August 13, 2025 • 24 mins
Domenic Del Brocco tells us about the Henegar Center For the Arts in Melbourne. The opening show, "Hairspray" is playing August 15th through September 7th. They're also hosting a fundraiser September 12th. Tickets and details for the entire season can be found at HenegarCenter.com.
Rosemary Knight then invites us to the Treasure Coast Theatre in Port St Lucie. Their 6th season starts with a comedy, "Boeing Boeing." Discounted ticket packages are available online at TreasureCoastTheatre.com.
Rosemary Knight then invites us to the Treasure Coast Theatre in Port St Lucie. Their 6th season starts with a comedy, "Boeing Boeing." Discounted ticket packages are available online at TreasureCoastTheatre.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air podcast, radio show
and an Alexis Skill, all presented by Ballet Vero Beach
and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts in Florida. I'm
Willie Miller and every week I talk to people in
the arts about the arts on the Treasure Coast and beyond.
(00:24):
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Ballet Vero Beach. Getting ready for a big new season.
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And are you ready for the Nutcracker on the Indian River.
It's at Riverside Theater this year December eleventh to thirteenth.
(00:44):
A little bit earlier, ask about this year's vip ad
on experience, and don't forget Nutcracker for All has some
new options to learn about everything at ballet Verobeach dot org.
Now on with the show. My guests in the second
segment Rosemary Night and now I'm going to talk to
(01:05):
Dominic del Broco. Dom you're at the Hanneger Center for
the Arts and I welcome. It's been quite a while
since we've talked, although we do communicate. How long?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, absolutely, good morning, How are.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You Okay, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Fantastic? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, sure, I know you're very busy because you have
a fundraiser coming up. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We do have a fundraiser coming up, but even before that,
we're as we'll talk, I'm sure about it. We're getting
ready to open our next season this Friday, So a
lot going on at the theater at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, a big and actually a pretty fun opening show.
Tell me about Hairspray.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Absolutely so Hairspray. I'm sure many of your listeners may
be familiar, as it was originally a kind of cult
following hit movie that was then later followed by a musical,
and I personally think it lent itself even more so
as a musical just with the content. But it takes
place in Baltimore in the late fifties bridging into the sixties,
(02:13):
and I'm a native and from Baltimore originally, so I
was very well well aware of the film, the music,
and then of course the setting that all of this
takes place, and it's of course during a time of
civil unrest, and it's about this young girl who is
of a particular size and stature that doesn't let that
(02:34):
stand in her way because of her beautiful heart and
message that she sends to the community. But it is
a little campy at times, but it's still at the
same time has a really important message that still resonates today.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And that's what's the day for that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
We open this Friday coming up, so after tomorrow and
we run for four weekends. We've added additional Saturday matinees
to the third can third them fourth weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
As well, So it's August fifteenth to September seventh, and
I best go to the website, I think Kndigar Center
dot com. Is that right, that's I have that absolutely
to get details on tickets and times for any of
the any of the shows, I think, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We release the entire season, so not only can they
get tickets for Hairspray, but they can check out all
of the titles we have, and those have already been
on sale for some time now to the general public,
Do you have subscriptions there? Yes, well we do. We
have of course our Headger season ticket holders, so anybody
could just buy a one off ticket, but then of course,
(03:42):
like most theaters, we have season ticket holders, and then
beyond that we have memberships, so that's people that really
understand and believe that the arts is important and want
to give in a way to the theater, specifically beyond
their season subscription. So we do have those options that
have additional benefits with that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It must be very expensive to put first of all,
to put on a show, second, just to maintain a building.
Tell me about the Hanneger Center. It's not a new building.
It's an old building, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's one of the oldest surviving buildings in Bervard County.
And the reason mostly for that because by global or
even US standards, one hundred and fifteen years old maybe
isn't that oled in the grand schema things. But for
Brevard County, a lot of the other architecture was all
torn down in the sixties during the Space program and
(04:37):
putting up a lot of new modern buildings. So some
of your listeners may already not this, but it was
originally built in nineteen nineteen and it was part of
a three building complex as the one at the time
mostly only public school system in Bervard County. And then
of course they have all the history there, but flashing
(04:58):
forward a little bit, they since separated with the other
two buildings over time, leaving the physical structure we're in
now as the only surviving building. So it was built
in nineteen nineteen. It was converted to a theater about
thirty five years ago, because we're going into our thirty
fifth season of theater. So it was done in late
(05:18):
eighties early nineties as part of a reconstruction project and
has been running as a theater since then.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And how long have you been there? Did you say?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In my current position as both the executive and artistic director,
I came in in twenty twenty, right during the global pandemic.
Prior to that, I have personally worked at the Hanneger,
both as a guest director that had been hired outside
as well as a performer on stage a few times
before taking on that role. So I've been in and
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around the Hanneger. We'll probably say from twenty seventeen on.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And how long have you been in? Okay, I'll say showbiz.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
More. I started actually as a child actor, will say,
back when maybe I was like twelve or thirteen years
old in school, of course, but then even beyond that,
I then went to art school and found instead of
being a animator, I wanted to do things live on
stage instead, so I didn't really dive too deep into
(06:22):
the theater part of art. I had other arts of
course before that, but theater really wasn't until I was
about twenty or twenty one, So that's now been about
twenty five years ago, I guess if I'm doing the
maths of forty eight now, But yeah, since the early
twenties involved in some way. And then, of course I
worked at Disney for about thirteen or fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You said, you said, of course I worked at Disney,
as though everybody works at Disney before going.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Over everyone that lives in Florida at some point, haven't
they all worked at Disney?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I guess it's not too late for me.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, I was with Disney from nineteen ninety eight until
two thousand and nine, so that was a nice little
period of time there.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And what did you do there?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Always in entertainment. I started as a performer for I
believe the first five or six years, moved into leadership
roles and then into different assignments anything from casting at
Disney also creative development, so I worked with the entertainment
team to help put new parade shows and special offerings
(07:38):
into the parks that of course included live entertainment as
well as some of the other special events. And yeah,
all the way up until two thousand and nine, when
I then moved away from Florida for a bit and
then came back to Florida several years later, which led
me into Bervard County.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, welcome back. Thanks. Are you loving Melbourne? Are you
loving the Hannegger? Of course you are.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You have to definitely love the Hanneger or to be
able to do what we do there, because it is
even no matter the size of your team. I know
some theaters have a much larger staff than others and
have different capabilities, but regardless the type of work that
it is and the amount of time and effort it
takes for any person in the position at any theater
is very time consuming, so you have to love it.
(08:25):
So I do challenging like any other role that anybody
would have in any business. Our just looks a little
nicer because you get to have, you know it, presents
it in front of an audience and have it appear
that nothing is wrong. But beyond that, I do love
the area. If I'm being one hundred percent honest. When
(08:46):
I first moved to the area. I wasn't really sure
what I was going to get in terms of availability
of shops and retail and arts and culture, and I
was very pleasantly surprised to see that those things did exist.
Always could be more, in my personal opinion, but definitely
have fallen in love with the area and lived here
now since about twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, always can be more. That's your job.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, sure, we're doing it. Okay, we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's talk quickly about the fundraiser. It's on September twelfth,
it's casino night. Do you have a goal for fundraising.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's interesting you ask, because of course we always do,
but catering to the culture and the taste and the
style and everybody that our patron base that comes to
the theater. We never want to set those expectations other
than what people are able to give. So we have
opened it up to where if it's somebody that's just
(09:49):
able to buy a ticket and that's all they're going
to do, great. You know, we'll take every dollar that
we can absolutely get from the fundraiser because one hundred
percent of it all will go immediately back into our productions.
Our productions, I don't know if it's been a while
since you've seen one, particularly since I've taken on there.
I guess maybe from working at Disney. I have champagne
(10:09):
dreams sometimes on a beer pocketbook. But we try to
put up really large scale, really big joes that have
great production value. But of course that comes at a cost.
So being a nonprofit theater, you know, where people are
either getting very little or sometimes just a travel stipen.
It just depends on many different factors. But with all that,
(10:31):
it takes a great deal of money. So with it
being an old facility, and we don't actually receive quite
a bit of any type of money or funds from
state and local governments or anything like that. So we're
very happy that we're able to survive off of ticket
sales and our patrons and the donations that we do receive,
(10:51):
the fundraiser being one of them. So the fundraiser is
open to all. We do have different tiers. The last
one that we did actually funded our main curtain, because
you wouldn't believe how expensive those can be, upwards of
thirty and forty thousand dollars. Sometimes worker fabric, oh good fabric,
but you know they have to too. So the last
(11:14):
one raiser did have a specific goal to a specific item,
which was the curtain that we wanted to acquire for
the theater. This one is really to forward our future
renovation projects. One hundred and plus year old building lots
that needs to be restored and fixed just to operate,
so it will go to some of those initiatives.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, Dom, we're out of time. The fundraiser is September twelfth,
and more information on it is at Hennegarcenter dot com
and people can look at the wonderful main stage thirty
fifth season coming up. Congratulations, thank you for your time,
and I'm going to get back to you for artsplast
(11:54):
as well. Okay, I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Thank you so much and have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller, sticking with theater. I'm talking wet now
with Rosemary Knight from the Treasure Coast Theater in Fort
Saint Lucy. Rosemary great to talk to you. It's been
a while.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yes, it is our Howard thing.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Our things going at Treasure Coast Theater.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Very good, thank you. We're we just started our sixth season.
So and we started off with a bang with a murder,
mystery murder on the Orient Express, and we're moving on
to a comedy just opening up this Friday. Boeing Boeing
and so we have a pretty good season coming up.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'm looking through it. You've got some amazing shows on
this list, and you go all the way through June,
right correct?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, dare I say some of them mentioned? Some of
these shows? Do you man? I won't I won't do
I won't do them all, Evan Boeing, Boeing, Our Town,
The thirty nine Steps, Miracle Worker. Your Christmas show is
going to be fun, dashing through the snow. Then you've
got She Loves Me, Plaza Suite, The Spelling Bee, The
(15:49):
Diary of and Frank Murder is announced and ending with Harvey.
Oh look I did read them all. Yes, that is
some lineup and with Beaarly a break in between. Is
Treasure Coast Theater a community theater?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow, you must have a lot of people coming in
for auditions. I would think we've.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Gotten a lot more recently. You know, it took a
while to build up an open record for COVID, and
then took a year off and a half year and
a half off, so it was gradually building back up.
But now we are, we're in a good place where
we get a lot of new people coming out for
every show, and you know, veterans who've been in a
bunch of shows as well, so we have a good mix.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I would think you get a lot of people. I
forget who I was talking to the other day, but
with so many more new people coming into the Treasure
Coast and willing to travel to be on the stage
or to be backstage kind of kind of, I would
think a wonderful position for somebody with the theater to
(16:59):
be in, to have so much talent to choose from it.
Or does it does it become a problem.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
No, I mean, well, with just about every theater, even
in professional theaters, we always seem to need more men,
especially younger ones. Although we you know, it's as long
as the show is a draw and it's something that
people want to do, we tend to get the people
(17:29):
we had. We had no problems casting some shows that
had fifteen men. Uh, it's something that people. If it's
something people really want to do, they'll they'll travel a
long way to get there. We have had people coming
in from the Palm Beaches, Vero Beach. The last show
we had one young lady drove in from Melbourne. So
(17:49):
if it's something they want to do, they'll travel.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, well that that's a good thing. Okay. Tell me
about the theater itself. What what is the building like,
what is the seating like? How many do you seat?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sure, we don't have a standalone building. We're part of
a plaza so where we have businesses on the either
side of us. It's a small theater. We only seat
fifty four people, so there is no bad seat in
the theater, only five rows, no obstructed views. The stage
is it's not a big stage, but it's a decent
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sized stage. There's no two levels, but it is a
very intimate space so people do feel like they're in
the action when they come to see the shows.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It sounds it sounds that way. Do you ever have
shows in which the audience is part of the show?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And yes, well we had one show a couple of
years ago, it was I Love You, You're Perfect now
change where the audience members go out into the audience.
But we have one coming up in the spring, the
twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where the audience
(19:05):
is actually chosen to come up on stage. So there
are a few shows that we've done in the past
and one show in particular in the future where that
does happen.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, tell me about how to get there. You said
it's in it's a strip really easy.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, So we are in what's known as Town Spenser Plaza.
It's the big strip mall on US one, just north
of Port Saint Lucie Boulevard. Actually you can get there
from Port Salusie Boulevard, but it's a big strip mall.
There's a few anchor stores, there's Bells, there's Planet's Fitness,
so there's quite a few stores right literally right behind
(19:46):
the Denny's. We're in the plaza. Denny's is on the street,
so it's really easy to get to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, you can come and spend the day. It sounds like, yes, yes,
we are your shows on weekends.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yes, Yeah, we do shows Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The
Friday is Saturdays are usually at eight, the Sundays are
at two. Sometimes we do do Saturday matinees when we
have shows that are just two weekends, we generally do
Saturday matinees as well, and those are at three.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, And how do people get tickets?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
They can go on our website Treasure Coasttheater dot com
and theater is spelled p r e not t e er,
but they yeah, they can just go on our website
and get tickets. If they have ten or more, they're
encouraged to call our number to get a group these
a group ticket pricing which is three dollars off the
regular price. But they can also get a season ticket
(20:50):
package of five shows or more. They can do as
few as five as many as twelve, and they say
five dollars off the tickets that they can do online. Also,
students with ID save a lot of money on our
regular shows. It's only fifteen dollars on a musical at
seventeen dollars, and they can also do that online.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Wow wow okay and online again as Treasure Coast Theater
r dot com. Correct okay phone number seven one two
four three nine seven nine Oh okay I have. I
made a typo. No, my producer Jesse is looking at me.
(21:30):
No wonder I couldn't get through. I know I gave
him a TYPEO. Okay, can we talk about auditions briefly?
You have some coming up this weekend?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I think, yes, we have auditions for the Miracle Worker.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And basically there is a if you go on the website,
there is a page for four auditions and and they're
actually for the Miracle Worker. There's a form they can
fill out and if they email us, they can get
a copy of the script to look it over before
they come to auditions. Auditions are the auditions are cold readings,
(22:09):
which means the director will choose us themes from the
play to read. So if they read the play ahead
of time, it usually helps.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, yeah, I would think.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I have here thirty nine steps audition August sixteen.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
We're not doing those this weekend. It's a long story.
We're not doing those this weekend. It's just the Miracle Worker.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, all right, So people take note because I did
get that from the website. I believe.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yes, I have to fix that, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Dashing through the snow Christmas Show, Yes.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
That's in September. Those auditions are in September. There's anywhere
from eight to twelve characters, depending on whether I double cat.
I will be directing that one, and I made double
cast that. The script does call for that if you
want to, you could do it either way. So there's
quite a few. I think there's two men, and I
have to look eight to ten. I kept check care
(23:04):
with the number of characters. There's quite a few characters
in that play.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, singing dancing.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
No singing or dancing in either one of those plays, okay, however,
and haven't listed them yet. It'll probably be somewhere in October.
But the January show is a musical, and they will
be singing in that one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Okay, she loves me all right, We're we are about
out of time, Rosemary. So once again, it is Treasurecoasttheater
dot com one one seven five South US Highway one
Import Saint Lucy correct correct, Okay, great to talk to
you again, and maybe I'll see you for one of
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these shows.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
It's nice talking to you too, and hopefully we'll see you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Okay, thanks again.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Thank you, say bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That was Rosemary night from Treasure Coast Theater and before that,
Dominique del Broco from the Henneger Center for the Arts. Well,
we have done it again. I'd like to thank both
Rosemary and dominic and I thank you as always for
joining us again this week for Arts Blast on the Air.
It's a podcast, it's a radio show, and an Alexis Skill,
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all presented by Riverside Theater in Ballet Vero Beach, covering
the arts online and an Arts Blast, the free emailed
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for another edition of Arts Blast on the Air. I'm
Willie Miller, and I thank you for listening.
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air podcast, radio show
and an Alexis Skill, all presented by Ballet Vero Beach
and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts in Florida. I'm
Willie Miller and every week I talk to people in
the arts about the arts on the Treasure Coast and beyond.
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Arts Blasts on the Air is so proudly supported by
Ballet Vero Beach. Getting ready for a big new season.
Subscriptions are available online now and single seats November first.
And are you ready for the Nutcracker on the Indian River.
It's at Riverside Theater this year December eleventh to thirteenth.
(00:44):
A little bit earlier, ask about this year's vip ad
on experience, and don't forget Nutcracker for All has some
new options to learn about everything at ballet Verobeach dot org.
Now on with the show. My guests in the second
segment Rosemary Night and now I'm going to talk to
(01:05):
Dominic del Broco. Dom you're at the Hanneger Center for
the Arts and I welcome. It's been quite a while
since we've talked, although we do communicate. How long?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, absolutely, good morning, How are.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You Okay, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Fantastic? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, sure, I know you're very busy because you have
a fundraiser coming up. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We do have a fundraiser coming up, but even before that,
we're as we'll talk, I'm sure about it. We're getting
ready to open our next season this Friday, So a
lot going on at the theater at the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, a big and actually a pretty fun opening show.
Tell me about Hairspray.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Absolutely so Hairspray. I'm sure many of your listeners may
be familiar, as it was originally a kind of cult
following hit movie that was then later followed by a musical,
and I personally think it lent itself even more so
as a musical just with the content. But it takes
place in Baltimore in the late fifties bridging into the sixties,
(02:13):
and I'm a native and from Baltimore originally, so I
was very well well aware of the film, the music,
and then of course the setting that all of this
takes place, and it's of course during a time of
civil unrest, and it's about this young girl who is
of a particular size and stature that doesn't let that
(02:34):
stand in her way because of her beautiful heart and
message that she sends to the community. But it is
a little campy at times, but it's still at the
same time has a really important message that still resonates today.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And that's what's the day for that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
We open this Friday coming up, so after tomorrow and
we run for four weekends. We've added additional Saturday matinees
to the third can third them fourth weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
As well, So it's August fifteenth to September seventh, and
I best go to the website, I think Kndigar Center
dot com. Is that right, that's I have that absolutely
to get details on tickets and times for any of
the any of the shows, I think, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We release the entire season, so not only can they
get tickets for Hairspray, but they can check out all
of the titles we have, and those have already been
on sale for some time now to the general public,
Do you have subscriptions there? Yes, well we do. We
have of course our Headger season ticket holders, so anybody
could just buy a one off ticket, but then of course,
(03:42):
like most theaters, we have season ticket holders, and then
beyond that we have memberships, so that's people that really
understand and believe that the arts is important and want
to give in a way to the theater, specifically beyond
their season subscription. So we do have those options that
have additional benefits with that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It must be very expensive to put first of all,
to put on a show, second, just to maintain a building.
Tell me about the Hanneger Center. It's not a new building.
It's an old building, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's one of the oldest surviving buildings in Bervard County.
And the reason mostly for that because by global or
even US standards, one hundred and fifteen years old maybe
isn't that oled in the grand schema things. But for
Brevard County, a lot of the other architecture was all
torn down in the sixties during the Space program and
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putting up a lot of new modern buildings. So some
of your listeners may already not this, but it was
originally built in nineteen nineteen and it was part of
a three building complex as the one at the time
mostly only public school system in Bervard County. And then
of course they have all the history there, but flashing
(04:58):
forward a little bit, they since separated with the other
two buildings over time, leaving the physical structure we're in
now as the only surviving building. So it was built
in nineteen nineteen. It was converted to a theater about
thirty five years ago, because we're going into our thirty
fifth season of theater. So it was done in late
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eighties early nineties as part of a reconstruction project and
has been running as a theater since then.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And how long have you been there? Did you say?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In my current position as both the executive and artistic director,
I came in in twenty twenty, right during the global pandemic.
Prior to that, I have personally worked at the Hanneger,
both as a guest director that had been hired outside
as well as a performer on stage a few times
before taking on that role. So I've been in and
(05:49):
around the Hanneger. We'll probably say from twenty seventeen on.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And how long have you been in? Okay, I'll say showbiz.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
More. I started actually as a child actor, will say,
back when maybe I was like twelve or thirteen years
old in school, of course, but then even beyond that,
I then went to art school and found instead of
being a animator, I wanted to do things live on
stage instead, so I didn't really dive too deep into
(06:22):
the theater part of art. I had other arts of
course before that, but theater really wasn't until I was
about twenty or twenty one, So that's now been about
twenty five years ago, I guess if I'm doing the
maths of forty eight now, But yeah, since the early
twenties involved in some way. And then, of course I
worked at Disney for about thirteen or fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You said, you said, of course I worked at Disney,
as though everybody works at Disney before going.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Over everyone that lives in Florida at some point, haven't
they all worked at Disney?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I guess it's not too late for me.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, I was with Disney from nineteen ninety eight until
two thousand and nine, so that was a nice little
period of time there.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And what did you do there?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Always in entertainment. I started as a performer for I
believe the first five or six years, moved into leadership
roles and then into different assignments anything from casting at
Disney also creative development, so I worked with the entertainment
team to help put new parade shows and special offerings
(07:38):
into the parks that of course included live entertainment as
well as some of the other special events. And yeah,
all the way up until two thousand and nine, when
I then moved away from Florida for a bit and
then came back to Florida several years later, which led
me into Bervard County.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, welcome back. Thanks. Are you loving Melbourne? Are you
loving the Hannegger? Of course you are.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You have to definitely love the Hanneger or to be
able to do what we do there, because it is
even no matter the size of your team. I know
some theaters have a much larger staff than others and
have different capabilities, but regardless the type of work that
it is and the amount of time and effort it
takes for any person in the position at any theater
is very time consuming, so you have to love it.
(08:25):
So I do challenging like any other role that anybody
would have in any business. Our just looks a little
nicer because you get to have, you know it, presents
it in front of an audience and have it appear
that nothing is wrong. But beyond that, I do love
the area. If I'm being one hundred percent honest. When
(08:46):
I first moved to the area. I wasn't really sure
what I was going to get in terms of availability
of shops and retail and arts and culture, and I
was very pleasantly surprised to see that those things did exist.
Always could be more, in my personal opinion, but definitely
have fallen in love with the area and lived here
now since about twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, always can be more. That's your job.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, sure, we're doing it. Okay, we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's talk quickly about the fundraiser. It's on September twelfth,
it's casino night. Do you have a goal for fundraising.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's interesting you ask, because of course we always do,
but catering to the culture and the taste and the
style and everybody that our patron base that comes to
the theater. We never want to set those expectations other
than what people are able to give. So we have
opened it up to where if it's somebody that's just
(09:49):
able to buy a ticket and that's all they're going
to do, great. You know, we'll take every dollar that
we can absolutely get from the fundraiser because one hundred
percent of it all will go immediately back into our productions.
Our productions, I don't know if it's been a while
since you've seen one, particularly since I've taken on there.
I guess maybe from working at Disney. I have champagne
(10:09):
dreams sometimes on a beer pocketbook. But we try to
put up really large scale, really big joes that have
great production value. But of course that comes at a cost.
So being a nonprofit theater, you know, where people are
either getting very little or sometimes just a travel stipen.
It just depends on many different factors. But with all that,
(10:31):
it takes a great deal of money. So with it
being an old facility, and we don't actually receive quite
a bit of any type of money or funds from
state and local governments or anything like that. So we're
very happy that we're able to survive off of ticket
sales and our patrons and the donations that we do receive,
(10:51):
the fundraiser being one of them. So the fundraiser is
open to all. We do have different tiers. The last
one that we did actually funded our main curtain, because
you wouldn't believe how expensive those can be, upwards of
thirty and forty thousand dollars. Sometimes worker fabric, oh good fabric,
but you know they have to too. So the last
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one raiser did have a specific goal to a specific item,
which was the curtain that we wanted to acquire for
the theater. This one is really to forward our future
renovation projects. One hundred and plus year old building lots
that needs to be restored and fixed just to operate,
so it will go to some of those initiatives.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Okay, Dom, we're out of time. The fundraiser is September twelfth,
and more information on it is at Hennegarcenter dot com
and people can look at the wonderful main stage thirty
fifth season coming up. Congratulations, thank you for your time,
and I'm going to get back to you for artsplast
(11:54):
as well. Okay, I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Thank you so much and have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Thank you you too. Bye bye. Okay, let's check into
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller, sticking with theater. I'm talking wet now
with Rosemary Knight from the Treasure Coast Theater in Fort
Saint Lucy. Rosemary great to talk to you. It's been
a while.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yes, it is our Howard thing.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Our things going at Treasure Coast Theater.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Very good, thank you. We're we just started our sixth season.
So and we started off with a bang with a murder,
mystery murder on the Orient Express, and we're moving on
to a comedy just opening up this Friday. Boeing Boeing
and so we have a pretty good season coming up.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'm looking through it. You've got some amazing shows on
this list, and you go all the way through June,
right correct?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, dare I say some of them mentioned? Some of
these shows? Do you man? I won't I won't do
I won't do them all, Evan Boeing, Boeing, Our Town,
The thirty nine Steps, Miracle Worker. Your Christmas show is
going to be fun, dashing through the snow. Then you've
got She Loves Me, Plaza Suite, The Spelling Bee, The
(15:49):
Diary of and Frank Murder is announced and ending with Harvey.
Oh look I did read them all. Yes, that is
some lineup and with Beaarly a break in between. Is
Treasure Coast Theater a community theater?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow, you must have a lot of people coming in
for auditions. I would think we've.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Gotten a lot more recently. You know, it took a
while to build up an open record for COVID, and
then took a year off and a half year and
a half off, so it was gradually building back up.
But now we are, we're in a good place where
we get a lot of new people coming out for
every show, and you know, veterans who've been in a
bunch of shows as well, so we have a good mix.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I would think you get a lot of people. I
forget who I was talking to the other day, but
with so many more new people coming into the Treasure
Coast and willing to travel to be on the stage
or to be backstage kind of kind of, I would
think a wonderful position for somebody with the theater to
(16:59):
be in, to have so much talent to choose from it.
Or does it does it become a problem.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
No, I mean, well, with just about every theater, even
in professional theaters, we always seem to need more men,
especially younger ones. Although we you know, it's as long
as the show is a draw and it's something that
people want to do, we tend to get the people
(17:29):
we had. We had no problems casting some shows that
had fifteen men. Uh, it's something that people. If it's
something people really want to do, they'll they'll travel a
long way to get there. We have had people coming
in from the Palm Beaches, Vero Beach. The last show
we had one young lady drove in from Melbourne. So
(17:49):
if it's something they want to do, they'll travel.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, well that that's a good thing. Okay. Tell me
about the theater itself. What what is the building like,
what is the seating like? How many do you seat?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sure, we don't have a standalone building. We're part of
a plaza so where we have businesses on the either
side of us. It's a small theater. We only seat
fifty four people, so there is no bad seat in
the theater, only five rows, no obstructed views. The stage
is it's not a big stage, but it's a decent
(18:25):
sized stage. There's no two levels, but it is a
very intimate space so people do feel like they're in
the action when they come to see the shows.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It sounds it sounds that way. Do you ever have
shows in which the audience is part of the show?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And yes, well we had one show a couple of
years ago, it was I Love You, You're Perfect now
change where the audience members go out into the audience.
But we have one coming up in the spring, the
twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where the audience
(19:05):
is actually chosen to come up on stage. So there
are a few shows that we've done in the past
and one show in particular in the future where that
does happen.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, tell me about how to get there. You said
it's in it's a strip really easy.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, So we are in what's known as Town Spenser Plaza.
It's the big strip mall on US one, just north
of Port Saint Lucie Boulevard. Actually you can get there
from Port Salusie Boulevard, but it's a big strip mall.
There's a few anchor stores, there's Bells, there's Planet's Fitness,
so there's quite a few stores right literally right behind
(19:46):
the Denny's. We're in the plaza. Denny's is on the street,
so it's really easy to get to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, you can come and spend the day. It sounds like, yes, yes,
we are your shows on weekends.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yes, Yeah, we do shows Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The
Friday is Saturdays are usually at eight, the Sundays are
at two. Sometimes we do do Saturday matinees when we
have shows that are just two weekends, we generally do
Saturday matinees as well, and those are at three.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, And how do people get tickets?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
They can go on our website Treasure Coasttheater dot com
and theater is spelled p r e not t e er,
but they yeah, they can just go on our website
and get tickets. If they have ten or more, they're
encouraged to call our number to get a group these
a group ticket pricing which is three dollars off the
regular price. But they can also get a season ticket
(20:50):
package of five shows or more. They can do as
few as five as many as twelve, and they say
five dollars off the tickets that they can do online. Also,
students with ID save a lot of money on our
regular shows. It's only fifteen dollars on a musical at
seventeen dollars, and they can also do that online.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Wow wow okay and online again as Treasure Coast Theater
r dot com. Correct okay phone number seven one two
four three nine seven nine Oh okay I have. I
made a typo. No, my producer Jesse is looking at me.
(21:30):
No wonder I couldn't get through. I know I gave
him a TYPEO. Okay, can we talk about auditions briefly?
You have some coming up this weekend?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I think, yes, we have auditions for the Miracle Worker.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And basically there is a if you go on the website,
there is a page for four auditions and and they're
actually for the Miracle Worker. There's a form they can
fill out and if they email us, they can get
a copy of the script to look it over before
they come to auditions. Auditions are the auditions are cold readings,
(22:09):
which means the director will choose us themes from the
play to read. So if they read the play ahead
of time, it usually helps.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Okay, yeah, I would think.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I have here thirty nine steps audition August sixteen.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
We're not doing those this weekend. It's a long story.
We're not doing those this weekend. It's just the Miracle Worker.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, all right, So people take note because I did
get that from the website. I believe.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yes, I have to fix that, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Dashing through the snow Christmas Show, Yes.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
That's in September. Those auditions are in September. There's anywhere
from eight to twelve characters, depending on whether I double cat.
I will be directing that one, and I made double
cast that. The script does call for that if you
want to, you could do it either way. So there's
quite a few. I think there's two men, and I
have to look eight to ten. I kept check care
(23:04):
with the number of characters. There's quite a few characters
in that play.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, singing dancing.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
No singing or dancing in either one of those plays, okay, however,
and haven't listed them yet. It'll probably be somewhere in October.
But the January show is a musical, and they will
be singing in that one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Okay, she loves me all right, We're we are about
out of time, Rosemary. So once again, it is Treasurecoasttheater
dot com one one seven five South US Highway one
Import Saint Lucy correct correct, Okay, great to talk to
you again, and maybe I'll see you for one of
(23:44):
these shows.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
It's nice talking to you too, and hopefully we'll see you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Okay, thanks again.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Thank you, say bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That was Rosemary night from Treasure Coast Theater and before that,
Dominique del Broco from the Henneger Center for the Arts. Well,
we have done it again. I'd like to thank both
Rosemary and dominic and I thank you as always for
joining us again this week for Arts Blast on the Air.
It's a podcast, it's a radio show, and an Alexis Skill,
(24:16):
all presented by Riverside Theater in Ballet Vero Beach, covering
the arts online and an Arts Blast, the free emailed
weekly Florida arts news magazine. Join us again next week
for another edition of Arts Blast on the Air. I'm
Willie Miller, and I thank you for listening.
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