Food & Fun: Sweet treats, concerts, theater and a day for the dogs make this week's list
Take a peep
Actually, take “Three Peeps,” Goodie-licious Custom Baking’s celebration of the traditional Easter treat. The multi-layered, multi-colored, buttercream cake features three Peeps nestled in a rainbow Easter basket.
The marshmallow Peeps are joined by a handcrafted white chocolate rainbow lollipop and an array of egg-shaped jelly beans.
Cost is $50, which includes free delivery to the greater Melbourne area. Orders must be placed by Tuesday, March 27, to ensure Easter delivery. Call 321-305-2828.
Thunder ahead
One week after his St. Paddy’s Day Carnegie Hall debut, singing hottie Emmet Cahill, for six years principal singer with the Celtic Thunder Irish singing group, returns to Brevard for a single performance at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 24, at the Satellite High School Performing Arts Center, 300 Scorpion Court.
Cahill will join the Space Coast Symphony in songs from his 2017 solo album “Emmet Cahill’s Ireland,” which rocketed to Numero Uno on the World Music Chart in Billboard, iTunes and Amazon.
Tickets are $29.99 for adults and $14.99 for students 18 and younger. For $49.99, a special VIP pass includes a pre-concert meet-and-greet with the star, along with individual photo op and autographed poster.
Purchase tickets at SpaceCoastSymphony.org. Unless sold out, tickets will also be available at the door.
For more information, call toll free to 855-252-7276 or visit SpaceCoastSymphony.org.
Evening at the Piedmonte
Chef Luca Filadi of Pompano Grill joins forces with JD Olander of Stacole Fine Wine for a special “Evening in Piedmonte” dinner at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 28.
Enjoy bubbles before repairing to dinner at 6:30 p.m. Menu includes veal carpaccio, rustic risotto with Borlotti beans, pork sausage, spinach and fontina, Bagna Cauda veggie course, beef marinated in Barolo wine and chocolate and hazelnut tart, all paired with wines from Italy’s Piedmonte.
Cost is $110 per guest, plus tax and gratuity. The price includes a $15 per person credit toward wine purchases on the evening of the event.
A $50 reservation deposit is required. Call 321-784-9005.
Pompano Grill is at 110 N. Brevard Ave., Cocoa Beach.
Pawsome event
More than 20 shops in pet-friendly Cocoa Village are participating in “Spring Tails thru the Village” from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., Saturday, March 24. Bring the kids and the pets to the party, which helps Friends for Animals Sanctuary’s goal to build Brevard’s first no-kill, no cage animal sanctuary.
Party Central is the Dog ‘n Bone British Pub, Myrt Tharpe Square, Cocoa Village.
A Bunny Hop Map will direct guests through the Magic Easter Eggs Game for prizes. More than a thousand eggs will be scattered through the Village.
For a $10 donation, you and your pets can get a framed 4-by-6 color photo with the Easter Bunny, plus a goody bag to boot.
All pets must be on a leash or in a carrier and have proof of current vaccinations.
The event is sponsored by Tails at the Barkery. For more information, call 321-305-4584 or visit TailsAtTheBarkery.com.
You’re invited to a picnic
Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 106 N. Riverside Drive, Indialantic, will host a picnic after its Palm Sunday services, which include a contemplative Music & Meditation service at 8:30 a.m. and a traditional service at 10 a.m.
Immediately after the services, the church will have a petting zoo, egg hunt and family picnic. The Ron Teixeira Jazz Trio will play during the lunch of hot dogs, chips, etc. The public is invited to the free event.
For more information, call 321-723-8371 or visit EPCfl.org.
Ladies’ Day
Just in time for Women’s History Month, the theater students at Eastern Florida State College present the 1709 feminist comedy, “The Busie Body,”
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24, 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, and 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, at the Cocoa Campus’ Studio Theatre, 1519 Clearlake Rd.
Jeanine Henry, director of Theatre Arts for the Department of Performing and Visual Arts, adapted Susanna Centlivre's hugely popular 1709 feminist comedy about a well-meaning busybody and two defiant ladies in pursuit of love and independence. The 18th century farce still enjoys wide popularity today, as societal roles and relationships for women continue to shift and evolve.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and free for high school and college students with student identification.
For more information, call 321-433-5200 or visit easternflorida.edu/go/arts.
It’s only a play
You might know playwright Terrence McNally from “The Full Monty,” but you should also know him from “It’s Only a Play,” the smash Broadway hit that starred Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and which New York Times called “hilariously, side-splittingly funny.”
Melbourne Civic Theatre is giving you the opportunity to check out “It’s Only a Play,” with all its razor wit and ridiculous gags, during a run that starts March 23 and finishes April 29. Take note that the show has adult language.
Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, except for Saturday, April 14, when the performance is at 2 p.m. For tickets, call 321-723-6935 or visit mymct.org.
Melbourne Civic Theatre is at 817 E. Strawbridge Ave., downtown Melbourne.
Living Passover
Cocoa author Kathy Mardirosian’s original play, “When Your Children Ask You: A Living Passover Story,” will be presented as an interactive theatrical experience by the Sister City Program of Cocoa and Beit Shemesh Israel at the B’Nai Shira Learning Center, 120 Forrest Ave., Cocoa.
The immersive experience includes actors walking among the audience, talking to them directly. The characters include the midwives who were told to kill the Hebrew boys, the slave foreman who was beaten when his workers couldn’t keep up with Pharaoh’s quota of mud bricks, and the husband and wife who argued over whether to paint their doorframe with the lamb’s blood.
Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, plus 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday, March 22 through March 25 at the B’Nai Shira Learning Center, 120 Forrest Avenue, Cocoa. Tickets are $15 and $10 for the Sunday family matinee.
In October 2007, the City of Cocoa adopted Israel’s Beit Shemesh, a city of nearly 100,000 nestled in the hills near Jerusalem, as a sister city. The Sister City Program, founded by President Dwight Eisenhower, is designed to create greater cultural knowledge.
Call 321-794-9887 or visit sistercityprogram.org for more information.
Beauty and the beach
The beauty of art meets the beach during the 25th annual Indialantic Art Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 to 25 at the seaside Nance Park, which will be filled with gallery-style booths featuring thousands of works from visiting artists.
Produced by Howard Alan Events, producer of some of the nation’s finest juried art shows, the free festival features life-size sculptures, spectacular paintings, one-of-a-kind jewels, photography, ceramics and more, all made in America.
Nance Park is at 201 N. Miramar Ave., Indialantic.
For more information, call 561-746-6615 or visit artfestival.com.
Walk/run against poverty
Our Lady of Grace Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Palm Bay will hold a Friends of the Poor® Walk/Run on Saturday, March 24.
The 5K event starts at St. Vincent de Paul House at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 300 Malabar Road, Palm Bay.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the group walk starts at 9 a.m., although individuals may walk any time after they register.
Cost is $15 and includes a T-shirt. Water and snacks will be provided.
For registration information, contact walk coordinator Janice Mignano at jbmignano@bex.net.
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