The Edit, Episode 6
Broadway Brings on Opera
Famed Broadway musical director Richard Jay-Alexander is leading South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s groundbreaking production of Porgy and Bess, the opera by composer George Gershwin. Over three performances, a 70-piece orchestra will play to a set design by Paul Tate dePoo. This is an new adaptation features an all-star cast that includes Neil Nelson, Brandie Sutton, Jermaine Smith, and Simone Paulwell.
Wednesday January 16, 2019, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 PM Tickets $39 – $204, Arshtcenter.org 305-949-6722
Saturday, January 19, 2019, Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West, 7:30 PM Tickets $75 – $150 Twstages.com 305-296-1520
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, Au-Rene Theatre at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 PM, Tickets $40 – $200, Browardcenter.org 954-462-0222
Serious Collectors’ Items
Louis Vuitton is launching the debut collection of Virgil Abloh, the fashion designer, DJ and music producer who has been the artistic director of the brand’s menswear collection. The highly anticipated line will be unveiled at a limited-time pop-up in the Louis Vuitton Design District location at an invitation only event this week. The spring/summer 2019 items will be available at select stores and the fashion world is watching eagerly. The website Hypebeast.com reported the set includes monogrammed courier trunks priced at $78,000 and pochettes at $495, with footwear starting at $1020 and a crocodile trench coat selling for – take a breath – 195,000.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Cecil and Ana Milton will host at their Gables Estates home a fundraising event to benefit students of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami. Hospitality magnate Karim J. Alibhai will serve as honorary chairman for the Bollywood themed celebration, which will include an authentic Indian buffet dinner, cocktails, a celebrity DJ and a performance by Making Moves Universal Dance Company. It’s the sixth annual “Lori Brener Scholarship Fund” and will this year be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, February 9th with tickets at $175.per person, https://connect.bbbsmiami.org/lbsf-celeb
Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.
