{"id":88985,"date":"2025-12-19T06:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88985\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:14:12","slug":"ruth-eckerd-hall-to-present-terry-fator-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88985\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Eckerd Hall to present Terry Fator | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER \u2014 Legendary Las Vegas headliner Terry Fator will bring his new road show to the Tampa Bay area for a performance on Sunday, Dec. 28, 7 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen Booth Road, Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $55.25. Call 727-791-7400 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutheckerdhall.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.rutheckerdhall.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPure Imagination: Once Upon a Voice\u201d is a 90-minute spectacular, featuring the incredible impressions, comedy and ventriloquism that has made Fator and his characters a must see show for fans across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Pure Imagination\u2019 is a totally different concept than my road shows in the past,\u201d Fator said. \u201cI found that throughout my life my imagination had spawned countless characters, song parodies and comedy skits and I compiled them all together to give my audience a fun look into my creative psyche.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show features the classic characters Fator has made famous over the years: Winston the Impersonating Turtle; country star Walter T. Airdale; Apollo Theater legend Julius; perpetual slacker and stoner Duggie; Vikki the Cougar and the world\u2019s greatest Elvis impersonator, Maynard Tompkins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne idea I had is to add in characters and impressions based on real-life stars people around the world know and love,\u201d Fator said. \u201cSo, you can look forward to seeing and hearing Willie Nelson, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, plus a few surprise \u2018guests.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER \u2014 Legendary Las Vegas headliner Terry Fator will bring his new road show to the Tampa Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24275,104,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-88985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-arts_and_entertainment","tag-entertainment","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\/88985","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=88985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}