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October 27, 2006 |
Issue # 25 |
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What Becomes a Legend Most?
The Fate of the Jackie Gleason Theatre has been
Decided, but Don’t Expect Everyone to be Happy About It
By Mary Damiano
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The Jackie Gleason Theatre of the
Performing Arts Photo: Mark Finnen |
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The dust has settled. Cirque du Soleil has pulled out of its proposed deal to
turn the Jackie Gleason Theatre into their permanent Miami Beach venue. The
Miami Beach City Commission has decided to go with a proposal from Live Nation,
who, if all goes as planned, will become the permanent promoter for the theatre.
But not everyone is satisfied with that decision. Ray
Breslin, president of the Collins Park Neighborhood Association, fought hard for
Cirque du Soleil's proposal to go through.
“I think that the City of Miami
Beach made a huge error in going with Live Nation,” says Breslin. “People are
resistant to change, that’s the problem,” Breslin says. “They want everything
the way it was, and the way it was is comfortable, but not necessarily right. I
think that the City of Miami Beach has lost.” |
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Up, Up and Away
Miami Actress Flies High with
Latest Role
By Mary Damiano
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Annemaria Rajala in front of the
Cessna that helped her prepare for her role as a search and rescue pilot in The
Women’s Theatre Project’s production of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of the Bird
Photo: Mark Rossmore |
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In her role in Tongue of the Bird, the new
production from The Women’s Theatre Project, Miami actress Annemaria Rajala
plays a search and rescue pilot. Ironically, the production’s sound designer
Mark Rossmore is a licensed pilot who flies the same kind of plane specified in
the play. Rossmore took Rajala up for a flight so she could better prepare for
her role.
The pair took off from Opa-locka Airport, the same
airport from which Amelia Earhart departed on her last, ill-fated flight. The
plane, a 1970’s-era Cessna 172, was the smallest plane Rajala, a native of
Finland had ever been in. |
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