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TPA Today: 'Casablanca' at Capitol Theatre

July 26, 2011  |  7:30 PM  |  $6.00  |  Capitol Theatre  |  727.791.7400

Vintage Hollywood favorites and fun family films are making their way to the Cleveland Street District of Downtown Clearwater as the historic Capitol Theatre is transformed every Tuesday Evening into a classic cinema house screening beloved movies from the past.
 
Tonight's blockbuster feature is 'Casablanca' starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid.

Movie plot: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
 
General Admission tickets priced at $6 will be available at the Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office located at 1111 McMullen Booth Road in Clearwater, by calling 727.791.7400 or by logging onto www.atthecap.com.  The Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office is open Monday through Saturday, from noon to 6 pm. The Capitol Theatre Ticket Office opens one hour prior to showtime.

The historic Capitol Theatre is located at 405 Cleveland Street in Downtown Clearwater.

“Weird Al” Yankovic The Alpocalypse Tour

October 6, 2011  |  8:00 PM  |  $35.00, $45.00, $55.00  |  Ruth Eckerd Hall  |  727.791.7400

The time has come. “Weird Al” Yankovic, the biggest selling comedy recording artist of all time, has announced U.S. tour dates in support of Alpocalypse, his first full-length studio album release in nearly five years.  His tour will make a stop at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8 pm.  Tickets go on sale Friday, July 29 at noon.

Few would have guessed that Yankovic, who as an awkward, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento Radio Show, would go on to enjoy a varied and successful career that is now entering its fourth decade. Over that time he’s won 3 Grammy® awards (with 12 nominations), racked up 31 Gold and Platinum Albums, and won countless awards and accolades for Weird Al classics like Eat It, Like a Surgeon, Fat, Smells Like Nirvana, Amish Paradise and The Saga Begins. Yankovic is also well-known for his cult-hit feature film UHF (1989), his late ‘90s CBS Saturday morning series The Weird Al Show and the numerous AL-TV specials that he’s made for MTV and VH1 over the years. His previous album Straight Outta Lynwood (2006), the highest-charting of his career, spawned the Billboard Top 10 single White & Nerdy, the video of which spent two months at #1 on iTunes chart and garnered more than 100 million hits on the Internet.

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Inside the Arts: 'Title of Show' Original Broadway Musical

July 20 - 24, 2011  |  $20.00  |  Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College  |  727.822.3590

Primo Academy presents the Broadway musical about the making of a Broadway musical - 'Title of Show' at the The Palladium Theater!

Performances are in the intimate Stavros Great Room with a four-member cast and live piano accompaniment.

You're reading the official blurb, or short summary, of [title of show]. Blurb. That's a funny word. We spent a lot of time on this blurb so please read the whole blurb. [title of show] is a musical about two nobodies named Hunter and Jeff who decide to write a completely original musical starring themselves and their attractive and talented ladyfriends, Susan and Heidi. Their musical, [title of show], gets into the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and becomes a hit. Then it gets an off-Broadway production at the Vineyard Theatre, and wins three Obie Awards! Then (drumroll if you've got a drum) it's announced that their musical is going to Broadway (hooray!) and people start seeing this blurb everywhere! They read that The New York Times called [title of show]" DELECTABLE ENTERTAINMENT! A postmodern homage to the grand tradition of backstage musicals like Babes in Arms, Kiss Me, Kate and A Chorus Line." Fully intrigued, those people snatch up tickets and help make Hunter and Jeff's life-long dream come true!

Showtimes:
Wednesday, 07/20/11 - 08:00 PM
Thursday, 07/21/11 - 08:00 PM
Friday, 07/22/11 - 09:00 PM
Saturday, 07/23/11 - 08:00 PM
Sunday, 07/24/11 - 08:00 PM

The Palladium Theater is located on the grounds of St. Petersburg College at 253 Fifth Ave. N, in St. Petersburg.

Famous Birthdays: July 26, 2011

"Whiteout" star Kate Beckinsale (1973)
"Gossip Girl" actress Taylor Momsen
Sum 41 guitarist Dave Baksh (1980)
Christian pop singer Rebecca St. James (1977)
"Entourage" star Jeremy Piven (1965)
"The Proposal" star Sandra Bullock (1964)
Japanese composer Keiko Matsui (1961)
"Superman Returns" bad guy Kevin Spacey (1959)
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress Nana Visitor (1957)
Queen drummer Roger Taylor (1949)
English actress Helen Mirren (1945)
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger (1943)
Film director Stanley Kubrick (1928; d. 1999)
Actor James Best (1926)
"Magnolia" actor Jason Robards (1922; d. 2000)
Film director Blake Edwards (1922)
"I Love Lucy" actress Vivian Vance (1909; d. 1979)