Josh Recommends: Top Central Florida Performances for 2024 and Exciting Picks for 2025

Check your ticket stubs – The end of the year welcomes in special performances and THIS YEAR promises to be one of the best ever for Central Florida.

September 27 to 29, 2024
The Second City 65th Anniversary Show
The Second City celebrates 65 years of laughs with a show that features sketches written over the years by an extraordinary “alumni list,” including Catherine O’Hara, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Joan Rivers, and so many more. See for yourself why Second City continues to be among the world’s most influential names in comedy.

October 2 and 16 and November 20, 2024
A Young People’s Concert – “Anchor’s Aweigh – A Musical Day at Sea”
When “Seaweed Sam’s young crew lands in the orchestra pit, it’s “all horns on deck” from the Orlando Philharmonic. This educational program is presented annually in partnership with Orange County Public Schools for over 65,000 public school students!!!

October 4 at 8 pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 49th Anniversary Spectacular Show
Join the original “Brad Majors” – BARRY BOSTWICK – for a screening of the original unedited version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a live shadow cast, audience participation, costume contest and more! Plus, check out on-site memorabilia display with an actual costume from the movie.

October 10 and 11, 2024
Three String Queens at “Judson Live”
Dr. Phillips Center Presents “Judson’s Live’ – Dr. Phillips Center’s newest music room inspired by the world’s best “listening rooms” where great food and great music come together. The String Queens is a dynamic string trio that covers audiences with love from a repertoire from Baroque to Jazz. Come and see why TSQ has performed at all of Americas’ greatest venues from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center.

October 17 to 20, 2024
Orlando Ballet Presents ROMEO and JULIET
Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s favorite and most performed play. Add to that the passion of live performers and what may be the world’s most beautiful ballet score – by Sergei Prokofiev. Lose yourself in the passion, rhapsody, and joy from one of the Orlando Ballet’s best seasons ever.

October 22 to 27, 2024
Broadway in Orlando 24/25 Season
THE BOOK OF MORMON
The New York Times calls it “the best musical of the century.” Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” – and there’s more – “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” And “OUTRAGEOUS.” Contains explicit language. For more information, visit TheBookOfMormonTour.com.

November 9 and 10, 2024
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Presents
“An Evening with Jamie Bernstein”
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Jamie Bernstein, narrator
Mikaela Bennet, soprano
BERNSTEIN – Candide Overture
BERNSTEIN – Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
BERNSTEIN – Somewhere from “West Side Story”
BERNSTEIN – Times Square from “On the Town”
MAHLER – Symphony No. 4
Jamie Bernstein, daughter of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein will join the Orlando Philharmonic for a program that embodies her profound connection to her father’s music.

November 12 to 17, 2024
The CHER Show — A New Musical
The CHER Show is the Tony Award®-winning musical filled with so much Cher that it includes 35 smash hits, a Grammy, an Oscar, an Emmy, and enough beaded gowns to cause a sequin shortage on the Vegas strip — all in one fabulous new musical straight from Broadway!!!

November 15 at 6 pm, 2024
Disney Jr. Live On Tour
In “Disney Jr. Live ” Mickey is getting ready for His biggest playdate ever with favorite pals Minnie, Goofy and Ariel” — but bad weather is interrupting the fun. Can Team Spidey save the fun? This concert-style show is loaded with singing, dancing, and acrobatics with favorite songs from Disney Jr.

November 30, 2024 at 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm
The Orlando Philharmonic Presents
“HOME for the HOLIDAYS” with Byron Stripling, Conductor and featuring vocal group ‘Holiday Swing’
Fill your holidays with joy and song from the ‘King of Swing,’ Byron Stripling! The Powerhouse Trumpet Virtuoso and Pops Conductor will share his special ‘Holiday charm’ in a program filled with carols and sing-alongs for the whole family.

December 17 to 22, 2024
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Winner of 4 Tony Awards, and drawn directly from the movie classic starring Marilyn Monroe, the “new” Some Like it Hot is a “song and dance spectacular.” Add the tap dancing, the laughs and a whole lot of Broadway razzle-dazzzle, and Some Like it Hot is exactly what we all need from Broadway right now.

February 5 to March 2, 2025
The Orlando Shakespeare Festival presents CABARET
Willkommen – Bien Venue – Welcome! Orlando Shakes has been doing a great job bringing us great musicals, and now they are bringing us the award-winning — slightly naughty work that turned Liza Minnelli into a Super-Star! For tickets to THIS performance call 407.447.1700

For tickets, call 407.358.6603 or visit drphillipscenter.org

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