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      Three Hit Musicals Headline Lauderhill’s 2025 Season




         With  Brightline  train  travel  making  it  even  more      Rodgers & Hammerstein’s  South Pacific.  April      The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has hosted
      pleasurable for Boca residents to extend their range of   10  to  27. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar   hundreds of theatrical events and productions since
      live theater opportunities, this announcement will come   Hammerstein  II.  Book  by  Oscar  Hammerstein  II  and   it opened its doors in January 2016 and has grown its
      as good news: The “Broadway at Lauderhill Performing   Joshua Logan. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning   audiences to include theatre patrons from not only
      Arts Center Series” will kick off their 2025 lineup with   novel, Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener.  Broward County, but from Miami/Dade and Palm Beach
      three musicals: 9 to 5, Legally Blonde and Rodgers and      “The  2024  ‘Broadway  at  LPAC’  Season  had the   counties as well.
      Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Subscriptions are now on   best attendance since the inception of the series,” says      The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center is located
      sale and single tickets will go on sale Sept. 1.  Lauderhill City Manager Desorae Giles-Smith. “A Chorus   at 3800 N.W. 11th Place (33311), adjacent to Central
         Subscriptions to the Broadway at LPAC Series are   Line, Memphis and Hello Dolly! proved to be the perfect   Broward Park and Broward County Stadium on the
      available for as low as $99 for all three shows. Patrons   trifecta of shows for our audience. Lauderhill is looking   northeast corner of Sunrise Boulevard and State Road
      may contact the LPAC Box Office at (954) 777-2055 for   forward to another spectacular season in 2025!”  7. For more information about LPAC visit https://www.
      more information.                                    The ACM  Theatricals creative team for all three   lpacfl.com or call the box office at (954) 777-2055.
      The 2025 Broadway at LPAC Series                  musicals will once again include South Florida’s theatrical      For more information about ACM  Theatricals,
         9 to 5. Jan. 16 to Feb. 2, 2025. Music and Lyrics by   duo of Artistic Director Michael Ursua and Choreographer   Producer Kevin Barrett, or the Broadway at LPAC Series,
      Dolly Parton. Book by Patricia Resnick. Based on the   Alex Jorth.                                   please contact Kevin Barrett at kevinbarrettgm@gmail.
      Twentieth Century Fox Film.                          Arts Center Management is a multi-faceted theatre   com / 954-234-5982. 
         Legally Blonde. Feb. 27 to March 16. Book by Heather   management, consulting and production company whose
      Hach. Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell   focus is to help theatres and theatre companies improve their
      Benjamin. Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the   programming and operations. The company was founded
      Metro-Goldwyn Mayer motion picture.               by ACM President and CEO Kevin Barrett in 2014.
      Film Review: Phantom Of The Open




      By Nils A. Shapiro                                to which he belonged                               a record-breaking score of 121, the highest in the event’s
                                                        … or his handicap, a                               history—makes it important for you to remember that this is
      Country Club Golfers                              word that confusedly                               based on a true story!
      Will Love                                         meant something                                       But the best is yet to come! And while I don’t want to give
      This Film!                                        entirely different to                              away too many spoilers here, perhaps it will suffice to note
                                                        him. He overcame such                              that, in his very failure to perform at a championship level the
         In 1975, Tom Watson won the British Open Golf   problems by returning                             spectators lining the course applauded him at every hole and
      Championship. One of the millions of people who was   with a set of documents                        golfers around the world came to love Maurice Flitcroft as an
      watching television in England that day and happened to see   he had prepared with                   average guy– “one of their own.” An American country club
      the adulation pouring onto the winner was a man, Maurice   the help of his sweet                     set up a golf tournament and trophy in his name … and, as
      Flitcroft, who had never played a hole of golf in his entire life.   and devoted wife, Jean          we learn later in the film, after practicing his skills and much
         But Flitcroft, a father of three grown sons who was getting   (portrayed by Sally                 improved playing he entered a half-dozen more British Opens
      on in years and tired of his job as a construction crane operator,   Hawkins)—completely             under different names and using various disguises!
      liked what he had just seen on TV and decided that it would   false but so impressive                   What a kick to have him in your foursome. For now, meet
      be fun to sign up for the next year’s British Open.  that the tournament                             him on film. (Mark Rylance in the role of Flitcroft deserved
         This British film, which was released in the United States   officials considered him qualified!  every award possible for his performance.)
      in 2022 and may still be streaming now on Netflix, is based      The difficult to believe fact that Flitcroft was accepted   *****
      on the unlikely but true and heartwarming story of Flitcroft’s   into the 1976 British Open—then showed his lack of skill      The Boca Raton Public Library has this film available on
      path to a world golfing record and international fame!  by topping, slicing, hooking his way through 18 holes to   DVD for cardholders. 
         Completely naïve about such matters, Flitcroft
      applied to enter the 1976 competition but had no answer
      when asked, for example, the name of the private club













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