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The Sarasota Ballet's new rehearsal studio space will be named the Ernie and Alisa Kretzmer Sarasota Ballet Studios.

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Sarasota Ballet receives gift for new rehearsal studio space The Sarasota Ballet has another reason to celebrate as the company enters its 25th anniversary season. Local philanthropist and longtime supporter and patron of the ballet, Ernie Kretzmer, has given a major gift to the ballet that will lead its current $2.5 million fundraising campaign. The gift goes toward the construction of a new rehearsal and studio space for the ballet and visiting dancers.

Kretzmer’s gift and the studio is dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Alisa.

“I can think of no better tribute to Alisa than to provide a space where history is preserved and new ballets are captured in the hearts and minds of the next generation of dancers,” says Iain Webb, director of the Sarasota Ballet. “We all miss Alisa dearly.”

The new rehearsal space, titled The Ernie and Alisa Kretzmer Sarasota Ballet Studios, will be a two-level studio space with a front facade made entirely of glass so that passersby can watch visiting dancers and the company rehearse. The location of the new studio will be announced at a later date.

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With Muse, the new restaurant at The Ringling, Patrick Seidensticker is ready elevate Sarasota’s notion of museum food.

Above: Roasted beets and grilled chicken salad.

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The Art of Food: Muse opens at The Ringling From left: Muse griddle burger (half-pound brisket blend, baconjam brie, onion frites, romaine, steak sauce and brioche); Caesar’s deviled eggs (romaine, parmesan and garlic crumbs) and banana and chocolate creme brûlée.

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ust before opening for lunch, Patrick Seidensticker, manager of Muse restaurant, huddles his crew together for some last-minute notes. The restaurant has only been open a week, and after winning the bid to be the new culinary face of The Ringling, he wants everything to be perfect.

For Seidensticker, the new endeavor is about more than just serving food; he wants to create culinary art, and he holds his food to the same standards as the art hanging inside the museum.

In June, The Ringling’s contract expired with the owner of its catering company and on-site restaurant, Treviso. As the institution set out to find a replacement, Ringling Executive Director Steven High says he wanted the space to go to someone local.

Patrick Seidensticker, along with his father, Steve, siblings, Lisa and Joe, and business partner, Jeff Greco, own TableSeide Restaurant Group. They, along with eight other local companies, sought the open position.

“We knew the concept had to be elevated,” says Seidensticker.

“We wanted to match the level of the art here at the Ringling with something on a plate that The Ringling could be proud of.”

TableSeide Restaurant Group began with Libby’s Café+Bar, which opened in the Southside Village in 2008, and continued in 2012 with Louie’s Modern

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FUTURE FOOD FESTIVITIES

that had changed. Over the course of three weeks in July, TableSeide worked to offer guests a completely revamped interior. The walls, which used to bear a mural of an Italian hillside, now sport a fresh coat of purple paint and a bubbly white sound-dampening surface that glows dark blue at night.

Other renovations include a large purple faux-alligator-skinbooth spanning the distance of one of the walls and an oversized abstract painting by local artist and TableSeide collaborator Margaret Barnes.

Although Seidensticker, his executive chef Fran Casciato and his staff (100% of whom stayed on from Treviso) are confident in

“We wanted to match the level of the art here with something on a plate that The Ringling could be proud of.”

At the newly opened Muse restaurant, Seidensticker and company have plenty of calendar space dedicated to special events.

This year’s Ringling International Arts Festival, which takes palce from Oct. 15 to 18, will showcase various Asian artists and companies. And in February, The Ringling’s anticipated Center for Asian Art will open.

And Seidensticker and Executive Chef Fran Casciato are already planning special Asian dishes to coincide with the opening.

“Our goal is to work with The Ringling to create food for events that allow people to get on the grounds and experience what’s going on here,” says Seidensticker. “We want to come in and do some really creative stuff.”

MORE SEATS AT THE TABLESEIDE After winning the bid to replace Treviso parent company General Services, Inc., TableSeide Restaurant Group will also oversee The Ringling’s Banyan Café. Seidensticker says he plans to overhaul the menu to replace standard concession stand fare, like burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches, with healthier vegan and glutenfree choices. The coffee shop, which was previously a Starbucks franchise, is now a Joffrey’s Café, a local Tampa coffee roaster.

– Patrick Seidensticker, manager, Muse Restaurant

Local artist Margaret Barnes' abstract painting incorporates the restaurant’s purple signature. Above: The new bar features an updated wine and liquor stock.

the fresh menu and interior, the immediate challenge is winning over The Ringling regulars who made Treviso part of their visit.

Seidensticker says he looks forward to elevating the institution’s reputation and helping diners find a new favorite dish.

“We want to take it above and beyond where it was before,” he says. “If we can make someone’s day better, then we’ve done our job.”

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The menu, which offers lunch and dinner fare, features twists on American classics, such as burgers (modernized with bacon-jam brie, onion frites, romaine and steak sauce), unique appetizers, (like the restaurant’s Goldfishand-pretzel-crusted crab cakes) and a fish-heavy dinner menu, (boasting items like its mustardcrusted tuna with jasmine rice and sweet ’n’ sour sauce).

“We wanted to get away from the idea of being a ‘museum restaurant’ and treat it the way we would any other restaurant in Sarasota,” says Seidensticker.

The Ringling welcomes more than 400,000 visitors each year, and if the only meal one of those guests eats in Sarasota is at Muse, Seidensticker wants the experience to be an accurate representation of what makes Sarasota unique to him.

“Sarasota has a small-town feel with a relatively cosmopolitan attitude,” he says. “So the concept starts with the food, and everything else follows that — the name, the design, the uniforms and service style. Contemporary American allows you to do a lot.”

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Peace and Music After years of offering intimate musical performances, the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota is kicking off its 20th anniversary season with international peace in mind.

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Last Tuesday was a busy day for Lee Dougherty Ross. It was the first day of the Community Foundation of Sarasota’s annual Giving Challenge, and Ross spent most of her day answering phones, tallying donations and volunteering on-site.

Amidst the commotion, a couple approached her and struck up a conversation. They were visiting Sarasota and deciding whether they wanted to move here or to St. Petersburg. They asked Ross if there was any good music to be had in town. They couldn’t have asked a better person.

Ross, a trained pianist and singer, co-founded the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota with her husband, Jerold, in the lobby of their Lido Key condo building

“Each of these musicians is bringing something they really care about, and it’s bringing all these different nations together and sharing joy.”

– Lee Dougherty Ross, artistic director of the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota

in 1996 in an effort to bring the joys of classical music to a more intimate setting.

Twenty years later, as the organization’s artistic director, Ross has made ASC a major player in the Sarasota music scene by consistently bringing acclaimed local, national and international musicians to perform in Sarasota. Even as the organization has grown over these years, it still sticks to its intimate roots by performing in either the Historic Asolo Theater or in local private residences for its soirée series.

“When we did the first season of programming in the lobby of my condo, there was no way I thought we would last this long, or have any chance to bring in these kinds of musicians,” says Ross. “I just thought it was a lovely idea. My original raison d’etre is sharing music with people. There are so many incredible artists out there, that I’d love to have a concert every night.”

To kick off its 20th season, ASC is broadening its scope with “Intercultural Harmonies,” an international ensemble of musicians performing works from around the world in celebration of the International Day of Peace.

The performance, which takes place Sept. 20, at the Historic Asolo Theater, will also include local gospel singer Ozanda Gray

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Geneviève Beauchamp, artistic director of Sarasota Young Voices, and Lee Dougherty Ross, artistic director of the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, are leading ASC’s 20th anniversary with a concert dedicated to the peaceful power of music.

and the Sarasota Young Voices choir.

Geneviève Beauchamp, founder and artistic director of the 80-member nonprofit vocal ensemble, says she’s looking forward to spreading peace through the performance.

“Music can be a highly competitive world and tough on people,” says Beauchamp. “In my group, I want to produce a nurturing environment for kids interested in music and the people who come to listen.”

Ross says she also hopes to nurture young musicians by expanding ASC’s educational and

scholarship facets. This year, the organization will open its scholarship competition for the first time. Once limited to just Florida students, the competition will now accept entrants from anywhere in the country in its piano, strings and voice categories.

“In order to last another 20 years, we need to bring in the best musicians,” says Ross. “The whole idea for this concert and this organization for me is love and peace. Each of these musicians is bringing something they really care about, and it’s bringing all these different nations together and sharing joy.”

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Sex, Lies and Southern Comfort MARTY FUGATE THEATER CRITIC

The fur is flying in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at the Players in a Two Chairs Theatre Company production. It’s a jaundiced look at Southern family values in the mid 20th century—and the mendacity that keeps those values in place.

The play unfolds on a sweltering summer night on a sprawling plantation in the Mississippi Delta in the 1950s.

Big Daddy (Allen Kretschmar) is the bullying, bullheaded patriarch in charge. Big Mama (Lynne Doyle) has gathered the family to celebrate his 65th birthday. Their eldest son Gooper (Ross Boehringer) and his wife, Mae, (Lauren Ward) are scheming to take the place over. And they’re concealing Big Daddy’s inoperable cancer diagnosis, at least until he signs the papers. Their youngest son, Brick (Raphael Petlock), is a fading football legend who spends his days nursing a broken ankle, drinking and rejecting the advances of his nubile wife, Maggie (Kathryn Parks). She wants Brick to focus on the inheritance—and her. All that sexual frustration makes Maggie feel like a cat on a hot tin roof. Besides which, Big Daddy might favor them with an inheritance if they favored him with a grandchild.

Not bloody likely. Brick blames Maggie for the death of his best friend, Skipper, and he refuses

to sleep with her. Skipper’s affections for Brick were more than friendly. While Brick won’t admit it, the attraction was probably mutual.

After 60 years and many strange changes, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play still holds up. Williams has a flawless ear for Southern patois, and the machinations of highly articulate, strong-willed Southerners butting heads. Under Elliott Raines’ taut direction, it plays like a high-stakes prize fight in three rounds.

The play’s focus shifts between three central characters: Maggie (aka Maggie the Cat), Big Daddy and Brick.

Maggie’s monologs fill most of the first act. (Brick spends most of the time drinking, sulking and occasionally trying to whack her with his crutch.)

Parks’ bravura performance makes it work. Her character is a smart, tough-minded, seriously sexy woman who knows exactly what she wants—and isn’t shy about saying it.

Kretschmar’s Big Daddy dominates the second act. It’s a nuanced portrayal revealing the character’s depths. He’s a self-made man, erupting with scorn for his codependent brood and their constant lies, flattery and manipulation. But his youngest child is spared these tongue lashings; Brick is the favorite son. Even so, Big Daddy insists on digging down to the truth behind his impotence and alcoholism. Father and son go round and round.

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Kathryn Parks and Raphael Petlock in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

Petlock’s Brick has mostly been an absence up to this point.

Under Big Daddy’s questions, he ultimately reveals the source of his pain. Petlock’s sensitive, underplayed performance avoids any tear-jerky melodra-

ma and makes the big revelation work. Big Daddy reacts to the truth with surprising tolerance and insight. Brick reciprocates by sharing the truth of Big Daddy’s cancer diagnosis.

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doesn’t respond so well.

Excellent performances from the leads, as well as the supporting cast. Lynne Doyle plays Big Mama like Minnie Pearl’s louder cousin. Boehringer’s Gooper is a practiced hypocrite whose mask only occasionally slips. Ward’s Mae, on the other hand, snarls with naked avarice. Their three children are supposed to be brats; Tori Greenlaw, Catalina Mia Grieco and Grayson Piccirillo pull it off nicely (I’m sure they’re wonderful kids in real life).

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

P EO P LE W IT H PUR POSE ALEX MILLER

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OCCUPATION: CEO of Mercedes Medical YEARS INVOLVED IN SARASOTA: 20 ORGANIZATIONS:

Humane Society of Sarasota, Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board, Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation

WITH THE Humane Society,

knowing that no animals will ever be euthanized for space reasons was definitely worth the six years of involvement there. With the hospital, the opening of the new tower happened long before I came, but during the opening, I really reflected and felt so blessed to be a part of it.

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hen it comes to philanthropy, Alex Miller values quality over quantity.

The CEO of Mercedes Medical has been involved in Sarasota’s nonprofit organizations for the last 20 years. During that time, she says she’s learned that in philanthropy, it’s best to focus on your strengths.

The Sarasota Memorial Hospital board member reflects on her time with the organization and why giving back is a matter of responsibility.

WHEN I was in college, I vol-

unteered for Head Start, which is a national program for free preschool. I did that my senior year in college. That was eye opening. You’re thrown into a new socioeconomic class, and you see how those children are raised. It really makes an impact. Some of these kids hadn’t eaten, and we would feed them — these sweet, adorable kids. You don’t always see the other side of the world and the struggles they have to go through.

I THINK if we’re all honest, Sarasota is socially tied to philanthropy. Everything in this town is based on some level

of a nonprofit aligned with a socialization aspect. So early on, I was trying to get more ingrained in Sarasota. You start going to events and being asked to serve on committees.

At first, I was spread a little too thin; I did YPG and was on the health and human services board for the county. I was kind of all over the place and not feeling like I was contributing on a level that I wanted to. Things either weren’t in my skill set, or I didn’t have a lot of passion. I think this happens in careers, too. It takes time, but you hone in on the areas you can really make an impact and that you enjoy doing.

I’VE LEARNED that people are incredibly compassionate.

There are thousands of people in this town that really do the hard work. I see that humans are compassionate people — they’re so giving.

I THINK anyone who has the skills, the time or the means has a responsibility to society to give back in some meaningful way. It’s important to find a way to provide the best outcome. Serving on 15 boards isn’t necessarily good for anyone. Find the things you’re passionate about and focus on that.

I JUST want to be a good human being. At the end of the day, I just want to live up to my potential. That’s always the running question for me: “What is my purpose for being here? Should I be giving more?” I’m always looking for that guidance.

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