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| | The Addams Family: A New Musical
Oct. 7 – 31, 2021
Co-Produced by: Citizens Bank & Trust
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family–a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before–keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and
his parents.
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| | Stadium Concert:
Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of Johnny Cash
Sunday, October 17th at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM
Keith Coleman was voted the Best Johnny Cash impersonator in the United States by the NBC Television show " The Next Best Thing " and the only Johnny Cash impersonator asked to fly to LA to be in the finals on National Television. Keith most recently flew to Hollywood for 1 week to film the season finale of the prime time television show " The Finder" on Fox Network. The show was filmed at Twenth Century Fox in Hollywood. | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of the Beatles
Friday, October 29th at 8 PM
Gates open at 7 PM
Show starts at 8 PM | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of Journey and Styx
Sunday, October 31st at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM
Majesty of Rock is a mega talented group of musicians who faithfully re-create the sound and feel of the two super groups: Journey and Styx. The band boasts the talents of five exceptional artists who capture every nuance of these iconic legends. | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of Aerosmith
Frida, November 5th at 8 PM
Gates open at 7 PM
Show starts at 8 PM
WALK THIS WAY!
Jaded, is a FL based tribute to the bad boys from Boston, AEROSMITH!
Jaded is a professional level Tribute show band covering the look, moves, and all of the many hit songs and classics of Aerosmith.
They cover all the great songs from nearly a half-century of America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band with a concert-style, FAMILY friendly high-energy representation of a live Aerosmith concert event. | Buy Tickets |
| | Stadium Benefit Concert:
Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
GOD BLESS THE USA Benefit Concert
Saturday, November 6 at 7-9PM
A sunset concert celebrating America through music with the Brass Heart Band. All proceeds benefit TheSymphony Guild of Winter Haven.
The Mission of the Symphony Guild of Winter Haven is to bring musical experiences to the Winter Haven Community and to serve as an outreach to local, aspiring, musicians.
Learn more about The Symphony Guild of Winter Haven here:
https://symphonyguildofwinterhaven.org/
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM | Buy Tickets |
| | Stadium Concert:
Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
Broadway's Leading Ladies with Sarah Ganey
Sunday, November 7th at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM4
The show will take the audience through six of Broadway's most notable leading women’s resumes and songs, including Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Patti Lupone, Liza Minnelli, and Mary Martin. Sarah Beth Ganey is an Orlando located actor seen on the Theatre Winter Haven, Garden Theatre, Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theatre, and Ocala Civic Theatre stages over the last year. Paige Bryant is an Orlando located actor as well, with credits including the stages of Connecticut Rep Theatre, Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theatre, Dollywood, and NY theatre Shadowland Stages. The two friends met during their time at Legoland Florida and couldn’t wait to get started on another project together! | Buy Tickets |
| | All Together Now! : A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre
Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 7 PM
Participating & Benefitting Organizations: Theatre Winter Haven, Harrison School for the Arts, Polk State Theatre
All Together Now! : A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre is a worldwide fundraising event celebrating the return of live theatre and allowing organizations around the world to locally produce and perform an exclusive musical revue, featuring songs from some of Broadway’s most beloved shows. Theatre Winter Haven, Harrison School for the Arts, and Polk State Theatre will be partnering in an effort to bring All Together Now! to Polk County and raise funds to support local arts education at all three organizations.
Tickets: $25
Gates Open: 5:30pm (Food Trucks will be available to purchase dinner)
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The Music of Stevie Wonder
Sunday, November 14th at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM
Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
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| | Stadium Concert:
Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The James Taylor Experience
Friday, November 19th at 8 PM
Gates open at 7 PM
Show starts at 8 PM
The James Taylor Experience (JTE) Featuring the Fire & Rain Band recreates the intimate energy of a live James Taylor Concert from his heyday in the late 70’s/early 80’s. This dynamic show includes note-perfect renditions of the timeless JT songs that have entertained generations and sold more than 40 million albums since being signed by the Beatles to their “Apple Records” label in 1968.
Audiences are taken back to the early days when “Fire & Rain,” “Carolina in My Mind,” and “Sweet Baby James,” were taking the country by storm, yielding 13 top-ten albums in a career that would include a top ten CD in 2010 with “Live at the Troubadour.” The James Taylor Experience draws these same dedicated fans to celebrate the live performance of songs that made up the soundtrack of their lives. The full live concert performance also includes the rip-roaring, rocking tunes featured in James Taylor’s early live shows like “Steamroller,” “Mexico,” “Honey Don’t Leave LA,” and “How Sweet it Is (to be Loved by You).” | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Sunday, November 21st at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM | Buy Tickets |
| | The Sound of Music
Nov 24 – Dec 19, 2021*
*Opening night is Wednesday, November 24, no show on Thanksgiving, November 25.
Co-Produced by George Butz Family Fund within the GiveWell Community Foundation; Advanced Eyecare Associates; The Center for Retina and Macular Disease
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do Re Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and the title number, The Sound of Music won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars. | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
Christmas Spectacular with Johnny Wild and the Delights
Friday, December 10th at 8 PM
Gates open at 7 PM
Show starts at 8 PM | Buy Tickets |
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Performed outdoors near the Chain O' Lakes Stadium. Bring your lawn chair, cooler and enjoy a great show under the stars!
The Music of Creedance Clearwater Revival and The Rolling Stones
Sunday, December 19th at 7 PM
Gates open at 6 PM
Show starts at 7 PM | Buy Tickets |
| | MUSIC OF THE KNIGHT: The Songs of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
December 31 - January 2, 2022
Join us for an intimate night as we span the hit songs and experience the life and career of this musical genius in allegory who single-handedly changed the course of the modern Broadway musical time and time again. From dynamic, high-energy hits to some of the most hauntingly-beautiful ballads in Broadway history, MUSIC OF THE KNIGHT has something to suit any musical appetite.
Part fo the Professional Series
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| | Always, Patsy Cline
Jan. 20 – Feb. 13, 2022
Co-Produced by: Mr. & Mrs. Dave Dershimer
Always...Patsy Cline is based on the true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with Houston housewife Louise Seger. The musical play, complete with down home country humor, true emotion and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy’ unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After Midnight, 27 songs in all.
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| | PRACTICALLY PERFECT
THE MUSIC OF JULIE ANDREWS
AND HER LEADING MEN ROBERT GOULET & DICK VAN DYKE
February 18-20, 2022
For over 50 years, the musical soundtrack of Julie Andrews has been indelibly imprinted on the hearts of generations. From the lively and high-stepping dance tunes of MARY POPPINS and MY FAIR LADY to the enchanting, beloved ballads of CAMELOT and THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Dame Julie Andrews is indicative of an era where musicals were magical. Available exclusively from Mathews Entertainment, PRACTICALLY PERFECT is a live performance and multimedia theatrical event that relives the life and music of the incomparable star and recreates your favorite moments from stage and screen.
Part of the Professional Series
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| | Assigned Living the Musical
February 25-27, 2022
From early retirement right up to the pulling of the plug, 21st Century seniors are partying like it’s 1969. Imagine: no work, no pregnancy and a full array of Medicare-subsidized pharmaceuticals. It’s the Boomer dream!
These Boomers are partying at Pelican Roost, the very active retirement community that is home to the 18-different characters played by the show’s two actors. Pelican Roost is where 70-something is the new 20-something…only with looser skin.
Assisted Living: The Musical® is for everyone who is aging, and for those who hope to. And that includes you!
Part of the Professional Series
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| | Suds, The Rocking 60's Msuical Soap Opera
Mar. 24 – Apr. 17, 2022
Co-Produced by: Mrs. William H. Fuller Family; Alan Jay Automotives
Set in a laundromat in the 1960’s, SUDS: The Rocking 60s Musical Soap Opera is a delightful story of a young teenage girl and three guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. The show is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy and over 50 well-known songs that topped the charts of the 60’s.
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| | Charlotte's Web
May 13-15, 2022
This exciting musical version of Charlotte’s Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White’s beloved classic. Wilbur, the pig, is saved from the chopping block as the runt of his litter, but awaits slaughter as he grows to adulthood. Only his unlikely friendship with Charlotte, the spider, can convince the rest of the world that he is no ordinary pig.
This show with music and lyrics by Charles Strouse (Annie, Bye Bye Birdie) and book by award-winning playwright Joseph Robinette, won the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award and has been a huge favorite of theatres nationwide for decades. | Buy Tickets |
| | GREASE
July 14 – 31, 2022
Co-Produced by: The Dr. Robert Cassell Family; George & Kelly Butz; Brad Dantzler - Rayond James & Associates
Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night,” “Alone at the Drive-In Movie” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. | Buy Tickets |