The Maltz Jupiter Theatre led all Palm Beach County professional theaters with 14 nominations for the 39th annual Carbonell Awards, recognizing production excellence throughout South Florida. Nine of those nominations were for the Jupiter company’s new look at the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I. The other five were for its season opener, Larry Shue’s … [Read more...]
Essay: Remembering six area musicians
As a musician, I've come to the conclusion that playing music in a live setting works best when it parallels, well, life. There will be some of the inherent up moments, like harmony among the vocals and the instruments, and conversations both with and without words, plus some of the downs like mistakes that you have to recover and learn from. But being a veteran musician … [Read more...]