Monthly Archives: July 2015

July 28, 2015 · 8:28 am

The Mersey Beatles | Thu., October 22 | Aronoff Center – Jarson-Kaplan Theater

MISC_The Mersey Beatles promoAll-Liverpool-born Beatles tribute band to perform in Cincinnati

The Mersey Beatles to appear at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater on October 22, 2015

MISC_The Mersey Beatles quick facts(Cincinnati, OH) – The Mersey Beatles, the world’s only all-Liverpool-born Beatles tribute band and the house band for ten years at the world famous Cavern Club will perform at the Aronoff Center’s intimate Jarson-Kaplan Theater on Thursday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. 

Tickets are $71.75, $51.75, and $41.75, and go on sale Friday, July 31 at 10 a.m. at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. 

John Lennon’s sister Julia Baird will also be in attendance. She says, “There are a lot of Beatles tribute bands from all over the world and I have seen them all, but The Mersey Beatles are the best I’ve heard.” 

Baird will be signing copies of her book “Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon.” 

Since 1999, The Mersey Beatles have played sell-out shows in more than 20 countries, recreating The Beatles’ most popular hits. Their show spans the Fab Four’s catalogue and recreates The Beatles’ sound and image with amazing accuracy. 

The Mersey Beatles are no ordinary cover band. From 2002 to 2012, they were the resident tribute band at The Cavern Club, the nightclub in Liverpool, England, where The Beatles perfected their act before launching a global rock music revolution in the 1960s. They also are the official Beatles tribute band representing the City of Liverpool and have sold out shows worldwide.

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July 28, 2015 · 8:17 am

THE ODYSSEY Runs Aug. 6-9

IBP_The Odyssey logoTHE ODYSSEY
Inbocca Performance
Aug. 6-9
Fort Thomas

Join Odysseus and Penelope as they embark on a re-imagining of Homer’s epic tale of friendship, heartbreak, and the perils of adventure. Our original devised production focuses on the bonds of friendship and what happens when those bonds are tested by time and distance. Created by 30 children over the course of four weeks, with dance, movement, and original song, this is a production you won’t forget!

  • Thu-Fri, Aug. 6-7 at 7pm
  • Sat, Aug. 8 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Sun, Aug. 9 at 2pm

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July 27, 2015 · 7:25 pm

Cast Announced for BONNIE AND CLYDE at Sunset Players

SSP_logoSunset Players is pleased to announce the cast for the Cincinnati premiere and musical season opener BONNIE AND CLYDE.

Directed by Jerry Yearout and Music Director Dennis Betz, BONNIE AND CLYDE is an electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country.

The cast includes:

  • Katie McCarthy as Bonnie
  • Adam Campbell as Clyde
  • Eve Roth as Young Bonnie
  • Sydney Schultheis as Adolescent Bonnie
  • Martin Collins as Young Clyde
  • Tom Morris as Buck
  • Megan Archibald as Blanche
  • Greg Good as Ted Hinton
  • Russ McGee as Preacher
  • Amanda Borchers as Governor Ferguson
  • Jessica Stringfield as Emma Parker
  • Marcia Grant as Cumie Barrow
  • Don Frimming as Henry Barrow
  • Dan Hawkins as Frank Hamer
  • Victoria Garcia, Matt Prater, Dawn Lindsey and Mike Burke as Townspeople

Produced by Chris Yearout and Nancy Anderson, the show dates are October 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, and 17. To learn more or reserve tickets, call 513-588-4988 or visit www.sunsetplayers.org.

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July 27, 2015 · 11:57 am

ProVoice Seeks Vocal & Musical Theatre Performers for Online Survey

MISC_ProVoice logoThe Professional Voice Center of Cincinnati Clinicians are looking for volunteers who are vocal performers/musical theatre performers to take an online survey.

Participation in the study includes completion of an online survey, consisting of 35 questions including background information, training, vocal health habits, and knowledge/interest in voice.

The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete.

Participants must be at least 18 or older and must have performed at least once within the past 5 years to participate.

For more information, call 937-496-2622.

To participate and take the survey, follow this link. https://wright.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2owWz7Zwd4LG2ot.

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July 27, 2015 · 11:48 am

Auditions Announced for BUS STOP at Fairfield Footlighters

fflBUS STOP

Directed by Bekka Eaton Reardon

Monday and Tuesday, August 3 & 4 at 6:30
Auditions will be held in the Classroom on the 2nd floor of the Arts Center

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Cold readings from the script.
  • Bring your calendar to auditions and be prepared to list all conflicts.
  • All roles are available. Color-blind casting.

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Performances:
    September 25-26 & October 2-3 at 8PM, September 27 & October 4 at 2PM

About the Play
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and the weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …” As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

Role Breakdowns

  • Elma Duckworth — high school-er, waitress, guileless and open, trusting, good worker, sweet
  • Grace Hoylard — (30s-60s, dependent upon male opposite casting of Carl) diner owner, seasoned, worldly-wise won’t truck with much nonsense
  • Will Masters — (30s-50s) the sheriff, large, capable, a good man and a good sheriff
  • Cherie — (20s) a chanteuse, innocent at heart, but has seen a bit much of the world for her age, speaks her mind, not educated, but not unintelligent, from the Ozarks
  • Dr. Gerald Lyman — (40s-50s) a former college professor, drinker, bit of a letch, life has beaten him down quite a bit
  • Carl — (30s-60s, dependent upon female opposite casting of Grace) bus driver, friendly, hefty, loud and hearty, loves his independence
  • Virgil Blessing — (40s-50s) Bo’s surrogate parent, guitar player, kind, quiet, a ranch hand-cowboy
  • Bo Decker — (20s) big-hearted, enthusiastic – like a puppy not grown into his legs yet, self-confident to a fault, totally inexperienced in the ways of the world, he’s rarely been off of the ranch he was raised on, rancher, cowboy

Note: Color-blind casting

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