March 8, 2023
By Sharyl Leifeld Cirque de la Symphonie’s founder Alex Streltsov is excited to be returning to Barbara B Mann’s marvelous venue for the 4 th time since 2012 to perform with Gulf Coast Symphony. Though he retired as performing aerialist in 2017, Alex travels with his troupe of world famous artists and is the first to …
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Jodi Benson took to social media to share that she will star alongside her daughter, Delaney Benson, in a production of Gypsy in Florida. “I’m so honored & excited to perform with Delaney! She is going to be brilliant as Louise,” Jodi writes. “It has been over 20 years since I have done a fully staged book …
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He started as a little kid playing with marionettes at home in Appalachia and then sang and danced his way across America to Broadway. Today, he writes, choreographs and directs musical theatre. DJ Salisbury fearfully backed out of his first audition for a role in a show after he arrived at the theater. He was all …
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Award-winning concert pianist Brian Lin joins the Gulf Coast Symphony for a concerto by Mozart, 14 years after performing with us as a 16-year-old keyboard phenom Brian Yuebing Lin was born in Wuhan, China, though about a month after his birth, the family moved to the city of Shenzhen, where Brian grew up and where …
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The Gulf Coast Symphony has entered an era of existential growth, just as Susan Wadsworth has taken over as the quarter-century-old community orchestra’s chairwoman When Susan Wadsworth joined its board of directors in 2019, the Gulf Coast Symphony had just embarked on a transformational project to position itself as a cultural hub in Florida’s Lee …
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