FREE TIME - Showcase (excerpt)
By Charlene Hager-Van Dyke, Sentinel Staff WriterMay 3, 2002
UNITED WAY DAY
Adventure Landing will host United Way Day at the Daytona Beach water park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The community is invited to attend at reduced admission prices, while contributing to the United Way.
Regular admission is $19.99 and $16.99, but on Saturday, admission will be $15.99, including $5 donated directly to the United Way of Volusia-Flagler counties.
Vouchers are available at Publix supermarkets and the United Way office at 3747 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach.
The event is open to the public, but vouchers are required. Details: Barbara Kingston at 386-253-0563386-253-0563, Ext. 236.
CHILDREN'S THEATER AUDITIONS
Auditions for the Storybook Theater Company's production of Charlotte's Web will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Sands Theater Center in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Upper elementary- and middle-school children are invited to try out for the Joseph Robinette adaptation of E.B. White's classic tale on its 50th anniversary.
Auditions will include cold readings from the script. Performance dates are July 19 to 28.
Details: 386-738-7156.
ROCK OPERA IN DELAND
Jesus Christ Superstar, the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, will open at 8 p.m. today at the Sands Theater Center in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
The rock opera that launched the careers of Rice and Webber is the provocative retelling of Jesus of Nazareth's last seven days.
Jesus Christ Superstar features such well-known songs as "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Everything's All Right," "Herod's Song" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him."
Additional performances are set for 8 p.m. Saturday, May 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 12 and 19.
Reserved-seat tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students, and early reservations are recommended. Details: 386-738-7156 or 386-736-7456.
PLANTATION RAID
The Civil War will come to life this weekend as Confederate and Union soldiers square off in the re-enactment of a skirmish called the Spring Garden Plantation Raid.
The event, which will include re-enactors from throughout the state, will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the YMCA's Camp Winona, off U.S. Highway 17 in DeLeon Springs.
It is named after a nearby plantation that raised cattle, sugar cane, corn and cotton during the war. Union troops raided the area, drove off the cattle and destroyed its buildings and crops.
Wearing authentic uniforms and using tactics from the 1860s, troops will skirmish at 2 p.m. each day.
Black regiments, mounted cavalrymen and artillery crews with cannons are scheduled to participate, along with re-enactors who will demonstrate the lifestyles of black civilians before and during the war.
Camps will be set up to show how both sides lived during the war, and historical displays and demonstration will be presented.
Admission is $4 per carload up to six people, and $1 for each additional person. Proceeds will go to the Daytona Beach YMCA.
Details: 386-749-1341 or 352-687-8737.
By Charlene Hager-Van Dyke, Sentinel Staff WriterMay 3, 2002
UNITED WAY DAY
Adventure Landing will host United Way Day at the Daytona Beach water park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The community is invited to attend at reduced admission prices, while contributing to the United Way.
Regular admission is $19.99 and $16.99, but on Saturday, admission will be $15.99, including $5 donated directly to the United Way of Volusia-Flagler counties.
Vouchers are available at Publix supermarkets and the United Way office at 3747 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach.
The event is open to the public, but vouchers are required. Details: Barbara Kingston at 386-253-0563386-253-0563, Ext. 236.
CHILDREN'S THEATER AUDITIONS
Auditions for the Storybook Theater Company's production of Charlotte's Web will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Sands Theater Center in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Upper elementary- and middle-school children are invited to try out for the Joseph Robinette adaptation of E.B. White's classic tale on its 50th anniversary.
Auditions will include cold readings from the script. Performance dates are July 19 to 28.
Details: 386-738-7156.
ROCK OPERA IN DELAND
Jesus Christ Superstar, the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, will open at 8 p.m. today at the Sands Theater Center in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
The rock opera that launched the careers of Rice and Webber is the provocative retelling of Jesus of Nazareth's last seven days.
Jesus Christ Superstar features such well-known songs as "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Everything's All Right," "Herod's Song" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him."
Additional performances are set for 8 p.m. Saturday, May 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 12 and 19.
Reserved-seat tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students, and early reservations are recommended. Details: 386-738-7156 or 386-736-7456.
PLANTATION RAID
The Civil War will come to life this weekend as Confederate and Union soldiers square off in the re-enactment of a skirmish called the Spring Garden Plantation Raid.
The event, which will include re-enactors from throughout the state, will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the YMCA's Camp Winona, off U.S. Highway 17 in DeLeon Springs.
It is named after a nearby plantation that raised cattle, sugar cane, corn and cotton during the war. Union troops raided the area, drove off the cattle and destroyed its buildings and crops.
Wearing authentic uniforms and using tactics from the 1860s, troops will skirmish at 2 p.m. each day.
Black regiments, mounted cavalrymen and artillery crews with cannons are scheduled to participate, along with re-enactors who will demonstrate the lifestyles of black civilians before and during the war.
Camps will be set up to show how both sides lived during the war, and historical displays and demonstration will be presented.
Admission is $4 per carload up to six people, and $1 for each additional person. Proceeds will go to the Daytona Beach YMCA.
Details: 386-749-1341 or 352-687-8737.