A seashell expert gives a talk at Old School Square, John Lennon’s art opens in Boca, and Delray wears green for St. Patrick’s Day. This week’s highlights include a musical featuring Tina Turner and more.
You Have This Week: March 12–18
Tuesday.
What: The premiere of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”
When: 8:00p.m. March
The Kravis Centre is located in West Palm Beach at 701 Okeechobee Boulevard.
Prices range from $74 to $109; 561/832-7469, kravis.org
Over a 50-year period, Tina Turner revolutionised popular music by first dominating R&B and then moving on to rock ‘n’ roll.
She also won 12 Grammy Awards and became the first Black musician and woman to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Her life was one that could have been two or three Broadway musicals, and she enjoyed—and endured, for far too long—it. Presently, we have “Tina,” a jukebox musical approved by the artist that narrates the turbulent life of Tennessee-born Anna Mae Bullock. Ike Turner, the bandleader and showman who found her, wedded her, and mistreated her, eventually dubbed her Tina Turner.
Even with the widespread racism and ageism of the time, by Act II Turner has left her abusive first husband behind and is pursuing a new musical vision as a solo artist. “Let’s Stay Together,” “Proud Mary,” “Private Dancer,” and, of course, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
There is still Sunday left in this Kravis on Broadway trip.
THURSDAY
What: “A Seashell’s Story and the Destiny of the Oceans”
When: 6:00 P.M.
Location: 51 North Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach; Old School Square Fieldhouse
Fee: $20; members of the Delray Beach Historical Society may pay $15. Information: 561/274-9578, delraybeachhistory.org
Seashells have more historical significance than first appears, despite being collected by beachcombers all around the world as decorative trinkets or inspiration for artwork.
Shells were once valued as holy artefacts and sold as a kind of international money, as you may have heard. Though Cynthia Barnett possesses the receipts, neither did we. Award-winning science writer The Sound of the Sea: A Conversation with a University of Florida Affiliate will discuss her groundbreaking book.
NPR named Seashells & the Fate of the Oceans one of the top scientific books of 2021. You’ll discover topics you never knew you needed to know about seashells, such the marine mollusks that produce them and how they might help us grasp the world’s climate issue.
Friday
When: from 6 p.m. to 8p.m.March
Where: 8214 Glades Road, Boca Raton; Keshet Gallery
Cost: Free; 561/359-7918
Before he was even a Beatle, John Lennon was a visual artist. He studied for three years at the Liverpool Art Institute in the late 1950s, where he created a direct, humorous, and primitive drawing style that he would intermittently pursue alongside his music career.
This kind selection of his 2D masterpieces, which are on display in Boca Raton for the first time, demonstrates how love, peace, and communication—the ideas that shaped his songs for the Fab Four and beyond—are also fundamental to his visual work. The artwork in “Give Peace a Chance” spans the 1950s to the 1970s, includes pieces made during his well-known 1969 “bed-in for world peace” at the Amsterdam Hilton with his wife Yoko Ono.
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The pieces can be seen and bought at Keshet Gallery through March 24.
What: “The Lehman Trilogy” premiere night
When: 7 p.m. March
Where: Coral Gables’ GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave.
Between $35 and $65, per
Investment bank Lehman Brothers will go down in history as one of the main catalysts of the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing recession, having been the greatest domino to fall in the subprime mortgage collapse.
Hey, not everyone can land the landing. The dramatist Stefano Massini’s portrayal of the history of this significant company begins in 1844 and offers a more nuanced picture of German entrepreneur Hayum Lehman and his two brothers, aspirational representatives of the American Dream who relocated from Bavaria to Alabama.
began as cotton merchants and went on to become tycoons in the coffee, oil, coal, railway, comic book, movie, computing, and, yes, banking industries. The play by Stefano, set in 2020, lasts for three and a half hours and has three actors portraying the O.G. Lehman brothers, their sons, and their grandsons. The piece follows the brothers as they establish an empire over 163 years, only to watch it collapse spectacularly. Through April 14, GableStage will present its regional premiere.
SATURDAY
When: From noon until five p.m.
When: Downtown Delray Beach, at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Old School Square
Cost: Nothing
Here in downtown Delray, this yearly city custom is back for another “green party.”
From the Intracoastal Bridge to Northwest Fifth Avenue, the parade travels along Atlantic Avenue, starting at noon. An encirclement of kilted pipe and drum players will play the National Anthem, and a 17-year-old singer from Dreyfoos School of the Arts will sing it in honour of American soldiers, including women veterans who serve as the ceremony’s Grand Marshals. Aranmore Academy of Irish Dance step dancers, axe throwing, more Irish dance dancing, pipes and drums music, and food vendors will all be present during the Festival portion of the event, which takes place at Old School Square from 1 to 5 p.m.