‘StarDate 1970’

Turning to theater, how about a disco-”Star Trek” mashup?

Brevard County’s Treasure Coast Players are making a field trip — or make that a space flight — over to Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts with an original musical comedy.

“StarDate 1970” has a performance at 8 tonight in the Pugh Theater.

Here’s the gist: Aliens have intercepted a 1970 radio transmission from Earth, and unluckily for us humans the song they heard was about war and death. So naturally, the aliens now think humanity must be eradicated before doing irreparable harm to the cosmos.

Enter starship IntraPath, commanded by Captain James T. Jirk, who must convince these beings that music is just a form of creative expression. The Intra-Path crew heads back in time to introduce the music of the 1970s and save humankind.

Tickets start at $35; get more information at drphillipscenter.org.

Summer concert series

And there’s more music today, specifically this afternoon.

Opera Orlando’s summer concert series winds down at 2 p.m. with a program titled “Late Night Encounters.” Soprano Susan Hellman Spatafora, who played Rosalinda in 2020’s “Die Fledermaus,” is joined by bass Andrew W. Potter, who just appeared in “Rigoletto.”

Accompanied by Robin Stamper, the singers will perform music by characters who reveal their true selves only under cloak of darkness. Doesn’t that sound dramatic?

The program includes late-night scenes from Verdi’s “La Forza Del Destino” and Carlisle Floyd’s opera “Susannah,” evening art songs by Alfred Bachelet, Herbert Hughes and Richard Strauss, and musical-theater favorites from “Les Misérables” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.”

The concert will be at the University Club of Winter Park, 841 N. Park Ave. Tickets are $45; go to operaorlando.org.

Email me at mpalm@ orlandosentinel.com.