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September 21, 2015 · 5:00 pm

Broadway Balances America segment to include KINKY BOOTS

 “BROADWAY BALANCES AMERICA” SERIES CONTINUES
WITH AN UPLIFTING BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE NATIONAL TOUR
OF THE TONY AWARD®-WINNING GLOBAL SMASH HIT KINKY BOOTS 

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AIRING EXCLUSIVELY ON “THE BALANCING ACT®” ON LIFETIME® TELEVISION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd AT 7:30AM (ET/PT) 

Kinky Boots continues Season Two of six-part “Broadway Balances America” Series 

New York, NY – Broadway Across America’s collaboration with the award-winning morning show “The Balancing Act®” on the Lifetime® Channel continues with the second Season Two installment of the six-part series “Broadway Balances America” featuring the 2013 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots. This new episode debuts on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30AM (ET/PT) and will re-air on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:30AM (ET/PT).

Kinky Boots, presented by Broadway Across America, comes to Cincinnati as part of the 2015/2016 Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati season presented by TriHealth. Performances at the Aronoff Center run January 5 – 17, 2016. Season packages including Kinky Boots are available now by visiting BroadwayInCincinnati.com. For groups of 10 or more, contact the group sales department at 513.369.4363. Single tickets will go on sale October 23, 2015.

“The Balancing Act®” correspondent Amber Milt hosts this feel-good segment which focuses on Kinky Boots’uplifting message of embracing individuality and being true to yourself, proving that sometimes the best way to fit in is to stand out! Amber sits down with Tony and Grammy Award®-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper to discuss the powerful story the show is bringing to audiences across the globe. Viewers will be treated to interviews with Kyle Taylor Parker, the triple threat performer who plays “Lola” on the Kinky Boots national tour, and Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig, Kinky Boots’ Tony Award®-winning producers. The segment offers a glimpse into the production’s “Raise You Up” Community Youth Program, a partnership with the True Colors Fund that gives LGBT youth and their allies a look at careers in the commercial theatre industry by spending a day with professionals involved in the show – from the advertising and marketing teams to the dance captain who teaches them how to strut their stuff on a Broadway stage.

The smash-hit musical Kinky Boots brings together four-time Tony Award®-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book), Grammy Award®-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award® winner for Best Score for Kinky Boots), and Tony Award®-winner director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell.

Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes audiences from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s expectations and continue the family business of Price & Son. With the factory’s future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. 

inky Boots is represented around the world with the Broadway company now in its third year, a North American First National Tour that launched in September 2014, a Toronto production that opened in June 2015, a London production opening in September 2015 and a Melbourne production opening in October 2016. A Korean production of Kinky Boots ran from December 2014-February 2015. The Grammy Award®-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.

Kinky Boots took home six 2013 Tony Awards®, the most of any show in the season, including Best Musical, Best Score (Cyndi Lauper), Best Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), Best Orchestrations (Stephen Oremus) and Best Sound Design (John Shivers). The show also received the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Broadway.com Awards for Best Musical and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Album, along with many other accolades.

“Broadway Balances America” takes viewers behind the curtain of the biggest shows featured on Broadway Across America’s 2015-2016 Broadway series nationwide – from Boston to Costa Mesa, from Houston to Minneapolis, and everywhere in between. Future Season Two “Broadway Balances America” series installments include (with airdates):

Kinky Boots, September 22 & 29
If/Then, October 20 & 27
The Wizard of Oz, November 17 & 24
The Sound of Music, December 1 & 8
Cabaret, January 26 & February 2

For more information about the national tour of KINKY BOOTS and the “Broadway Balances America” series, please visit www.BroadwayBalancesAmerica.com.

About Broadway Across America
BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA is part of the Key Brand Entertainment family of companies, which includesBroadway.com and is operated by John Gore (Owner & CEO). BAA is the foremost presenter of first-class touring productions in North America, operating in 38 markets. Current and past productions include Beautiful, Finding Neverland, It Shoulda Been You, Million Dollar Quartet, Hairspray and The Producers. Broadway.com is the premier theater website for news, exclusive content and ticket sales. For more information please visit BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com and Broadway.com.

About The Balancing Act®
Entering its 8th season, THE BALANCING ACT continues to empower women in all aspects of their lives. The mission at “The Balancing Act” is simple – to help today’s modern woman balance it all by bringing them positive solutions to enrich and empower them. Entertaining, educational and trusted by women, viewers can tune in to America’s premier morning show “The Balancing Act” on weekday mornings Monday through Friday at 7:30 am (ET/PT) on Lifetime television. For additional information or to view a segment visit: www.thebalancingact.com. 

About Broadway in Cincinnati
Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati presented by TriHealth is committed to bringing the very best of Broadway to the Tri-State, presenting touring Broadway plays and musicals in Cincinnati since 1987. For the past twenty years, Broadway in Cincinnati has presented all shows at the Aronoff Center, and joins in celebrating the Aronoff’s landmark 20th Anniversary this year.  The Broadway in Cincinnati series brings more than 185,000 people downtown to the Aronoff Center each year, and contributes an average of $30 million to the local economy each season. Broadway in Cincinnati is a member of the Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and The Broadway League. Fifth Third Bank is the sponsor of the Cincinnati 15/16 Season and the season is presented by TriHealth. LOCAL 12 is the official television station of the 15/16 Cincinnati Season.  

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September 21, 2015 · 4:16 pm

THE WINTER’S TALE Runs Oct. 20-25

Caleb Farley as Florizel & and Madison Pullins as Perdita. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

Caleb Farley as Florizel & and Madison Pullins as Perdita. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

THE WINTER’S TALE
Northern Kentucky University
Oct. 20-25
Stauss Theatre [Highland Heights]

Cast: Brandon Holcomb as Leontes, Emily Fry as Hermione, Rhys Boatwright as Polixenes, Hunter Henrickson as Camillo, Kate Stuard as Paulinia, Trey Paris as Antigonus, Madison Pullins as Perdita, Caleb Farley as Florizel, Connor Moulton as Old Shepherd, Andrew Wiemann as Shepherd’s Son, Justin Woolums as Autolycus, Xander Wells as Archidamus/Guard, Hallie Hargus as Emilia/Shepherdess, Natalie Bellamy as Mopsa/Polixenes’ Wife, Gretchen Priddy as Dorcas/Lady, Aaron Marshall as Servant 1/Shepherd 1, Andrew Bishop as Servant 2/Shepherd 2, Anthony Newton as Lord 1/Officer, Brandon Critchfield as Lord 2/Jailor, Alex Bertucci as Prince Mamillius, Finn Eddleman as Child King Leontes & Luke Bertucci as Child Polixenes

Tragic, romantic, hilarious, and uplifting, this genre-bending masterpiece is one of Shakespeare’s most elegant and haunting plays. THE WINTER’S TALE leaps from darkest tragedy to lighthearted romance and a truly magical conclusion. This enchanting classic celebrates redemption, reconciliation, and the mending of broken hearts. Princes and princesses, disguised identities, jealous kings, oracles, pickpockets, and one ravenous bear.

  • Tue-Sat, Oct. 20-24 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 25 at 3pm

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September 21, 2015 · 3:33 pm

Poetic, Poignant Drama MAD RIVER RISING Continues Playhouse’s Marx Season, Oct. 17-Nov. 14, 2015

POETIC, POIGNANT DRAMA MAD RIVER RISING CONTINUES CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK’S MARX THEATRE SEASON, OCT. 17 – NOV. 14, 2015

PIP_Mad River Rising promo(CINCINNATI) – Dana Yeaton’s sweeping, compelling MAD RIVER RISING brings a flood of forces — natural, generational and emotional — to the Cincinnati Playhouse’s Robert S. Marx Theatre Oct. 17 through Nov. 14. Family patriarch and farmer Angus Stewart, the anchor of Yeaton’s captivating drama, escapes from his nursing home determined to save the land he loves from the rising tide of urbanization.

Crusty and droll, Angus is still fiercely loyal to his family’s acreage despite the toll the years have taken on him — along with the devastating impact of the 1937 flood, remembered in flashbacks from when he was a child. In the fluid unfolding of the play, the audience gets to see those costs as Angus envisions them, meandering between past and present in the stream of his mind, all in the setting of the farm’s gnarled old barn.

“I love Angus. He’s cranky and aggravating — yes — but he calls ’em like he sees ’em,” says Playhouse Artistic Director Blake Robison, who is directing MAD RIVER RISING. “I think he is admirable in his tenacity and his desire to instill fundamental values in his sons and grandson.

“Whether you grew up in the country or not, the play will resonate for everyone,” Robison explains. “It’s about family. And we’re all experts on the subject of family. The play deals with some very current thematic issues as well. Baby boomers are getting older, dealing with their aging parents, trying to reconcile their present with their past.” Robison originally commissioned MAD RIVER RISING when he was the artistic director of Vermont Stage Company. The play made its world premiere there and garnered the Moss Hart Award from the New England Theatre Conference. Originally set in Vermont and based on that state’s disastrous Great Flood of 1927, MAD RIVER RISING’s story was transferred to Ohio for its Cincinnati Playhouse run to reflect this region’s record-setting, devastating 1937 flooding.

Yeaton’s other plays include his adaptation of the novel Midwives; the drama Redshirts, which received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for best new play; and Swing State, a two-character musical also set in Ohio. The recipient of the 2002 New Voice in American Theater Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival, Yeaton teaches playwriting and oratory at Vermont’s Middlebury College.

Winding throughout the Playhouse’s production of MAD RIVER RISING will be the haunting folk music of Vermont compatriot and critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. She has been compared to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch and Ani DiFranco, and was the opening act for Bon Iver’s 2012 tour.

The cast of MAD RIVER RISING features stage and screen veteran Robert Hogan (Batman, M*A*S*H, original Broadway cast of A Few Good Men) who portrays Angus Stewart. Additional cast members include Billy Finn (Spencer Eddy), Grant Goodman (Charlie Stewart), Ty Joseph Shelton (Young Angus/Nick Stewart), Sheila Tousey (Mae/Marie Cousino Stewart) and Terry Weber (Hopley Stewart).

In addition to Robison and Mitchell, the creative team features Jeff Modereger (set designer), Kathleen Geldard (costume designer), Kenton Yeager (lighting designer) and Matthew M. Nielson (sound designer). Brooke Redler is the stage manager, and Jenifer Morrow is the second stage manager.

MAD RIVER RISING is sponsored by Tony Alper.

Ticket prices for MAD RIVER RISING 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 adult and teenage audiences.

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. Previews for MAD RIVER RISING are at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17; 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20; and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21. The official opening night is Thursday, Oct. 22, 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 MAD RIVER RISING will be held after the following performances: 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8; and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12.

MAD RIVER RISING will be audio described for those with visual impairments at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, and signed for persons with hearing impairments at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. The Playhouse is fully accessible. Audio enhancement receivers, large print programs and complete wheelchair access are available. Tickets to MAD RIVER RISING 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.

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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September 21, 2015 · 3:21 pm

trueGAMBLE on Oct. 19

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Oct. 19
Over-the-Rhine

Although great storytelling is not limited to true, personal stories, True Theatre believes that these real moments of our lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary, give both the speaker AND the listener the ultimate sense of being part of a larger community than they were aware.

Come join us for an evening of True Theatre …where time slows down and we can listen.

  • Mon, Oct. 19 at 7:30pm

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September 21, 2015 · 7:49 am

Cast Announced for CALIFORNIA SUITE at Beavercreek Community Theatre

bctBeavercreek Community Theatre is pleased to announce the cast of CALIFORNIA SUITE, directed by Mike Rousculp. Performance dates are October 30-November 8.

New York
Hannah Warren: Debra Strauss
William Warren: Matt Lindsay

Philadelphia
Marvin Michaels: Brad Bishop
Millie Michaels: Angie Thacker
Bunny: Madeline Swanson

London
Diana Nichols: Debra Strauss
Sidney Nichols: Matt Lindsay

Chicago
Mort Hollender: Brad Bishop
Beth Hollender: Amy Taint
Stu Franklyn: Jamie McQuinn
Gert Franklyn: Nancy Albert

For more information visit http://bctheatre.org/

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