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Theatre: A busy week ahead
Next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Valdosta State University Opera presents several showings of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”
Next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Theatre Guild Valdosta presents the comedy “Leading Ladies.”
Next Saturday, Valdosta High School Theater Arts presents the play “Enchanted April.”
Next Friday and Saturday, Valdosta State University Theatre & Dance presents its annual children’s play based on Beverly Cleary’s children’s novels, “Ramona Quimby.”
All of this and next weekend is also the annual Father-Daughter Valentine Dance.
Perhaps some folks in the arts community should get together when creating these schedules. Seems there have been plenty of weeks with no theatrical productions at all then, boom, we have five live shows all within less than a week — all competing with the Father-Daughter Dance, the social event of the year for many families.
In fairness to VSU Theatre & Dance, it has presented its annual children’s show the first weekend of February for more than a decade. That’s a fairly well-established tradition. VSU Theatre offers public performances on the first Friday evening and the first Saturday morning in February before taking its children’s show on the road to regional schools.
Given the talent and quality of all of these productions from high school to community to the university and even the professional tour, one can’t complain about any of these performances. It’s just that there’s too much of a good thing packed into one week especially when there will be other weeks with nothing playing.
With this many performances within such a short time, audiences have the tough job of deciding what to see and what they will have to miss. With this many shows playing, some of each venue’s empty seats could have been filled by audiences attending another show.
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Theatre: A busy week ahead
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