Orlando’s Universal Studio is home to CityWalk’s Rising Star Karaoke Club. This is not your average karaoke club; you will be able to sing with a live band and your own backup singers. You can rock out like a rock star or sing your favorite country ballad for your live audience. The club seats 440 guest so you will feel like you are truly a star. While you are waiting to sing you can enjoy a menu of appetizers including Buffalo wings, quesadillas, potato wedges, mini sliders, and fried banana caramel cheesecake. This is sure to be a fun evening out, so grab your friends and head on out to CityWalk at Universal Studios Orlando.
Cowboys are taking over the Spurs Arena in Orlando for the 125th Silver Spurs Rodeo. Take your little buckaroo to enjoy bull riding, steer wrestling, saddle bronco riding, bareback riding, and barrel racing. And the crowds favorites the cowboy clowns. The rodeo started back in 1941 with a group of people who shared a common love of horseback riding. This event grew in popularity to the become the rodeo it is today.
So lasso yourself some tickets for the Rodeo held on June 5th & 6th and head on down to the Spurs Arena in Orlando.
Spend 4-days in Downtown Orlando experiencing a celebration of photography by renowned international and national photographers at SNAP. You will also be able to experience images from emerging local talent. There will be works of art from more than 50 artists and the event will also include: artist appearances; photograph workshops and seminars; VIP parties; community art projects; performance art, and cross-over events. This event is going on in Downtown Orlando on May 20-23, 2010.
These exhibits will span dozen of art galleries, cafés, boutiques and pop-up exhibition spaces in Downtown Orlando.
Check out Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando for a day of relaxing in lazy river, splashing in the huge wave pool or watching the kids play in the kiddie area. This water park has something for everyone in the family with body slides, snorkeling with live fish, a water coaster and a Surf Pool where you can catch a 6-foot wave. This park also offers snorkeling at Shark Reef where you can snorkel with real sharks! Every half hour Miss Tilly’s boat whistles from where it sits precariously on the peak of the volcanic mountain, Mount Mayday. When the whistle blows the volcano attempts to dislodge the boat with a geyser of water.
Have a blast at this 56-acre topsy-turvy tropical paradise Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando.
Orlando is home to a fun evening out with Sleuth’s Mystery Dinner Show. Show your investigative skills to help the outrageous characters that mingle with the guest. You may even be chosen for a cameo role in the show. These shows will keep you laughing with it’s improvisations and audience participation. Be prepared to stay on the edge of your seat as you watch for anything suspicious, hear as suspects are interrogated and hopefully the crime will be solved. You will enjoy a delicious dinner and dessert with unlimited beer, wine, and soft drinks. The shows run 2-½ hours and the nightly shows feature one of the thirteen different mysteries.
Spend a night laughing, dining and solving crime in Orlando.
Experience My Fair Lady brought to you by the Orlando Philharmonic on May 8th with performances at 2pm and 8pm. This performance joins the Orlando Philharmonic and the talents of Mad Cow Theatre for an exciting semi-staged production. My Fair Lady is the story of Professor Henry Higgins the phoneticist and Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl, who becomes his experiment to transform her into a “lady”. You will enjoy favorite hits including: I Could Have Danced All Night, Get Me to the Church on Time, Wouldn’t it Be Lovely, and The Rain in Spain.
Come join in the fun at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in downtown Orlando.
This tour will take you behind the scenes at the Walt Disney World Resorts in Orlando to show you the innovative special effects. The Backstage Disney tour will take you to Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, and Hollywood Studios theme park. In Magic Kingdom you will get to see the hidden world of the legendary underground “Utilidor” tunnel system. You will be able to lunch at the Whispering Canyon Café inside Disney’s Wilderness Lodge. Your tour will also take you to the Nursery & Tree Farm where you will see how horticulture and landscape design create an endless variety of uniquely themed environments.
You will get to see how Imagineers combined cutting-edge design with breakthrough technology to create the thrilling Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Another stop will be to see how the Creative Costuming team outfit’s the performers in Disney parades and shows. This tour ends at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park with an up-close look at Mickey’s Jammin Jungle Parade.
Learn the exciting secrets behing the magic at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Get away from the hustle and bustle in Orlando and head over to the Bok Tower Gardens. The gardens were created in the late 1920s by author Edward Bok. You will enjoy exploring the 130 acres of plant life and trees, including azaleas, magnolias, camellias and ferns. If it’s wildlife and wetland plants you want to see check out “Window By The Pond”. It is situated on the edge of the pond where you can observe birds, butterflies, reptiles and other native animals in their natural habitat.
The Gardens are also home to a marble and coquina tower that is home to 57-bell carillon. There are carillon recitals daily at 1pm and 3pm.
Take some time and see the Bok Tower Gardens while in Orlando.
The Mad Cow Theatre in downtown Orlando plays host to the eighth annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, April 30 – May 16, 2010. This festival will feature many central Florida artist along with artists from the New York Cabaret scene performing over 40 acts including jazz, pop, Broadway, and comedy. There will be three world-class headliners this year that define both classic and contemporary cabaret. They are Karen Akers, KT Sullivan and The Broadway Boys. You will be able to enjoy these performances in the intimate setting at The Mad Cow.
You can also take your lunch break to downtown Orlando and catch a show with the weekday lunchtime performances. These performances last 45 minutes and you are encouraged to bring your lunch or order a box lunch from the theater. The theater welcomes groups to have a unique lunch experience in downtown Orlando.
So don’t miss out on this fun festival running April 30 – May 16, 2010 in downtown Orlando at The Mad Cow Theatre.
Take your mom out for a night to remember this Mother’s Day at Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament in Orlando. They are offering a Free admission for Mom with a paid adult admission on May 7 thru 9th. She will enjoy the pageantry, romance, and excitement of the show full of heroic knights on spirited horses. The knights will perform athletics feats and thrilling swordplay. There is a new musical score and brilliant lights that provide a great backdrop for this amazing dinner show experience.
Your Queen will love dinner and the show at Medieval Times Orlando.