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Sarasota News Leader May 10, 2013 Page 111 BOOKER MIDDLE TO SHOWCASE STUDENT CREATIVITY Students in the Visual and Performing Arts Program at Booker Middle School will showcase their talents at events this month to which the public will be welcomed, the Sarasota County Schools has announced. At 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 28, in Booker Middle Room 407 (also known as the Black Box Theater), VPA Musical Theatre students will present a Cabaret that will spotlight a variety of performances: singing, acting in small groups At 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 15, in the school's and monologues, the release notes. cafeteria, students in the VPA TV/Film Pro- Admission to the Cabaret is $3. Teachers and gram will present the Booker Middle Film Fes- children under age 5 will be admitted free. tival. Admission is free. "Our students really get a chance to shine in "The festival is an exciting showing of select- this Cabaret," said Mills in the release. ed films produced by our students this year," said Booker Middle VPA Coordinator Melanie Booker Middle School is located at 2250 Myrtle St., Sarasota. Heggs in a news release. FST ANNOUNCES THREE SHOWS FOR ITS SUMMER SEASON Florida Studio Theatre will present the musical revue The World Goes 'Round, the comedy The Underpants and a witty new play, South Beach Babylon, during its summer season, which will open May 31 and continue through Sept. 1, the theatre has announced. bration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going," the release says. It features such songs as Mr. Cellophane, Maybe This Time, Cabaret and New York, New York. Artistic Director Richard Hopkins said in a news release, "This summer will be a time of rejoicing at FST. … From Kander and Ebb's musical revue The World Goes 'Round to Steve Martin's fresh adaptation of the wacky comedy The Underpants, to life in Miami's fast lane with Michael McKeever's South Beach Babylon, the summer promises to be fun, classy, stylish and fun-loving." Opening next in the Keating Theatre will be The Underpants by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin. Chicago Theatre Beat has called it "Extraordinarily entertaining," according to the news release. The 2013 summer season kicks off in the Gompertz Theatre with The World Goes 'Round. "Filled with humor, romance, drama and nonstop melody, this … is a thrilling cele- It will run until June 21. "Some lives are shaped by tragedy, some by art and others by underpants falling down in public," the release adds. "This play … spins the farcical tale of five lives reborn from one accidental act of indecency. Its satirical challenge to our obsession with sex and celebrity will be sure to have you howling with Martin's peculiar brand of innuendos and ribaldry," the