Orlando gives the arts a good ride

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  Jim Helsinger of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater says arts have experienced 'meteoric' growth.

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  The Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of <em>MacBeth</em>. ROB JONES

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  The Orlando Shakespeare Theater is located in the city's tranquil Loch Haven Park.

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  Alan Bruun works as an associate creative director for Disney and is also artistic director of the downtown-based Mad Cow Theatre Company.

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  Orlando's Mad Cow Theatre presented David Hare's version of Bertolt Brecht's <em>Galileo</em>, featuring, from left, Rick Stanley, Jamie Middleton, Tim Williams and Michael Lane. TOM HURST / FOR THE MIAMI HERALD

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  Broadway performer David Gaines, a longtime star of <em>The Phantom of the Opera</em>, is on the board of the future performing arts center in Orlando.

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  The Orlando Ballet's version of <em>The Sleeping Beauty</em>.

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  The Orlando Opera has outgrown its current home and looks forward to moving into the new performing arts center in 2012.

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  The Orlando Philharmonic performs at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre.

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  The Mennello Museum of American Art is located in Orlando's Loch Haven Park.

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  Earl Cunningham's <em>Sanctuary</em> is on permanent display at Orlando's Mennello Museum of American Art.

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  Marena Grant Morrisey is executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art, which currently houses an exhibition of Norman Rockwell paintings.

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  Norman Rockwell's 1960 oil painting, <em>Triple Self-Portrait</em>, is on view at the Orlando Museum of Art. Copyright 1960 SEPS: Lic

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  The Orlando Museum of Art is located in the city's Loch Haven Park.

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  The Tiffany chapel interior from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago has been reassembled inside Orlando's Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. CHARLES HOSMER MORSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART