This Sunday - One Show Only

 

DANCING WITH THE RADIO STARS

 

See
WANZIE dance the PASO DOBLE with Stuart Nichols

 

 

See

MOIRA dance the CHA CHA with John Evans

 

Other Radio Stars:
Marvin Hinton     Alex Diaz     Warren Lee

Estee     John Boy Fresh

 

Dance Floor Ringside Table Seating

(Includes Italian Buffet, Dessert & Soft Beverages, and Complimentary - $12 value - Self-Side Parking)

 $75

 

General Admission

Seating behind ringside tables
(Includes Italian Buffet, Dessert & Soft Beverages, and Complimentary - $12 value - Self-Side Parking)

$50

 

Spectator Package

(No food included. Admission to ballroom for show with complimentary soft beverages and self parking inclusive)

Only $30

 

All proceeds benefit

Dance For Success

Local public school programs

 

Cash Bar

 

Sunday, September 26, 2010

 

4 PM

 

Rosen Shingle Creek Resort

Grand Ballroom

9939 Universal Blvd

Orlando, Florida

 

Purchase a ticket:

http://www.dance4success.org/purchase.html

 

 

Donate to this non-profit

School & Youth Partnership Program:

http://www.dance4success.org/index-2.html

 

 

 

Watch a video clip of
Wanzie & Stuart rehearsing -

 

Featuring Congressman Ric Keller?:

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/Dance4Success#p/f/12/0MXh_pBMqcE

 

 

The following is the second in a series of reports from our WANZeGRAM Global Correspondent in New Orleans - Shaun McLain - the first WANZeGRAM subscriber to take us up on our offer to become an out-of-area contributing writer.

 

Decadence and Football

 

New Orleans is a city of many contradictions. This past month we had the big ol' gay Southern Decadence Festival over Labor Day weekend, followed in the same week by the not-quite-so-gay National Football League coming out party. I'll leave it to Wanzie's dear readers to decide which was the more colorful, political, and just more darn fun.

 

When the Saints won the Super Bowl for the first time earlier this year, the city erupted into a huge spontaneous city-wide party. No overturned vehicles, no fires, little violence of any kind. Very unlike other cities with stronger winning traditions. The NFL's attempt to recreate this on opening day with corporate sponsored floats and mainstream bands fell a bit flat. Of course I did attend; it was a party and parade, after all.

 

Not-So-Festive NFL Parade Float

 

 In stark contrast to NFL entry: a typical Southern Decadence Float

 

The Theme for Southern Decadence this year was Leather and Feathers. With the recent BP oil spill fiasco, this led to some very interesting costumes in the Sunday afternoon parade. One particularly good looking group (mine) made up of participants from Orlando, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Dallas, wore black feathers and various bits of leather, and passed out fans to viewers lining the parade route with the words "Don't Tar My Feathers." Many other groups also took on the BP theme.

 

 Shaun's group's "Don't Tar My Feather's" entry.

 

 

Killer Bee Pees

 

We were blessed with some of the best weather ever for Southern Decadence. Of course any Decadence without a hurricane is a good Decadence.  The parade always brings out many New Orleans residents; straight, gay, young, and old.  It also brings out...protestors.  These self-proclaimed "Christians" are pathetic, but at least a bit entertaining. The NOPD keeps them from interrupting the parade, and usually runs their sirens continuously to drown out their drivel. To quote a NOLA blogger, "They are so clownish they become part of the carnival atmosphere. I get more of a laugh out of them than many of the costumes. If they are so appalled of homosexuality, you would think they would go out of the way to avoid the full out... uh... exuberance of Southern Decadence. I mean, if you want to make a statement rent an ad or something. Instead they join in with their own exhibitionism. But they illustrate the yin and yang of it all; in the end the Saint needs the Sinner more than the Sinner needs the Saint."  They also provide a convenient stop to send off our confetti sticks, much to the crowd's delight.  Fortunately these hypocrites are a very tiny minority, and the rest of the city provides a welcoming and accepting attitude.

 

And speaking of Saints, we did win that season opener!

 

Shaun McLain
Official WANZeGRAM Global Correspondent
Reporting from the French Quarter, New Orleans

 

Shaun McLain has lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans for over 3 1/2 years as a Florida transplant from Tampa. A routine visitor to New Orleans before the failure of the levees, Shaun decided to look for a job there immediately post-Katrina. He is pleased to be working for one of the engineering companies helping to rebuild the city he so enjoys, and which he considers to be the most unique in all of America. Shaun is also thrilled to be our very first WANZeGRAM Global Correspondent.

 

Would you like to be a contributing writer? Why not join our soon-to-be team of Global Correspondents. Just write to Wanzie, and he'll get you set up:  wanziemichael@yahoo.com

 

A stab from theme park past:

 

  

 
 
 
 

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OPENING NEXT WEEK!

 

 

Music & Lyrics by Jeff Bowen   Book by Hunter Bell

 

Directed & Choreographed by
Kenny Howard & Michael Wanzie

 

Musical Direction & on-stage accompaniment by
John B. deHaas
 

 

Please consider attending the
Saturday, October 2nd
Opening Night Performance
which will include a
POST-SHOW RECEPTION
With complimentary nosh!
Followed by the fabulous

 

  Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16, & 23 at 7:30 PM
 
Industry Night Performance - Monday, October 25 at 8 PM
 
Footlight Theatre
Parliament House Resort
 
Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16 & 23:

 $14 in advance / reserved seating: 

$16 at the door/general admission/if available
 
Monday, October 25:

 $12 in advance/reserved seating

$14 at the door/general admission/if available

 

Select-A-Seat Now

 

 

 

Advance tickets for

HALLOWEEN THE MUSICAL

Purchased through the

WANZIE.com Online Box Office

Guarantees the ticket buyer access to the roped off

"Best Seats In The House"

Front Center Section

of the

Margeson Theatre

Orlando Shakes

 

Friday, October 22 and Sunday, October 24

 

8 PM

 

$15

 

 

 

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