Looks like Broadway producers in New York are heading for a battle with stagehands that may ultimately end up getting ugly. I respect stagehands a great deal, but there is a lot of waste in old school, outdated contractual arrangements that call for laborers to be paid while standing around. In Coral Springs, all the stagehands work for Professional Facilities Management (PFM), the company that runs the 1471-seat theater. There is no contract. There is no IATSE arrangement, and the situation works well.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/theater/26hand.html

Gotta love kids, especially camp kids, if you're going to work at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts these days. The largest performing arts camp in all of South Florida, entitled Next Stop Broadway, is right here in Coral Springs every summer. Perhaps you didn't know that. Over 300 kids every day for 11 weeks roam the theater and meeting rooms, singing, dancing, making new friends, and learning to come out of their shells. Some more than others :)

A great group of creative people lead these children for four week sessions culminating in productions ranging from Grease to High School Musical this summer.

It's wholesome family entertainment, so catch a local musical if you're so inclined, bring the grandparents, the kids, the neighbors and grab a bag of popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show.