Reminder: Something Old Something New, a cabaret benefit presented by Checkerboard Productions, (a youth-run theatre group for youth) is this Monday night, October 27, 7pm, at the Orlando Youth Theatre (an adult-run theatre group for youth), 398 W Amelia St Orlando, FL 32801.
Three reasons to go:*If the Orlando-based singer/actor Laura Hodos is in a production, you go. No questions asked. You must trust me on this. So, when I say someone is "The Laura Hodos of" something, it means, if that someone is in the show, you go. No questions asked. You must trust me on this.
1. Eight dollar tickets online. Ten at the door.
2. How many youth-run theatre groups in Orlando do YOU know of? This is an awesome thing Orlando would benefit greatly from. Let's support them and see where they go!
3. Elizabeth Murff is in the show. She is the Laura Hodos of comedy.*
4. The concept is neat: the seasoned performers in the cabaret (i.e. the old people) sing modern Broadway songs full of belting, screeching high notes and curse word-infused lyrics, while the youngins in the cabaret sing Broadway classics with dated topics and references to "the war" or holding hands. LOVE IT.