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Page 10, Boca Club News
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Mayor’s Update:

Scott Singer is the 35th Mayor of when we will commemorate our big day! Save Memorial Day we became a haven for innovation. The land that now houses
Boca Raton and was re-elected weekend for a birthday bash. We have plans for a headline Florida Atlantic University is where the Army trained its airmen
in 2023. A South Florida native, concert on Saturday, May 24th and a drone show on Sunday, on top-secret radar technology to help win World War II.
attorney and small business owner, May 25th. A few decades later, Boca Raton welcomed IBM, which
Scott and his wife Bella live in Broken The city was officially incorporated in May 1925, and the transformed our world with the first mass-market personal
Sound with their two children. Boca Raton back then was a much different city than the one computer.
Happy birthday, Boca Raton! we now relish. With our land located below areas prone to Now we are attracting billions of dollars of investment
In case you haven’t heard, our city frost in the winter, we were a haven to farmers who wanted throughout our city. The former IBM site is poised to undergo
is celebrating its 100th birthday in to grow pineapples, strawberries, peppers and many other a massive transformation. Known as BRiC, the Boca Raton
May. In honor of this milestone occasion we have hosted and crops. Innovation Campus has bold plans to become a “micro-city”
will continue to offer a series of events that honor our past, One hundred years ago our city was a farming community where residents can live, work and enjoy amenities all on-site.
embrace our present and get us excited for our bright future. of a few hundred people Today, we are 100,000 people strong The city is pursuing a rebirth of our downtown government
We hope you are enjoying the throwback Welcome and growing, with many industries and companies proudly campus. Rather than just replace our outdated and failing city
to Boca Raton sign at Sanborn Square and have had a calling Boca Raton their home. hall and community center, we are planning for our future
chance to check out one of our Centennial-themed events, Thanks to world-renowned architect Addison Mizner, by investing in workspaces and homes for our growing base
such as January’s Boca Street Fest, our State of the City Boca Raton was elevated from its rustic roots as he envisioned of talent.
and Community Celebration, or the Centennial activation creating a premiere resort town. We have much to be proud of this year as we embrace
“100th hole” station at the James Hardie Invitational Golf As Mizner set out to create his dream city it soon became 100 years of history. I hope you can join us over Memorial
Tournament. a reality as more people called our subtropical paradise home. Day weekend for our birthday events. Please visit myboca.
If you missed out on the fun so far, the month of May is Our population began to boom, and that growth continued as us for more information.

Future Theatre Star in Your Family? from page 9 said Marjorie Waldo, CEO & President of Arts Garage.
“By offering a focused, in-depth exploration of theatre—
Week 3 (Monday, July 21 to Friday, July 25) – Musical from technical design to improvisation, musical theatre
Theatre: Campers will take group singing and dancing and acting—we are giving campers the opportunity
lessons, learn how to tell a story through song, and to develop their craft under the guidance of industry
choreograph a group number from a Broadway musical. professionals. Each week is designed to build skills,
The number will be presented to friends and family. confidence and creativity, ensuring that every participant
Week 4 (Monday, July 28 to Friday, August 1) – Acting: leaves with a deeper love for the performing arts.”
Campers will learn the craft of acting for the stage while Arts Garage continues to add new programming
having fun playing games and building confidence. They and events to its schedule and is renowned for offering
will work together as an ensemble to rehearse a short play thought-provoking, community-driven and socially
and present it to friends and family at the end of the week. relevant productions from professional, cutting-edge
“PLACES! A Summer Theatre Camp is an exciting performers, playwrights and artists.
evolution of our commitment to nurturing young artists,”
“Painting Churches,” Pulitzer Prize Drama Finalist,

On Ft. Lauderdale Stage Through May 4th

Painting Churches, Tina Howe’s moving and hilarious Kondelik has cast Carbonell Award-winner Laura unlike in the past, the actor and the character over ‘a certain
portrait of a family of artists falling apart and coming Turnbull as Fanny, William Mahone as Gardner, and Ana age’ is no longer considered ‘old’. We are totally involved in
together—a show that The New York Times described as Marie Calise as Mags. life; we love, we lose, we work, we play, and we enjoy life.”
“Beautifully written… A theatrical family portrait that has “We are now entering our ninth year of operations,” says Tickets for Painting Churches are $45 and are available
the shimmer and depth of Renoir portraits”—is currently at Pigs Do Fly Productions’ Founder and Executive Producer online at www.pigsdoflyproductions.com or by calling
the Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale until May 4th. It was Ellen Wacher. “I am so proud of what we have accomplished (954) 678-1496. Performances are on Fridays at 8 p.m. and
a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. during these past nine years; we are continuing to grow and Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. All performances will take
Gardner Church (a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet), and his to explore the many facets of life over 50. I love the fact that, place at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive, Fort Lauderdale.
wife, Fanny (a flamboyant aesthete) are aging Bostonian
bluebloods in the process of moving out of their Beacon
Hill home into their summer cottage on Cape Cod due to the
shambles their lives have become. They have invited their NOW ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS
daughter, Mags, who is on the verge of artistic celebrity as
a portrait painter, to come and help them with the move.
“When Tina Howe’s Painting Churches first premiered,
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“In Painting Churches Howe captures the bittersweetness
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grappling with the responsibility of the present,” she
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the face of loss or impending change, there is room for wit
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