BOCA RATON – A tribune to Jan McArt, the director of Theatre Arts Program Development at Lynn University who is widely recognized as e “First Lady of Florida’s Musical Theatre,” will be held Sunday afternoon at the Caldwell Theatre.
The ceremony will follow a production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” being presented by Entr’Acte Theatrix and Palm Beach Principal Players. A series of performances is scheduled to raise money to help Caldwell pull itself out of bankruptcy.
McArt will be honored at a piano bar/pizza party at the Count de Hoernle Theatre (home of the Caldwell) following the Sunday matinee performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
This heart-warming and music-filled tribute to Jan McArt will include a reunion of supporters and performers from her long-running Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, where an after-show pizza party was a tradition. The cost to attend both “Jesus Christ Superstar” and the after-show tribute is $35 in advance and $40 day of show.
“Just as this production of Jesus Christ Superstar is resurrecting the recently-shuttered Caldwell Theatre, so too are we going to use this show to remember with great fondness another vanished cultural landmark in Boca Raton, the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, and its guiding light and guardian angel, the always enchanting Jan McArt,” said Vicki Halmos, director of the Palm Beach Principal Players.
With a 25-person cast, this production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will run for 10 performances at the Count de Hoernle Theatre, 7901 North Federal Highway in Boca Raton, on the following dates:
+ Friday, July 6 – 8 p.m.
+ Saturday, July 7 – 2 & 8 p.m.
+ Sunday, July 8 – 3 p.m.
+ Thursday, July 12 – 8 p.m.
+ Friday, July 13 – 8 p.m.
+ Saturday, July 14 – 2 & 8 p.m.
+ Sunday, July 15 – 3 p.m.
Tickets are $25 for reserved seating, $15 for groups and children under 12, and $10 student rush (with ID) at the door on day of show. This ticket price includes all fees. To purchase tickets call 877.710.7779.
Entr’Acte Theatrix is an offshoot of the Palm Beach Principal Players, which started more than a decade ago and targeting high school and college students interested in musical theater but who had limited opportunities to perform. Over the last decade, Principal Players has presented nearly 20 shows featuring hundreds of local young people, many of whom have gone on to professional careers or top educational programs.