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August 13, 2015 · 9:17 am

Two Men Needed for THE COUNTRY HOUSE at Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoMiddletown Lyric Theatre is looking for two men to round out their cast for THE COUNTRY HOUSE.

Short rehearsal period. Show opens first of November.

Roles needed:

  • Michael: a successful, actor of stage and film. Confident, good looking in his late thirties to early forties
  • Elliot: a want to be actor turned playwright. Neither of which he is successful. Tortured by a lost romance and even more by his family. Not a fan of Michael’s

Auditions by appointment. Any questions contact Charley Shafor at cshafor@middletownlyric.org.

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August 11, 2015 · 10:59 am

Auditions Announced for SHE LOVES ME at the Covedale Center

CCPACincinnati Landmark Productions is holding auditions for SHE LOVES ME.

Audition Dates are Sunday, September 20 6 to 9pm and Monday, September 21, 2015 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Auditions will be held at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill.

Requirements: Adult Male/Female performers are needed (20 – 65 years of age range). Auditionees should be prepared to sing a song that best showcases his/her voice – a musical theater selection. (bring sheet music for the accompanist in your key). Will read from the script and be tested for movement (dress appropriately).

MUST HAVE A RESUME listing theatrical experience in order to audition. A headshot/picture is appreciated but not required. Please prepare 16 bars of a song that best showcases vocal ability.

Please note: No more than two conflicts will be accepted during the rehearsal process for this production.

All roles are paid positions. No roles have been precast.

Roles Include:

  • AMALIA BALASH The eager new employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. Despite being a skilled saleswoman, she easily becomes intimated and nervous. Attractive, bright, and a lover of literature. Female, 20-25 yrs old Range: C4 – B5
  • ARPAD LASZLO Delivery boy at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. His exuberance is infectious and commitment to his job remarkable. He is ambitious and adorable. Male, 14-17 yrs old Range: Bb2 – E4
  • GEORG NOWACK An established employee of Maraczek’s Parfumerie, he resembles a hopeless romantic. Shy, intelligent, and soft spoken. Male, 25-30 yrs old Range: B2 – F4
  • ILONA RITTER Employed at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. She is sexy and learned in the ways of romance, but longing for something more from the game of love. Female, 25-30 yrs old Range: F#3 – E5
  • LADISLAV SIPOS Not the brightest employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. A confidant to Georg, he is an optimistic family man who looks like a huggable father. Male, 45 yrs old Range: A2 – E4
  • MR. MARACZEK Owner of Maraczek’s Parfumerie. With a commanding presence, his dedication to the trade is rivaled only by his faithfulness to his wife. Male, 55-65 yrs old Range: B2 – C4
  • STEVEN KODALY A well respected and liked employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. Though he is considered dapper and occasionally charming, he is more of a shallow womanizer. Male, 25 yrs old Range: B2 – A4

SHE LOVES ME
March 10 – April 3, 2016
Book by Joe Masteroff; Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Based on a play by Miklos Laszio

An intimate and touching show, featuring music by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler On The Roof) and book by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret), She Loves Me was nominated for five TONY Awards in 1964, the 1993 Broadway revival won the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the 1994 Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. She Loves Me is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance. Set in a 1930’s European perfumery, we meet shop clerks Amalia and Georg, who more often than not, don’t see eye to eye. After both respond to a “lonely hearts advertisement” in the newspaper, they now live for the love letters they exchange, but the identity of their admirers remains unknown. The movies “The Shop AroundThe Corner” and “You’ve Got Mail” are both based on this romantic tale!

Matthew Wilson, Director/Choreographer; Ryan Heinrich, Music Director; Jenny Lutes, Production Stage Manager

Rehearsals begin: Monday, February 1, 2016
Performance dates: March 10 – April 3, 2016

Performances run Thursday 7:30 pm.; Friday and Saturday 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

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August 11, 2015 · 10:05 am

THE COMPLETE TOM Comes to a Close

QCF_Detective(CINCINNATI) – Queen City Flash, Cincinnati’s flash mob-style theater company, concludes its four-play cycle with THE COMPLETE TOM: 4. DETECTIVE. Based on the works of Mark Twain and adapted by Trey Tatum, 4. DETECTIVE runs August 26 through 31, 2015. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Bridget Leak, this production is produced with assistance from SDC Foundation’s 2015 Denham Fellowship.

Tom and Huck have spring fever and are looking for an adventure to occupy them until summer. But when a murder is committed and someone close to Tom is implicated, the boys will stop at nothing to find the real culprit and hog as much glory as they can. Join Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on their search for clues in Queen City Flash’s final romp with Tom, THE COMPLETE TOM: 4. DETECTIVE. Please note that this production contains the sparse use of racial epithets consistent with Mark Twain’s social commentary.

Dave Powell in THE COMPLETE TOM: 3. ABROAD at Bellevue Beach Park; July 2015. Photo by Paul Kerford Wilson.

Dave Powell in THE COMPLETE TOM: 3. ABROAD at Bellevue Beach Park; July 2015. Photo by Paul Kerford Wilson.

The show features local actors Brandon Holcomb, Terrance McCraney, Patrick McWilliams, Andy Simpson, Trey Tatum and Tara Williams, with costumes by Tara Williams.

All performances are flash mob-style, meaning tickets can be reserved based on the date, time and accessibility level of your choice. At 4:00 p.m. the day of the show, an email will be sent to ticket holders with a map and parking instructions to the secret location. All performances are outdoors. Tickets are free to the public and can be reserved at www.QueenCityFlash.com starting Wednesday, August 12. For additional questions about accessibility, please email queencityflash@gmail.com.

THE COMPLETE TOM: 1 ADVENTURES was presented in August 2014, followed by 2. HUCKLEBERRY in April 2015 and 3. ABROAD in July 2015.

The Denham Fellowship is an annual award given to directors, particularly women directors, to further develop their directing skills by providing financial support for the Director’s fee for a particular project. This fellowship was established in October 2006 by Mary Orr Denham as a bequest to the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) in honor of her late husband, Reginald H.F. Denham.

Queen City Flash is a new theater company dedicated to open access to the arts and expanding audiences’ sense of theatricality by untethering the arts from physical space, prohibitive costs and traditional notions. Through flash mob-style theater, artists and communities combine to transform environments and unite over stories, picnics and sunsets.

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August 11, 2015 · 9:50 am

CYRANO DE BERGERAC Runs Sept. 11-Oct. 3

Jeremy Dubin as Cyrano de Bergerac.

Jeremy Dubin as Cyrano de Bergerac.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Sept. 11-Oct. 3
Downtown

Directed by Brian Isaac Phillips

Cast: Geoffrey Warrne Barnes II, Darnell Pierre Benjamin, Kyle Brumley, Billy Chance, Tia Leshaun Davis, Jeremy Dubin as Cyrano de Bergerac, Douglas Fries, Jim Hopkins, Jared Joplin, Josh Katawick, Caitlin McWethy as Roxane, Grant Niezgodski, Tess Talbot, Mike Van Zant & Petrea Whittier

Cyrano is a man of panache- a dazzling swordsman and a brilliant poet with a wit as quick as his blade. When he falls in love with the beautiful and brilliant Roxane, there is only one thing that stands between them- his gargantuan nose. When Roxane unknowingly confides in Cyrano that she is smitten with the handsome, but dimwitted solider Christian, Cyrano cannot resist the opportunity to finally speak his heart — through letters and verses signed under Christian’s name. His words have Roxanne swooning, but who is it that she truly loves and how long can Cyrano remain in the shadows?

  • In preview, Wed-Thu, Sept. 9-10 at 7:30pm. All seats $25.
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 11-12 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 17-19 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 20 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 24-26 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 27 at 2pm
  • Thu-Fri, Oct. 1-2 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Oct. 3 at 2pm & 7:30pm

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August 11, 2015 · 9:35 am

THE SECRET GARDEN Opens Playhouse in the Park’s 2015-2016 Season, Sept. 5-Oct. 3

THE SECRET GARDEN OPENS CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK’S 2015-16 SEASON, SEPT. 5 – OCT. 3, 2015

PIP_The Secret Garden promo(CINCINNATI) – The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park opens its 2015-16 season with the heartwarming, soaring musical THE SECRET GARDEN, based on the enduring family classic penned more than a century ago by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Winner of three Tony Awards on Broadway, with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, THE SECRET GARDEN runs Sept. 5-Oct. 3 in the Playhouse’s Robert S. Marx Theatre.

When 10-year-old Mary Lennox loses her parents to a devastating cholera outbreak in India, she is sent 6,000 miles away to live with her inattentive uncle at his foreboding English manor. Like Mary, Archibald Craven knows suffering, having never recovered from the death of his wife, Mary’s Aunt Lily, a decade earlier.

Selfish and spoiled, left mostly on her own, Mary has a difficult time adjusting to the peculiarities of her new home, where it seems as though the spirits of those who’ve come before her are always just out of sight. That is until she is befriended by the plucky housemaid Martha and her brother Dickon, who introduces Mary to the wonders of nature all around her. When Mary discovers the locked-away secrets of an abandoned garden, she coaxes far more than its flowers back to life.

“THE SECRET GARDEN is one of my favorite musicals,” said Playhouse Artistic Director Blake Robison. “It’s emotionally rich, musically lush and the book is fantastic. So many stories with child protagonists are cutesy and saccharine. Not so in THE SECRET GARDEN. Mary’s journey is complex. She navigates a very adult world of loneliness and isolation, only to restore love and light to herself and those around her.

“THE SECRET GARDEN is a beloved literary classic,” Robison continued. “The musical brings it to life in a uniquely human way.”

“Frances Hodgson Burnett’s timeless story, Lucy Simon’s richly beautiful music and Marsha Norman’s Tony Award-winning book all combine to make THE SECRET GARDEN a piece of great musical theatre,” said Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer who will helm the production (she previously directed Cabaret at the Playhouse). “I love how the characters convey their innermost feelings and fears though the haunting melodies of Lucy Simon’s music combined with the delicate dialogue and highly charged lyrics of Marsha Norman.”

THE SECRET GARDEN is sponsored by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation. Barbara and Bill Weyand are the show’s orchestra sponsors, and Rosemary and Mark Schlachter are the artist sponsors for Mary Lennox. The production honors the support of The Lemmerman Family.

The cast of THE SECRET GARDEN features Cameron Bartell (Dickon), Dan Beckmann (Captain Albert Lennox/Ensemble), Brandi Burkhardt (Lily), Caitlin Cohn (Mary Lennox), Carlyn Connolly (Claire Holmes/Ensemble), Kevin Earley (Archibald Craven), Anthony Frederickson (Colin Craven), Charlotte Maltby (Martha), Timothy McDevitt (Lieutenant Peter Wright/Ensemble), Adam Monley (Dr. Neville Craven), Gayton Scott (Mrs. Medlock), Vishal Vaidya (Fakir/Ensemble), Jessica Van Kipp (Rose Lennox), Anita Vasan (Ayah/Ensemble), Dathan B. Williams (Ben Weatherstaff), Michael Yeshion (Major Holmes/Ensemble) and Talia Noelle Zoll (Alice/Ensemble).

In addition to Dodge, the creative team features Sariva Goetz (music director/orchestral arranger), Michael Sebastian (associate music director/conductor), Narelle Sissons (set designer), Leon Wiebers (costume designer), Matthew Richards (lighting designer), David Bullard (sound designer) and Puppet Kitchen Productions Inc. (puppet designer/construction). Jenifer Morrow is the production stage manager, and Brooke Redler is second stage manager.

icket prices for THE SECRET GARDEN start at $35. Prices are subject to change, and patrons are encouraged to buy early for the best seats at the best prices. The show is appropriate for general audiences, including children ages 8 and up.

Returning this season is the popular Sunday College Night, with tickets to all 7 p.m. 

Sunday performances (not including A Christmas Carol) priced at just $10 with a valid student ID. Student tickets are just $15 on the day of the show for all other performances.

Discounted ticket prices for children, teens and students are available in advance for all productions — $30 and $45, depending on seat location.

New for the 2015-16 season is the Playhouse’s Tasting Series, which begins with afternoon teas by the BonBonerie before all Saturday and Sunday matinee performances of THE SECRET GARDEN. Each afternoon tea will include an English scone and freshly brewed teas from Elmwood Inn, as well as a selection of tea sandwiches and BonBonerie sweets. Afternoon tea begins at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays and 12:30 p.m. on Sundays; all tastings are $22 per person. For reservations, call the Box Office at 513-421-3888.

Previews for THE SECRET GARDEN are at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5; 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8; and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9. The official opening night is Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays.

Free Meet the Artists programs that allow audiences to interact with the cast and others associated with THE SECRET GARDEN will be held after the following performances: 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16; 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27; and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1.

THE SECRET GARDEN will be audio described for those with visual impairments at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, and signed for persons with hearing impairments at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27.

The Playhouse is fully accessible. Audio enhancement receivers, large print programs and complete wheelchair access are available. Tickets to THE SECRET GARDEN are on sale now. For more information, call the Playhouse Box Office at 513-421-3888 (toll-free in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at 800-582-3208) or visit www.cincyplay.com. Call 513-345-2248 for Telecommunications Device for the Deaf accessibility. (more)

The 2015-16 Robert S. Marx Theatre season is presented by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation, and Macy’s is the Robert S. Marx Theatre season design sponsor. The season sponsor of new work is The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Foundation.

The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of the community contributors to the ArtsWave campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the Playhouse with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. The Playhouse also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation.# #

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