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Party with 'Rocky,' learn from 'Heights' duo

As Halloween approaches, you can count on some theater or other doing The Rocky Horror Show, that dress-up audience participation horror flick spoof.  This year, Entr'Acte Theatrix will do the Time Warp and all the other tunes from the forever-popular Rocky.  And Andrews Living Arts Studio in Fort Lauderdale is having its own go at Rocky, with a special Halloween costume ball.

The Entr'Acte Rocky Horror runs from Thursday through Nov. 4 at the Crest Theatre at the Delray Center for the Arts in Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray each.  Performances are 8 p.m. Oct. 25-27 and Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 28, and 2 p.m. Nov. 3-4.  Tickets are $25 ($10 student rush).  For information, call 561-243-7922 or visit the Entr'Acte web site.

Andrews Living Arts' Rocky Horror is at 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, with extra 11 p.m. shows Friday-Saturday and that costume ball at 8 p.m. on Halloween.  Tickets are $24.95 in advance, $29.95 at the door (for Halloween, you get the lower rate if you come in costume), and studnets pay $16.95.  Andrews Living Arts is at 23 NW Fifth St. in Fort Lauderdale.  Call 1-800-838-3006 or visit the theater's web site.

Heights actors give back

Shaun Taylor-CorbettActor-dancers Noemi Del Rio and Shaun Taylor-Corbett met while doing the Broadway production of In the Heights, then got married. Both are headed for Miami Oct. 26-27 to teach master classes for the Miami Childrens Theater.  Del Rio, a New World School of the Arts grad, and Taylor-Corbett offer a workshop session From 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 26 in which they'll teach an In the Heights dance combination followed by an interactive seminar covering auditions and vocal/acting techniques.  The cost is $35.

Noemi Del RioTheir four-hour workshop from 2 to 6 p.m. Oct. 27 is a musical theater master class in which they'll work with individual students.  That one has a $150 fee and is limited to a dozen participants; three spaces remain.

The master classes take place in the Russell Theater at the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center, 11155 SW 112th Ave., Miami.  For information, call 305-274-3595 or visit the theater's web site.

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