Second Year Features More Great Titles and More Show Nights
In every measurable way, the first Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater was a rousing success – including 45 straight sell-outs to open the venue.
Cincinnati Landmark Productions announced today its follow-up Summer Classics Season at the region’s newest performing arts venue.
The 2016 Summer Classics Season, presented by TriHealth, includes:
- ANYTHING GOES, June 1-26
- BABY, July 6-31
- CHICAGO, August 10 – September 4
Based on the strong demand to the inaugural season, the 2016 Summer Classics Season will expand each production run to four weeks (Wednesday to Sunday). This will accommodate the sizeable subscriber base and still allow for single-show ticket availability – something this summer had very little
of.
“”For local, professional-grade performers, this season will be the opportunity to do summer stock theater without having to leave town,” said Tim Perrino, executive artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “For the audiences, it will mean more seats available, more great summer nights out with friends and more fun shows onstage in our cool new theater.”
The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is a brand new, purpose-built, 229-seat performing arts center and parking garage in the Incline District in East Price Hill. Located at the corner of Matson Place and West 8th Street, the $6 million project opened on June 3, 2015.
Subscriptions for the 2016 Summer Classics Season – only $72 – are now on sale. Subscribers to the 2015 Summer Classics Season have their seats held for renewal until March 11, 2016. All seats not renewed by that time will be released. Tickets to individual shows go on sale on April 18, 2016.
The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is programmed year-round by Cincinnati Landmark Productions,culminating in over 120 show nights. In addition to the Summer Classics Season, the venue will host the four-show District Series season (September to May) designed to complement the Marquee season at the Covedale Center.
Cincinnati Landmark Productions has been serving the West Side for over 30 years – first through its Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre program and then through its ownership and management of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in West Price Hill. Since opening in 2002, the arts center quadrupled its subscribership. Attendance ballooned from 13,990 in the 2002-03 season to over 35,000 (representing over 300 zip codes) in the 2014-15 season.
For more information about the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, visit www.warsawfederalinclinetheater.com or call (513) 241-6550 or (513) 241-6551.
More about the 2016 Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater:
ANYTHING GOES
June 1 – June 26, 2016
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse;
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Boys-Meet-Girls and the complications get hysterically funny as a boat load of crazy characters, including a bungling gangster, an English gentleman and a bevy of dazzling American showgirls cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner that makes the Love Boat look like a leaky canoe in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Terrific songs like “It’s De-Lovely,” “Friendship,” “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” “All Through The Night,” “Anything Goes,” “You’re The Top” and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” keep this ship steaming full speed ahead!
BABY
July 6 – July 31, 2016
Book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. Based upon a story developed with Susan Yankowitz
Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood? BABY musically examines how parents-to-be weather the stresses and triumphs, as well as the desperate lows and the comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of their bundle of joy. The show features beautiful songs like “I Want It All,” “Two People in Love” and “The Story Goes On.”
CHICAGO
August 10 – September 4, 2016
By Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander, Maurine Dallas Watkins
It’s the roaring twenties Chicago when chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap…until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the “American Dream”: fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged, dizzyingly funny satire features a glittering score including hits “Razzle Dazzle,” “Cell Block Tango” and the iconic “All That Jazz.” Chicago is the winner of 6 Tony® Awards.
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