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October 20, 2015 · 6:32 am

Auditions Announced for BRIGADOON at the Covedale Center

CCPACincinnati Landmark Productions to hold auditions for BRIGADOON

Audition Dates: Sunday, October 25 and Monday, October 26, 2015
Time:  6:00 pm – 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 may be tested for dance ability (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:

  • Tommy Albright – Lead (30 – 40) Baritone.  A well-to-do New Yorker, on a hunting trip in Scotland
  • Fiona MacLaren – Lead (18 – 30).  Soprano.  Andrew’s older daughter, about 25 years old.
  • Jeff Douglas – Supporting (35 – 55) Spoken.  Tommy’s friend and hunting companion.
  • Charle Dalrymple – Supporting (21 – 32). Tenor. Engaged to Jean
  • Jean MacLauren – Supporting (18 – 30).  Spoken.  Andrew’s younger daughter, engaged to Charlie and beloved of Harry.
  • Meg Brockie – Supporting (18 – 30).  Alto.  An interesting character.
  • Andrew MacLaren – Supporting (47 – 65).  Baritone.  Father to Fiona and Jean.
  • Harry Beaton – Supporting (18 – 30).  Spoken.  Son of Archie, in love with Jean.
  • Archie Beaton – Cameo (47 – 65).  Bass.  Father to Harry.
  • Mr. Lundie – Cameo (50 – 75).  Spoken.  The dominie (schoolmaster) of Brigadoon
  • Maggie Anderson – Cameo (16 – 26).  Spoken.  Fond of Harry.
  • Jane Ashton – Cameo (24 – 33).  Spoken.  Tommy’s fiancée, in New York
  • Angus MacGuffie – Cameo, Head of his clan
  • Ian MacGregor – Cameo, Head of his clan
  • Frank – A Bartender, in New York.

BRIGADOON
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe; Original dances created by Agnes de Mille

One of the most intriguing and delightful aspects of a musical show is its ability to open up a whole new world to both its audience and cast. The show that does this better than any other is BRIGADOON. This is a Scottish fantasy about a town that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every one hundred years. Songs include:  Waitin’ for My Dearie, I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean, Come to Me, Bend to Me, Almost Like Being in Love, There But for You Go I, The Heather on the Hill and My Mother’s Weddin’ Day. This is a tribute to simplicity, goodness and the power of true love.

Tim Perrino, Director; Steve Goers, Music Director; Christine Steele and Kelcey Steele; Co-Choreographers; Holly Davis, Production Stage Manager

Rehearsals begin:  Sunday, March 13, 2016
Performance dates:   April 28 – May 22, 2016

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

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October 20, 2015 · 6:16 am

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Runs Nov. 20-22

CSP_logoWHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Caroline Scott Players
Nov. 20-22
Oxford

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee that examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. The title is a pun on the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” from Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs. This play won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962-63 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play.

  • Fri-Sat, Nov. 20-21 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Nov. 22 at 2pm

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October 19, 2015 · 7:01 am

Special Guests Drew Lachey, A. Beth Harris & Daylan Mulvaney to Perform with The Skivvies at ETC

SPECIAL GUESTS DREW LACHEY, A. BETH HARRIS, AND DYLAN MULVANEY TO PERFORM WITH THE SKIVVIES AT ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI

ETC_The Skivvies promo(Cincinnati, OH) Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) is excited to announce three electrifying artists that will join the award-winning musical duo The Skivvies on stage next week for select shows! Stripping down and taking the stage are local celebrity Drew Lachey, local actress a. Beth Harris, and rising CCM musical theatre star Dylan Mulvaney! The Skivvies, which the New York Post declared “a mash-up of all things sultry,” will perform at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati for three shows, one weekend only, October 22, 23, and 24, 2015. Tickets are $30 and may be purchase through the ETC box office.

Drew Lachey—Local celebrity, Dancing with the Stars champion, member of 98 Degrees, and co-owner of Lachey’s Bar in Over-the-Rhine—will join us next Friday, October 23 for the 11:00 pm show. a. Beth Harris—local actress and renowned singer of Cincinnati-based band The Hiders—will appear at the Saturday, October 24 11:00 pm performance. Dylan Mulvaney—University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music rising musical theater star—will perform at all 3 Skivvies shows!

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

  • Thursday, October 22 at 10:30 pm
  • Friday, October 23 at 11:00 pm
  • Saturday, October 24 at 11:00 pm

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

The Skivvies are Lauren Molina and Fairfield, Ohio native Nick Cearley (ETC’s Next to Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and star of the one-man show Buyer & Cellar on stage now!). Molina is an award-winning Broadway actress, musician, and singer-songwriter known for her roles in Broadway’s Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd, Mary Zimmerman’s Candide, and the Drama League-nominated, two-person revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little. Cearley’s credits include the first national tour of All Shook Up and the lauded one-man show …And Then I Wrote a Song About It. The Skivvies became YouTube sensations with their covers of artists including Robyn, Carole King, and Rihanna. The videos led to live shows, and now the duo performs to sold-out audiences in New York and beyond. Previous venues include 54 Below, The Highline Ballroom, Roseland Ballroom, Joe’s Pub, The Cutting Room, Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles, and The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA. The Skivvies have performed at events including Broadway Bares (a fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS), A Tribute to Angela Lansbury with Tyne Daly and Christine Ebersole, Broadway for Obama, and Human Rights Campaign benefit, Theatre C. They have made appearances on NBC, and they have filmed pilots for FOX, A&E, and WE.

Drew Lachey is a native of Cincinnati and an accomplished singer, dancer, and actor. Drew first rose to prominence as a member of the Motown pop group 98 Degrees. The group recorded four successful albums and sold more than nine million records worldwide. Drew made his Broadway debut playing the role of Mark Cohen in Rent. His other Broadway credits include: Patsy in Monty Python’s Spamalot and Corny Collins in Hairspray with the PCLO. Drew became a household name when he took home the infamous mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars (season-two champion, season-five co-host) and later took his dancing talents on the road with three North American tours of Dancing with the Stars and was asked to come back and be a part of the All-Star season. Drew also hosted the primetime ABC show Dance War with Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, The Miss USA Pageant, HGTV’s $250,000 Challenge and America Sings for GMC. After a decade break, 98 Degrees recently got back together and toured with NKOTB and Boyz II Men on the “Package Tour.” Drew also starred in UPTV’s Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas, can be heard “Live at Lachey’s” every Friday on Cincinnati’s own Q102 and starred in a new doc-series for A&E called Lachey’s Bar.

a. Beth Harris She took a small hiatus from theatre to go to massage school and try her hands at the healing arts. She has still been performing, however, with her band and great friends-The Hiders. As well as touring and recording with other local bands (Pearlene, the J. Dorsey Blues Band, Blind Boy Roy Gentry). Beth was last seen as Samantha Blossom in Dead City at New Stage Collective. Other credits include Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grete in Sight Unseen, Violet in Violet and Anna Bianchi in Syncopation-all at ETC.

Dylan Mulvaney is an actor and cat enthusiast. He is currently enrolled in University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music Musical Theatre program and is expected to graduate in 2019.

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Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a professional theatre dedicated to producing world and regional premieres of works that often explore compelling social issues. We fulfill our mission through our stage productions and educational outreach programs that enlighten, enliven, enrich

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October 19, 2015 · 6:52 am

CCM Presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Timeless CAROUSEL Oct. 29 – Nov. 1

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CCM’s acclaimed Mainstage Series continues this fall with a moving production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical CAROUSEL. Directed and choreographed by Diane Lala with musical direction by Roger Grodsky, CAROUSEL runs Oct. 29 through Nov. 1 in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium. Tickets for all performances are on sale now.

Based on the 1909 play Liliom, CAROUSEL tells a story of tragedy, forgiveness and timeless love through the turbulent relationship of Julie Jordan, a quiet, naïve millworker, and Billy Bigelow, a swaggering, carefree carnival barker.

CCM Professor of Musical Theatre Diane Lala directs and choreographs the show, which was hailed as the “best musical of the 20th century” by Time Magazine. Fittingly, Lala’s approach to the show is to let the material speak for itself. “CAROUSEL is such a classic piece of musical theatre,” she explains. “My goal is to present the show the way the writers intended it.”

Lala is no stranger to the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein, having previously helmed CCM’s 2011 production of Oklahoma!. Lala notes that although the two musicals were written back to back, they are quite different. “A lot of the uplifting spirit in Oklahoma! comes from the feeling of community around making Oklahoma a state. In CAROUSEL we deal with the much darker issue of a marriage between two people who are completely different but who have this captivating and enduring love for each other.”

Richard Rodgers portrays the love story gloriously in his sweeping score, which he maintained was his personal favorite of all the shows he wrote.

CCM Professor of Musical Theatre Roger Grodsky and second-year graduate student Danny White will co-conduct the 39-piece orchestra for this production. The duo will honor Rodgers by utilizing a restored version of the original 1945 orchestrations. “The restoration process began in 2003 and there are literally hundreds of parts that have been reinstated or corrected,” says Grodsky. “People may be surprised to hear that that the correct lyric for ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is: ‘When you walk through a storm, KEEP YOUR CHIN up high’ not ‘hold your head’!”

CAROUSEL’s timeless score also includes such standards as “If I Loved You” and Billy’s powerful seven-minute solo “Soliloquy.”

In addition to the full orchestra, the technical elements of the show will be quite grand. However, Lala notes that the juxtaposition of these elements with the intimacy of the story is what makes this production special. “In the beginning of the show, we transform from a bare stage to a full amusement park including a big carousel, so the set and musical numbers are really big and elaborate but then the scenes are so dramatic and simple. There’s a wonderful contrast all within the same show.”

With its timeless story, glorious score, and stunning visuals, CCM’s production of CAROUSEL is sure to delight audiences and create a memorable evening of theater.

Special thanks to Carol Ann’s Carousel, A Gift of The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.

Performance Times

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30
  • 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1

Location
Corbett Auditorium, CCM Village
University of Cincinnati

Purchasing Tickets
Tickets to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel are $31-35 for adults, $20-24 for non-UC students and $18-22 UC students with a valid ID.

Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online at ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice/mainstage/carousel.

Parking and Directions
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors. Additional parking is available off-campus at the new U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visit ccm.uc.edu/about/directions.
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CCM Season Presenting Sponsor and Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor: Macy’s

Carousel Production Sponsor: The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.

Community Partner: ArtsWave

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October 19, 2015 · 6:49 am

Xavier University Theatre Presents THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Oct. 22­‐24

XU_The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee logo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (CINCINNATI, Oct 13, 2015) – Xavier University Theatre kicks off its 2015-­‐16 season with THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Performances will take place in Xavier’s Gallagher  Student Center Theater on Oct. 22-­‐24 at 7:30 pm, with a 2:00 pm matinee showing on Oct. 24.

Ever wanted to fit in? Ever thought that second place wasn’t good enough or that winning  could finally help you figure out who you are? THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING  BEE is the story of a group of socially awkward kids finding joy, heartache and a purpose  competing at the regional spelling bee. Winner of the Tony and Drama Desk awards for best book,  THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE has charmed audiences across the country  with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-­‐paced, wildly-­‐funny and touching book by  Rachel Sheinkin and a fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable  experience.

“I love that Xavier Theatre is doing this production because its family-­‐friendly, funny and  entertaining, but also offers a deeper meaning about how difficult it is to grow up and to find  acceptance as an individual, especially a kid,” says Alex Roberts, who plays Olive in the production.  “As an actor, it’s a great opportunity to look back on when we were this age, and to connect to  some of the issues that we faced, and then portray those through this unique and special group of  children.” In addition to Roberts, the cast for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE  includes Katie Bauer as Marcy, Sean Burlingame as Conybear, Cassie Delicath as Rona, Kalie  Kaimann as Logainne, Tyler Kuhlman as Chip, Justin Lee as Barfee, Eric Minion as Panch and  Hannah Sheppard as Mitch.

The creative team for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE includes  costume designer Gordon DeVinney, sound designer Chuch Hatcher, set and lighting designer  David Zlatic and props designer Nicole Santiago. The show is music directed by Scot Buzza, choreographed by Dee Anne Bryll and directed by Stephen Skiles.

Tickets for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE are available now through  the Xavier University Theatre Box Office. Tickets are $17 for adults and $12 for students, as well as  Xavier faculty and staff. To purchase tickets, visit www.xavier.edu/theatretickets or call 513-‐745-3939.

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