January is shaping up to be a banner month for Central Florida's theater patrons, between last weekend's final FestN4 mini-festival at Fringe Artspace and this week's bumper crop of shows and stars direct from Broadway. The Dr. Phillips Center is playing host to both Paul Mecurio's Permission to Speak and ABBA's Mamma Mia!, while Miguel Cervantis — who was the longest-running lead in Hamilton in NYC and Chicago — appears Jan. 18 at the new Hideaway Performing Arts Center in Eustis (hideawaypac.com). But the biggest New Year's treat for local musical theater fans arrives at Walt Disney World Friday, Jan. 17, when EPCOT's International Festival of the Arts returns for its eighth annual edition through Feb. 24 with art activities, photos ops and daily Broadway-caliber concerts, all included in the price of park admission — a bargain that sure beats queuing in the cold for the TKTS discount booth in Times Square.