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West Palm Beach, FL Nov. 10-15 , 2009; Kravis Center
Topic Started: Jan 28 2009, 09:05 AM (421 Views)
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November 10 -15, 2009

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Kravis Center
701 Okeechobee Blvd
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 833-8300


TICKETS:
Go on sale to the general public July 27,2009

$25.00 - $88.00


SEATING CAPACITY: 2193


SEATING CHART:


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THE VENUE:

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This stunning $63 million Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts holds more than 800 events each year, with more than 400,000 people in attendance annually. One of the premier performing arts centers in the Southeast, this copper and marble showcase is the center for cultural events in West Palm Beach and only truly respectable concerts, plays, ballets and operas take place here.

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In September of 1992, the Kravis Center doors opened to an anxiously awaiting community. The Center's dedication week hosted tens of thousands of patrons for a full week of free performances featuring local arts groups.
The Gala Grand Opening took place on November 28, 1992
kraviscenter.com

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DIRECTIONS:

From I-95: Exit 70 at Okeechobee Boulevard, head east on Okeechobee Boulevard for approximately 1/2 mile. Take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be immediately on your right .
From the south on I-95, the Center is also easily accessible from the Belvedere Road Exit (exit 69) via Parker Avenue.

From the north on I-95, the Center is also accessible from Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard (exit 71) via Australian Avenue. Please consult map for directions to venues.

From U.S. Highway 1: Take U.S. 1 to Okeechobee Boulevard and head west approximately one quarter mile. Make a right onto Tamarind Avenue (just before the second railroad crossing). Parking garage will be your first right.

From Florida's Turnpike: Exit 99 the Turnpike at the West Palm Beach exit (Okeechobee Blvd). Head east approximately 7 miles. Continue past the I-95 overpass another 1/2 mile, and take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be your first right.

Valet Parking is available in front of the Center (enter from Okeechobee Blvd.)




RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS :

http://realtravel.com/a-61842-west_palm_beach_attraction-kravis_center_for_the_performing_arts Hotels

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ei=J6OQScOjNJCCNcTMiZIL&resnum=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=restaurants+near+kravis+center+west+palm+beach&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&view=text&ei=KqOQSY_eF4zaNK-Tta0L&sa=X&oi=local_group&resnum=1&ct=more-results&cd=1 Restaurants

POINTS OF INTEREST :

1. Clematis Street: Historic Area

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Clematis is the hottest street in Florida
Donald Trump, People Magazine
Stretching from the Intracoastal waterfront into the heart of Downtown.
Clematis Street is the historical heart of Downtown West Palm Beach. Starting at Flagler Drive on the Intracoastal Waterway, walk west along Clematis Street and experience the indigenous flavor of the area's colorful boutiques, nightclubs, live music, restaurants, antique shops and historical landmarks. Thursday nights from 5:30-9pm come alive when Clematis Street transforms into Clematis By Night.


2. Flagler Museum
One Whitehall Way
Palm Beach, FL 33480
561.655.2833

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Whitehall, the home of the Flagler Museum, was built in 1902 for Henry Flagler, cofounder of Standard Oil, and his third wife Mary Lily Kenan.
Three stories tall with several wings, the mansion has fifty-five fully restored rooms furnished with period pieces. These rooms are large and extremely opulent with marble floors, walls and columns, murals on the ceilings, and heavy gilding. Whitehall is a National Historic Landmark and the Flagler Museum has been featured in many television programs and magazine articles nationwide, as one of America's great Gilded Age Estates.
In 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of stairs at Whitehall. He never recovered from the fall and died of his injuries on May 20 at 84 years of age.



MEDIA:

1.'Grease' slides into Kravis with 'Idol' winner Taylor Hicks

By Hap Erstein
Posted November 5, 2009 at 2:24 p.m.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/nov/05/its-the-word-grease-slides-into-kravis-with-idol/


WEST PALM BEACH — Jim Jacobs may be a one-hit wonder, but that single long-running show has given him a career for life and a tidy enough income that he will never have to write another word.

The show is “Grease,” which began in a small Chicago community theater, garnering such attention that if moved to off-Broadway and then on to Broadway, where this affectionate spoof of student life at Rydell High in the late 1950s played 3,388 performances — at one time the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Since then, it has been often revived, including most recently in 2007, when its leading performers were chosen on a TV reality show, “You’re the One That I Want.” That production then spawned a national tour, which arrives Tuesday at the Kravis Center, where it plays through Nov. 15.

Jacobs, who penned the music, lyrics and book for “Grease” with his writing partner, the late Warren Casey, is candid about the show’s success.

“I’m the first one to admit it, it’s timing, luck, being in the right place at the right time,” Jacobs said. “Who would have ever thought that a little personal show about the 1950s would still be running 40 years later, all over the world.”

Jacobs and Casey, both active in amateur theater in the 1960s, were sitting around dreaming up a musical to write between acting assignments. As Jacobs recalls saying, “Let’s get away from Rodgers and Hammerstein and blow everyone’s mind with rock ’n’ roll tunes for the score.”

The characters came from Jacobs’ own experience.

“It’s about the people I went to high school with, plus there’s a little bit of me in all those characters,” hesaid.

And Casey had long had a knack for writing rock songs with a comic twist, like “Beauty School Dropout,” a song he had written three years earlier which became one of “Grease’s” showstoppers.

At the center of the show are cool Danny Zuko and square Sandy Dumbrowski, a newcomer who has to learn how to fit in to win Danny as her steady guy. Over the years, major names such as Richard Gere, Patrick Swayze and Treat Williams have played Danny onstage, as well as John Travolta, who also starred in the 1978 blockbuster film version that features added songs by The Bee Gees.

Playing the Kravis will be “American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks in the cameo role of Teen Angel.

“Flash bulbs go off when Taylor comes onstage,” Jacobs said. “He’s very funny and he milks it for all it’s worth.”

Warning: Do not indulge in the usual Kravis dash at the end of the show.

“He also does one of his current hit songs on his new CD after the curtain call,” Jacobs added.

Over the years, Jacobs has been kept busy consulting on “Grease” revivals and he still gets a kick out of seeing the show.

“I am most proud of the fact that at many performances, around the world, people sing along with the songs,” he said. “They are that well known.”

But even if you have never seen “Grease,” Jacobs feels certain you will relate to these characters.

“It’s not just for anyone who went to high school in the ’50s. It’s for anyone who went to high school,” he said. “You will know these people immediately.”


2. Hicks featured in ‘Grease’: Taylor-made for the stage?
By Leslie Gray Streeter November 06, 2009

Before making his Broadway debut last year in the eternally popular musical Grease, Taylor Hicks had never acted. But for the musician and Season 5 American Idol winner, every opportunity is a chance to keep up with fans and gain some new ones.
“It’s imperative for me to stay out there and work,” the 33-year-old singer explains, in his polite, distinctive Alabama drawl. “I’ve been living out of a suitcase for four years. This is one of the things I love to do. Later, it’ll all settle down.”

Since he won the country’s biggest talent show in 2006, Hicks’ career has experienced the usual highs and lows but never settled. His first post-Idol album, the self-titled Taylor Hicks, went platinum, with the hit Do I Make You Proud, and recently, What’s Right Is Right, off 2009’s The Distance, released on Hicks’ own label, charted on the Adult Contemporary Chart.

That album was written between his Broadway run as Teen Angel in Grease, and his current stint in the touring version, which comes to the Kravis Center starting Tuesday and runs to Sunday.

“It came out in March. I’d been writing it since January of last year, and I recorded it in three months, between the Broadway run and the tour,” Hicks says. “And I use the vehicle of the tour to stand out in the lobby and sign records.”

Hicks’ onstage role is record-related as well. The Teen Angel character, played by ’50s heartthrob Frankie Avalon in the movie version of Grease, and by other teen idols like Davy Jones, Chubby Checker and Jimmy Osmond, is now the work of another sort of “Idol.” Teen Angel has one big number, where he tries to persuade “Beauty School Dropout” Frenchy to go back to high school.

As many famous people have proceeded him in the role, Hicks says he preferred to find his own way to that mythical malt shop in the sky.

“I had never seen the play before, but I had seen the movie. To be honest, I wanted to make sure that the role was a signature one, from the design of the costume to the way the music was performed,” he says. “You have to find your own style. I just thought, you know, this guy comes from Rock and Roll Heaven, so what would someone look like, at that time. The first thing that came to mind was rhinestones.”

Rhinestones? Do tell!

“I’m not gonna give away anything,” Hicks demures, “but the costume itself is quite over the top. The actual entrance… well, this is my complete interpretation. But as long as Frenchy goes back to high school, my job is safe.”

Hicks will say that this version of Grease combines the original play’s songs as well as those added to the 1978 film version like You’re The One That I Want and Hopelessly Devoted To You. A fan of the film, Hicks says he jumped at the chance to try acting, even as he learns on the job.

“It’s a very unique way to learn. It’s a very important role — small, but something I can build off of to get my feet wet,” he says, adding that even as a new actor, the role’s musical aspects help his learning curve.

“When you play someone from a musical standpoint, there are a lot of similarities (in approaching the performance), but instead of actual instruments, you’re using personality,” he says. “Learning the part is tough at first, but I’m settling into the role.”

Because Grease usually plays in theaters for a week at a time, Hicks has also gotten to settle into the specific locales of each performance, something he didn’t get to do during one-night stands as a musician. “What’s great is that you get to sink your teeth into each city. Usually, you do one night and you move to the next town. This tour allows me to experience what each city has to offer.”

It also allows Hicks to get acquainted with his loyal fans, who were dubbed “The Soul Patrol” during his stint on American Idol.

“There are always a lot of fans around. Some of them couldn’t come to Broadway and see (Grease) in New York, so a lot of my reasons for doing (the tour) was to take it to them,” he says. “They’re excited about how my career is growing, seeing me expand my horizons. The sky’s the limit.”

As a treat to his fans, and hopefully as a nod to the new ones, Hicks ends each performance of Grease by doing one of his own songs — sans the rhinestones.

“That’s a cutting-edge way of expanding my fan base,” he says. “It’s an added bonus.”

http://www.pbpulse.com/arts-and-culture/theater-reviews/2009/11/06/hicks-featured-in-grease-taylor-made-for-the-stage/



SOUL PATROL MEMORIES:

1. bchluvrgrl:

I;m hooome! Great night :) Grease was amazing & Taylor Hicks (who played the teen angel) did a song at the end


2. DJ Rick from “Sunny Morning Show”

said he was the show lastnight, and was blown away by Taylor.

3. jackiejdh:

Grease was awesome yesterday, Taylor Hicks rocked the Teen Angel part. So much fun. And I had forgotten how much I ♡ the Kravis Center.
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MEDIA BLITZ:


MEDIA BLITZ FOR GREASE:


Wednesday, November 11


1. 7:40 am Live phone interview with Joel Malkin, WJNO-AM 1290 (conservative talk) http://www.wjno.com/main.html


2. 8:05 am Live interview with “Sunny Morning Show” with Michelle & Rick WEAT-FM 104.3 DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE
http://www.sunny1043.com/

3. 8:15 am Live interview with “Jeff Elliott in the Morning” WIRK-FM 107.9 (country) http://www.wirk.com/



Thursday November 12 Looks like they posted it early


4. West Palm Beach news wpbf 25 :

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http://www.wpbf.com/video/21582329/index.html

Twochix Productions Interview with American Idol Taylor Hicks at the Kravits on Wed....

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/twochix


5. FOX 29 Grease Cast Party 11/10/09 with Rachel Leigh

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