Mamma Mia!, which opens at 8 tonight at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, is in a class of its own as a Bedazzled box office behemoth. But not so much for me. Some Broadway musicals - Phantom of the Opera or Les Misérables or Wicked, for example - are so popular that they can return again and again to the same market, powered by an enduring appeal that can apparently sell an endless number of tickets. Call the Broward Center box office (which handles Parker tickets) at 96 or visit the Parker web site. Performances of 101 Years of Broadway are at 2 and 8 p.m. The show's featured performers are Carter Calvert, Rita Harvey, Ted L. Levy, Brad Little and Craig Schulman. The show roams through Broadway hits from such really diverse composers as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Billy Joel, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jersey Boys' Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. Ten days later, Berg and a Broadway-experienced cast take the stage at the Parker Playhouse, 701 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale, for two performances of Neil Berg's 101 Years of Broadway.
Tickets for The 12are $25 to $55 and are available by calling 95 or visiting the Broward Center's web site. Each apostle has his own classic rock style, and among the performers in the concert-style premiere are former Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz and singer Sophia Ramos, who plays Mary Magdelene. Broadway veterans in the cast include Ron Bohmer (at right in photo), Jeremy Kushnier and Lawrence Clayton.
The 12tells the story of the apostles after Jesus' death. Berg (at center in the photo) wrote the music and lyrics, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan ( The Kentucky Cycle author is pictured at left) crafted the book and additional lyrics to piece that is described as beginning "where Jesus Christ Superstar left off."
The more ambitious venture, the world premiere of a rock-style musical titled The 12, has its one-night-only debut at 8 p.m. Thursday in the larger Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Showman and composer-lyricist Neil Berg will be one busy guy over the next 10 days, as he's opening not one but two productions in Fort Lauderdale.
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