CORAL GABLES – Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre opened the new Off-Broadway musical revue The Water Coolers on Friday, July 9. Hosted by Chairman of the Board Lawrence E. Stein and Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein, the musical was sponsored by Atlantis Paradise Island, Bahamas, A1A Ideal Business Machines, A Willets-O’Neil Company, Martinair, Cultural Affairs of Miami-Dade County, and Univision Radio. Bacardi USA, Inc. and LaEstanciaArgentina hosted the Gala reception for 300 guests.

Accompanying the musical’s opening was “Cooler Colours,” an exhibit by local artist Hans Feyerabend. The collection of paintings will remain on view throughout the run of the show and is for sale. Other special guests at the opening included the conceiver of The Water Coolers, Thomas Michael Allen and his wife Sally, Michael Sag of Richard Frankel Productions of New York, City of Coral Gables Vice Mayor Ralph Cabrera, Jr., City of Miami Beach Commissioner Matti Herrera-Bowen, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman, Former Mayor of Coral Gables Dorothy Thomson and her husband Jack, School Board Member Dr. Michael Krop and wife Dr. Lois Krop, School Board Member Dr. Marta Perez and Chris Wolfe, Don Foley of Martinair, and Sio Lindner of Bacardi USA, Inc. 

Tickets for Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre’s production of The Water Coolers are on sale now through September 5. Tickets are $35 for Wednesday and Thursday performances at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., and $40 for Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. performances. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount the day of performance and $10 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain, with all discounts based on availability and excluding all Saturday performances and Sunday matinees. Group rates are available for 15 or more.
For more information about tickets, group rates and season subscriptions, contact Actors’ Playhouse at 305-444-9293, or go to the website at www.actorsplayhouse.org. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster.

Actors’ Playhouse recently announced a blockbuster 2004-05 seven show season, including the nationally-noted, interactive comedy Shear Madness in October, followed by rare regional productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Elton John’s and Tim Rice’s AIDA, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, and Alan Ayckbourn’s new and innovative interlocking House and Garden plays. The summer 2005 production will be the Carbonell Award winning musical comedy The Big Bang, returning by popular demand. Next season will mark Actors’ Playhouse’s 10th anniversary in the historic Miracle Theatre.

Season subscriptions for the 10th anniversary season are on sale now, with prices ranging from $157 for preview nights, $229 for Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday matinees, $273 for Friday and Saturday evenings, and $290 for VIP Flexible/Anytime tickets for best seats in any performance. Opening night tickets, including a gala dinner party, are $430. Special 10th anniversary any 4 show flexible mini-subscriptions are $170. Student subscriptions for students 16 years and younger with a full adult subscription are $110. As an added bonus, new subscribers will receive $20 off any ticket purchase for The Water Coolers.