Save on tickets to see Godspell next week

GODSPELL is currently playing in the Jaeb Theater through May but we have a special discount for you to see the show next week.

Save $5 off tickets to see the show March 3 or 4 at 7:30 p.m. You can also receive the discount on tickets to the March 6 matinee performance at 2 p.m. Just use promo code SOCIAL when ordering tickets.

Limit 4 tickets. Not applicable to prior sales. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Subject to availability.

One of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time, this modern and newly updated GODSPELL, based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, is ultimately a story of coming together to create a loving community embraced by all. Featuring a sparkling score by Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), GODSPELL boasts a string of popular songs, led by the international hit, "Day By Day.”

The Wicked Tour of Big Cat Rescue

The cast and crew from Wicked were treated to a special VIP tour of our local treasure, The Big Cat Rescue.

Casting call for Cirque Dreams Illumination

The creative team from Cirque Dreams will hold a casting call, limited to the first 100 dreamers, on Saturday, Feb. 27, beginning at 11 a.m. at WestShore Plaza and encourage aspiring performers, acrobats, gymnasts, musicians, dancers, singers and anyone else with a special talent who has ever dreamed of performing in a Broadway show, to audition for their chance to perform with the internationally renowned Cirque Dreams company.

Each participant will have up to 2 minutes to impress the cirque experts with their skills. Performers requiring music should bring their own CD. In addition, performers from Cirque Dreams Illumination will be on hand to give a sneak peek of the show.

The winner of the “Run Away with Cirque Dreams” competition will be trained locally by the Cirque Dreams design team for their debut performance in Cirque Dreams Illumination (at the Straz Center, March 23-28) and will receive six complimentary tickets to their debut performance.

For more information about the audition, click here.

Don't want to audition but you'd still like to have some fun? The show will have special sneak peek performances, giveaways and activities & workshops for the kids.

GODSPELL photo contest winner

And our winner of tickets for tonight's opening night performance of GODSPELL is... Monica. Thanks to everyone who entered. Here's the winning photo and a little explanation.

"This is me in a production of Godspell at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center! I was taking classes with the Tampa Academy of Performing Arts in June of 1989, and this was our summer production. Here is the scene where Jesus separates the sheet from the goats. I was one of the unfortunate goats!!!!!!"

GODSPELL Photo Contest!

GODSPELL opens in previews in the Jaeb Theater tomorrow night. This is a beloved musical and we are so excited to give it a contemporary spin and share it with Tampa Bay audiences through May 16.

To celebrate this popular musical we want to know: Did you perform GODSPELL in high school or college? More importantly: DO YOU HAVE PICTURES?!?!?!

Submit your shots of your educational productions of GODSPELL (theater teachers you have an advantage!) to kari.goetz@strazcenter.org with the subject line: GODSPELL PHOTO CONTEST.

A panel of totally biased marketing professionals who have endured our own high school and college productions will judge on the basis of:

• Most professional looking
• Least professional looking
• Most awkward casting
• Overall je ne sais quoi

The best photo submitted will win 2 tickets to opening night the Fri., Feb. 12! Photos must be submitted by noon on Fri. and we will announce the winner after the marketing staff gets done eating lunch and starting at the candidates.

Students, if you don't have photos, don't be sad. You can get a student rush discount 90 minutes prior to curtain with your student ID! Cash only please.

And if you don't know, GODSPELL is one of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time, this modern and newly updated GODSPELL, based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, is ultimately a story of coming together to create a loving community embraced by all. Featuring a sparkling score by Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), GODSPELL boasts a string of popular songs, led by the international hit, "Day By Day.”

Dig up those photos, fire up those scanners and good luck!

-Kari G.

"American Psycho" musical has a creative team

Based on the 1991 best selling novel, "American Psycho" is headed to Broadway. Though there has been talk of this for a while the creative team was just announced. Duncan Sheik, who is coming off Broadway success with Spring Awakening, will create the music and lyrics. The book will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa who is a writer for HBO's Big Love. Still no word on an overall timeline but the project does seem to be headed in the right direction.

So while we're waiting for the new musical why not check out Duncan Sheik in concert when he performs here at the Straz Center, March 26. We hear that he'll be including some songs from Spring Awakening on the set list!

Wicked offers a special social media discount!

Broadway's biggest blockbuster is flying back to Tampa Feb. 3 for a limited engagement through Feb. 28 only! You can save over $30 on tickets to see WICKED. The Straz Center is offering

SPECIAL PRICING for the following performances:
$63* tickets (regularly $91): Feb. 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m.
$53* tickets (regularly $91): Feb. 4 at 2 p.m.
Simply use promotion code SOCIAL when ordering tickets online , by phone at 813.229.STAR (7827) or in person at the Straz Center Ticket Office.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good makes for "the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time" (USA Today).

*Ticket prices do not include applicable service charges. Subject to availability. Offer not valid on Premium seating or previously purchased tickets and cannot be combined with any other offer. Offer may be discontinued at any time.
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