Mesa, AZ (February 17, 2017) – Mesa Arts Center is pleased to announce the hilarious hit musical DISENCHANTED! will be performed in the Piper Theater March 21 and 22. Tickets are on sale now and available at the Mesa Arts Center Box Office, at mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs 'em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in the hilarious hit musical that’s anything but Grimm. Forget the princesses you think you know – the original storybook heroines have come back to life to set the record straight. After multiple sold-out runs in the USA, these royal renegades tossed off their tiaras to bring their hilariously subversive, not-for-the-kiddies musical to you – and what you thought about princesses will never be the same!
The idea for DISENCHANTED! was conceived by Dennis T. Giacino, a former history teacher. . . he found himself discovering a number of other princesses who had a bone to pick with the way they have been portrayed, and DISENCHANTED! was born!
You will laugh and then laugh some more at the sassy, irreverent humor." Broadway Box raves, “Think ‘Bridesmaids’ for Disney Princesses! This sidesplitting adult parody of the Disney princess posse and its mega-talented cast will make you blush and feel nostalgia all at once. Who could ask for anything more?”
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 22, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
TICKET INFORMATION
Individual tickets for DISENCHANTED! at Mesa Arts Center are $45.
DISENCHANTED! is presented through special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide, 1180 Ave. of the Americas, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10036, www.theatricalrights.com.
Maybe due to the recent downpours of rain and the limited visibility created by fog-in-the-air, your MesaZona blogger has been hunkering down at home starving a fever to clear up some thinking about regeneration here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa. While some individuals in the entrenched political machine have called me directly to my face a 'Rabble-Rouser' and others in snarky second-hand comments a 'Trouble-Maker', those insinuations regarding my motivations publishing this blog site - now approaching 100,000 page views - fall way off-the-mark, merely exposing the closed mindset in politics here within a certain circle of friends and families who have dominated this city for generations with overlapping and undisclosed business interests.
A recent case in point [and there are others] was the bogus privately-financed $500,000+ public relations fiasco to hoodwink Mesa voters to approve a $220M tax increase for a Pie-In-The-Sky half-baked proposal that would have benefited this group of conservative Repubs and their "special interests" - voters rejected this major screw-up, a major turn in the wrong direction for Mayor John Giles' NextMesa campaign that he calls a setback. Getting better informed and taking action, Mesa taxpayers rejected whatever thinking or scheming went into that narrow-minded tunnel vision group-think: the public voted overwhelmingly NO!
Regarding higher education initiatives, it needs to get pointed out that while five out-of-state universities were lured downtown four years ago by ex-mayor Scott Smith's H.E.A.T. initiative mostly to fill vacant city-owned buildings - with three moving out - two have struggled to enroll a threshold of over 400 students with Benedictine University starting with 70 students in 2012 reaching that goal in 2017 at their downtown campus and realizing the need for nearby student housing downtown in the adaptive re-use for an historic property activated by public-private partnerships for finance. That strategy worked in a 5-month timetable for investing about $4million dollars for property acquisition and construction without major demolition downtown or business disruptions. Everyone worked together. It was not the radical transformation for downtown envisioned by the mayor and the FOG and promoted by Director of Downtown Transformation Jeff McVay - it is the kind of small and incremental growth that keeps what makes Mesa unique.
Duration: 2.5 + hours WATCH AND LISTEN Low drama in the Lower Chambers yesterday with housing items and the city's budget and budget forecast outlook that creates a 5% cut across-the-board driven by a project $20M shortfall in revenue vs expenses largely due to catastrophic health claims, unconstitutional changes made in the state legislature for PSPRS ... does City Manager Chris Brady have his financial act together? Published on Feb 16, 2017 Views: 24 Readers please note that final agenda was published in an earlier post on this site. 8 Blue cards submitted for public comments on three housing proposals, two of which were opposed by a certain group of West Mesa people that always publicly object to most of the affordable and affordable housing in their district [District 1] or anywhere else ... that might represent a pattern of housing discrimination and violation of the Fair Housing Act. However, that issue was neither raised nor brought up for discussion.
Intro speaker can't even pronounce the Mayor's name correctly . . . Giles rambles on about "Dunkin' Donuts" Note the huge turn-out in the alleyway just off Main Street, not noting that 3 small businesses have closed their doors on Mesa Main Street in December of last year.
Published on Feb 16, 2017
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Held on Feb. 15, 2017 Mesa Mayor John Giles receives Small Business Advocate Award
You do not need to answer every question. If you aren't sure or don't have an opinion, please leave the question blank and go on. If a company, person or restaurant receives 5 write-ins, we will add them as an option, so feel free to think beyond the options we've provided. However, please only include companies, people or restaurants within Mesa, and do not write in "NA," "none," "idk" or similar responses.
The special Best of Mesa 2017 issue will publish March 26.
Good luck to all the best businesses in Mesa. – Contact Ralph Zubiate at 480-898-6825 or rzubiate@timespublications.com.