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CONFESSIONS OF A RETIRED WITCH to Debut at The Studio at Mizner Park

27 Monday Jan 2025

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Confessions of a Retired Witch
to Debut at the Studio at Mizner Park
The production will run from Febaruy 27 through March 8

A witch in a retirement home?! A magical musical fairy tale!

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

January 27, 2025
BOCA RATON, FL: D’Jamin Bartlett, the award-winning actress who made her Broadway debut singing “The Miller’s Son” in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, and Emmy Award-winning composer Mark Bornfield have collaborated to create Confessions of a Retired Witch, a musical comedy that will run from February 27 through March 8 at The Studio at Mizner Park.

Angelina Max, the last remaining witch from a powerful coven in Miami, has lost her castle in a misspell.  She has placed herself in Sunny Smiles retirement community where she tells the other residents, the staff psychiatrist, and the home’s director that she is indeed a true witch, and not just losing her mind and a candidate for the facility’s assisted living quarters. Before she can reunite with other witches, she must pass her magic on to a deserving mortal; in today’s caustic world this is a challenging task, and her time is running out.   

“We have been working on this show for a number of years,” Bornfield explained recently.  “It began when I was on vacation in Denver, and I heard a lyric from the song “Miami” by Manuel Riva. (“There’s a place in Miami where they heal your soul, they fill the glass with your deepest hope”.)  It generated an energy and a vibe that piqued my imagination.  Dee’s favorite holiday is Halloween, and those two notions combined quite naturally through vivid imagination and a lot of hard work – making it fun and exciting to create characters that were magical, and that married fantasy with love.”

Confessions of a Retired Witch will be helmed by Barry Zieger, who previously directed D’Jamin Bartlett as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha.  Musical direction will be by Mark Bornfield.  The production will star Bartlett, along with four-time Carbonell Award-winner Margot Moreland, and popular South Florida actor/singer James Skiba. 

D’Jamin Bartlett won Theater World, Drama Desk, and Show Business Awards for her show stopping number “The Miller’s Son” in A Little Night Music.  Some of her other Broadway and national tour credits include Lend Me a Tenor, Pippin, and Godspell. She has been directed by Broadway legends Harold Prince, Jerry Zaks, Bob Fosse, and Martin Charnin, played leading lady to Elliot Gould, Burt Convey, and Gene Barry, and appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Other television credits include “Eva” in One Life to Live and many commercials. 

Mark Bornfield is a Boston Television Emmy Award-winning composer, a pianist, studio recording vocalist, and trumpet player.  He is a member of ASCAP and has accompanied Vikki Carr, Robert Morse, Whitney Houston, and Jamie Foxx.  He was a featured cabaret artist and solo pianist at Boston’s Copley Plaza Oak Room, and aboard the Seabourn Pride.  

Together, Bartlett and Bornfield have been called a ‘chic, sophisticated, and powerful duo’.  They have performed throughout South Florida at major country clubs, restaurants and nightclubs including Turnberry Isle in Miami Beach, Boca West, Polo Club, Indian Creek Country Club, Surf Club and Lighthouse Point Yacht Clubs. Their private and corporate party performances include Greenbrier, New York Regency (Feinstein’s) Orlando World Center Marriott, Mar-a-Lago, and the Ritz-Carlton in Naples.   In the summer, they reside on Cape Cod where they entertain at Lighthouse Inn Resort, Sagamore Inn and other popular places.

Confessions of a Retired Witch will run from February 27 through March 8 at The Studio at Mizner Park.  The theatre is located at 201 Plaza Real (2nd Floor), in Boca Raton (33432),

Tickets for Confessions of a Retired Witch range in price from $64.75 (matinee performances) to $78.25 (evening performances) including taxes and Ticketmaster fees. Group rates are also available ($49.50 for groups of 10 or more, purchased in one transaction).  For tickets and information: https://www.ticketmaster.com (search for Confessions) or email tickets@thestudioatmiznerpark.com.

For more information about Confessions of a Retired Witch, 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. 

In the attached photo:
D’Jamin Bartlett
Photo credit: Unknown
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Confessions of a Retired Witch
February 27 – March 8
Conceived & Written by D’Jamin Bartlett
Music & Lyrics by Mark Bornfield
Tickets:
Evenings:  $78.25 / Matinees $64.75
Group Rate (10 or more tickets sold in a single transaction) $49.50
All prices include taxes and fees.
For tickets:  https://www.ticketmaster.com  (search for ‘Confessions’)
Direct link: https://www.ticketmaster.com/search?q=Confessions+of+a+Retired+Witch
Or email tickets@thestudioatmiznerpark.com
Performances:
Thursday, February 27 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 28 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 2 at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, March 5 at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 8 at 2 pm
All performances will take place at
The Studio at Mizner Park
201 Plaza Real, 2nd Floor
Boca Raton, FL  33432

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Production photo credit: Carol Kassie

D’Jamin Bartlett
D’Jamin Bartlett
Mark Bornfield
Margot Moreland
James A. Skiba

The Princeton Triangle Club to present SHIP HAPPENS – A CRUISICAL – January 24th – In Boca Raton

04 Thursday Jan 2024

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The Princeton Triangle Club
To present
Its 2024 Original, All-New Musical Comedy
Ship Happens, A Cruisical
at The Studio at Mizner Park Theatre
January 24th

Join the Triangle Club on a journey filled with laughs, tunes, and, of course, high kicks – no small feat (feet?) on the turbulent high seas.

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Carol Kassie
Carol@CarolKassie.com /561-445-9244
Contact: Bill Metzger 
jwmetzger@aol.com / 561-309-3169  

January 4, 2024

BOCA RATON, FL:  Princeton’s famous Triangle Club will sail into Boca Raton for its 133rd year of original musical comedy with a tale as old as tide, when they present their only Palm Beach County performance of Ship Happens, a Cruisical, on Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30 pm, at The Studio at Mizner Park.

Icebergs are the least of the passengers’ problems on the less-than-luxury liner SS Gizney. While promising non-stop activities, exotic ports of call, and all the amenities, this voyage soon turns into a real ship show. Audiences should prepare to be swept away in a current of schemes, dreams, and Triangle’s unique brand of whimsy. Not since Ted has a Cruise from Princeton gone so wrong!

For 133 years the Princeton Triangle Club has been creating professionally produced, original student-written musicals which premiere each year in “The House that Triangle Built”, the renowned McCarter Theatre. In fact, The Princeton Triangle Club is one of the oldest collegiate musical-comedy troupes in the United States and has been touring nationally since 1901. 

The Triangle Club boasts a rich history and long list of alumni who have graduated to eminence in the creative arts, including F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17, Joshua Logan ’31, Jimmy Stewart ’32, Jose Ferrer ’34, Wayne Rogers ’56, Clark Gesner ’60, Jeff Moss ’63, David Kelley ’79, David Duchovny ’82, Brooke Shields ’87, Wentworth Miller ’95, Ellie Kemper ’02, and Molly Ephraim ’08. The club’s current members have diverse academic interests from astrophysics to economics, public policy to literature, and many plan on pursuing professional theater in some capacity. 

Ship Happens offers audiences a one-time opportunity to see America’s most brilliant young minds and talents sing their hearts out and uphold a cherished musical tradition! 

Ship Happens will be performed at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton at 7:30 pm on January 24th.  Tickets are $45 for adults, $20 for young alumni, students and children, and $5 for high school students. Various sponsorship and donation prices are also available.  Tickets may be purchased online HERE. The Studio at Mizner Park is located at 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton. 

In the photos below, scenes from Ship Happens, A Cruisical
Photo credit: Frank Wojciechowski

Grab a floatation device and join Triangle as they drop anchor for one night only in Boca Raton!

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Ship Happens – A Cruisical
January 24, 2024
7:30 pm
Music, Book, & Lyrics by The Triangle Writers Workshop
Directed by Marc Tumminelli
Music Director: Pete Mills
Choreographed by: Katelin Zelon
Tickets:  $45 Adults/$20 Young Alumni, Students/$5 High School Students
Purchase Tickets online HERE. 
The performance will take place at
The Studio at Mizner Park
201 Plaza Real, 2nd Floor
Boca Raton, FL 
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They’re Back! The DISENCHANTED Princesses will be at the Studio at Mizner Park January 12 – 21

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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Marcie Gorman and
MNM Theatre Company
to present
Disenchanted
at
The Studio at Mizner Park


January 12 – 21, 2024


“.. a highly entertaining, hysterical, irreverent, clever, poignant, profane…reimagining of what happened to [these] princesses.”
Oline Cogdill ~ floridatheateronstage.com

“Delightful Disenchanted at MNM gives us straight talk, song from the princesses.”
Hap Erstein ~ Palm Beach Arts Paper

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

November 30, 2023

BOCA RATON, FL: Those irreverent princesses who amused and delighted audiences at the Kravis Center last May will toss their tiaras onto a stage in Boca Raton early next year.   Disenchanted, the fun-loving, subversive, and definitely not-for-the kiddies’ musical revue that proves happily-ever-after can be a ‘royal pain in the ass’, will be presented once again by Marcie Gorman and MNM Theatre Company. The show will run at The Studio at Mizner Park from January 12th through January 21st.  

“We all had so much fun with this show,” Gorman said recently.  “Our cast, our crew, and of course our audiences left the theatre every night laughing and applauding!  When the opportunity arose to bring the princesses back – this time to Boca – how could we say no!?

“Disenchanted is very funny, extremely clever, and yes – a little bit raunchy,” she continues, “But these princesses have a lot to say about… well just about everything. And as we all know there can be a lot of truth in comedy – and in satire.”

“It is such a pleasure to bring Disenchanted back to the stage and to Boca Raton,” says the show’s director, Jonathan Van Dyke. “This timeless tale is certain to bring audiences lots of laughs and an unexpected level of poignancy. And this knockout cast and team of musicians will definitely bring a new vision to what happens after happily ever after!”

MNM’s mission has always been to hire South Florida talent, and Van Dyke has once again assembled a stellar cast of local princesses: Reprising their May roles are Kat Gold as Mulan and Rapunzel, Leah Sessa as the Little Mermaid and Belle, and Vallery Valentine as the Princess Who Kissed the Frog. Stephanny Noria will step into Pocahontas’ and Badroulbadour’s shoes, Shelley Keelor and Kathryn Nash will share Snow White duties, Ashley Rubin and Jordan Gonzalez will rotate as Cinderella, and Sabrina Lynn Gore will play Sleeping Beauty. 

MNM is also one of the very few companies in South Florida that continues to use live musicians:  MAC and Bistro Award-winner Bobby Peaco will rotate with Ryan Crout as Disenchanted’s Musical Directors and pianists and will lead the production’s musical team of Julie Jacobs on Drums and Robert Ziawinski on Bass.

Tickets for Disenchanted are on sale now and can be purchased online at mnmtheatre.org, or by calling 561-203-3742. Tickets range in price from $55 to $65.  Group rates are also available.

For more information about MNM Theatre Company or Disenchanted,visit mnmtheatre.org or contact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244.        

Please note:  Disenchanted contains some adult material.  It is not suitable for children under the age of 13.      

Disenchanted
January 12 – 21, 2024
Book, Music, and Lyrics:Dennis T. Giacino
Developed with: Fiely Matias
Performances:
Friday & Saturday at 8 pm
Saturday & Sunday at 2 pm
Thursday, January 18 at 8 pm
Prices: $55 – $65
For tickets: mnmtheatre.org or
Call 561-203-3742
All performances in
The Studio at Mizner Park
201 Plaza Real, 2nd Floor
Boca Raton, FL 33432

The May 2023 Cast of Disenchanted
Photo credit: Amy Pasquantonio

Norman Shabel’s ‘Dysfunctional Comedy’ MARTY’S BACK IN TOWN! in Aventura and Boca Raton in March

07 Tuesday Feb 2023

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Ebenezer’s Entertainment
to present
Norman Shabel’s ‘Dysfunctional Comedy’
Marty’s Back in Town
In Two South Florida Venues

Shake many a family tree and you’ll likely find the same nuts!

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

February 7, 2023

AVENTURA & BOCA RATON, FL:  Marty’s Back in Town!, Playwright Norman Shabel’s comedic drama about the ups and downs of a dysfunctional family and their relationships with each other and with the “black sheep” who is returning home after 10 years, will run at the Alan and Diane Lieberman Theatre at the Michael-Ann Russel JCC in Miami from March 9 – 19, and at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton from March 24 – April 2nd.

Shabel, whose well-received courtroom drama A Class Act had a successful run in Boca Raton in 2022, admits to drawing on his own “true life’ experiences to fashion this story:

Norman Shabel

“Marty’s really done things the family didn’t like over the years,” Shabel explains.  And now he thinks he’s dying so he arrives ‘home’ with his wife… and it’s how the family reacts.  That’s the fire under this play – his return.

“Those things could have happened over many, many years, or many, many months, or many, many days,” Shabel continues.  “And what I’ve done is, I’ve compressed these characters – their actions and their issues, their attributes, their good things, their bad things, their hatreds, their fears – into an hour and a half or two hours, so the playgoer will know, this is the character, this is what he’s all about, this isTh his life.  And the difficult part, of course, is putting a lifetime into an hour and a half or two hours.  And I think that’s what I’ve done in Marty’s Back in Town!

Shabel has tasked Seth Trucks with directing the production, and Trucks has convened a stellar cast to bring Marty and his family to life:

James A. Skiba will play Marty, Ben Prayz will play his brother Ronald, Francine Silvers will play his sister, Susan, and Christine Chavers will play the family matriarch.  Also cast are Leslie Kandel, Blaine DeBerry, Emma Mcavoy, and Peter Galman who will play the family patriarch, Sam.  Galman will also take on the role of Assistant Director for the Production, along with Chris Cooper.  Harold Petion is the production’s Stage Manager.

Brooklyn-born, successful New Jersey class-action attorney turned author Norman Shabel has been driven to write ever since he can remember. By the time he was in his twenties he had written several novels that ended up stuffed in drawers as he launched his legal career, married and had a family. To date Shabel has written 7 plays and 8 novels, some written in long-hand, hunched over his desk while waiting for a jury verdict to come in, and all dealing with either crime, relatable family dynamics or both.  Three of his plays have been produced Off-Broadway in New York, Philadelphia, and in several theaters in South Florida.

Marty’s Back in Town! will run at the Michael-Ann Russell JCC from March 9 – March 19, and at the Studio at Mizner Park from March 24 – April 2. Ticket prices range from $25 to $45.

The Alan and Diane Lieberman Theatre at the Michael-Ann Russel JCC is located at 18900 NE 25th Street in Miami (33180). The Studio at Mizner Park is located at 201 Plaza Real, in Boca Raton (33432).

For more information about Marty’s Back in Town!, or to arrange to see the production, pleasecontact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244.

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Marty’s Back in Town!
By Norman Shabel
March 9 – 19
Performances:
Thursday, March 9 & 16 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 11 & 18 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 12 & 19 at 5 pm
For tickets: https://www.ticketplate.com/martysbackintown
Performances at:
The Alan and Diane Lieberman Theatre at the Michael-Ann Russel JCC
18900 NE 25th Street
Miami, FL 33180

March 24 – April 2
Performances:Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm
For tickets: https://tinyurl.com/28as53yp
Performances at:
The Studio at Mizner Park
201 Plaza Real, 2nd Floor
Boca Raton, FL 33432

  • Norman Shabel
  • Seth Trucks
  • Ben Prayz, Christine Chavers, Francine Birns, Christian Cooper, Leslie Kandel
  • Ben Prayz, Emma McAvoy
  • Ben Prayz, James Skiba & Cast
  • James Skiba


Michael McKeever to play a major role in Parade Productions’ 2012-2013 Season

16 Monday Jul 2012

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Award Winning Playwright Michael McKeever
figures prominently in Parade Productions’ 2nd Season

Parade Productions is pleased and proud to announce their 2012-2013 schedule.  Boca Raton’s newest theatre company has two productions planned for its second season: Michael McKeever will star in Joe Mantello’s adaptation of David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries, and McKeever’s collection of short plays, The Whole Caboodle, will run for four weeks in February.  Both plays will be produced at the Studio Theatre at Mizner Park. Parade Productions debuted solidly last winter with an entirely sold out run of Donald Margulies’ Brooklyn Boy.

“Last season we took a leap of faith, and the community followed right behind us,” says Candace Caplin, the company’s executive producer and the driving force behind Parade Productions.  “We’ve had tremendous support, and we’re grateful. People have asked us to continue bringing more, quality theatre to Boca Raton, and that’s just what we’re going to do.  We’re excited about how we’ve begun, and where our partnership with the community is going. This year our focus is on humor,” Caplin adds, “and with Michael McKeever, we’ve got the best.”

From December 13th through December 23rd, McKeever will star in The Santaland Diaries, the one-person performance piece written by humorist David Sedaris and adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello. This hilarious piece of theatre relates Sedaris’ own experiences as he reluctantly worked as an elf in Macy’s Christmastime Santaland display, offering an uproarious behind-the-scenes look at how department stores manufacture Christmas spirit.

And from February 2nd through February 24th, audiences will discover whatStephen Sondheim, Abe Lincoln, munchkins and ambivalent lesbians have in common, as they all get the McKeever touch in The Whole Caboodle, the award-winning playwright’s wickedly funny collection of some of his most celebrated short plays. With a razor sharp sense of humor and extra-keen insight, The Whole Caboodle takes apart and reassembles an entire series of loveably flawed characters and pop culture icons with hilarious results.   Along with McKeever himself, Parade Productions has assembled a top-notch cast for The Whole Caboodle: Elena Maria Garcia, Jacqueline Laggy, Clay Cartland, Casey Dressler, and Candace Caplin. Both productions will be directed by Kim St. Leon.

Michael McKeever, who recently won a Carbonell Award for Best New Work for his play, Stuff, explores every aspect of the human condition in his work, which incorporates a wide variety of styles and subject matter.  His plays have entertained audiences throughout America and Europe. From the deep-rooted prejudices of small town America to the delicate dysfunction of society’s wealthiest homes, the playwright creates stories that entertain and enlighten. He has been honored with an NEA Residency Grant (New Theatre, Miami) and has been a 3-time finalist for Humana Fest’s nationally renowned Heideman Award. He is the proud recipient of three Carbonell Awards; four Curtain Up Awards; and two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. Six of his plays have been produced at City Theatre’s prestigious Summer Shorts Festival in Miami. He has been a finalist several times at both the Key West Theatre Festival and the Sarasota Festival of New Plays. He is also an award-winning actor and designer. He resides in South Florida and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors’ Equity.

Parade Productions is a not-for profit theatre company whose mission is “To produce high quality theatre experiences that entertain, enlighten, inform, uplift, and inspire audiences, sending them home with new thoughts, insights, questions, and ideas.”

The Santaland Diaries opens December 13th, 2012, and runs through December 23rd, with performances Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 ($30 for groups of 15 or more).

The Whole Caboodle previews on January 31st, 2013, opens on February 2nd, and runs through February 24th, with performances Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $35 ($30 for groups of 15 or more).

A special two show package price of $30 per ticket is also available.
All seating is reserved.

All tickets are available at: www.paradeproductions.org, or by calling 866-811-4111.  For Group Sales please call:  561-291-9678.

Kim St. Leon
Candace Caplin
Elena Maria Garcia

Jacqueline Laggy

Casey Dressler