Performing Arts Center
Vero Beach High School
James M. Sammons Auditorium
Welcome to our 2024-2025 Season!
See what we have lined up for you at the Vero Beach Performing Arts Center.
Browse for tickets or consider purchasing a season pass for only $65 to $75
We look forward to entertaining you soon!
43rd Crown Jewel Marching Band Festival
October 19, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Tickets from $6 to $15
The 43rd Crown Jewel Marching Band Festival will be Saturday, October 12th at Vero Beach High School. Founded in 1981 by James Sammons and Gordon Popple, the Crown Jewel Festival is one of the oldest continuous marching festivals in Florida. Please come join us for the Crown Jewel Festival on October 12th here at Vero Beach High School’s stadium (Citrus Bowl). Gates open at 3:15pm!
Passages- Choral Concert
October 15, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Tickets from $5 to $12
Life has so many different paths and doors, some that everyone will pass through, some that only a few will see. In this celebration of life's many facets, we invite you to reflect on those Passages that you have seen, and those that you look forward to.
Arsenic and Old Lace
November 1, 2024 at 7:00 pm
November 2, 2024 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
November 3, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Tickets from$5 to $10
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.
The Airmen of Note - LIVE in Vero Beach!
November 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Free!
We are pleased to host the Airmen of Note during their upcoming tour of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and Florida as they perform an eclectic program ranging from big band hits of the 1940's to brand new compositions written for this tour! This concert is free with general admission - no reserved seats, but registration is required.
Deck the Halls Winter Holiday Show
December 15, 2024 at 2:00 pm, December 16 at 7:00 pm
Tickets from $5 to $12
This annual holiday favorite showcases the talents of all of our
VBHS performing arts department students. The celebration of the season
includes choral, band, orchestra and drama departments coming together
in a holiday extravaganza guaranteed to make spirits bright!
Hadestown- Teen Edition
February 21-22, 2025 at 7:00 pm
February 23 at 2:00 pm
Tickets from $10 to $15
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience, following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone.
*Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family
audiences.
Choral Spectrum Concert
February 25, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Free Admission!
“Choral Spectrum”, our 2024-2025 MPA Preview Concert, provides a variety of styles and perspectives in the world of choral music. VBHS Choirs invite you to sample the broad Spectrum of what a unified group of human voices can achieve together.
Orchestra Pre-MPA Concert
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Free Admission!
Come watch and listen to the award-winning VBHS Orchestra
as they prepare for this annual Music Performance Assessment (MPA). These assessments are held on a district (local area) and state levels for high school performing groups.
Choral Chroma Concert
May 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Tickets from $5 to $12
Our much anticipated Spring "Chroma-Concert" this year is titled "Ease on Down the Road". This concert promises to bring you over the rainbow to the magical land of Oz, with selections from all three beloved musicals set in that colorful land: "The Wizard of Oz", "The Wiz", and "Wicked". Put on your ruby slippers and "ease on down" the yellow brick road with the VBHS Choirs!