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The Arts Connection -
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ARTS RESEARCH - As part of WMFE InDepth: Central Florida Crime Crisis, The Arts Connection has been looking at how arts programs are used in the prevention of crime and in rehabilitation. This week, our series concludes with a look at whether these programs are really effective. You can read two reports mentioned -- the Report to the Florida Senate, the UCF Report on Orange County Crime (click on each screen to advance the slide show), and the Prodigy Program in Tampa.
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The Arts Connection programs on November 29 and December 6 looked at the Youthful Offender Program at the Orange County Jail where arts programs are offered to help get teenage inmates back on the right track. This week, poetry producer Sara Schlossman offers her perspective on the program's poetry class and talks to two of the inmates.
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CASTING CALL - follow this link to read online
The Broadway blockbuster musical, WICKED, will make its Orlando debut in April, but tickets may be gone within the next few days. They go on sale tomorrow, December 14 at 10am. See the Broadway Across America-Orlando website for details.
Tickets will be available at the SunTrust Broadway Across America Orlando Box Office, Amway Arena Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. Tickets can also be purchased through Charge-By-Phone by calling 407.839.3900 or order online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com. There is an 8-ticket limit per patron. Groups of 20 or more should call 407.423.9999 x17 or 800.950.4647.
Another hot ticket in town will be for the December 28-29 shows in Sanford by Toxic Audio, the 5-member acapella group that won the Drama Desk Award in 2004 for their off-Broadway show. They are former theme park performers that put together an Orlando Fringe Festival show in 1999 and now they tour the world with their vocal pyrotecnics. For ticket information on the December shows, see the Helen Stairs Theatre website
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