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The Drunkard, A Musical Melodrama

The Glenridge Performing Arts Center (7333 ScotlandWay, Sarasota) is proud to present, The Drunkard, A Musical Melodrama, produced by GPAC –February 22 & 23 and March 1 & 2 at 8:00 p.m. and February 24 & March 2 at 2:00 p.m.
Composer Barry Manilow takes us back to a simpler, infinitely less subtle dayin this deliciously fun and exaggerated musical about the good, the bad, and thebesotted. When Sweet Mary Wilson weds the virtuous Edward, the villainouslawyer Cribbs, determined to foreclose on the quaint little cottage Mary shareswith her poor widowed mother, sees to it that the devil’s beverage, alcohol, isserved.
Alas and alack! Edward is lured to the city and ensnared in a web of sin and drunkenness! Hebecomes The Drunkard! Can Mary and her innocent young child save her inebriated husbandfrom the evils of the bottle? And what of the diabolical Cribbs? Come and boo, hiss and cheeryour favorite characters! Writer Bro Herrod and Manilow, the king of 1970s and 80s pop music,wrote this hilarious version of the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith.
The Drunkard, A Musical Melodrama – at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center, 7333Scotland Way, February 22 & 23 and March 1 & 2 at 8:00 p.m. and February 24 & March 2 at2:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for just $22.50 at gpactix.com or by calling the GPAC boxoffice at 552-5325. Groups of 10 or more receive a reduced rate of $20.00. GPAC Family andstudents get a discounted rate of $17.50.
Glenridge Performing Arts Center, 7333 Scotland Way, Sarasota, 552-5325 or www.gpactix.comGet social with GPAC at www.facebook.com/glenridgePAC

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