring comedians.

Trish Keating has been seen on NBC, FOX, HSN, and CBS. An alum of Chicago’s Second City, she was recently featured in West Coast Player’s British comedy “It Runs in the Family”, was a Florida’s Funniest Comedian semi-finalist, and a STAR Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Francis Wilson Playhouse. Trish headlines cultural centers as well as private and corporate events. When not performing, Trish directs full-length theatrical productions, is an acting and improv coach, and is writing a solo show entitled “How to Avoid My Mother’s Calls”.