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SUMMARY:REGISTER NOW: False Fairy Tales Spring Session 2023 Musical Theatre Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:10-week program running from February 21\, 2023 – May 9\, 2023 on Tuesday nights.\n  \nMusical Theatre Ensemble presents: “False Fairy Tales!” Join us for a magical MTE session filled with your favorite fairy-tale-themed songs from the radio and Broadway! Featuring songs from Cinderella\, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\, ABBA\, and more!\n\nAbout Musical Theatre Ensemble\nThe Musical Theatre Ensemble is a 10-week program on Tuesday nights from 5:30-7:30pm. $320 program fee. (Fee is non-refundable once enrolled)\nOur Musical Theatre Ensemble (MTE) classes will focus on each of the three main concentrations of musical theater; voice\, dance\, and acting. Great emphasis will be placed on recognizing the relevance of each discipline as it relates to musical theater and preparing students for auditions and musical theatre performances.\nEach class period will be devoted to- 1) vocal development\, 2) improving acting skills\, 3) learning choreography; all to help students develop musical theatre skills. The culmination of this course will result with students gaining a broader understanding of musical theater from their participation in a fun and exciting musical theatre performance experience that will increase their abilities and help them to become well rounded performers.\nScholarships available. Apply for scholarships online.\nWe’re always working to improve our programming to create a better experience for our students\, parents\, and staff. Keep an eye out for exciting new additions or changes. \nAbout Triple Threat Ensemble\nAudition-Only Program. Must audition before signing up. To express interest please email education@miltontheatre.com\nAct\, Sing & Dance! Triple Threat Training Program is a 10-week program on Tuesday nights from 4:30-5:30pm OR 7:30-8:30. $160 program fee. (Fee is non-refundable once enrolled)\nA key term in musical theatre training is learning to be a ‘triple threat performer’\, which means the ability to act\, sing and dance to a high standard. The Triple Threat classes at the Milton Theatre bring these three disciplines together into a unified whole. The emphasis in these classes is to strengthen each of the elements equally to create a well-rounded Triple Threat performer. Only 10 students are accepted into the program each session.\nTo join the Milton Theatre’s Triple Threat Training Program\, students must be dual-enrolled in Musical Theatre Ensemble for that session.  \nREGISTER \nAll copy and pics from the site: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/5279165/false-fairy-talesmusical-theatre-ensemble-spring-session-2023-milton-milton-theatre
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LOCATION:Milton Theatre\, 110 Union St.\, Milton\, 19968
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SUMMARY:Lewes Tulip Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Lewes Tulip Celebration Celebrating our Dutch Heritage    \n \n  \nThe 14th  annual Lewes Tulip Celebration\, jointly sponsored by the Lewes Chamber of Commerce and Lewes in Bloom\, will be blossoming April 1 – 16\, 2023. The organizing committee is chaired by event founder and former Lewes Mayor Ted Becker\, and includes the Lewes in Bloom co-chairs and founder\, a representative from City of Lewes Parks and Recreation Commission\, the Lewes Historical Society and the Zwaanendael Museum. This year Lewes in Bloom funded the purchase of 32\,000 tulips and spring bulbs that were planted in fall 2022 by members of Lewes in Bloom. \nThe timing of the tulips’ appearance is an inexact science and either milder or colder weather in advance of the event dates can increase the probability that the dates of the celebration may not exactly coincide with the tulips blooming! The event dates (April 1-16) span three weekends.  The locations of the plantings are identified on the map produced in association with the celebration. More than 100 varieties will be on display. (Find a link to the Tulip Map at the end of the next paragraph). \nTiptoe To The Tulips Map: The event organizers created the Tiptoe To The Tulips Map that will be available in late March at the Lewes Chamber of Commerce’s Visitor Center located in the historic Fisher-Martin House in Zwaanendael Park. The visitor center is open Monday – Friday\, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.  Copies of the map will be available at brochure boxes throughout the historic commercial district. The map lists more than 20 locations where the bulbs were planted. It also has a schedule of activities associated with the Tulip Celebration.\nDOWNLOAD TULIP CELEBRATION MAP \nDOWNLOAD TULIP CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES \nTulip Sale: On April 7 & 8 Lewes in Bloom will be selling tulips at the Bank Street Plaza on Second Street from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (or until they sell out).\nHistory in Bloom Walking Tours: The Lewes Historical Society and Lewes in Bloom are partnering to offer walking tours on April 1 & 2 at 10:30 a.m.\, 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.  The tours will be led by a historic guide and will provide information on Lewes’ rich maritime history.  A knowledgeable guide from Lewes in Bloom will be on the tour to point out the multiple tulip varieties found around Lewes.  The tours begin at the Cannonball House’s back garden\, behind 118 Front Street. The tour cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Purchase tickets at www.historiclewes.org/visit/tours/html.\nFloral demonstrations and tulip sales: Ken Norman\, owner/designer at Floral Inspirations\, located on the beach side of the canal at 524 E. Savannah Road\, in the shops under the Beacon Motel\, will be hosting demonstrations on Friday and Saturday\, April 7 & 8 from 1 – 3 p.m. He’ll be showcasing several different varieties of tulips and demonstrate how to arrange them-simple to more creative.\nSpring Geranium Sale: Benefits the GFWC Zwaanendael Women’s Club’s Community Service Programs. They are taking orders from March 15 until April 15 with pick up on Friday\,  May 5 at Lewes in Bloom’s Warehouse at 217 Schley Avenue\, Lewes. $7 per 6” pot – bright pink\, white\, red and salmon. Email orders to mRocksRN@comcast.net or checks payable to Z Club\, mailed to P.O. Box 100\, Lewes\, DE 19958.\nTulip arrangements\, Art Exhibitions and other special events: There are additional activities associated with the Tulip Celebration including tulip arrangements by the Sussex Gardeners on display in the Zwaanendael Museum. On April 8 at 2 p.m.\, the museum is hosting “Dutch Poetry in the Park” – an outdoor poetry reading and interpretation of Spurring Verses detailing the 1662 Dutch settlement.  A tulip-themed art exhibition and painting demonstrations at the Cape Artists of Lewes Gallery\, located at 110 W. Third Street\, will take place at their Open House on April 1 from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.  Additionally\, plein air artists from the Cape Artists will be painting at locations around town. “Feathered Friends\,” an art exhibition opening at the Peninsula Gallery at 520 E. Savannah Road will feature bird portraits from 11 juried artists.  The exhibition runs from April 1 – 30. The opening reception is April 1 from 5-6:30 p.m. Visit the chamber’s website for other chamber member-sponsored events taking place during the Tulip Celebration. www.LewesChamber.com. \n\n\n2023 Tulip Celebration Poster.png\nAll copy and pics from the website: https://www.leweschamber.com/event/2023-lewes-tulip-celebration
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LOCATION:Zwaanendael Museum\, 102 Kings Hwy.\, Lewes\, DE\, 19958
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SUMMARY:FALSTAFF (GIUSEPPE VERDI) The Metropolitan Opera at Cinema Art Theater in Live HD
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Rehoboth Beach Film Society will once again present “The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD” 2022 – 23 season at the Cinema Art Theater. This award-winning series will feature live transmissions of ten spectacular productions. \nAdmission sales are now open! \nSince its initial broadcast in 2006 “The Met: Live in HD” has grown exponentially with classical music lovers from around the world proving opera can have a place in their local movie theaters. It is now the largest provider of alternative cinema content in the world that reaches more than 2\,000+ venues in countries across six continents. \nThe season begins on Mon\, Oct 30\, 2022 with Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. Also screening throughout the season are: La Triavata\, The Hours\, Fedora\, Lohegrin\, Falstaff\, Der Rosenkavalier\, Champion\, Don Giovani\, and Die Zauberflöte.  In addition to the opera performance\, the HD series features Met opera stars conducting live interviews with cast and/or various production crew members while showing behind-the-scene features. \nThe affordable opportunity to see world-class opera in your community is a wonderful experience for all ages. Note: The 2022-23 presentations at the Cinema Art Theater will be taped and presented about one week after the live performance until the Film Society is able to get the needed satellite equipment installed. \nAdmission: $22.00 RBFS Members | $25.00 Adult | $15.00 Student – With Student ID | $15.00 Youth – 15 yrs and younger | $22.00 Met Members \n \n\n\n\nFALSTAFF (GIUSEPPE VERDI)\nView Screenings \nVerdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging. Baritone Michael Volle sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight Falstaff\, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed turns in the production’s 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Perez as Alice Ford\, soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page\, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park and tenor Bogdan Volkov are the young couple Nannetta and Fenton\, and Maestro Daniele Rustioni conducts. [Est. Runtime 2 hrs 36 min\, sung in Italian with English subtitles] \nClick on the desired screening times for tickets \n\n\n\n\nMon\nApr 10\n1:00 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\nTue\nApr 11\n5:30 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDER ROSENKAVALIER (RICHARD STRAUSS)\nView Screenings \nA dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin\, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie\, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Gunther Groissbock returns as the churlish Baron Ochs\, and Markus Bruck is Sophie’s wealthy father\, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siecle staging. [Est. Runtime 4 hrs 20 min\, sung in German with English subtitles] \nRead Synopsis \n  \nClick on the desired screening times for tickets \n\n\n\n\nMon\nApr 24\n1:00 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHAMPION (TERRANCE BLANCHARD)\nView Screenings \nWhen Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met’s 2021–22 season to universal acclaim\, it marked a historic moment in the annals of the company. Now\, the six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s first opera arrives at the Met. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith\, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion\, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self\, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith\, the boxer’s estranged mother\, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nezet-Seguin is again on the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere\, and director James Robinson—whose productions of Fire and Porgy and Bess brought down the house—oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown\, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy\, also returns. [Runtime to be announced] \nClick on the desired screening times for tickets \n\n\n\n\nMon\nMay 08\n1:00 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\nTue\nMay 09\n5:30 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDON GIOVANNI (WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART)\nView Screenings \nTony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story\, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy\, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni\, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi\, Ana Maria Martinez\, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna\, Donna Elvira\, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio. [Est. Runtime 3 hrs 16 min\, sung in Italian with English subtitles] \nRead Synopsis \nClick on the desired screening times for tickets \n\n\n\n\nTue\nMay 23\n5:30 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\nMon\nJun 05\n1:00 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART)\nView Screenings \nOne of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra\, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the audience and allow interaction with the cast. In his Met-debut staging\, McBurney lets loose a volley of theatrical flourishes\, incorporating projections\, sound effects\, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina\, tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino\, baritone Thomas Oliemans in his Met debut as Papageno\, soprano Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night\, and bass Stephen Milling as Sarastro. [Est. Runtime 3 hrs 5 min\, sung in German with English subtitles] \nRead Synopsis \nClick on the desired screening times for tickets \n\n\n\n\nMon\nJun 12\n1:00 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\nTue\nJun 13\n5:30 PM\n   Cinema Art Theater\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/falstaff-giuseppe-verdi-the-metropolitan-opera-at-cinema-art-theater-in-live-hd/2023-04-11/
LOCATION:Cinema Art Theater: Rehoboth Beach Film Society\, 17701 Dartmouth Dr\, lewes\, 19958\, United States
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SUMMARY:Trivia Night at the Wheelhouse
DESCRIPTION:Mondays are for Trivia at The Wheelhouse!!! Come see us for happy hour (4 to 6) then stay and test your (useless) knowledge!!! Trivia starts at 7pm–all teams are welcome!!! \nAll copy and pics from the website
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/trivia-night-at-the-wheelhouse/2023-04-11/
LOCATION:wheelhouse\, lewes\, de\, 7 Angler's Road\, Lewes\, DE\, 19958\, United States
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