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GOPAR

  • A memorial screening of "Ladies of Eola Heights" (original cast L-R: Doug Bowser, Sam Singhaus, Michael Wanzie and Tommy Wooten) was the most recent fundraising event for GOPAR. The screening and streaming service was in memory of Bowser and Singhaus, who both passed away recently, Singhaus in 2020 and Bowser in 2022.
    GOPAR aids performing arts workers after Ian
    Nicole Darden Creston
    Central Florida has many employees in the theme park and performing arts sector. And sometimes, circumstances beyond their control – like a hurricane or a pandemic – hit them hard, if event venues close and audiences stay home. Greater Orlando Performing Arts Relief, or GOPAR for short, is ready to help.
  • A memorial screening of "Ladies of Eola Heights" (original cast L-R: Doug Bowser, Sam Singhaus, Michael Wanzie and Tommy Wooten) was the most recent fundraising event for GOPAR. The screening and streaming service was in memory of Bowser and Singhaus, who both passed away recently, Singhaus in 2020 and Bowser in 2022.
    GOPAR aids performing arts workers after Ian
    Nicole Darden Creston
    Central Florida has many employees in the theme park and performing arts sector. And sometimes, circumstances beyond their control – like a hurricane or a pandemic – hit them hard, if event venues close and audiences stay home. Greater Orlando Performing Arts Relief, or GOPAR for short, is ready to help.
  • GOPAR stands for Greater Orlando Performing Arts Relief. (Image: GOPAR)
    GOPAR: Artists Help Artists Survive Central Florida's Pandemic Recession
    Nicole Darden Creston
    Central Florida's artistic community has been hit hard by the pandemic recession as theater doors stay closed to audiences and theme parks pare down on live entertainment. Many performing artists have found themselves out of work and struggling to pay bills, hamstrung by a state unemployment system they feel is ill-equipped to understand a performer's "gig worker" status. So, leaders in Orlando's artistic community have stepped in to help fill the need with the newly-formed GOPAR, which stands for Greater Orlando Performing Arts Relief.