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Seventh Annual Boca Raton Mayors Ball from page 1 Boca Stage Showcases
this year’s host committee includes current President Award-Winning Professional
Supporting the cochairs and honorary cochairs,
Jon Carter, President-Elect Jeff Weber, past Mayors
Herson, Jon Kaye, Dyana Kenney, and Constance Scott. Theatre Productions
Ball Cochairs Kim Champion, Ingrid Fulmer, Arlene
Additional committee members include Stuart Fife, Bruce
Spizler, Gwen Herb, Alan Kaye, Allen Konis, Garcia If you are looking for award-winning professional
Peters, Linda Petrakis, Ron Rubin, Howard Tai, Gloria theatre productions that you won’t see anywhere else,
Wank, Janice Williams, and Marilyn Wilson. it’s time to visit Boca Stage. The renowned 8-year-old
Founded in July 2012, The Rotary Club Downtown company has announced its upcoming season and has a
Boca Raton is dedicated to impacting the Boca Raton special offer for Seabreeze readers! The 2022/23 season
community through Rotary International’s mission will feature two comedies, an edge-of-your-seat drama,
of “Service Above Self.” The award-winning 501(c) and a modern ghost story. Three of these outstanding
(3) nonprofit’s purpose is to make a difference in the productions are South Florida premieres. Tickets are $40
community by enhancing the lives of many in an to $50 for single tickets and $120 for all four shows if
environment that embraces and promotes integrity, you use the code “Seabreeze.” Tickets may be purchased
fellowship, and trust. The RCDBR is one of 34,000 Rotary at www.bocastage.net or by calling (561) 300-0152.
Clubs in more than 200 countries connecting 1.2 million “After the intensity of the past few years, we thought
Rotarians around the globe. we’d take a season to lighten up a little by increasing the
While the Mayors Ball funds the RCDBR’s grant comedic content,” said Artistic Director Keith Garsson.
program, the club also hosts the annual Honor Your Doctor The season opens on Nov. 4 with Lucas Hnath’s The
Luncheon founded by Helen M. Babione. Approaching its Thin Place, a new, modern spin on the classic ghost story. lives, the family grapples with their new reality as each
25th year this event has recognized physician leadership The Thin Place is a twisty tale of psychics and the fragile reckons with their own imperfect past and how their love
and excellence while raising scholarship monies for boundary between our world and the other one. With for each other might express itself in new and unlikely
students at Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at acuity and relentless curiosity, Hnath’s play transforms forms.
Florida Atlantic University, students at the Christine E. the theater into an intimate séance, crafting an unnerving The Odd Couple (Female Version) is Neil Simon’s
Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, testament to the power of the mind. 1986 update of his classic New York comedy. This time,
healthcare students at Lynn University and Palm Beach Time Alone follows as a poetic and poignant drama Unger and Madison are at it again, but it’s Florence Unger
State College. about two seemingly unconnected people, a widow and Olive Madison who play the bickering roommates
For sponsorship and underwriting opportunities as well as and a young man serving a life sentence, both seeking in this hilarious contemporary comic classic. Instead
ticket reservations, visit www.rotarydowntownbocaraton. redemption. The play is the product of the writer’s of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms.
org, contact Jon Kaye at (561) 392-5166 or email volunteer work in the California juvenile and justice Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of
mayorsball@rotarydowntownbocaraton.org. systems. As the play unfolds both characters find Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced
#bocaratonmayorsball themselves in places of extreme loneliness, and as time by the two Costazuela brothers. But the hilarity remains
itself seems to unravel, their tales both contrast and mirror the same.
each other, providing answers to each other’s questions “Strong characters and stories that resonate make this
— until they find new doors to life. both a compelling and funny season,” said Director Genie
Grand Horizons is another new play offering a comic Croft. “And as the cultural community emerges from this
spin on divorce amongst the senior set. Fifty years into long dark period, we have chosen plays that will bring the
her marriage to Bill, Nancy wants a divorce. While Bill audience together in a way that only live theatre can. We
seems unfazed by the decision, her two adult sons are look forward to a season of shared energy and emotions!”
shaken to the core. Forced to re-examine everything they The Sol Theatre is located at 3333 N. Federal Highway
thought they knew about their parents’ outwardly happy in Boca Raton.
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