Dear Friend,
If you’re in need of a pick-me-up – and who isn’t these days – please join us on
Wednesday, July 29 at 7pm
, for a program guaranteed to lift your spirits.
We’ll be presenting a Zoom virtual reunion concert and cast party with eight gifted, local teens who were featured in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s
Edges
, the show that inaugurated theAcademy@pbd last summer. The talent and enthusiasm of these students is bound to bring a smile to your face as they perform excerpts from the song cycle about self-discovery and coming of age, and look back at their participation in the Academy, where they worked with director Gary Cadwallader, associate director Elizabeth Dimon, and music director Joshua Lubben.
The participating students are Catherine Boynton, Oxbridge Academy; Jaime Brustein, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Braden Chavers, Suncoast Community High School (graduated); Lily Counihan, Cardinal Newman High School; Kai Alivia Koren, Park Vista Community High School; Chloe Laine-Lobsinger, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (homeschooled); Christian Ogunmekan, Forest Hill Community High School (graduated); and Alexa Rubenstein, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. They will be accompanied by Lubben on the piano.
Tickets are free, but reservations are required. In case you miss the event, or want to see it again, the evening will be recorded and available on PBD’s YouTube page.
We’re grateful to the Sean Boneri Creative Fellowship for sponsoring
Edges
.
Our next virtual play reading, on
Monday, July 27 at 7pm
, is
The Nothing That Is Something
by J. Joseph Cox
, in which the brain and the heart collide in a quest to discover what it means to be alive and the communal soul that links us together. Bruce Linser directs. This is a one-night only event;
the play will not be recorded for later viewing
. Once again, tickets are free, but reservations are required. Mark and Diane Perlberg are the underwriters of our play readings, and we can’t thank them enough.
You can make your reservations for both of these events at
www.palmbeachdramaworks.org
or by calling the box office at 561.514.4042, x2.
Stay safe.
