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Top 10 arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: May 13-19
Sarasota Orchestra ends season, circus performers soar high and Westcoast troupe salutes female soul singers and more are among week's arts highlights.
Sailor Circus goes to the movies
If you missed the live performances of the Sarasota Sailor Circus’ “A Night at the Movies,” you still have a chance to experience some of the thrills and excitement from the comfort of your home. The production, which uses Hollywood for some inspiration, is available for home streaming beginning today. Long known as the Greatest “Little” Show on Earth, Sailor Circus features young performers performing on the flying trapeze, cloudswing, acrobatic roller skating, rolla bolla, Roman rings, high wire and more. “The show features a nice mixture of all of the traditional circus disciplines mixed with innovative and high-energy acts,” said head coach Miguel Vargas. Digital tickets are $25. For more information: 941-355-9805; circusarts.org
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“Shrek, the Musical,” the stage version of the hit animated film, is usually produced with a cast of roughly 30 playing everyone from the green ogre named Shrek to dozens of fairy tale characters. All of them will be on hand, but in a different way in a new outdoor production presented by the Dingbat Theatre Project. All the actors play multiple characters and manipulate a variety of puppets. It is staged by founder Luke Manual McFatrich (he also plays Dragon) and is choreographed by Brian Finnerty (who also plays Lord Farquaad). Cory Woomert plays Shrek, Alyssa Goudy is Princess Fiona and Derric Gobourne Jr. is Donkey. The cast also includes Noelia Altamirano, Amanda Heisey and Jamie Molina. Performances are outdoors at the Bazaar on Apricot and Lime, 821 Apricot Ave., Sarasota, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and May 13-15. Tickets are $25 or $50 for blanket seating for up to four people. For more information: dingbattheatre.org
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A Dickens of a performance
Jim Floyd has a rare treat for himself and audiences this holiday season. He not only gets to return to performing after a long pandemic-forced break, but he’s playing all the characters in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” including the author himself. Floyd stars in the Players Centre for Performing Arts production of Greg Oliver Bodine’s one-man version of the classic story outdoors at the Bazaar at Apricot & Lime in Sarasota. He plays the author who has arrived for a reading from his novel about Ebenezer Scrooge and his experience one Christmas. But when Dickens’s luggage and his book don’t arrive, he ends up acting out the story for the audience, using whatever props and items of clothing he can to transform himself into ghosts, Bob Cratchit or Tiny Tim. It’s the first of three outdoor shows at the Bazaar planned by the Players Centre. “A Christmas Carol” runs through Dec. 20. Tickets are $20, $12.50 for students. 941-365-2494; theplayers.org/show/a-christmas-carol/
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