Tag: Axelrod Performing Arts Center
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‘The Nutcracker Rocks’ takes stage at Axelrod Performing Arts Center
Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (AXCBT) returns home to the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, 100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, on Dec. 11 to begin its run of “The Nutcracker Rocks,” an annual family favorite holiday tradition. This contemporary adaptation of the ballet was conceived by AXCBT Artistic Director Gabriel Chajnik, according to a press release. Based…
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‘The SpongeBob Musical’ comes to Axelrod PAC
The Axelrod Performing Arts Academy (APAA) will present its first musical, “The SpongeBob Musical,” at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC), 100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, for two weekends, beginning Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 27 through Dec. 5. APAC Artistic Director Andrew DePrisco, a major fan of this “quirky, fun musical,” shares (with a wink), “I…
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‘A Bronx Tale’ The Musical comes to Axelrod Performing Arts Center
Broadway Hit Runs Through Nov. 14 The Axelrod Performing Arts Center, after 19 dark months, turns the lights on “A Bronx Tale” The Musical Come Celebrate The Return to Theater This feel-good New York musical, with a rock and bluesy score by Oscar and Tony winner Alan Menken retells Chazz Palminteri’s story of growing up in…
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Axelrod announces high school AXE award winners
The Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Ocean Township, in conjunction with its sponsors, local nonprofit Cabaret for Life and Kearny Bank, has announced the winners of the inaugural NJ High School AXE Awards. The awards were created to shine a light on students whose high school musicals were canceled due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, according…
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High school musical theater students can submit a performance video for awards competition
With high school theaters going dark throughout the State of New Jersey, the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, in conjunction with local non-profit Cabaret for Life ([CFL), is turning the spotlight on high school musical theater students with the NJ High School AXE Awards. Four winning seniors will each receive $1000, while the top male and…
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Benefit performances of ‘Matilda’ to be presented March 21
In a special fundraising event, the Friends of the Monmouth County Child Advocacy Center are offering 200 tickets to Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical” for two shows on March 21 at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Ocean Township. Tickets for the 2 p.m. performance are $60 and include chocolate milk and cupcakes at intermission. Tickets…
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Area actors will help ‘Peter Pan’ take flight at Axelrod Performing Arts Center
“Peter Pan” is flying onto the Axelrod Performing Arts Center stage from Dec. 8-16. Axelrod’s award-winning Rising Stars Youth Performing Arts program presents one of Broadway’s timeless classics in a fully staged production directed by Lisa Goldfarb with musical direction by Randy Hurst and choreography by Wendy Roman. The Axelrod Performing Arts Center is at…
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Local actors will appear in ‘The Music Man’ at Axelrod Performing Arts Center
Rising Stars Youth Performing Arts at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, 100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, will present Meredith Willson’s iconic Broadway musical “The Music Man” for four performances May 6 and May 13 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. The cast features Joseph Grisanzio (Howell) as Harold Hill, Carlie Goldfarb (Howell) as Marian Paroo,…
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Siblings from West Long Branch to star in ‘Ragtime’
Siblings Grace and Jack Sweeney will be featured cast members in an upcoming production of “Ragtime, The Musical.” Grace, 10, will make her Axelrod Performing Arts Center debut on March 3, cast as The Little Girl. “I’m so happy to be performing with such an amazingly talented cast,” Grace said in a statement provided by…
