If you've got a minimum of a million and a half bucks to spare you can soon live in your own home, year round, right smack in the middle of "The Vacation Kingdom of the World".
 
Walt Disney World will soon be offering for sale, single family homes priced between $1.5 million and $8 million dollars, situated in its soon to be constructed Golden Oak residential resort community located adjacent to The Four Seasons Resort Orlando, situated right in the heart of the world's largest privately owned resort and entertainment destination.

 

Entrance to The Four Seasons Orlando Hotel and what will soon become Disney World's on-site residential gated community.

 
Disney "Imagineers" - the same folks who designed things like Pirates of the Caribbean, Expedition Everest, and all the international areas at Epcot's World Showcase - will design the gated community which will include a private clubhouse and use of most Four Seasons Resort amenities such as the spa, and golf course.
 
Disney anticipates the first homes (fewer than 30) will be available to be moved into in 2011, with as many as 400 more residences planned to be built upon the 980 acre site over the next ten years; almost half that acreage will consist of "designated conservation areas" a Disney spokesperson reported.
 
A recent Disney press release spins it this way, "We have a range of options for guests at all price points to enjoy the Walt Disney World Resort. But Golden Oak is something totally new: a residential resort community, right in the heart of the magic."

The first step for prospective homebuyers is to submit your name along with a 25-thousand dollar good faith deposit in order to snag a spot on the home buyer's reservation list. Disney started accepting deposits on Wednesday of this week.
 
So if you've always wanted to live inside the Walt Disney World Resort, break open your piggy bank and start counting out the millions; now is your chance!

 

As a result of how drastically the State of Florida has cut grant funding for the new fiscal year, The Orlando Fringe Festival's first round of grant funding has been reduced by nearly $23,000!

This could prove ruinous to this, the longest running Fringe in the USA and emergency support is needed now more than ever.  So the good folks over at your local Fringe office are launching the all new $20 for Fringe 20 fundraiser!- The results of which will hopefully help move the venerable arts organization into into its 20th Anniversary Festival in 2011.

Every time you donate $20 between July 1 and December 31, 2010, you will be entered into a drawing for a 2011 Fringe SUPER PASS to be drawn on January 1, 2011! 

If you have a PayPal account, you may make your donation online by visiting
www.orlandofringe.org. 

You may also call 407-648-0077 ext. 2 and pay via credit card. 

Or you may mail your tax deductible donation to: 

Orlando Fringe 
398 West Amelia Street 
Orlando, FL 32801 
Attention: 20 for 20 

And remember, for every $20 donated, you receive one entry into the SUPER PASS drawing on January 1, 2011.  Thus $100 means you will automatically have your name entered 5 times. 

If you would like to enter a friend, please call the Fringe office at 407.648.0077 to arrange payment and they will send a gift card in your friend's name, letting them know you have entered them into the drawing as gift to both the Fringe and your friend or family member. 
 
Participate now, and remember to consider this unique option when going through your Christmas gift giving list.
 
$20 for Fringe 20 makes a great gift for the arts supporter in your life and/or the once a year avid Fringe attendee.
 
Fringe needs your 20 bucks to see the festival through to its 20th year!  We and they thank you in advance for you consideration and generosity.

 

We are pleased to announce that the production facilities of D-Squared is the location selected to host Wanzie's upcoming ballroom dance classes.
 
D-Squared is located right smack dab on the corner of Alden Road and Virginia Drive, just a ½ block off Orange Avenue directly behind Bryon's Restaurant opposite Lake Ivanhoe.
 

Back in the late 70's and early 80's Wanzie worked as a multi-award-winning Ballroom Dance Instructor and Competition Choreographer for Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Over a period of 17-years thereafter, Wanzie taught over 1,200 Disney Cast Members how to dance Ballroom styles socially, through the Disney University/Cast Activities programs. He also taught Ballroom dance for the adult continuing education program at UCF, and choreographed Ballroom dance sequences for shows such as MY FAIR LADY and MAME at the Civic Theaters of Central Florida, as well as in KISS ME KATE for the Gold Coast Opera Company. While his passions turned from dance to theater, over the years Wanzie has taught the occasional group classes at various dance studios around Central Florida, and spent one summer teaching Ballroom at the famed DANCE COMPANY in Stratford, Connecticut.
 
In an effort to get moving again after spending most of his time sitting at a computer as of late, and at the behest of many friends and colleagues, Wanzie is once again offering his mini crash courses in Ballroom Dance.
 
The first course offered will meet for one hour sessions on 6 consecutive Thursday evenings: July 15, 22, & 29 and August 5, 12 & 19, 2010.
 
Crash Course #1 will focus on dance variations which all include and are built around the box step. The three dances students will absolutely learn to dance in a social (not competition) setting within the 6 week-long course are:

 

 
This provides a great beginners foundation for other dances, and the dances listed are taught in what is known as "Night Club Style," meaning steps and techniques the participants learn will be danceable on smallish and sometimes crowed dance floors, at weddings, on cruise ships, and at corporate functions.
 
Students need not have a partner to attend the class
 
Switching partners is required of those who sign up as couples. (This is essential in learning proper lead and follow technique)
 
Same-gender couples are most welcome to attend
 
Obviously the number of persons who may participate will be limited, so we encourage you to please register NOW if interested.
 
The starting time for the one-hour sessions will be 7:30 PM.
 
The fee is only $49 per single student for the entire 6-week course, or just
$90 per couple.
 
A second course to be offered later in the year will include instruction in -

 

An advanced class, which may ONLY be attended by students who took part in both the first and second courses listed above, will include instruction in
 

 

WANZIE'S BALLROOM DANCE CRASH COURSE #1
Fox Trot / Rumba / Waltz
1-Hour Group Sessions
Thursdays at 7:30 PM
6 Consecutive weeks / July 15 - August 19, 2010

D-Squared Production Facility
Alden Road at Virginia Drive in Orlando
 
Total Course Fee:
$49 single student
 $90 per couple
 
Full payment due upon registration
exclusively through the WANZIE.com online boxoffice
 
Class size limited
 
Students will be accepted in the order in which
registration/payments are received
 
Don't be a wallflower!
 
Register Now 

 

Wanzie,
 
I loved your Note From Wanzie last week. I always enjoy reading whatever you have to rant about, even when I don't agree, which is often. But me and my boyfriend both really like it when you ramble from one topic to another and cover a lot of unrelated things. We loved learning the history of A Little Night Music and are still scratching our heads over how that subject ended up in a retrospective of the New York Worlds Fair and how Michael Jackson once gave Liz Taylor Lake Eola swan boats? It's crazy how you do that, and we just wanted to say those are the kinds of notes we like best, rather than the ones where you bash the Vatican.
 
Your Fan,
Jeff Wheeler 
 
Dear Jeff,
 
Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to write in. I appreciate that you appreciate my rambling Notes rather than my ranting Notes.
 
Note taken.
 
However I still view the Catholic Church with utter distain and Vatican bashing will likely still occur in this e-publication, but in light of your letter I shall attempt to limit such Catholic-related rants to one per quarter.
 
I remain yours in the Christ who died for all of mankind's sins accept those of the homos who are going straight to hell.

 

Michael Allen Patrick Wanzie

 

We at the WANZeGRAM are always just as pleased as punch to receive, post, and answer our mail in this public forum. But it takes two to play!  Send your email to WANZIE! email michael@wanzie.com

 

"Happy Anniversary Barb and Carol" - Love Mom and Jed
 
"Delay is preferable to error." - Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEATRE - Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy
Carbon Productions, LLC presentation of the Frank Wedekind play which was the source material for the hit Broadway musical of the same name. Written in 1891 the play was immediately banned due its frank depiction of sexuality.
 
The story revolves around a group of teens in Germany who explore and, ultimately, must come to terms with their own growing desires. At times tragic and humorous, challenging and familiar, the play is often censored and rarely produced.

Featuring a new translation by award-winning novelist Jonathan Franzen, Spring Awakening is as relevant and provocative today as it was a hundred years ago.
 
The show will feature a slew of talented youngsters with the adult roles being filled by such notable actors as Robyn Pedretti-Kelly, John Palmer, Landon Price, Lori McCaskill and Kevin Bee.

 

SPRING AWAKENING: A Children's Tragedy
TONIGHT, June 25 & Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 8PM

Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 3PM 

Orlando Shakes - Studio B
812 East Rollins Street
In Loch Haven Park directly behind the Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL 32803
 
$10 with advance reservation:
carbonproductions@gmail.com or call 407-271-9311
 
$15 at the door (cash only)