December 11, 2024 • 32 mins
Talked with Rudina Toro, Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Palm Beach Dramaworks. They are celebrating their 25th Season. This year's line up of shows includes: Lost in Yonkers, The Dresser, The Humans, Camping with Henry and Tom and Dangerous Instruments. Listeners can buy tickets for individual shows or package of 5 or 4. Patrons can also purchase tickets for Dramawise which is a behind the scenes program that happens the day before opening night. Then January 17-19, 2025 they have the Perlberg Festival of New Plays which is one of the ways they encourage new talent. The line up plays for the festival includes: Vineland Place by Steven Dietz, Class C by Chaz T. Martin, The Mallard by Vincent Delaney, Two by Chelsea Marcantel, and Alba by Alejando Rodriguez. PB Dramaworks also does One Humanity Tour where they bring plays to students in school addressing issues the students face. In addition they have a Young Playwrights Contest for students. For more info, buy tickets, become a volunteer or make a donation, listeners can go to www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.
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All kinds of great things going on, and you definitely
want to check out the Palm Beach County arm Its
Environmental Resource Management Benji stutent I had a conversation a
couple months ago and he's gonna be coming back in
a few weeks. All kinds of cool things going on,
and it's like in our natural areas, there's hikes, there's
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like raptor releases when they've been your rehab from bush wildlife,
all kinds of wonderful things to experience out in nature.
So they have oft the beaten track, swamp trumps, holiday hikes,
you know, all kinds of fun things. Simply go to
PBCERM dot com and they will have all the information
right there for you and we'll talk to him more
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in a few weeks. A reminder from Eric and Saint
Lucie County they have extended the deadline for FEMA applications
for after Hurricane Helene and Milton and Florida. You didn't
get everything in the deadline has been extended now to
January seventh, twenty twenty five. So you're encouraged to go
online at Disaster Assistance dot gov by using or use
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the FEMA app, or you can call them eight hundred
sixty two one three three six two eight hundred sixty
two one three three six two and they'll help you
out with all your questions and filling out those forms
and processes. I'll remind you from my friends over the
Flagler Museum they are starting their annual holiday tours other
people Tree and Whitehall is just gorgeous this time of year,
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and it's going to be December nineteenth through the twenty third.
There's tours at six six, fifteen, six thirty six, forty
five seven PM. Tickets in event you need to purchase
them in advance are sixty dollars for adults and thirty
for children ages seventeen and under. So they're a lot
of fun and you can go to Flagler Museum dot
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net and all the details are there for you. It's
always a fun thing to do during the holidays. So
friends over at the Spady Cultural Heritage museum have a
lot of great things going on, and so right now
the current exhibition is called Inside Outside, so when check
that out. It's a solo exhibit by conceptual artist Eves
Gabriel and it's going to be on display through January
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sixth at the museum. And of course the other big
Quansas celebration coming up on December twenty six so I'll
be talking more with Edward about that in a couple
of weeks. Get all the scoop on it and simply
go to Spadymuseum dot org for more details and they
give you all the information on there, and they have
a fun little online shop so you can buy hand
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crafted things. It's a lot of fun, and don't forget
coming up to January twenty fifth or getting into next
year's fun things already. The special events are happening at
the Lochsahachie River Battlefield Park where they do seminal Maroon
remembrance on Sunday, January nineteenth, and then the Battle of
locksa Hachie reenactment. That one's going to be Saturday, January
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twenty fifth. If you need more details, go to PBC
Nature dot com or give Pat a call five six
' one seven four one thirteen fifty nine and they'll
give you all the details well. And of course the
Donald m Efherim Film Festivals coming Sun in Stars the
International Film Festival again presented by morse Life and it
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going to be happening some of them at the Cravis,
different theaters throughout the county. So the first one opening
night premiere of Liza, It's the truly terrific, absolutely true story.
It's gonna be the Cravis Playhouse on January twenty third
at seven thirty pm, so check that out. They have
all kinds of wonderful movies coming. Reach out to Barbara
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seven seven three eight seven five zero three zero four
for more details on that. You can always go to
Morselife dot org for details as well. Oh and the
second annual SLC four h Opportunity is doing an all
benefit gala on January eleventh, and this one is for
the grown ups, so it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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It's from five to nine pm and Adams Ranch located
at two six zero zero three Orange Avenue and Fort Pierce.
So it's a fun fundraiser, fun night out for mom
and dad. For details call them seven seven to two
for six two twelve eighty five and definitely want to
check all that out. Oh, fen Center's always got fun
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things happening there. I'm gonna go see this one. I
can't play, but it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be
Let's Glow Pickleball on January fifteenth. It's gonna be from
six to eight pm. You can go to fencenter dot
com to find out more about that and all the
other programs they have. They have like candlelight yoga, all
kinds of fun things going on there, which I think
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is awesome. And of course all kinds of fun things
happening in our parks in Palm Beach County as well.
We've got Legends on the Lawn with the Florida Atlantic
University Band. That's gonna be a free concert on Saturday,
December twenty first at seven pm. We have the Florida
Florida Animal Experience happening to get Daggerwing Nature Center and
that's in South Boca and that is on Saturday, December
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twenty eighth, ten thirty am. That one's good for ages
five and up and it's five dollars a participant, And
you do want to make reservations for that, and of
course we have some free classes. We've got tai Chi
at the South County Civic Center on weekdays eight thirty.
Let's see, we also have functional fitness. This is the
more common museum in Delray Beach and that one's Tuesdays
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and Thursdays at eight thirty am. So lots of fun
things happening in the different parks, special events, all kinds
of good stuff and lots of fun. Volunteer opportunities if
you want to be outside in nature so something, go
to pbcnature dot com and get more information there. Oh,
all kinds of great things happening at the Cravist Center
Patti LaBelle on December seventeenth, wonderful show. Just if you
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take us left for that one. Park A Ramsey on
the Harp on the eighteenth, as part of the Young
Artists Classical series, So come out and see these really
amazing young artists. That series has got lots and loss
and lots of talent. Definitely want to check that out.
And then of course we have circ Dreams Holidays and
that one's gonna be the nineteenth through the twenty fourth.
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Lots of different showings. So if you're fascinated by their
the sole A, you would definitely see this one. And
then we've got big Ray Oakerson coming on the twentieth
and twenty first at the Rinker. Twenty seventh of the
twenty ninth is Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits. We have Straight
No Chaser Top Shelf tour on the thirty first and
January twenty January. First, of course it's the big Salute
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to Vienna New Year's Concert. That's one of their traditional
things they do, which I like. And then of course
later in January, we've got John Law that's coming as
part of the comedy Palm Beach Improv thing they've got
going on. Becky Robinson members only tours gonna be coming
as well as part of the improv. So lots of
fun things happening. Get at the Cravis. Simply go to
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Cravis for more details and they're happy to give you
more information on that. Speaking more information and welcome my guest
for today. I've Redina Toro, chief financial and an operating
officer for Palm Beach Drama Works. Good morning, good morning,
so thanks for coming in, thank you for having me.
So now tell me that the listeners and a little
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bit about Palm Beach Drama Works because like everything to
the Kravas with all the big shows and like concerts
and musicals and stuff like that, but like you guys do,
like as my friend calls it, real theater.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's so funny, we do theater to think about. That
is our tagline. And so Palm Beach Drama Works is
a regional theater. It's a professional theater. And the one
aspect of the work that sets us apart from other
performing arts centers locally is that we produce all of
our own work. And so what does that mean. It
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means our stage is not one for hire where somebody
else from a different part of the country brings their
show it to the local patrons on our stage, and
the next week they move on and do the same
show somewhere else. At Pombeach Drama Works, our employees and
our resident artists create all of the art that you
see on our stage, from scenic design, to set building,
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to costume design and to costume making, lighting, sound. All
of the work is done by our people and our
employees and our wonderful team, and so it's really special
and unique to us. You won't see that work performed
somewhere else. It's produced right there in our beautiful theater,
and it's shown on our in our theater and our chamber,
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which is two hundred and eighteen seats, and we like
to say there's no bad seat at Pombeach Drama Works.
You won't need binoculars, and every seat feels as though
you're on the stage right there, immersed in the experience.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh, I love it. And you guys recently did some remodeling.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We did so this shares our twenty fifth anniversary. It's
our silver jubilee, and we're so excited to celebrate to
do a little refresh because after all, we are in
Palm Beach County and we're twenty five, so we want
it to be youthful and have our patrons really start
experiencing the chamber from the front doors. So what we've
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done is the lobby and the restrooms are completely renovated.
It's modernized, it's open, it's area, it's beautiful. Our box
office is completely welcoming, and what we've done is really
digitized the spaces so that when you enter the lobby,
you start experiencing the show from step one on the
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screens you will see how our work is made. We
give you a really nice sneak peek behind the curtain
if you will. As soon as you enter our lobby,
you'll see beautiful video of our costumes being sketched and
researched and so, and then when you enter the chamber
you will see that materialize on stage. The same with
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the set. You'll see a time lapse video of it
being installed on our stage. Then you walk in the
chamber and there it is. So it's just this welcoming,
all encompassing experience just from step one. And so we're
really proud of that. And our patrons have had wonderful feedback.
They walked into a brand new space and really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh that's awesome. So, of course, like you said, it
is your twenty fifty season, so congratulations, thank you. So
as part of that, you have a really nice lineup
happening this year, So tell me about the lineup.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We really do so our producing artistic director Bill Hayes,
who's one of the founders of the theater, with our
managing director Suwell and Beryl and they're married and as
they like to say, they had the baby before they
were married because they conceptualized the theater together with their friends.
Finding no opportunity for local actors, they dreamed one up
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and just started with a dream just like that. And
here we are twenty five years later, celebrating the milestone.
And so Bill really curated this season. He's responsible for
selecting the works and the order of the works and
what he thinks the audience is looking for and will
be touched by. And so because this is a twenty
fifth anniversary, he curated it so carefully as he always does.
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Our opener was Lost in Yonkers and Neil Simon Classic
and it was so well received and anticipated the deb
We extended this play before opening night, which was such
a success and so exciting for the team upcoming. We
have The Dresser next Friday, on December twentieth is opening night.
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And really this is a remount of sorts because when
the Pompach Drama Works was at a smaller theater on Benyon,
the eighty seat theater, they kept extending and The Dresser
was so well received that Bill thought it was time.
The audience was demanding it, and it's time to show
it again for the twenty fifth anniversary. As a matter
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of fact, the set is up and today the cast
is in rehearsing in the theater. They have moved from
their rehearsal hall to the actual stage, so it's exciting.
They're getting ready for next Friday. Then after that we
have the Humans and Camping with Henry and Tom, and
the final play of the season is a world premiere.
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It's called Dangerous Instruments. Another part of our work that
sets us apart is that we are committed to new
plays and new works because we need to continue contributing
to the canon of work. Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers
was a new play when he first wrote it, and
now it's a classic. And so Drama Works continues to
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foster new works and is committed to unting at least
one new world premiere every season. And Dangerous Instruments is
that for this twenty fifth anniversary season.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Very cool. So hopefully in twenty five years will run
again as a classic.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
That's right, And you know how we make sure that
that might happen. We have our newly named Pearlberg Festival
of New Plays. So this is how we foster new
new works and how we are truly committed to making
sure that new plays and playwrights have the opportunity to
have their works read by professionals in front of live audiences,
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because live audience feedback is really critical to play development,
and so Pompeach Drama Works through the Pearlborg Festival of
New Plays gives playwrights the opportunity to workshop, if you will,
these new works that they're creating and working on, so
to have them professionally read in front of patrons who
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are obviously theater enthusiasts, are well versed in theater to
think about is critical to developing and fostering new work.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Same writing a budding playwright, how do I smit my work?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You can look on Pombeachdramaworks dot org. There's a page
completely dedicated to the festival. We have our resident playwright
and literary manager, Jenny Davis. She will get in touch
with you and you can continue the conversations. There's a
submittle process. It's taken very seriously. We read I'm sure, Jenny,
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I'm gonna say hundreds, maybe it's thousands, some joking, but
Jenny reads along with Bill Hayes. They read all the
plays with our committees and just really take good care
in identifying works that are ready to participate in the festival.
It's a year long process. So the twenty fifth season
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festival is happening January seventeenth through the nineteenth, but the
work for it has been done in the twelve to
eighteen months leading up to these dates.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So yeah, that happens beforehand. So if you're submitting now,
you're submitting for this year, but the next year.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Or perhaps the year after.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Okay, cool. Yeah, so that's good for people to know.
Speaking of the play, so you have this, you said
the next one's coming up. It's the Dresser. You guys
also have another cool I'm gonna call it cool feature.
I think it's a cool feature. One of your programs
is called drama Wise, So explain to the listeners and
I what exactly drama Wise is. Because they know the
next one is going to be December nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I think all of our drama Wise enthusiasts would also
call it cool. So you're okay using that word. It's
actually a favorite program of ours, even for me. What
drama Wise does is it takes this group of our
patrons who are just really invested in the work and
understanding what it means, and what the themes of the
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play are and why the playwright wrote it the way
they did, and why was it set in the time
and you know space and place that it was set in.
And so our director of Community Engagement and Education, Gary Kodwallader,
provides the script ahead of time to this group of
Drama Wise goers and anyone can go. Anyone can go
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buy the ticket for it. And what they do in
Act one, as we call it, is they discuss the
themes of the play, what it means, why it end
did a certain way, why did the playwright feel that
they needed to write display and what does it mean
to the audience. Then this group of Drama Wise goers,
who have now become friends and it's its own little
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community within Palm Beach Drama Works, will have a nice
lunch continue the conversation we returned for Act two. During
Act two, they get to hear from the artists why
they designed the costumes this way, Why was the set
designed as a two story house, which is what it's
called for in the play. They get this really thorough
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understanding of the play and all the structures around it,
so that when they come with their ticket on opening night,
they see the play through this drama wise lens, which
offers them a deeper understanding and the benefit of knowing
all of these other secret details that the regular ticket
holder may not have.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So it's kind of one day, I'll be big behind
the scenes, if you will, that's right. And then they
come whenever their ticket to day is and watch the
actual Playla. Yes, I think it's so cool.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It's it's really one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's a really nice feature to offer. I like that.
And then you also have another thing. During some of
the performances they have called outstage at PbD.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yes, So this is for our LGBTQ plus community. They
love to have their own time at the theater and
come to enjoy the art, and we love having them.
We have such a great partnership and this is such
a fun night for our patrons. They come, they enjoy
the play, they have a reception, they get time to
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a community and to have fun with each other and
take in theater to think about and then they leave
and they talk about it, which is what we really
want every theater goer that comes to Pombeach Drama Works
to do. Come experience the play, have the communal experience.
We all gasp at the same time when something dramatic
has happened, which at Pombeach Drama Works, someone has to
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die at every time, every turn, we must kill someone
or they already are dead because we're so dramatic. It's
almost like, so do that together. And that's what sets
apart watching a play versus watching a movie or a
Netflix show. You don't get to experience it with a
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person next to you and you're reacting to the same
thing that's just happened on the stage. And so you know,
our outstage is a lot of fun. It's fun to
watch a play with that.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Group, for sure. It sounds like a lot of fun.
So coming up the dresser, the out stage night is
December twenty seventh's Humans, February twenty first, that's Camping with
Henry and Tom. It be April eighteenth, that's right, and
then oh, May thirtieth, twenty twenty five is the Dangerous
Instruments nights. So you have these all ahead of time,
and you saw have tickets for these shows. We do
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all on our website. And speaking of the shows, can
I know there's four shows left of the season. Can
I just buy all for them once you cantag we can.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We have subscriptions and we can do a five play
subscription or a four play. We know some of our
patrons are seasonal right and so we know some of
them are not back yet in November when we have
our first show, and some may leave before May when
we have our last show, so we offered that flexibility
depending on everyone's schedule. And also single tickets. You can
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always get a single ticket. I have to tell you
our box office, it may be the second most talked
about being at the theater outside the art. Our patrons
love our team. It's white glove service. Everyone is known
by name, who their family is, who their friends are,
and we always just accommodate because we want people to
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have an amazing experience in our theater.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So of course now as a patron for the arts,
I have personally hearing it. So sometimes when I go
to shows, spent a lot of time punching it up well,
laying the raising and lowering the volume throughout the show
because the music will swell and then that it's too
loud and I can't heart the person talking.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So our house manager is actually a PhD in audiology,
and if you come to Palm Beach Drama Works, you
will have an assistant assisted lived listening device that will
work perfectly with your hearing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We can now use the app on people's iPhones and
Mindy will be right there helping you have a perfect
hearing experience at the theater.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, that's wonderful because that's a big part of going out,
being able to hear it. Like sometimes I go, like,
if I go to an improv show, I miss part
of the jokes because the people are talking. Obviously it's
faster paced. My mind's processing the audio and the person
next to me's laughing. So I hear the person next
to me laughing, and I miss the next part of
the setup for the next joke. Naha. And I was like, ah, wait,
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what did they say? So we spend half the night
saying what did they say? It's not fun for you
or the person next to you trying to explain the
joke that's already happened in your four jokes later kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, our patrons are really happy with our assisted listening devices,
and of course we offer the help. And as I mentioned,
our chamber is just so exquisite it's beautifully designed, it's
two hundred and eighteen seats. It's so cozy and intimate,
you feel as though you're on the stage. And then
with the help of the listening devices and our team,
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most patrons have a really just flawless experience and are
able to absorb and hear and just really experience the words.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, very cool, that's as it should be. Thank you
in advance, thank you. That's an awesome thing. So, and
of course part of what you do as well is
like people coming to the theater to draw, pummel charm works,
but then you actually also go out into the community,
meet with the kids in middle school, high school. It's
what is it you want? Humanity? That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So we are so proud of our education programming. It's
really the jewel in our crown, if you will. We
love involving the next generation of theater goers, right, and
so we have so many opportunities for young people. Our
director of Education and Outreach, Gary Codwallader, is a teacher,
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is an actor, is a director, and an artist, and
he's just a master class of education wrapped up into
one human being. So you mentioned the One Humanity Tour,
and really that is three traveling plays. Our audiences ten
thousand students in Pombach County for six, seventh and eighth grades,
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and we know from just data that students learn better
through drama. You do surveys and you see how much
the knowledge base has grown if they are watching a
play versus they're just told or read something in a lecture.
So our sixth grade play, it's a touring play, is
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centered around social relations between police and their communities. The
seventh grade play is really centered around teen human sex
trafficking because, believe it or not, that is the number
one issue facing our seventh graders in Pombeach County. The
statistics are staggering, and we are trying to do prevention work,
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life saving work so that we can make these seventh
graders aware of the potential dangers out there. And these
could be kids that are living at home whose parents
aren't aware, and they're targeted on social media. Some of
them are targeted right in their own schools. And so
we take the play and all of the seventh graders
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watch it. We have resources that travel with our show
so that post show, if somebody needs support, their team
is right there to help. We have launched this year
a new eighth grade play and that is centered around
the opioid crisis, because we know that, especially in Florida,
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opioids are a real problem for young people, and so
we take this play and it was with funding from
the Hurst Foundation. We are now able to launch it
this year and over seventy five hundred students have seen it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's fantastic. And these are all key issues, you know,
being able to work with the police and viewing them
as a positive influence, someone who can help you. Then
the next one the human trafficking, and like you said,
a lot of that can be like happening online and
parents may not realize because the people who do it
are really slick. I'm gonna say that way. They're slick,
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and the kids don't realize they're being groomed. If the
parents might even see them, they may not even realize.
But by doing the play, you lurt the kids. And
of course I'm sure send the stuff home with a
parent with the kids for the parents to review as well,
that you know this is what's happening. And then, of course,
like you said, the opioid crisis is still an ongoing
issue in our community and definitely impacts young men more so.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So we know that in twenty seventeen, the opid crisis
was declared by the President and national Health Emergency, and
we know that scientifically speaking, prevention is really the key.
If you delay the first stage of use of any
drug or alcohol, then the child's brain has time to
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develop properly and the frontal lobe develops properly, which is
we know the frontal lobe is the breaks, and we're
not born with breaks, so we have to grow into breaks,
and so prevention is really the key. The longer you
delay the first shoes, the higher the chances are that
you will never develop an addiction. But we know for
students that oftentimes you may have an injury. You're an athlete,
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you get hurt, and you're prescribed thirty days of a
painkiller because you had a valid reason for that, and
a lot of times that can be that one event
that can prove really catastrophic for that young person one
of the characters in the play that happens to them.
And so the plays are just based on real life
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examples and experiences, and so they feel real. The students
are often very quiet taking it all in and We've
had many instances that in real time we ask the
question if someone is experiencing what they've seen on stage
in our performance, students will raise their hands and then
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they're provided and paired up with resources.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh yeah, I recently had a surgery last year and
they sent me home with the meds and with all
kinds of pamphlets and contact information in case I had
any issues. And then when I met with the doctor
like the week later follow up after the surgery, like
are you okay? You have the pain levels and blah,
And they actually asked the questions you know where before
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surgeries and fascinating Everssity just gave you the prescription, you
went about your business kind of thing because they didn't
realize it was going to be a problem, and now
that we're aware, they're being more proactive and making sure
people don't have issues. But I think it's fantastic that
the kids are getting exposed to this because you say,
it's the right age and it's a way that they
can connect with it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
That's correct, and they learned, They just learn better. We
see through the surveys this is all evidence based programming.
We can see the knowledge based truly increase once they've
seen the work. And that's why we think this is
prevention and life saving work. And if we've saved one person,
one young person, then it's all worth it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Absolutely, That's what I take about the show, like we
share the information, it benefits one person, all worth all
the effort. Always speaking of another cool thing you do
with the students, the playwright contest, tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is the young playwrights is so much fun. So
the middle and high school students write their own plays
and the selected winners are given the opportunity to have
their plays professionally produced at pom Beach Drama Works. So
how amazing is that? Imagine being an eighth grader and
you write your play and then you have a professional
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director and professional actors and the professional stage manager right
there producing your play, and an audience of theater goers
coming to see your words come to life.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And that's open to the whole public, not just their
family and friends, right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Anyone they like and come see that play.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, that's good though, And I encourage all the listeners
to come and support these plays because this is how
they grow. They get that feedback from everybody, and you
can see some really fun, unique works because, like I know,
I've gone to the North Museum of Art, you always
have a gallery of the kids' artwork. They are so talented.
These are people in middle school and I was like, wow,
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this is the future generation of playwrights and artists and
you know, performers, And I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Not only that, but it provides them the opportunity to
see how the work is done and what else is
available in theater because we have so many positions, right,
costume designer and stage manager and electrician and all these
things that you don't necessarily know when you're just writing
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your play. This gives you sort of a window into
the at our world holistically and professionally and what would
that be like? Allows the kids to aspire to something.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, I think it's fantastic And what a great way
you said to do it. Yes, they see everything in action,
that's right. So again for folks to get more information
with the baring the tickets or if they want to
become a volunteer, how do they do that?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So we love volunteers. We always love our ushers. You
can see the place for free if you're an usher.
Red Pombach Drama Works and you can go on our
website Pompbeachdrama Works dot org and reach out to me,
reach out to Bill Hayes, reach out to Sewell and Beryl.
This is our leadership and of course our box office
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team is just the best in town. I'll just say
that without bragging, not.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Biased at all. I love it. No, no, not to
be objected. So go Pumpachdrama Works dot org. You can
sign up to volunteer, buy your tickets, become a donor.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Absolutely and you know what, we have our special gale.
I heard you mention on gala at the beginning of
this segment, and we have our silver jubilee this year.
It's on March fifteenth that the Cravis and it will
be a beautiful fun party. Our galas are always fun
and a little bit different than your typical gala because
we have the theatrical flair and so we make it
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a little fun. Our patrons love it. They like to
dress up and just have a good time. So that's
on March fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
March on fifteenth, and the information about that being on
the website as well. Save the day.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
That's all there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh, very cool. Well, thank you so much for coming
in and talking with the listeners and I talking us
about all the cool things for happening at Palm Beach
Drama Works, and congratulations again on your twenty fifteeson. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Thank you very much for having us, And if.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
You need more information, reach out to me Palm Beach
Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to forward
on the details and don't forget you can always download
the shows a podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody
has a wonderful weekend. I'm Devne and this has been
my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your healthiest
view and let's get out there and live it. Until
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next week, enjoy I.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev Net, Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on, and you definitely
want to check out the Palm Beach County arm Its
Environmental Resource Management Benji stutent I had a conversation a
couple months ago and he's gonna be coming back in
a few weeks. All kinds of cool things going on,
and it's like in our natural areas, there's hikes, there's
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like raptor releases when they've been your rehab from bush wildlife,
all kinds of wonderful things to experience out in nature.
So they have oft the beaten track, swamp trumps, holiday hikes,
you know, all kinds of fun things. Simply go to
PBCERM dot com and they will have all the information
right there for you and we'll talk to him more
(00:49):
in a few weeks. A reminder from Eric and Saint
Lucie County they have extended the deadline for FEMA applications
for after Hurricane Helene and Milton and Florida. You didn't
get everything in the deadline has been extended now to
January seventh, twenty twenty five. So you're encouraged to go
online at Disaster Assistance dot gov by using or use
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the FEMA app, or you can call them eight hundred
sixty two one three three six two eight hundred sixty
two one three three six two and they'll help you
out with all your questions and filling out those forms
and processes. I'll remind you from my friends over the
Flagler Museum they are starting their annual holiday tours other
people Tree and Whitehall is just gorgeous this time of year,
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and it's going to be December nineteenth through the twenty third.
There's tours at six six, fifteen, six thirty six, forty
five seven PM. Tickets in event you need to purchase
them in advance are sixty dollars for adults and thirty
for children ages seventeen and under. So they're a lot
of fun and you can go to Flagler Museum dot
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net and all the details are there for you. It's
always a fun thing to do during the holidays. So
friends over at the Spady Cultural Heritage museum have a
lot of great things going on, and so right now
the current exhibition is called Inside Outside, so when check
that out. It's a solo exhibit by conceptual artist Eves
Gabriel and it's going to be on display through January
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sixth at the museum. And of course the other big
Quansas celebration coming up on December twenty six so I'll
be talking more with Edward about that in a couple
of weeks. Get all the scoop on it and simply
go to Spadymuseum dot org for more details and they
give you all the information on there, and they have
a fun little online shop so you can buy hand
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crafted things. It's a lot of fun, and don't forget
coming up to January twenty fifth or getting into next
year's fun things already. The special events are happening at
the Lochsahachie River Battlefield Park where they do seminal Maroon
remembrance on Sunday, January nineteenth, and then the Battle of
locksa Hachie reenactment. That one's going to be Saturday, January
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twenty fifth. If you need more details, go to PBC
Nature dot com or give Pat a call five six
' one seven four one thirteen fifty nine and they'll
give you all the details well. And of course the
Donald m Efherim Film Festivals coming Sun in Stars the
International Film Festival again presented by morse Life and it
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going to be happening some of them at the Cravis,
different theaters throughout the county. So the first one opening
night premiere of Liza, It's the truly terrific, absolutely true story.
It's gonna be the Cravis Playhouse on January twenty third
at seven thirty pm, so check that out. They have
all kinds of wonderful movies coming. Reach out to Barbara
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seven seven three eight seven five zero three zero four
for more details on that. You can always go to
Morselife dot org for details as well. Oh and the
second annual SLC four h Opportunity is doing an all
benefit gala on January eleventh, and this one is for
the grown ups, so it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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It's from five to nine pm and Adams Ranch located
at two six zero zero three Orange Avenue and Fort Pierce.
So it's a fun fundraiser, fun night out for mom
and dad. For details call them seven seven to two
for six two twelve eighty five and definitely want to
check all that out. Oh, fen Center's always got fun
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things happening there. I'm gonna go see this one. I
can't play, but it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be
Let's Glow Pickleball on January fifteenth. It's gonna be from
six to eight pm. You can go to fencenter dot
com to find out more about that and all the
other programs they have. They have like candlelight yoga, all
kinds of fun things going on there, which I think
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is awesome. And of course all kinds of fun things
happening in our parks in Palm Beach County as well.
We've got Legends on the Lawn with the Florida Atlantic
University Band. That's gonna be a free concert on Saturday,
December twenty first at seven pm. We have the Florida
Florida Animal Experience happening to get Daggerwing Nature Center and
that's in South Boca and that is on Saturday, December
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twenty eighth, ten thirty am. That one's good for ages
five and up and it's five dollars a participant, And
you do want to make reservations for that, and of
course we have some free classes. We've got tai Chi
at the South County Civic Center on weekdays eight thirty.
Let's see, we also have functional fitness. This is the
more common museum in Delray Beach and that one's Tuesdays
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and Thursdays at eight thirty am. So lots of fun
things happening in the different parks, special events, all kinds
of good stuff and lots of fun. Volunteer opportunities if
you want to be outside in nature so something, go
to pbcnature dot com and get more information there. Oh,
all kinds of great things happening at the Cravist Center
Patti LaBelle on December seventeenth, wonderful show. Just if you
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take us left for that one. Park A Ramsey on
the Harp on the eighteenth, as part of the Young
Artists Classical series, So come out and see these really
amazing young artists. That series has got lots and loss
and lots of talent. Definitely want to check that out.
And then of course we have circ Dreams Holidays and
that one's gonna be the nineteenth through the twenty fourth.
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Lots of different showings. So if you're fascinated by their
the sole A, you would definitely see this one. And
then we've got big Ray Oakerson coming on the twentieth
and twenty first at the Rinker. Twenty seventh of the
twenty ninth is Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits. We have Straight
No Chaser Top Shelf tour on the thirty first and
January twenty January. First, of course it's the big Salute
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to Vienna New Year's Concert. That's one of their traditional
things they do, which I like. And then of course
later in January, we've got John Law that's coming as
part of the comedy Palm Beach Improv thing they've got
going on. Becky Robinson members only tours gonna be coming
as well as part of the improv. So lots of
fun things happening. Get at the Cravis. Simply go to
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Cravis for more details and they're happy to give you
more information on that. Speaking more information and welcome my guest
for today. I've Redina Toro, chief financial and an operating
officer for Palm Beach Drama Works. Good morning, good morning,
so thanks for coming in, thank you for having me.
So now tell me that the listeners and a little
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bit about Palm Beach Drama Works because like everything to
the Kravas with all the big shows and like concerts
and musicals and stuff like that, but like you guys do,
like as my friend calls it, real theater.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's so funny, we do theater to think about. That
is our tagline. And so Palm Beach Drama Works is
a regional theater. It's a professional theater. And the one
aspect of the work that sets us apart from other
performing arts centers locally is that we produce all of
our own work. And so what does that mean. It
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means our stage is not one for hire where somebody
else from a different part of the country brings their
show it to the local patrons on our stage, and
the next week they move on and do the same
show somewhere else. At Pombeach Drama Works, our employees and
our resident artists create all of the art that you
see on our stage, from scenic design, to set building,
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to costume design and to costume making, lighting, sound. All
of the work is done by our people and our
employees and our wonderful team, and so it's really special
and unique to us. You won't see that work performed
somewhere else. It's produced right there in our beautiful theater,
and it's shown on our in our theater and our chamber,
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which is two hundred and eighteen seats, and we like
to say there's no bad seat at Pombeach Drama Works.
You won't need binoculars, and every seat feels as though
you're on the stage right there, immersed in the experience.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh, I love it. And you guys recently did some remodeling.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We did so this shares our twenty fifth anniversary. It's
our silver jubilee, and we're so excited to celebrate to
do a little refresh because after all, we are in
Palm Beach County and we're twenty five, so we want
it to be youthful and have our patrons really start
experiencing the chamber from the front doors. So what we've
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done is the lobby and the restrooms are completely renovated.
It's modernized, it's open, it's area, it's beautiful. Our box
office is completely welcoming, and what we've done is really
digitized the spaces so that when you enter the lobby,
you start experiencing the show from step one on the
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screens you will see how our work is made. We
give you a really nice sneak peek behind the curtain
if you will. As soon as you enter our lobby,
you'll see beautiful video of our costumes being sketched and
researched and so, and then when you enter the chamber
you will see that materialize on stage. The same with
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the set. You'll see a time lapse video of it
being installed on our stage. Then you walk in the
chamber and there it is. So it's just this welcoming,
all encompassing experience just from step one. And so we're
really proud of that. And our patrons have had wonderful feedback.
They walked into a brand new space and really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh that's awesome. So, of course, like you said, it
is your twenty fifty season, so congratulations, thank you. So
as part of that, you have a really nice lineup
happening this year, So tell me about the lineup.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We really do so our producing artistic director Bill Hayes,
who's one of the founders of the theater, with our
managing director Suwell and Beryl and they're married and as
they like to say, they had the baby before they
were married because they conceptualized the theater together with their friends.
Finding no opportunity for local actors, they dreamed one up
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and just started with a dream just like that. And
here we are twenty five years later, celebrating the milestone.
And so Bill really curated this season. He's responsible for
selecting the works and the order of the works and
what he thinks the audience is looking for and will
be touched by. And so because this is a twenty
fifth anniversary, he curated it so carefully as he always does.
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Our opener was Lost in Yonkers and Neil Simon Classic
and it was so well received and anticipated the deb
We extended this play before opening night, which was such
a success and so exciting for the team upcoming. We
have The Dresser next Friday, on December twentieth is opening night.
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And really this is a remount of sorts because when
the Pompach Drama Works was at a smaller theater on Benyon,
the eighty seat theater, they kept extending and The Dresser
was so well received that Bill thought it was time.
The audience was demanding it, and it's time to show
it again for the twenty fifth anniversary. As a matter
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of fact, the set is up and today the cast
is in rehearsing in the theater. They have moved from
their rehearsal hall to the actual stage, so it's exciting.
They're getting ready for next Friday. Then after that we
have the Humans and Camping with Henry and Tom, and
the final play of the season is a world premiere.
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It's called Dangerous Instruments. Another part of our work that
sets us apart is that we are committed to new
plays and new works because we need to continue contributing
to the canon of work. Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers
was a new play when he first wrote it, and
now it's a classic. And so Drama Works continues to
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foster new works and is committed to unting at least
one new world premiere every season. And Dangerous Instruments is
that for this twenty fifth anniversary season.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Very cool. So hopefully in twenty five years will run
again as a classic.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
That's right, And you know how we make sure that
that might happen. We have our newly named Pearlberg Festival
of New Plays. So this is how we foster new
new works and how we are truly committed to making
sure that new plays and playwrights have the opportunity to
have their works read by professionals in front of live audiences,
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because live audience feedback is really critical to play development,
and so Pompeach Drama Works through the Pearlborg Festival of
New Plays gives playwrights the opportunity to workshop, if you will,
these new works that they're creating and working on, so
to have them professionally read in front of patrons who
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are obviously theater enthusiasts, are well versed in theater to
think about is critical to developing and fostering new work.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Same writing a budding playwright, how do I smit my work?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You can look on Pombeachdramaworks dot org. There's a page
completely dedicated to the festival. We have our resident playwright
and literary manager, Jenny Davis. She will get in touch
with you and you can continue the conversations. There's a
submittle process. It's taken very seriously. We read I'm sure, Jenny,
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I'm gonna say hundreds, maybe it's thousands, some joking, but
Jenny reads along with Bill Hayes. They read all the
plays with our committees and just really take good care
in identifying works that are ready to participate in the festival.
It's a year long process. So the twenty fifth season
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festival is happening January seventeenth through the nineteenth, but the
work for it has been done in the twelve to
eighteen months leading up to these dates.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So yeah, that happens beforehand. So if you're submitting now,
you're submitting for this year, but the next year.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Or perhaps the year after.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Okay, cool. Yeah, so that's good for people to know.
Speaking of the play, so you have this, you said
the next one's coming up. It's the Dresser. You guys
also have another cool I'm gonna call it cool feature.
I think it's a cool feature. One of your programs
is called drama Wise, So explain to the listeners and
I what exactly drama Wise is. Because they know the
next one is going to be December nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I think all of our drama Wise enthusiasts would also
call it cool. So you're okay using that word. It's
actually a favorite program of ours, even for me. What
drama Wise does is it takes this group of our
patrons who are just really invested in the work and
understanding what it means, and what the themes of the
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play are and why the playwright wrote it the way
they did, and why was it set in the time
and you know space and place that it was set in.
And so our director of Community Engagement and Education, Gary Kodwallader,
provides the script ahead of time to this group of
Drama Wise goers and anyone can go. Anyone can go
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buy the ticket for it. And what they do in
Act one, as we call it, is they discuss the
themes of the play, what it means, why it end
did a certain way, why did the playwright feel that
they needed to write display and what does it mean
to the audience. Then this group of Drama Wise goers,
who have now become friends and it's its own little
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community within Palm Beach Drama Works, will have a nice
lunch continue the conversation we returned for Act two. During
Act two, they get to hear from the artists why
they designed the costumes this way, Why was the set
designed as a two story house, which is what it's
called for in the play. They get this really thorough
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understanding of the play and all the structures around it,
so that when they come with their ticket on opening night,
they see the play through this drama wise lens, which
offers them a deeper understanding and the benefit of knowing
all of these other secret details that the regular ticket
holder may not have.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So it's kind of one day, I'll be big behind
the scenes, if you will, that's right. And then they
come whenever their ticket to day is and watch the
actual Playla. Yes, I think it's so cool.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It's it's really one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's a really nice feature to offer. I like that.
And then you also have another thing. During some of
the performances they have called outstage at PbD.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yes, So this is for our LGBTQ plus community. They
love to have their own time at the theater and
come to enjoy the art, and we love having them.
We have such a great partnership and this is such
a fun night for our patrons. They come, they enjoy
the play, they have a reception, they get time to
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a community and to have fun with each other and
take in theater to think about and then they leave
and they talk about it, which is what we really
want every theater goer that comes to Pombeach Drama Works
to do. Come experience the play, have the communal experience.
We all gasp at the same time when something dramatic
has happened, which at Pombeach Drama Works, someone has to
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die at every time, every turn, we must kill someone
or they already are dead because we're so dramatic. It's
almost like, so do that together. And that's what sets
apart watching a play versus watching a movie or a
Netflix show. You don't get to experience it with a
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person next to you and you're reacting to the same
thing that's just happened on the stage. And so you know,
our outstage is a lot of fun. It's fun to
watch a play with that.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Group, for sure. It sounds like a lot of fun.
So coming up the dresser, the out stage night is
December twenty seventh's Humans, February twenty first, that's Camping with
Henry and Tom. It be April eighteenth, that's right, and
then oh, May thirtieth, twenty twenty five is the Dangerous
Instruments nights. So you have these all ahead of time,
and you saw have tickets for these shows. We do
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all on our website. And speaking of the shows, can
I know there's four shows left of the season. Can
I just buy all for them once you cantag we can.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We have subscriptions and we can do a five play
subscription or a four play. We know some of our
patrons are seasonal right and so we know some of
them are not back yet in November when we have
our first show, and some may leave before May when
we have our last show, so we offered that flexibility
depending on everyone's schedule. And also single tickets. You can
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always get a single ticket. I have to tell you
our box office, it may be the second most talked
about being at the theater outside the art. Our patrons
love our team. It's white glove service. Everyone is known
by name, who their family is, who their friends are,
and we always just accommodate because we want people to
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have an amazing experience in our theater.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So of course now as a patron for the arts,
I have personally hearing it. So sometimes when I go
to shows, spent a lot of time punching it up well,
laying the raising and lowering the volume throughout the show
because the music will swell and then that it's too
loud and I can't heart the person talking.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So our house manager is actually a PhD in audiology,
and if you come to Palm Beach Drama Works, you
will have an assistant assisted lived listening device that will
work perfectly with your hearing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We can now use the app on people's iPhones and
Mindy will be right there helping you have a perfect
hearing experience at the theater.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, that's wonderful because that's a big part of going out,
being able to hear it. Like sometimes I go, like,
if I go to an improv show, I miss part
of the jokes because the people are talking. Obviously it's
faster paced. My mind's processing the audio and the person
next to me's laughing. So I hear the person next
to me laughing, and I miss the next part of
the setup for the next joke. Naha. And I was like, ah, wait,
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what did they say? So we spend half the night
saying what did they say? It's not fun for you
or the person next to you trying to explain the
joke that's already happened in your four jokes later kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well, our patrons are really happy with our assisted listening devices,
and of course we offer the help. And as I mentioned,
our chamber is just so exquisite it's beautifully designed, it's
two hundred and eighteen seats. It's so cozy and intimate,
you feel as though you're on the stage. And then
with the help of the listening devices and our team,
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most patrons have a really just flawless experience and are
able to absorb and hear and just really experience the words.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, very cool, that's as it should be. Thank you
in advance, thank you. That's an awesome thing. So, and
of course part of what you do as well is
like people coming to the theater to draw, pummel charm works,
but then you actually also go out into the community,
meet with the kids in middle school, high school. It's
what is it you want? Humanity? That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So we are so proud of our education programming. It's
really the jewel in our crown, if you will. We
love involving the next generation of theater goers, right, and
so we have so many opportunities for young people. Our
director of Education and Outreach, Gary Codwallader, is a teacher,
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is an actor, is a director, and an artist, and
he's just a master class of education wrapped up into
one human being. So you mentioned the One Humanity Tour,
and really that is three traveling plays. Our audiences ten
thousand students in Pombach County for six, seventh and eighth grades,
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and we know from just data that students learn better
through drama. You do surveys and you see how much
the knowledge base has grown if they are watching a
play versus they're just told or read something in a lecture.
So our sixth grade play, it's a touring play, is
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centered around social relations between police and their communities. The
seventh grade play is really centered around teen human sex
trafficking because, believe it or not, that is the number
one issue facing our seventh graders in Pombeach County. The
statistics are staggering, and we are trying to do prevention work,
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life saving work so that we can make these seventh
graders aware of the potential dangers out there. And these
could be kids that are living at home whose parents
aren't aware, and they're targeted on social media. Some of
them are targeted right in their own schools. And so
we take the play and all of the seventh graders
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watch it. We have resources that travel with our show
so that post show, if somebody needs support, their team
is right there to help. We have launched this year
a new eighth grade play and that is centered around
the opioid crisis, because we know that, especially in Florida,
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opioids are a real problem for young people, and so
we take this play and it was with funding from
the Hurst Foundation. We are now able to launch it
this year and over seventy five hundred students have seen it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's fantastic. And these are all key issues, you know,
being able to work with the police and viewing them
as a positive influence, someone who can help you. Then
the next one the human trafficking, and like you said,
a lot of that can be like happening online and
parents may not realize because the people who do it
are really slick. I'm gonna say that way. They're slick,
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and the kids don't realize they're being groomed. If the
parents might even see them, they may not even realize.
But by doing the play, you lurt the kids. And
of course I'm sure send the stuff home with a
parent with the kids for the parents to review as well,
that you know this is what's happening. And then, of course,
like you said, the opioid crisis is still an ongoing
issue in our community and definitely impacts young men more so.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So we know that in twenty seventeen, the opid crisis
was declared by the President and national Health Emergency, and
we know that scientifically speaking, prevention is really the key.
If you delay the first stage of use of any
drug or alcohol, then the child's brain has time to
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develop properly and the frontal lobe develops properly, which is
we know the frontal lobe is the breaks, and we're
not born with breaks, so we have to grow into breaks,
and so prevention is really the key. The longer you
delay the first shoes, the higher the chances are that
you will never develop an addiction. But we know for
students that oftentimes you may have an injury. You're an athlete,
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you get hurt, and you're prescribed thirty days of a
painkiller because you had a valid reason for that, and
a lot of times that can be that one event
that can prove really catastrophic for that young person one
of the characters in the play that happens to them.
And so the plays are just based on real life
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examples and experiences, and so they feel real. The students
are often very quiet taking it all in and We've
had many instances that in real time we ask the
question if someone is experiencing what they've seen on stage
in our performance, students will raise their hands and then
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they're provided and paired up with resources.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh yeah, I recently had a surgery last year and
they sent me home with the meds and with all
kinds of pamphlets and contact information in case I had
any issues. And then when I met with the doctor
like the week later follow up after the surgery, like
are you okay? You have the pain levels and blah,
And they actually asked the questions you know where before
(27:31):
surgeries and fascinating Everssity just gave you the prescription, you
went about your business kind of thing because they didn't
realize it was going to be a problem, and now
that we're aware, they're being more proactive and making sure
people don't have issues. But I think it's fantastic that
the kids are getting exposed to this because you say,
it's the right age and it's a way that they
can connect with it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
That's correct, and they learned, They just learn better. We
see through the surveys this is all evidence based programming.
We can see the knowledge based truly increase once they've
seen the work. And that's why we think this is
prevention and life saving work. And if we've saved one person,
one young person, then it's all worth it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Absolutely, That's what I take about the show, like we
share the information, it benefits one person, all worth all
the effort. Always speaking of another cool thing you do
with the students, the playwright contest, tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is the young playwrights is so much fun. So
the middle and high school students write their own plays
and the selected winners are given the opportunity to have
their plays professionally produced at pom Beach Drama Works. So
how amazing is that? Imagine being an eighth grader and
you write your play and then you have a professional
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director and professional actors and the professional stage manager right
there producing your play, and an audience of theater goers
coming to see your words come to life.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And that's open to the whole public, not just their
family and friends, right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Anyone they like and come see that play.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, that's good though, And I encourage all the listeners
to come and support these plays because this is how
they grow. They get that feedback from everybody, and you
can see some really fun, unique works because, like I know,
I've gone to the North Museum of Art, you always
have a gallery of the kids' artwork. They are so talented.
These are people in middle school and I was like, wow,
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this is the future generation of playwrights and artists and
you know, performers, And I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Not only that, but it provides them the opportunity to
see how the work is done and what else is
available in theater because we have so many positions, right,
costume designer and stage manager and electrician and all these
things that you don't necessarily know when you're just writing
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your play. This gives you sort of a window into
the at our world holistically and professionally and what would
that be like? Allows the kids to aspire to something.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, I think it's fantastic And what a great way
you said to do it. Yes, they see everything in action,
that's right. So again for folks to get more information
with the baring the tickets or if they want to
become a volunteer, how do they do that?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So we love volunteers. We always love our ushers. You
can see the place for free if you're an usher.
Red Pombach Drama Works and you can go on our
website Pompbeachdrama Works dot org and reach out to me,
reach out to Bill Hayes, reach out to Sewell and Beryl.
This is our leadership and of course our box office
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team is just the best in town. I'll just say
that without bragging, not.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Biased at all. I love it. No, no, not to
be objected. So go Pumpachdrama Works dot org. You can
sign up to volunteer, buy your tickets, become a donor.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Absolutely and you know what, we have our special gale.
I heard you mention on gala at the beginning of
this segment, and we have our silver jubilee this year.
It's on March fifteenth that the Cravis and it will
be a beautiful fun party. Our galas are always fun
and a little bit different than your typical gala because
we have the theatrical flair and so we make it
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a little fun. Our patrons love it. They like to
dress up and just have a good time. So that's
on March fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
March on fifteenth, and the information about that being on
the website as well. Save the day.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
That's all there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh, very cool. Well, thank you so much for coming
in and talking with the listeners and I talking us
about all the cool things for happening at Palm Beach
Drama Works, and congratulations again on your twenty fifteeson. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Thank you very much for having us, And if.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
You need more information, reach out to me Palm Beach
Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to forward
on the details and don't forget you can always download
the shows a podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Hope everybody
has a wonderful weekend. I'm Devne and this has been
my perspective. Remember life is good, so be your healthiest
view and let's get out there and live it. Until
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next week, enjoy I.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
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