February 13, 2025 • 33 mins
Talked with Oscar Quesada and Julie Gilbert, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Julie Gilbert is a Pulitzer Prize - nominated biographer, novelist, playwright and the teacher for the Kravis Center's Writer's Academy. She's doing a book launch on February 19th for her novel "Giant Love". Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her best selling novel of Texas and the making of a classic American film. She'll be having a conversation with Hap Erstein about the book and her writing program which is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary. Then on Februrary 20th, the next 6 session class for Writer's Launch starts at 1:30pm. The public is invited to sign up for the writing class at www.kravis.org. The Kravis has a wide variety of shows this season. Wrapping up this weekend is Peter Pan The Musical (family fare and Kravis on Broadway) and 19th African American Film Festival. Coming up is The Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge, CLUE, Les Miserables, 54 Belowat the Rinker: Mauricia Martinez, Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations, An Evening with Isaac Mizrahi, Trailblazing Women of Country lunch and learn series, The Beach Boys, Peter Bence, Old Crow Medicine Show, Acoustic Evening with Rick Springfield & Richard Marx, Blippi: Join the Band Tour, Gospel Gala: Kierra Sheard-Kelly rescheduled to 2/28/25. They are adding additional shows this season. Listeners can sign up for the Kravis Newsletter at Kravis.org and find out about the announcements they'll be releasing on Tuesday. They can also call 561-262-SHOW.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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your host, dev Nev. Thanks for spending your Sunday with me.
All kinds of great things going on. Definitely check out
some fun things. Palm Beach County is celebrating Black cultural
heritage with the Heritage Trail. Discover all the vibrant stories
of black history here in our county. Lots of cool things.
Go to Pompeachculture dot com for the link for that.
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And don't forget this weekend, the motowners are wrapping up
at Arts Garage. We have Say It Loud happening the
Boyton Beach Arts and Cultural Center. Coming up February twenty
second and twenty third will be Turtlefest at the Loggerhead Marina.
Carol King's Beautiful the Musical is happening at the Wick
Theater and Costume Museum February sixteenth. That's later on today.
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Lakeworth Beach Street Painting Festival that's coming up February twenty
second and twenty third. Such a cool thing to see
if you've never gone. Make a point of putting this
one on your calendar, so definitely have fun thing is
happening with that, I recommend it. If you want to
get more information to get the little things sent to you,
simply go to Palm Beachculture dot com and sign up
for the email and they'll send you a little information.
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You can also reach out to them five six 's
one four seven one two nine zero one if you're
interested in connecting with some artists in the community, because
they have a whole list of artists and all their
different specialties and there of course happy to share that
information with you. Oh. Also going on this weekend, it
is the Jupiter Seafood Festival and it's happening at the
Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park and Jupiter. Definitely check that out.
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And then coming up Saturday, February twenty second, starting at
six pm, it is the Ribs and Brewfest and that
one's going to be South County Sunset Cove Amphitheater and
the Burt Aronson South County Regional Park in Boca. Definitely
check that out.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Our friends in the Treasure Coast, the Fencenter always doing
cool things, so they are hosting eat Smart, Live Strong
Nutrition education series for older adults starting this Tuesday, February
eighteenth and eleven am as one about reaching your goal
step by step, learning all the basics of the fruits
and the macros and all the good stuff like that.
The twenty fifth is going to be challenges and solutions.
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The next one is colorable classic Favorites, so lots of
cool things. You can reach out to them seven seven
to two for six two seventeen ninety one for more
details on that one. Oh, and a reminder, if you
like to vote by mail, you need to reregister to
vote by mail because once we have the big election,
it stops and you have to renew your vote by mail.
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Did that already? Got mine in the mail? Makes it
very easy for folks to vote, like when you're working,
you don't have to go worry about waiting on the
line and everything or missing work or anything. And they
also have a really cool program by United Way. It's
called the Vida Tax program. So if you make sixty
seven thousand dollars or less Palm Beach, Treasure Coast, you
can qualify for free tax filing assistance. So the IRS
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comes in and trains the volunteer, a lot of them
retired CPAs. What have you people interested in helping out
in the community, and you go in, bring all your
paperwork and then they help you file your taxes for free.
Just be patient because it's first come, first served, and
of course it is a free service. Offer details cynthigo
to Unitedway dot org and all the details are right
there of the areas in the locations in your area
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where you can get that done for free, and it
tells you everything you need to bring your W twos
and ID and all that good stuff. So I've used
it a couple of times, very helpful and like I said,
just be patient and it works great. Let's see. Oh well.
Reminder Saturday, February twenty second, the Palm Beach County Chapter
of the Florida Native Plant Society inviting their friends and
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supporters to the South Florida Native Plant Expo. It'll be
happening at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens
from nine am till five pm. The keynote speaker is
conservation and restoration expert George Cann and then our friends
that we talked to last week from Audubon and Everlades
actually going to be there. They're one of the exhibitors
share information with everybody. There's more than twenty speakers coming
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and helping. Definitely a cool thing. Tickets are fifty dollars
each includes lunch and you can purchase them online Palm
Beach FNPs at gmail dot com from our details, or
you can call them Melnda at five six one two
eight five seventy two thirteen and she'll help you out.
I'll reminder from our friends over at Boca Ballet Theater
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they have their wonderful season going on, but of course
you always do fundraisers to help support this. So coming
back for another year because it's so popular last time.
It's coming up Saturday, February twenty second. It is their
best of the Belgian's Beer Fest, so it's the beer,
the food trucks, all the good stuff. What a fun
way to raise funds for the Boca Ballet. They also
over the program for folks with Parkinson's disease and you
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can find out more by going to Boca Ballet dot
org and getting all the details there from Miss Cindy
Oh Fence Center offering more fun things. They're going to
go country some line dancing Glasses on February twenty eight.
This is a twenty one and up, So go out
have fun with you and your friends. So Fendsander's got
a lot of cool things going on, and we talked
a couple of weeks ago with Benji Stoot from the
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Pumpeach County Natural Areas, so if all kinds of fun
things going on their big Natural Area festival, and then
they have coming up the weeding and trash clean up
for the birds and that one is going to be
on Wednesday, February nineteenth, So go out and you clean
up the areas. The birds can come and roost and
do their nests. So it's a really cool thing that
you're doing something. Go to PBCERM dot com and all
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the different programs and things are there. They have like
astronomy nights, podder boarding days, all kinds of cool things
they do. And speaking of fun things, want to welcome
my guests for today. I have got Oscar Caseda and
Julie Gilbert from the Cravicenter. Good morning, Good morning, morning
dab So thanks for coming in so Oscar, I see
here like well obviously saw Peter Pan earlier this week.
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Really cool musical a part of like the Family Fair,
but the Cravis on Broadway at the same time, and
it's wrapping up today.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, today's final performance at two pm and Dreyfus Hall
for Peter Pan. It's really fun for the whole family.
It's magical, it's whimsical, it's funny. There's some great sword
fighting scenes, a lot of flying, so lots of fun.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, it makes me think when I was little and
watched the show, it's like so cool. Yes, I think
it's a good one for adults soon joys like give
that memory thing, but then a cool way to make
memories with your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, or you're granking and a new you know, revised
or updated story.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh of course. Yes. So now, miss Julie, tell me
a little about yourself. What does it you do with
the Cravis Center.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I do a little bit of everything. In terms of writing,
I start with people who have always wanted to write
the great American novel, and I kind of talk them
out of that. In the beginning, we start very basic,
it's exercises, etc. And then we go all the way
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to the advanced people who, if some of them have
taken with me for twenty years this is my twentieth
season at the Cravis and so we've grown gray together
and some of them have published, you know, and you
always find the really serious, ambitious ones and then the
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serious private ones, and that has validity too.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh yeah. I think sometimes you can write just for yourself. Yeah,
and if you want help and have a fun thing.
What a great social way to write, but still exactly involved. Yes,
that's fantastic. And of course your Writer's program is part
of one of the community education outreach aspect of the Cravis. Correct,
that's right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And Julie's the founder and instructor of the Writers Academy
at the Cravit Center, which, as you mentioned, is celebrating
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, congratulations, Well thank you. It sounds it sounds like
I should be a general, you know, it's like very
military sounding, but actually it's friendly, user friendly, and I
think that people if they come away and they don't
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want to write, you know, big things, they feel that
they have accomplished They've mastered their feelings on paper, and
that's very important. I think that's very edifying to be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's an art of itself, you know. We we specialize
in performing arts, and writing is still part of that, very.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Much a part of that starts right, somebody has to
write it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Right, Someone's got to write the book.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it doesn't nothing exists. And people feel often that
they like to talk about what they're about to write
instead of actually just committing it to paper. And I
always say, don't write in your head, you know, just
in the middle of the night. Have that an old pencil,
remember pencils, and have that by your bed, and just
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get it down because it either evaporates, you know, or
it doesn't exist at all in the morning. So I
think the academy might be accurate because I do teach
or try to impart discipline and that if you can't
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be a writer, if you don't write, you know, and
every day makes product. And if you write every day
for one hundred days, you know, a page a day,
you've got half of a something.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, I find it right, and they several of them,
have done the thing with November, the nano Rimo. So
nano Rimo is a whole month of people writing. And
I believe you commit to writing the whole month of November,
so you end up with fifty thousand words. You're not
editing or anything. You are simply writing your story. If
you go over, that's great. But they give themselves this
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goal to reach. I remember going a cruise with the friend.
She's like, I got five thousand words to go. I'll
be with you in a minute. But she could have
every morning at four thirty in the morning to finish
her words for the day so we could go enjoy
what everything was happening that day on the cruise. So,
but she had to make herself have this schedule and
that was her writing time. Nobody bothered her so she
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could get that down on the page.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That discipline is great, so that the day you give
for yourself, that's the day off you feel completely at
a loss. You want it, and I always say take
Sunday off, and they usually they say, well, I cheated.
I just had to write a little something on Sunday, So.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can see where that would be. Same kind of
thing with exercising. You get used to it and when
you don't do it, you're like, wait, I should be
doing that. That's right, but the rest day is important,
but you still feel like you should be doing something.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So speaking of doing something, what's doing at the Cravis there,
mister Oscar, I know all kinds of cool things. Obviously
pure pans wrapping up this weekend, the African American film
festivals wrapping up this weekend, coming up next week, even
more fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Right, Yeah, We've got a lot more in store for
the rest of the season through June, at least for now,
and more to be announced probably in a few days
from the time you're listening to this, which is very exciting.
So we have a lot of great Broadway musicals from
the Book of Mormon that's coming up in March. One
of the funniest musicals of all time and Ain't Too
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Proud will be coming back to the Cravis Center in June,
which is The Life and Times of the Temptation. So
you know that that music's going to be incredible. Oh,
I guess me, the music for that's gonna be amazing.
Definitely want to check that one out. Yeah, super fun,
super high energy. We also not only do Broadway musicals,
but there are plays that come from Broadway as well,
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so we're really excited. In April April fifteenth through nineteenth,
we have Clue, which is a Broadway play that's based
on the nineteen eighty five movie and the Hasboro board game.
So that's very fun murder mystery kind of teases. I'm
sure there's plenty of good murder mystery novels or earth
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very very lucrative.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, to be able to write one of those, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, every it's hot right now with all the podcasts
of true crime and.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well yeah, so there's these ladies that work in the office,
right like a buye and I go to the bathroom
and they're in there saying, what did you hear so
and so got murdered? And I'm like, excuse me. I
just literally walk into the middle of this conversation about
somebody being off and which they thought was a better
way to do it. And that was like then I
find out they're listening to a podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was like, oh, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So you're right and Jane Crime podcast very popular, thankfully.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
This is just a play and these are all actors
on stage putting on a really entertaining show. And so's
that's what's coming up in April. We've got some concerts
coming up as well that are we're really excited about.
The Beach Boys is going to be coming back to
the Cravit Center. They're actually doing two shows in a day.
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There's a matinee show at two o'clock and an evening
show at seven point thirty, and that's with the with
lead singer Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I saw we were talking the other week. Elizabeth was
here and we were chatting and I did not realize this.
Isaac Musrah he's coming.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I always think of him in fashion, but apparently he
sings as well.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
He's a really entertaining and talented cabaret singer. He's he's
got a kind of like a jazz big band ensemble
that he tours with. So it's going to be an
intimate fun. He's going to tell stories about all the
people's people he knows, and he'll he'll sing songs by
Barbara streisand Billie Eilish Cole Porter. So it's it's a
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mix but really fun and entertaining and hilarious. He's I
saw his show last year and it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh, definitely check it one out. And speaking like cabaret style,
you actually guys have the thing going on the fifty
four and below in the Rinker, right.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, So fifty four below at the Rinker is there's
a New York City club called fifty four Below, and
we have brought that New York City Broadway cabaret taste
to the city of West Palm Beach and so are.
We've already gone through three shows this season as part
of the series, and our last one is on April
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fourth with Mauricio Martinez. He played Emilio Stefan in the
On Your Feet Broadway musical. He's also a telenovella star,
so very good looking and a great singer as well.
But it's a really great series that we're in our
second year, the fifty four Below at the Rinker series.
You can subscribe and come out. It's a mix of
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cabaret table seating with table service and riser seating as well,
so you've got your options of whether you want to
be close to the action or you know, a little
further away.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why I've come and checked out one of the shows amazing,
so we did. The table sort was so neat, so fun.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, and they tell stories.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's beautiful music of this, like literally like you're in
the club enjoying the well you are, but you're at
the Rinker, which.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
At the fantastic These are Broadway stars that have been
in some of the biggest Broadway shows, you know, in
New York and on tour around the country. So we're
really excited to be able to present that series.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And I see on here that this is one that
caught my attention. An acoustic evening with Rick Springfield and
Richard Marx doing it together.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, so these eighties legends, you know, they've got so
many hits between the two of them, and they're going
to be on stage together for the entire show, just
the two of them, and they're guitars, a bunch of
guitars and playing each other's songs, telling stories. It It
did have to get it was rescheduled to October fifth.
(16:02):
It was going to be at the end of this month.
But you may have noticed Richard Marx is on I
think it's the Voice Australia. So there may have been
a conflict that came up in his schedule.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Like a skeuling conflict, a little.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Scheduling conflict unforeseen. But we're really excited for that show
that's coming in October, so that will actually be one
of our first shows in the twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's why I wanted to bring you to me because
he got.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
By twenty sixth season. And someone else who maybe you're
not as familiar with, but you you should definitely look
him up on YouTube. He's got billions of streams. Is
Peter Bentz. He's a Hungarian, this world renowned Hungarian pianist.
It's a one man show, uh, but he does he
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does things to the piano you wouldn't think as possible.
He'll loop beats, he'll make it sound I mean it's
already a percussive instrument, but he makes it sound like
a full orchestra show that he's playing on. And he's
playing songs by you know, from Michael Jackson to Desposito,
I mean, some of your favorite pop covers, but all instrumental,
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and it's just it's an Even though he's a one
man show, it just feels so massive. And he's the
Guinness World Record winner for the most piano key hits
in a minute, which was something like seven hundred and
sixty five key hits.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So you've got to come check him out. That's on
March seventeenth, which is Saint Patti's Day, So if you're
looking for a Saint Patrick's Day evening concert alternative thing
to do. Come check out Peter Ben's at the Cravit Center.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh absolutely, that sounds like a fun one. I like
it and a different kind of music. We have the
Old cro Medicine show coming.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, really excited for them as well. It's their first
time at the Cravis Center. American Roots bluegrass. You might
be familiar with their song wagon Wheel, which is platinum hit,
one of their biggest songs, and so we're really excited
that was added this season. So if you if you
got a season brochure earlier this year, it's not in
it because we added some more shows and that's one
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of them that's on April seventh, And.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's why I love you. Guys are always adding more
shows for the listeners to find out more. Should they
go to Cravis dot org. Can they follow you on
social media?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Absolutely? The official website. The only place you should be
purchasing your tickets or registering for any events is at
Cravis dot org. Kr a VIIs dot org. That's the
official ticketing site for the Craviscenter. You can also call
us at five six one eight three two seven four
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six nine. That's five six one eight three two show
and that's the place to be Cravis dot org.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
That's what I always remember, the eight three to two show.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Eight three two show. Yeah, I know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Well, speaking of like fun things, So miss Juley, back
to you for you actually teach the writers account, but
you are actually a published author yourself, which I think
is fantastic, So congratulations.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So you actually have a book launch called Giant Love
coming up on Wednesday, February nineteenth this week, so free
for folks to come check it out. So tell us
a little bit about that. What is the book about it?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It is all about a property called Giant, which started
as an idea in a writer's My great aunt was
a writer named Edna Ferber, and she was a very
famous writer for a certain amount of time. Who's kind
of gone out of fashion, but I think I am
hoping not for long. And she wrote some big books
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like Showboat and Sarah Tooga Trunk so big, and her
probably most popular book was Giant, which is all about
Texas and the disparity between oil and the Mexican Americans
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who worked to create a rich environment for the Texans.
So it has a racial tension in the novel that
was ahead of its time at that time. The novel
was published in nineteen fifty two and director for movie fans,
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a director named George Stevens, decided to work with Edna
Ferber to create a film based on Giant, and the
film was iconic in many ways. It was a huge,
three and a half hour piece of work. But it
also starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. It's
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pretty starry with featured people like Dennis Hopper and Salmineo
and Earl Holloman and Carol Baker and TCM is a
channel that is very that is increasingly popular, and they
show these old films and Giant apparently is the one
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that people really clamor for and stay home for. And
it's a long sit but you know, you don't with
a good book or a good movie, you don't notice
the minutes and hours. It just it unfolds. And so
my book is about the writing of that book and
then the filming of Giant and all that went on
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in Marfa, Texas, where they chose to film it. And
there was a lot of movie within the movie, a
lot of things that happened between Taylor and Hudson and
Dean and it was special because George Stevens invited all
the people in Marfa, Texas to view the rushes every evening,
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which was you know, inclusive and wonderful, and they felt
a part of it and have never ever forgotten it.
And there's a hotel called the Paisano in Marfa, Texas
with the James Dean Sweet and the Elizabeth Taylor Sweet
and the Rock Hudson Sweet, and people love to go.
They flock there. And so I'm hoping that my book
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will reintroduce Edna Ferber and certainly giant to the American
public and to the world at large if possible, if
it's translated.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh absolutely, this is fantastic. Congratulations And then of course
not to you know, you're doing your book launch, but
then the very next day you're starting your next session
of classes, which I think is amazing. Now that's some
dedication right there. Yeah, well, it just.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hits scheduling more than dedication.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But yes, I.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Will celebrate with people who want to celebrate with me
on the nineteenth and then get back to business the
next day. And I love the idea of meeting new
would be writers. That's so important, I think to the
program into the Cravis that these people, if.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
They like it, they come back.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
They really come back year after year, and I'm you know,
we are proud of the accomplishments of everybody. Some of
them have gone on to publish commercially and that's very exciting.
And one of them published commercially and then they made
a Hallmark movie of the book. Oh so that was Yeah,
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that was something kind of special.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's cool. But they don't have to have those aspirations.
So they just want to write and enjoy writing. They
can come for that as well.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's it's soul filling. It is it's like nothing else
to be able to sit down for half an hour
and make something that didn't exist before, and it is.
It's an art, it's a craft, it's therapy, it's a
little bit of everything, but to tell stories. We are
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storytellers and this gives the discipline I hope to be
able to do it and love it instead of just
want to do it and write in your head. So
product is the main word of these sessions, that they
want to show what they know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Gotcha? So how did they sign up for the classes?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You can register at Cravis dot org. That's the best
way there's information if you go to the website and
search for the Writer's Academy or Writer's Launch and you'll
find information. It's a six week long session and it's
there on our website.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Very cool. I just think it's such a cool thing
that you guys offer that. And I know you have
the thing where you bring the kids on the bus
to come see the shows.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, we have I don't know hundreds probably of education shows,
often to a day, sometimes even up to six a day.
I mean really sometimes all three venues are going at
the same time, just depending on at the start of
the school year. So a huge shout out to our
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education team, operations, security, front of house for making that possible.
We this year have brought in every single fifth grade
student to see a show at the Cravis Center, which
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's cool, and I know you have more family fair
things coming up. I'm gonna say it wrong and hopefully
not Blippy joined the band Blippy.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, I mean, well, we all have to learn a
bit about family programming sometimes and what's what's out there
and what's trending and what's what's popular right now, which
is Blippy And this is great for ages two and up.
It's very interactive. Blippy's got his friends on stage. They're
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putting a band together, and so the audience is invited
to join in learn about making music and rhythms and
sounds from the audience. And you know lots of Blippy hits.
So if you're not familiar, you probably are if you've
got some kids that are watching YouTube. But it's a
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very fun show on Wednesday, February twenty six in Dreyfus
Hall and tickets are available at Cravis dot org.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So that's a fun one, So the whole family can come.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, and there's also a photo experience that you can
add on to the experience to the show where you'll
be able to get up on stage and meet Blippy
in the cast after the show, get your picture as
a family, and have something to take home with you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Right, So obviously Blippy's gonna be fun. There's other things
that are coming. So what are the cool things you
have coming?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Some other really fun stuff coming up, and maybe unusual
might be the right word to say, But we have
a show that's by Indian in Theater Company called Missus
Christian's Party. So this is a party for the family.
And where we're turning Rinker Playhouse into this immersive experience
where it's a totally different seating configuration. The actors are
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in the center of the room. There's a various choices
of how much you want to either participate in the
show or kind of watch it from afar, and it's
it's all it's all very funny. There's a there's a
top table. So the show has a lot of cooking
in it. It takes place in the back of a
Missus Christian's convenience store, and so the room is decorated
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like a party. You're invited to come dressed up like
you're going to a party. There's a DJ. There is
a storyline of course throughout, but you can and there's
food being cooked throughout the show, so you're getting that
aroma of the spices and you'll everyone at the end.
Not to give a spoiler, but you do get to
taste the food if you stick around to the end,
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and there's you can sit at the table at the
top where you know if you're really in the show
and want to be interacting with the actors, or you
can be a wallflower and sit further back in the
risers or you can be in the inner circle. You
can even be a party animal, which means you don't
even want to see you just want to be at
the party. You want to stand, dance, lean up against something.
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So that's a really fun show that we're looking forward to.
It's coming where it's four shows only February twentieth through
twenty second in Rinker Playhouse. That's Missus Krishtnan's party.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So Juliana are looking at you like, wow, what an
amazing thing to write. Can you imagine You're like, and
you're writing it and you're adding like, okay, well, actually
have them cook it so they can get the smell
part of it, you know, and just totally immerse the
audience in the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Absolutely, And you can choose what kind of guests do
you are, which exactly I immediately said, I'm the wallflower.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well and then it was like maybe I want to
beat the counter with them, like maybe not be the wallflower.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, may I might want to be a party animal
one night. I mean, it's it's a kind of show
that's not the same night after night, so you can
experience it multiple times in different ways if you want to.
If you want to maybe experience it the first time
as a wallflower and sit further behind and just watch
the party unfold in front of you, and maybe come
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back the next night and sit a little closer and
see what happens. The actors, of course, you know, they're
they're good. They're not gonna it's not scary. They know how,
they've been doing this for a while. They know who's
interested in You know, if you make eye contact or
you look away, they're not gonna come up to you
and like force you to participate. It's very much about
having a good time and just being at a party,
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getting to know strangers and walking out together like friends
love the idea, so really love that show and it's
our first time trying something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, and that's why I give the Crafts a lot
of credit for it is like you have the Family
Fairure and things like this where it's innovative and but
it's immersive and helping folks engage with the arts, like
truly engage with the arts, because there's coming and listening
to the music which is amazing, or watching the play
or watching the musical, or coming and taking a class
where you're learning to write this kind of thing's like, wow, okay,
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very cool. Good job on that.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
And every ticket to missus Christian's party comes with a
free drink included, so if that, you know, if that
helps me persuade you in any other way, really looking
forward to that. And on the note of comedy we have,
we've got a lot of comedy coming up, and we've
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got a great partnership with the Palm Beach Improv which,
as you probably are aware, they don't have a permanent
location right now, and so we've been partnering with them
to bring, you know, to keep comedy in West Palm Beach,
which has been great. And so we've been doing shows
in both Rinker Playhouse and Person Hall, which are roughly
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three hundred seats each, so you still get that really
intimate comedy club environment and with some really big names.
We've got Nick Swartzen coming up February twenty eighth through
March second, Steve Travino March fourteenth through fifteenth, and Michael
Yo on April fourth, and many more actually more to name.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I love it, I love it and again, So folks
can follow you on Facebook, on Instagram. They can also
go to Kravis dot org and look and see what's
happening and get their tickets and sign up for the
classes while they're there.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Correct, that's right. And with the Palm Beach Improv. If
you look up Palm Beach Improv at the Cravis Center,
you'll find more of those comedy shows as well.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Wow. Well, thank you both so much for coming in
and talking with me today. So many cool things happening
to the Cravis and miss Julie, lovely to meet you.
I can't wait to hear more about the next book
you're writing. Oh well, it's always about the next book,
right it sure is?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, son, come back and tell you when I
know what it is.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Definitely yes, So come back and talk to me about that,
and then we'll talk maybe a little bit more oscar
about up the Lunch and Learn series, the Adults at Leisure.
At some point I'm going to be an adult and
I'll be at leisure. Yeah, I haven't got there yet.
It's quite a feat.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
We'll come back. There's always more to announce, and make
sure to stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter Cravis
dot org. That's the best way to stay informed. And
if you become a member, you get access to pre sales,
so if you want tickets before the general public, it's
the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Crafts dot org sounds good. Thank you guys so much.
Having a wonderful weekend. Thank you, and if you need
more information, reach out to me Palm Beach Perspective at
iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to for it on
the details and don't forget you can always download the
show as a podcast on our iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody
has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev net and this has
been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your
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healthiest and let's get out there and live it. Until
next week, enjoy.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev Nev. Thanks for spending your Sunday with me.
All kinds of great things going on. Definitely check out
some fun things. Palm Beach County is celebrating Black cultural
heritage with the Heritage Trail. Discover all the vibrant stories
of black history here in our county. Lots of cool things.
Go to Pompeachculture dot com for the link for that.
(00:28):
And don't forget this weekend, the motowners are wrapping up
at Arts Garage. We have Say It Loud happening the
Boyton Beach Arts and Cultural Center. Coming up February twenty
second and twenty third will be Turtlefest at the Loggerhead Marina.
Carol King's Beautiful the Musical is happening at the Wick
Theater and Costume Museum February sixteenth. That's later on today.
(00:52):
Lakeworth Beach Street Painting Festival that's coming up February twenty
second and twenty third. Such a cool thing to see
if you've never gone. Make a point of putting this
one on your calendar, so definitely have fun thing is
happening with that, I recommend it. If you want to
get more information to get the little things sent to you,
simply go to Palm Beachculture dot com and sign up
for the email and they'll send you a little information.
(01:13):
You can also reach out to them five six 's
one four seven one two nine zero one if you're
interested in connecting with some artists in the community, because
they have a whole list of artists and all their
different specialties and there of course happy to share that
information with you. Oh. Also going on this weekend, it
is the Jupiter Seafood Festival and it's happening at the
Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park and Jupiter. Definitely check that out.
(01:39):
And then coming up Saturday, February twenty second, starting at
six pm, it is the Ribs and Brewfest and that
one's going to be South County Sunset Cove Amphitheater and
the Burt Aronson South County Regional Park in Boca. Definitely
check that out.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Our friends in the Treasure Coast, the Fencenter always doing
cool things, so they are hosting eat Smart, Live Strong
Nutrition education series for older adults starting this Tuesday, February
eighteenth and eleven am as one about reaching your goal
step by step, learning all the basics of the fruits
and the macros and all the good stuff like that.
The twenty fifth is going to be challenges and solutions.
(02:15):
The next one is colorable classic Favorites, so lots of
cool things. You can reach out to them seven seven
to two for six two seventeen ninety one for more
details on that one. Oh, and a reminder, if you
like to vote by mail, you need to reregister to
vote by mail because once we have the big election,
it stops and you have to renew your vote by mail.
(02:36):
Did that already? Got mine in the mail? Makes it
very easy for folks to vote, like when you're working,
you don't have to go worry about waiting on the
line and everything or missing work or anything. And they
also have a really cool program by United Way. It's
called the Vida Tax program. So if you make sixty
seven thousand dollars or less Palm Beach, Treasure Coast, you
can qualify for free tax filing assistance. So the IRS
(02:58):
comes in and trains the volunteer, a lot of them
retired CPAs. What have you people interested in helping out
in the community, and you go in, bring all your
paperwork and then they help you file your taxes for free.
Just be patient because it's first come, first served, and
of course it is a free service. Offer details cynthigo
to Unitedway dot org and all the details are right
there of the areas in the locations in your area
(03:21):
where you can get that done for free, and it
tells you everything you need to bring your W twos
and ID and all that good stuff. So I've used
it a couple of times, very helpful and like I said,
just be patient and it works great. Let's see. Oh well.
Reminder Saturday, February twenty second, the Palm Beach County Chapter
of the Florida Native Plant Society inviting their friends and
(03:42):
supporters to the South Florida Native Plant Expo. It'll be
happening at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens
from nine am till five pm. The keynote speaker is
conservation and restoration expert George Cann and then our friends
that we talked to last week from Audubon and Everlades
actually going to be there. They're one of the exhibitors
share information with everybody. There's more than twenty speakers coming
(04:05):
and helping. Definitely a cool thing. Tickets are fifty dollars
each includes lunch and you can purchase them online Palm
Beach FNPs at gmail dot com from our details, or
you can call them Melnda at five six one two
eight five seventy two thirteen and she'll help you out.
I'll reminder from our friends over at Boca Ballet Theater
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they have their wonderful season going on, but of course
you always do fundraisers to help support this. So coming
back for another year because it's so popular last time.
It's coming up Saturday, February twenty second. It is their
best of the Belgian's Beer Fest, so it's the beer,
the food trucks, all the good stuff. What a fun
way to raise funds for the Boca Ballet. They also
over the program for folks with Parkinson's disease and you
(04:51):
can find out more by going to Boca Ballet dot
org and getting all the details there from Miss Cindy
Oh Fence Center offering more fun things. They're going to
go country some line dancing Glasses on February twenty eight.
This is a twenty one and up, So go out
have fun with you and your friends. So Fendsander's got
a lot of cool things going on, and we talked
a couple of weeks ago with Benji Stoot from the
(05:13):
Pumpeach County Natural Areas, so if all kinds of fun
things going on their big Natural Area festival, and then
they have coming up the weeding and trash clean up
for the birds and that one is going to be
on Wednesday, February nineteenth, So go out and you clean
up the areas. The birds can come and roost and
do their nests. So it's a really cool thing that
you're doing something. Go to PBCERM dot com and all
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the different programs and things are there. They have like
astronomy nights, podder boarding days, all kinds of cool things
they do. And speaking of fun things, want to welcome
my guests for today. I have got Oscar Caseda and
Julie Gilbert from the Cravicenter. Good morning, Good morning, morning
dab So thanks for coming in so Oscar, I see
here like well obviously saw Peter Pan earlier this week.
(05:59):
Really cool musical a part of like the Family Fair,
but the Cravis on Broadway at the same time, and
it's wrapping up today.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, today's final performance at two pm and Dreyfus Hall
for Peter Pan. It's really fun for the whole family.
It's magical, it's whimsical, it's funny. There's some great sword
fighting scenes, a lot of flying, so lots of fun.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, it makes me think when I was little and
watched the show, it's like so cool. Yes, I think
it's a good one for adults soon joys like give
that memory thing, but then a cool way to make
memories with your kids.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, or you're granking and a new you know, revised
or updated story.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh of course. Yes. So now, miss Julie, tell me
a little about yourself. What does it you do with
the Cravis Center.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I do a little bit of everything. In terms of writing,
I start with people who have always wanted to write
the great American novel, and I kind of talk them
out of that. In the beginning, we start very basic,
it's exercises, etc. And then we go all the way
(07:03):
to the advanced people who, if some of them have
taken with me for twenty years this is my twentieth
season at the Cravis and so we've grown gray together
and some of them have published, you know, and you
always find the really serious, ambitious ones and then the
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serious private ones, and that has validity too.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh yeah. I think sometimes you can write just for yourself. Yeah,
and if you want help and have a fun thing.
What a great social way to write, but still exactly involved. Yes,
that's fantastic. And of course your Writer's program is part
of one of the community education outreach aspect of the Cravis. Correct,
that's right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And Julie's the founder and instructor of the Writers Academy
at the Cravit Center, which, as you mentioned, is celebrating
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, congratulations, Well thank you. It sounds it sounds like
I should be a general, you know, it's like very
military sounding, but actually it's friendly, user friendly, and I
think that people if they come away and they don't
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want to write, you know, big things, they feel that
they have accomplished They've mastered their feelings on paper, and
that's very important. I think that's very edifying to be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's an art of itself, you know. We we specialize
in performing arts, and writing is still part of that, very.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Much a part of that starts right, somebody has to
write it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Right, Someone's got to write the book.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it doesn't nothing exists. And people feel often that
they like to talk about what they're about to write
instead of actually just committing it to paper. And I
always say, don't write in your head, you know, just
in the middle of the night. Have that an old pencil,
remember pencils, and have that by your bed, and just
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get it down because it either evaporates, you know, or
it doesn't exist at all in the morning. So I
think the academy might be accurate because I do teach
or try to impart discipline and that if you can't
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be a writer, if you don't write, you know, and
every day makes product. And if you write every day
for one hundred days, you know, a page a day,
you've got half of a something.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, I find it right, and they several of them,
have done the thing with November, the nano Rimo. So
nano Rimo is a whole month of people writing. And
I believe you commit to writing the whole month of November,
so you end up with fifty thousand words. You're not
editing or anything. You are simply writing your story. If
you go over, that's great. But they give themselves this
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goal to reach. I remember going a cruise with the friend.
She's like, I got five thousand words to go. I'll
be with you in a minute. But she could have
every morning at four thirty in the morning to finish
her words for the day so we could go enjoy
what everything was happening that day on the cruise. So,
but she had to make herself have this schedule and
that was her writing time. Nobody bothered her so she
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could get that down on the page.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That discipline is great, so that the day you give
for yourself, that's the day off you feel completely at
a loss. You want it, and I always say take
Sunday off, and they usually they say, well, I cheated.
I just had to write a little something on Sunday, So.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can see where that would be. Same kind of
thing with exercising. You get used to it and when
you don't do it, you're like, wait, I should be
doing that. That's right, but the rest day is important,
but you still feel like you should be doing something.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So speaking of doing something, what's doing at the Cravis there,
mister Oscar, I know all kinds of cool things. Obviously
pure pans wrapping up this weekend, the African American film
festivals wrapping up this weekend, coming up next week, even
more fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Right, Yeah, We've got a lot more in store for
the rest of the season through June, at least for now,
and more to be announced probably in a few days
from the time you're listening to this, which is very exciting.
So we have a lot of great Broadway musicals from
the Book of Mormon that's coming up in March. One
of the funniest musicals of all time and Ain't Too
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Proud will be coming back to the Cravis Center in June,
which is The Life and Times of the Temptation. So
you know that that music's going to be incredible. Oh,
I guess me, the music for that's gonna be amazing.
Definitely want to check that one out. Yeah, super fun,
super high energy. We also not only do Broadway musicals,
but there are plays that come from Broadway as well,
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so we're really excited. In April April fifteenth through nineteenth,
we have Clue, which is a Broadway play that's based
on the nineteen eighty five movie and the Hasboro board game.
So that's very fun murder mystery kind of teases. I'm
sure there's plenty of good murder mystery novels or earth
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very very lucrative.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, to be able to write one of those, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, every it's hot right now with all the podcasts
of true crime and.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well yeah, so there's these ladies that work in the office,
right like a buye and I go to the bathroom
and they're in there saying, what did you hear so
and so got murdered? And I'm like, excuse me. I
just literally walk into the middle of this conversation about
somebody being off and which they thought was a better
way to do it. And that was like then I
find out they're listening to a podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was like, oh, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So you're right and Jane Crime podcast very popular, thankfully.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
This is just a play and these are all actors
on stage putting on a really entertaining show. And so's
that's what's coming up in April. We've got some concerts
coming up as well that are we're really excited about.
The Beach Boys is going to be coming back to
the Cravit Center. They're actually doing two shows in a day.
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There's a matinee show at two o'clock and an evening
show at seven point thirty, and that's with the with
lead singer Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I saw we were talking the other week. Elizabeth was
here and we were chatting and I did not realize this.
Isaac Musrah he's coming.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I always think of him in fashion, but apparently he
sings as well.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
He's a really entertaining and talented cabaret singer. He's he's
got a kind of like a jazz big band ensemble
that he tours with. So it's going to be an
intimate fun. He's going to tell stories about all the
people's people he knows, and he'll he'll sing songs by
Barbara streisand Billie Eilish Cole Porter. So it's it's a
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mix but really fun and entertaining and hilarious. He's I
saw his show last year and it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh, definitely check it one out. And speaking like cabaret style,
you actually guys have the thing going on the fifty
four and below in the Rinker, right.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, So fifty four below at the Rinker is there's
a New York City club called fifty four Below, and
we have brought that New York City Broadway cabaret taste
to the city of West Palm Beach and so are.
We've already gone through three shows this season as part
of the series, and our last one is on April
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fourth with Mauricio Martinez. He played Emilio Stefan in the
On Your Feet Broadway musical. He's also a telenovella star,
so very good looking and a great singer as well.
But it's a really great series that we're in our
second year, the fifty four Below at the Rinker series.
You can subscribe and come out. It's a mix of
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cabaret table seating with table service and riser seating as well,
so you've got your options of whether you want to
be close to the action or you know, a little
further away.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Why I've come and checked out one of the shows amazing,
so we did. The table sort was so neat, so fun.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, and they tell stories.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's beautiful music of this, like literally like you're in
the club enjoying the well you are, but you're at
the Rinker, which.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
At the fantastic These are Broadway stars that have been
in some of the biggest Broadway shows, you know, in
New York and on tour around the country. So we're
really excited to be able to present that series.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And I see on here that this is one that
caught my attention. An acoustic evening with Rick Springfield and
Richard Marx doing it together.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, so these eighties legends, you know, they've got so
many hits between the two of them, and they're going
to be on stage together for the entire show, just
the two of them, and they're guitars, a bunch of
guitars and playing each other's songs, telling stories. It It
did have to get it was rescheduled to October fifth.
(16:02):
It was going to be at the end of this month.
But you may have noticed Richard Marx is on I
think it's the Voice Australia. So there may have been
a conflict that came up in his schedule.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Like a skeuling conflict, a little.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Scheduling conflict unforeseen. But we're really excited for that show
that's coming in October, so that will actually be one
of our first shows in the twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's why I wanted to bring you to me because
he got.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
By twenty sixth season. And someone else who maybe you're
not as familiar with, but you you should definitely look
him up on YouTube. He's got billions of streams. Is
Peter Bentz. He's a Hungarian, this world renowned Hungarian pianist.
It's a one man show, uh, but he does he
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does things to the piano you wouldn't think as possible.
He'll loop beats, he'll make it sound I mean it's
already a percussive instrument, but he makes it sound like
a full orchestra show that he's playing on. And he's
playing songs by you know, from Michael Jackson to Desposito,
I mean, some of your favorite pop covers, but all instrumental,
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and it's just it's an Even though he's a one
man show, it just feels so massive. And he's the
Guinness World Record winner for the most piano key hits
in a minute, which was something like seven hundred and
sixty five key hits.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So you've got to come check him out. That's on
March seventeenth, which is Saint Patti's Day, So if you're
looking for a Saint Patrick's Day evening concert alternative thing
to do. Come check out Peter Ben's at the Cravit Center.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh absolutely, that sounds like a fun one. I like
it and a different kind of music. We have the
Old cro Medicine show coming.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, really excited for them as well. It's their first
time at the Cravis Center. American Roots bluegrass. You might
be familiar with their song wagon Wheel, which is platinum hit,
one of their biggest songs, and so we're really excited
that was added this season. So if you if you
got a season brochure earlier this year, it's not in
it because we added some more shows and that's one
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of them that's on April seventh, And.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's why I love you. Guys are always adding more
shows for the listeners to find out more. Should they
go to Cravis dot org. Can they follow you on
social media?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Absolutely? The official website. The only place you should be
purchasing your tickets or registering for any events is at
Cravis dot org. Kr a VIIs dot org. That's the
official ticketing site for the Craviscenter. You can also call
us at five six one eight three two seven four
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six nine. That's five six one eight three two show
and that's the place to be Cravis dot org.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
That's what I always remember, the eight three to two show.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Eight three two show. Yeah, I know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Well, speaking of like fun things, So miss Juley, back
to you for you actually teach the writers account, but
you are actually a published author yourself, which I think
is fantastic, So congratulations.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So you actually have a book launch called Giant Love
coming up on Wednesday, February nineteenth this week, so free
for folks to come check it out. So tell us
a little bit about that. What is the book about it?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It is all about a property called Giant, which started
as an idea in a writer's My great aunt was
a writer named Edna Ferber, and she was a very
famous writer for a certain amount of time. Who's kind
of gone out of fashion, but I think I am
hoping not for long. And she wrote some big books
(19:43):
like Showboat and Sarah Tooga Trunk so big, and her
probably most popular book was Giant, which is all about
Texas and the disparity between oil and the Mexican Americans
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who worked to create a rich environment for the Texans.
So it has a racial tension in the novel that
was ahead of its time at that time. The novel
was published in nineteen fifty two and director for movie fans,
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a director named George Stevens, decided to work with Edna
Ferber to create a film based on Giant, and the
film was iconic in many ways. It was a huge,
three and a half hour piece of work. But it
also starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. It's
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pretty starry with featured people like Dennis Hopper and Salmineo
and Earl Holloman and Carol Baker and TCM is a
channel that is very that is increasingly popular, and they
show these old films and Giant apparently is the one
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that people really clamor for and stay home for. And
it's a long sit but you know, you don't with
a good book or a good movie, you don't notice
the minutes and hours. It just it unfolds. And so
my book is about the writing of that book and
then the filming of Giant and all that went on
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in Marfa, Texas, where they chose to film it. And
there was a lot of movie within the movie, a
lot of things that happened between Taylor and Hudson and
Dean and it was special because George Stevens invited all
the people in Marfa, Texas to view the rushes every evening,
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which was you know, inclusive and wonderful, and they felt
a part of it and have never ever forgotten it.
And there's a hotel called the Paisano in Marfa, Texas
with the James Dean Sweet and the Elizabeth Taylor Sweet
and the Rock Hudson Sweet, and people love to go.
They flock there. And so I'm hoping that my book
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will reintroduce Edna Ferber and certainly giant to the American
public and to the world at large if possible, if
it's translated.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh absolutely, this is fantastic. Congratulations And then of course
not to you know, you're doing your book launch, but
then the very next day you're starting your next session
of classes, which I think is amazing. Now that's some
dedication right there. Yeah, well, it just.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hits scheduling more than dedication.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But yes, I.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Will celebrate with people who want to celebrate with me
on the nineteenth and then get back to business the
next day. And I love the idea of meeting new
would be writers. That's so important, I think to the
program into the Cravis that these people, if.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
They like it, they come back.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
They really come back year after year, and I'm you know,
we are proud of the accomplishments of everybody. Some of
them have gone on to publish commercially and that's very exciting.
And one of them published commercially and then they made
a Hallmark movie of the book. Oh so that was Yeah,
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that was something kind of special.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's cool. But they don't have to have those aspirations.
So they just want to write and enjoy writing. They
can come for that as well.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's it's soul filling. It is it's like nothing else
to be able to sit down for half an hour
and make something that didn't exist before, and it is.
It's an art, it's a craft, it's therapy, it's a
little bit of everything, but to tell stories. We are
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storytellers and this gives the discipline I hope to be
able to do it and love it instead of just
want to do it and write in your head. So
product is the main word of these sessions, that they
want to show what they know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Gotcha? So how did they sign up for the classes?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You can register at Cravis dot org. That's the best
way there's information if you go to the website and
search for the Writer's Academy or Writer's Launch and you'll
find information. It's a six week long session and it's
there on our website.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Very cool. I just think it's such a cool thing
that you guys offer that. And I know you have
the thing where you bring the kids on the bus
to come see the shows.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, we have I don't know hundreds probably of education shows,
often to a day, sometimes even up to six a day.
I mean really sometimes all three venues are going at
the same time, just depending on at the start of
the school year. So a huge shout out to our
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education team, operations, security, front of house for making that possible.
We this year have brought in every single fifth grade
student to see a show at the Cravis Center, which
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's cool, and I know you have more family fair
things coming up. I'm gonna say it wrong and hopefully
not Blippy joined the band Blippy.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, I mean, well, we all have to learn a
bit about family programming sometimes and what's what's out there
and what's trending and what's what's popular right now, which
is Blippy And this is great for ages two and up.
It's very interactive. Blippy's got his friends on stage. They're
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putting a band together, and so the audience is invited
to join in learn about making music and rhythms and
sounds from the audience. And you know lots of Blippy hits.
So if you're not familiar, you probably are if you've
got some kids that are watching YouTube. But it's a
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very fun show on Wednesday, February twenty six in Dreyfus
Hall and tickets are available at Cravis dot org.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So that's a fun one, So the whole family can come.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, and there's also a photo experience that you can
add on to the experience to the show where you'll
be able to get up on stage and meet Blippy
in the cast after the show, get your picture as
a family, and have something to take home with you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Right, So obviously Blippy's gonna be fun. There's other things
that are coming. So what are the cool things you
have coming?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Some other really fun stuff coming up, and maybe unusual
might be the right word to say, But we have
a show that's by Indian in Theater Company called Missus
Christian's Party. So this is a party for the family.
And where we're turning Rinker Playhouse into this immersive experience
where it's a totally different seating configuration. The actors are
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in the center of the room. There's a various choices
of how much you want to either participate in the
show or kind of watch it from afar, and it's
it's all it's all very funny. There's a there's a
top table. So the show has a lot of cooking
in it. It takes place in the back of a
Missus Christian's convenience store, and so the room is decorated
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like a party. You're invited to come dressed up like
you're going to a party. There's a DJ. There is
a storyline of course throughout, but you can and there's
food being cooked throughout the show, so you're getting that
aroma of the spices and you'll everyone at the end.
Not to give a spoiler, but you do get to
taste the food if you stick around to the end,
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and there's you can sit at the table at the
top where you know if you're really in the show
and want to be interacting with the actors, or you
can be a wallflower and sit further back in the
risers or you can be in the inner circle. You
can even be a party animal, which means you don't
even want to see you just want to be at
the party. You want to stand, dance, lean up against something.
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So that's a really fun show that we're looking forward to.
It's coming where it's four shows only February twentieth through
twenty second in Rinker Playhouse. That's Missus Krishtnan's party.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So Juliana are looking at you like, wow, what an
amazing thing to write. Can you imagine You're like, and
you're writing it and you're adding like, okay, well, actually
have them cook it so they can get the smell
part of it, you know, and just totally immerse the
audience in the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Absolutely, And you can choose what kind of guests do
you are, which exactly I immediately said, I'm the wallflower.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well and then it was like maybe I want to
beat the counter with them, like maybe not be the wallflower.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, may I might want to be a party animal
one night. I mean, it's it's a kind of show
that's not the same night after night, so you can
experience it multiple times in different ways if you want to.
If you want to maybe experience it the first time
as a wallflower and sit further behind and just watch
the party unfold in front of you, and maybe come
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back the next night and sit a little closer and
see what happens. The actors, of course, you know, they're
they're good. They're not gonna it's not scary. They know how,
they've been doing this for a while. They know who's
interested in You know, if you make eye contact or
you look away, they're not gonna come up to you
and like force you to participate. It's very much about
having a good time and just being at a party,
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getting to know strangers and walking out together like friends
love the idea, so really love that show and it's
our first time trying something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, and that's why I give the Crafts a lot
of credit for it is like you have the Family
Fairure and things like this where it's innovative and but
it's immersive and helping folks engage with the arts, like
truly engage with the arts, because there's coming and listening
to the music which is amazing, or watching the play
or watching the musical, or coming and taking a class
where you're learning to write this kind of thing's like, wow, okay,
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very cool. Good job on that.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
And every ticket to missus Christian's party comes with a
free drink included, so if that, you know, if that
helps me persuade you in any other way, really looking
forward to that. And on the note of comedy we have,
we've got a lot of comedy coming up, and we've
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got a great partnership with the Palm Beach Improv which,
as you probably are aware, they don't have a permanent
location right now, and so we've been partnering with them
to bring, you know, to keep comedy in West Palm Beach,
which has been great. And so we've been doing shows
in both Rinker Playhouse and Person Hall, which are roughly
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three hundred seats each, so you still get that really
intimate comedy club environment and with some really big names.
We've got Nick Swartzen coming up February twenty eighth through
March second, Steve Travino March fourteenth through fifteenth, and Michael
Yo on April fourth, and many more actually more to name.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I love it, I love it and again, So folks
can follow you on Facebook, on Instagram. They can also
go to Kravis dot org and look and see what's
happening and get their tickets and sign up for the
classes while they're there.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Correct, that's right. And with the Palm Beach Improv. If
you look up Palm Beach Improv at the Cravis Center,
you'll find more of those comedy shows as well.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Wow. Well, thank you both so much for coming in
and talking with me today. So many cool things happening
to the Cravis and miss Julie, lovely to meet you.
I can't wait to hear more about the next book
you're writing. Oh well, it's always about the next book,
right it sure is?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, son, come back and tell you when I
know what it is.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Definitely yes, So come back and talk to me about that,
and then we'll talk maybe a little bit more oscar
about up the Lunch and Learn series, the Adults at Leisure.
At some point I'm going to be an adult and
I'll be at leisure. Yeah, I haven't got there yet.
It's quite a feat.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
We'll come back. There's always more to announce, and make
sure to stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter Cravis
dot org. That's the best way to stay informed. And
if you become a member, you get access to pre sales,
so if you want tickets before the general public, it's
the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Crafts dot org sounds good. Thank you guys so much.
Having a wonderful weekend. Thank you, and if you need
more information, reach out to me Palm Beach Perspective at
iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to for it on
the details and don't forget you can always download the
show as a podcast on our iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody
has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev net and this has
been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your
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healthiest and let's get out there and live it. Until
next week, enjoy.
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