Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
high-octane Broadway and West End hit School of Rock – The Musical is
coming to the Times-Union Center for six performances only, presented by the
FSCJ Artist Series as part of the 2018-19 Broadway in Jacksonville Season.
Based on the hit film, "School of Rock – The Musical" is a hilarious new musical that
follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra
bucks by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight-A students
into a guitar shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. While teaching these pintsized prodigies what
it means to truly rock, Dewey falls for the school’s beautiful, but uptight
headmistress, helping her rediscover the wild child within. School
of Rock – The Musical features scenic and costume design by Anna Louizos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Mick Potter and music supervision by John Rigby.
School of Rock – The Musical is based on the smash hit 2003 film
of the same, featuring music from the movie, as well as an original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, a book by Julian Fellowes, choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter and direction by Laurence Connor. School of Rock – The Musical opened
on Broadway to rave reviews on Sunday, December 6, 2015. This Ben Brantley New York Times ‘Critics’
Pick’ “is an inspiring jolt of energy and mad skillz,” raves Jesse Oxfeld of Entertainment
Weekly. And in his four-star
Critics’ Pick review, Time Out’s David Cote proclaimed, “School’s
IN – forever!”
School of Rock – The Musical was nominated for four 2016 Tony
Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score (Lloyd Webber and Slater),
Best Book (Fellowes), and Best
Leading Actor in a Musical (Alex
Brightman). School of Rock – The Musical also
won the 2017 Oliver award for Outstanding Achievement in Music.
School of Rock —The Musical is produced on Broadway by Andrew Lloyd Webber for The Really Useful Group, Warner Music Group & Access Industries, The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization. Nina
Lannan and Madeleine Lloyd
Webber serve as Executive Producers.
“School of Rock
°°The
Musical”
DATES TIMES
Tues., Apr. 16 7:30 p.m.
Wed., Apr. 17 7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Apr. 18 7:30 p.m.
Fri., Apr. 19 8 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 20 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
TICKETS: (Vary)
and start at $42. They may be purchased at the box office from
10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, by calling (904) 632-5000, or online 24/7. Discounts for groups of 10+ may be available
by calling (904) 632-5050. Performance
schedule, prices and cast are subject to change without notice.
LOCATION: Times Union Center Performing Arts
Moran Theater
300 West Water St.
Jacksonville, FL 32202
One of the most immediately recognized and widely respected superstars in pop
music history, “CELINE DION”, has announced that she will be embarking on her Courage
World Tour, set to kick off in the fall of 2019. The multiple award-winning artist made
the announcement to a packed house of fans during a special live event at the
Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Unveiling a short video chronicling the end of
her iconic Las Vegas residency, Celine surprised the audience with the news of
the Courage World Tour, her first U.S. tour in over 10 years.
Celine says, "I'm so grateful to all the fans who have come to see my
show in Las Vegas for so many years, and now I get the chance to create a brand-new
show and bring it to them in North America, and around the world. I'm very excited about this tour, and my new
album...coming later this year.”
The Courage World Tour will kick-off September 18 in Quebec City and
will make stops in over 50 cities including Montreal, Chicago, Toronto, Boston,
Miami, Dallas, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver,
and more. The tour is produced by Concerts West/AEG Presents.
Tickets for the first leg of the tour, which includes dates from Quebec to
Pittsburgh and includes a Jacksonville stop, will go on-sale to the public
Friday, April 12at 10 a.m. local time on ticketmaster.com or at the VyStar
Veterans Memorial Arena Tom Bush Family of Dealerships Box Office.
“We’ve been thrilled to be working with Celine for these last sixteen years
in Las Vegas, and we’re even more delighted that for the first time in more
than a decade, she will be bringing her show to her fans, all around the world,
starting here in North America this September,” said John Meglen President
& Co-CEO of Concerts West. “Celine
is a treasure, truly a voice for the ages.”
Exclusive VIP packages will be available. All online ticket orders come with one CD copy
of Celine's new English album, scheduled for release this fall. On-sale details for the second round of
dates including cities in the West Coast will be announced soon. See full list of tour dates HERE.
About Celine Dion: Vocal powerhouse Celine Dion is one of the most
immediately recognized, widely respected and successful performers in pop music
history. She won numerous awards by the
age of 18, dominated the pop charts in 1990s and has sold almost 250 million
albums during her over 35-year career. She
has earned five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, seven American Music Awards,
20 Juno Awards (Canada) and an astonishing 40 Félix Awards (Quebec). She remains one of the most sought-after
recording artists, receiving the Diamond award at the 2004 World Music Awards
recognizing her status as the best-selling female artist of all time. In 2016 the Billboard Music Awards presented
her with the lifetime achievement Icon Award. Celine continues to break records
with her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace which has
played over 1,100 shows to more than 4.5 million fans. In June 2018, Celine took a two-month hiatus
from her Las Vegas residency to head overseas for her sold-out tour CELINE DION
LIVE 2018, playing 22 shows across 12 cities in Asia, Australia and New
Zealand. The tour was one of the
highest-grossing of the year, grossing nearly $57 million for 260,000 fans. She also topped the US Dance Club charts in
July 2018 with the remix of her single Ashes from the Deadpool 2 movie.
In September 2018, Celine announced that her iconic Las Vegas residency will
come to an end on June 8, 2019.
“Celine
Dion”
Courage
World Tour
JAX DATE: January 8, 2020
TICKETS GO ON SALE: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena
300 A Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown
Jacksonville,
FL 32202
(904)
630-3900
About SMG Jacksonville manages seven sports, entertainment, and
convention venues on behalf of the City of Jacksonville. Their beautiful venues include: TIAA Bank Field, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Georgia-Florida, the TaxSlayer Bowl and Monster Jam; Daily’s Place, a 5,500 seat amphitheater with concert
programming year-round and an indoor practice facility for the Jacksonville
Jaguars; VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena,
showplace of such entertainment greats as Kenny Chesney and Jimmy Buffett and
home to the Arena Bowl XXIV Champions Jacksonville Sharks, the ABA Jacksonville
Giants and the Jacksonville IceMen; The Baseball Grounds of
JAX, home of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp and Florida vs FSU Baseball;
The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, stage to
Broadway and music elite like Wicked, James Taylor and Diana Ross; and home of
the FSCJ Artist Series and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; The Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, a historic renovated
train station providing a unique venue for meetings, social events and
conventions & The Ritz Theatre and Museum,
located in Jacksonville’s historic African American community of LaVilla,
celebrating the artistic culture of African American life in Northeast Florida
and the African Diaspora with museum exhibits, concerts, films, lectures, dance
and dramatic arts.
Following the highly successful 2018 Michael Carbonaro Live! Tour Michael
Carbonaro has added Winter and Spring 2019 dates, with an upcoming visit to JAX. Magician and extraordinaire
performer Michael Carbonaro has returned to the road with more dates of his
highly-acclaimed national theater tour, “Michael Carbonaro Live!” with stops
including: San Antonio Atlantic City, St. Louis, Los Angeles and more!
Michael Carbonaro has performed over five-hundred
comically perplexing and improbable feats of magic on his hit TV series, The
Carbonaro Effect on truTV, currently in its fourth season. A
trickster at heart, Michael performs inventive tricks on
unsuspecting members of the public who are unaware that he is
a magician. Jaws drop when he causes a car to disappear
from under a security guard’s nose or makes alien crabs transform
into kittens in a science lab. Whether posing as a
coffee shop barista, museum curator, or seemingly unremarkable store clerk
in the REAL world, Carbonaro's illusions – along with his absurd,
matter-of-fact explanations – leave REAL people bewildered and families at
home laughing out loud.
And now, he is taking his popular theater show back on the road so more families
can feel the effect of Michael Carbonaro… Live! You will
not just “sit back, relax, and enjoy the show,” Michael Carbonaro
Live! is jam-packed with audience interaction, hilarious video clips,
and a whirlwind of mind-blowing magic performed live on stage. See for
yourself why Michael was named “Magician of the Year” by the Academy of Magical
Arts and presented with the first-ever “Copperfield Prize,” which recognizes an
individual for elevating the art of magic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see why audiences are raving over Michael
Carbonaro Live! For more information about the tour visit HERE. Be sure to catch new episodes The
Carbonaro Effect on Thursday nights at 10/9c on truTV as well as your
favorite episodes from Season 1, now available for streaming on
Netflix. Connect with Michael on Twitter & Instagram @carbonaro for
exciting updates.
“Michael Carbonaro - LIVE tour”
DATE: Fri.,
April 12, 2019
TIME: 7 p.m.
LOCATION: Times
Union Center Performing Arts
Moran Theater
300 West Water St.
Jacksonville, FL 32202
TICKETS: start
at $35, plus applicable fees, and may be purchased at ticketmaster.com or at the Tom Bush Family of Dealerships
Box Offices at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts and Jacksonville
Veterans Memorial Arena.
About Live Nation Entertainment: (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live
entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live
Nation Concerts, Live Nation Media & Sponsorship and Artist Nation
Management. For additional information,
visit HERE.
Update: (Originally posted on Examiner.com
{no longer in existence} in October 2010) As of today, CWM has more than doubled its
graduates and added many more programs.
This reporter has read comments that were left on the pages of homeless shelters,
halfway houses and other missions; and have viewed comments like: “They should get a job”, “I need help too,
what about me and my family?” or “They
shouldn’t have let themselves get into that situation”. Some
people are just a paycheck away from asking someone (they don’t even know) to
lend them a hand. Not all homeless
persons are criminals either. Clara White Mission is a sanctuary for
people who desire to help themselves get back on their feet as they continue
life in the right direction.
Remember the movie “Pursuit
of Happiness”? Will Smith portrayed Chris Gardner,
a man who was a little ‘down-on-his-luck’ and was homeless for awhile whilst
raising his toddler son. Someone gave
him a chance to make-good on what was a bad situation.
The Clara White Mission
doesn’t just ‘lend-a-hand’, but the mission educates, and uplifts its
individuals through the donations of others.
Al Roker of the Today Show and Pepsi awarded the Clara
White Mission with a grant for $50,000
The Clara White Mission, located near downtown Jacksonville, Florida, is one
place that assists people with getting back on their feet and becoming
productive, self-respected individuals in the community. The center is a 501c3 non-profit organization
which has helped over 500 students through its ‘culinary arts program alone, and
there also is a soon-to-open ‘janitorial program’.
The center offers ‘Transitional Housing’, a ‘Culinary
Program’ which offers job placement, and ‘Banquet Management’. Other
training offered through Clara’s are the locally famous “Clara’s at the Cathedral” open for lunch every Friday with its
everchanging menus; “The Ashley Street
Catering Center” that is equipped to supply your next event with
professionalism and exquisite foods; “The
Drop-In-Day Center” is an encouragement local that will help persons to
help themselves. “The Daily Feeding Program” serves the homeless (400-500 a day) a
nutritious hot lunch from Mondays to Fridays at 613 W. Ashley Street in
downtown Jacksonville, Florida, and a beneficial breakfast on Saturdays and
Sundays.
Since
Mr. Roker featured Clara White Mission in 2010, Ju’Coby Pittman (CEO of Clara White Mission) had stepped
up her political game for the political council race. In 2015, Ms. Pittman remains the 22-year President and CEO of
the Clara White Mission. Pittman is a native of, and advocate for Jacksonville, with
over 30 years of experience working in the public and private sectors of the
community.
As of March
2014, she entered the race for a Council
seat in Jacksonville, Florida. Now, City
Council Candidate Pittman had announced that she will re-designate her
electoral representation from City
Council District 9 to City Council At-Large, Group 5 (vying for the seat of
Robin Lumb) for the March 2015 election.
(SHE WON that race in 2015!!!).
Pittman's vast experience and leadership has catapulted the award-winning
non-profit Mission from a $225,000 operation to its current $3.1 million
budget. She has been locally, regionally
and nationally recognized for her innovation of job-training, job-creation and veteran
housing.
Ju’Coby is seeking your vote once again in the run-off election on Tuesday,
May 14, 2019, in order to continue her dedicated work for district 8. Please make your way to the polls next month and
VOTE for Ju’Coby Pitman once again.
