{"id":377549,"date":"2026-08-21T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:08:08","slug":"zubrick-magic-theatre-announces-moonlight-express-as-it-celebrates-five-years-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377549\/","title":{"rendered":"Zubrick Magic Theatre announces Moonlight Express as it celebrates five years in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The regular seats will disappear behind printed backdrops, while a 22-foot fa\u00e7ade of a luxury 1940\u2019s train carriage will stretch across the stage. Theatrical lighting, immersive soundscape, a station clock, and other details will complete the setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cReturning patrons to the theatre won\u2019t even recognize the space,\u201d co-owner Ryan Zubrick said in a conversation with St. Pete Rising. \u201cWe\u2019ve transformed the whole place, creating the illusion of the Zubrick Station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Guests will arrive at 7 p.m. for a complimentary glass of champagne and a sweet confection before the conductor calls for boarding. They will then take their seats inside the train-carriage fa\u00e7ade for a 70-minute sleight-of-hand magic performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of themes of travel and time and journey that are woven into the scripting and the experience,\u201d Zubrick said. \u201cIt\u2019s super immersive, very experiential, with a lot of sights, sounds, and theatrical elements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The regular seats will disappear behind printed backdrops, while a 22-foot fa\u00e7ade of a luxury 1940\u2019s train carriage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-377549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}