From the hills of Dogpatch U.S.A. in LIL’L ABNER, to the wintry kingdom of Arendelle in Disney’s FROZEN JR., we can’t wait to see what the rest of this season has in store!
Mother’s Day Mystery Theatre
May 11
LI’L ABNER
June 21-July 12
Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK KIDS
July 12-19
BYE BYE BIRDIE
Sept. 19-22
Disney’s FROZEN JR.
Dec. 7-21
For more information visit www.krtshows.com.
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Open auditions for MAMMA MIA
Loveland Stage Company Theatre
111 S. 2nd. Street (Rt 48)
Loveland, OH 45140
Directed by Deirdre Dyson and Glenna Knapp
Produced by Theresa and Steve Kovacs
Music Directed by Pat Kelly
Choreographed by Sonja Hansen
SHOW DATES
2 weekends: 8 performances
August 15,16,17,18 23, 24, 24, 25
Rehearsals will start in June.
EVERYONE: Please prepare 16 to 32 bars of a song in the same style as the show to showcase your range. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes for a dance audition. There will also be cold readings from the script.
Chorus can audition solo or in small groups.
You can download the audition form here.
CASTING REQUIREMENTS
Cast Size: About 30 -35, age 16 and up.
Major roles (Note: Ages noted are age of the STAGE characters)
Synopsis: A Romantic Comedy featuring music by Abba, set on a Mediterranean Island sparkling in the irridescent blue Aegean. Action takes place on the eve of Sophia’s wedding to Sky and the next day.
Music and Lyrics by Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus and some songs with Stig Anderson.
Book by Catherine Johnson.
Questions? Email: Deirdre dyson.d@fuse.net OR Glenna gknapplmtatc@aol.com
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CINCINNATI, OH – The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is proud to present the 2019 Overture Awards Finals Competition. The Overture Awards provides $4,000 to six area high school students for education and training expenses, with eighteen finalists each winning $1,000. The program also provides a $2,500 Arts Educator Award for Excellence in Arts Instruction.
The Overture Awards Finals Competition and Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater. Winners will be announced immediately following the competition. The Visual Art finalists exhibition will be in Aronoff Center’s Center Stage Room (next to the Weston Art Gallery on Seventh Street) from Tuesday, March 5 – Saturday, March 9.
This year, 424 students were nominated by their schools or studios to compete in one of six artistic disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Instrumental Music, Theater, Visual Art, and Vocal Music. The Overture Awards was developed to recognize, encourage, and reward excellence in the arts among Tri-state students in grades 9-12. It also provides students an opportunity to share their talents and interests among their peers in a supportive environment outside of their individual schools. There are three levels of competition: Regional, Semi-Final, and Final.
The Overture Awards Regional Competitions were held on January 26 at the Immanuel School of Music, Northern Kentucky University, and Mount Saint Joseph University. The top twenty percent of competitors in each discipline advanced to the Semi-Finals, which were held at the Aronoff Center on February 7-9. Twenty-four finalists (four in each discipline) will compete in the Finals Competition at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater on March 9.
Now in its twenty-third year, The Overture Awards was launched in 1996 by the Cinergy Foundation (now Duke Energy) and Leadership Cincinnati (a program of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber). The Overture Awards is funded and administered by the Cincinnati Arts Association, which operates and manages the Aronoff Center and Music Hall. The Overture Awards also relies on hundreds of volunteers from the community who help raise funds, adjudicate and manage the competitions, and nurture the program.
THE OVERTURE AWARDS ARE ENDOWED BY THE OTTO M. BUDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Overture Awards Presenting Sponsors: TriHealth; The Eleanora C.U. Alms Trust, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.; Otto M. Budig Family Foundation; Summerfair Cincinnati
Scholarship Sponsors: Arthur Murray – Cincinnati, Doreen Beatrice, Douglas Beal, Bonita Brockert, Brandon Etheridge, Jozsef Parragh, Pebble Creek Group, Phoenix Rising Ballroom, Summerfair Cincinnati, Josh Tilford, Western & Southern Financial Fund, The William O. Purdy, Jr. Foundation
Competition Sponsors: Immanuel School of Music, Northern Kentucky University, Mount Saint Joseph University
Printing Sponsor: Graphic Village
THE 2019 OVERTURE AWARDS FINALISTS
CREATIVE WRITING
DANCE
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
THEATER
VISUAL ART
VOCAL MUSIC
Arts Educator Award For Excellence in Arts Instruction
The Arts Educator Award promotes and rewards excellence in arts instruction throughout Greater Cincinnati. An educator who teaches any of the following arts disciplines may be nominated: Creative Writing, Dance, Instrumental Music, Theater, Visual Art, and Vocal Music. They can be a high school arts specialist, a teaching artist working with high school students, or an arts professional or educator providing private lessons or instruction. Nominations for the award must come from students between the ages of 14-19 who are currently enrolled in high school. Nominations are made by submitting an on-line application with a three-minute video about why the nominee is an exemplary arts educator.
The winner of the 2019 award will receive $2,500, and two finalists will receive $500 each. The recipients of the Arts Educator Award may utilize the monetary award to strengthen their program or practice, e.g. an artist fee for a guest lecturer or master class, the purchase of equipment, or a professional learning opportunity such as tuition assistance for either the educator or for students to study with the recipient or another professional.
Arts Educator Award Finalists
Lincoln Chapman, Private Teacher
Discipline: Vocal Music
Nominated by: Maxwell Metsch
Catherine Keen, The Keen Voice Studio
Discipline: Vocal Music
Nominated by: Grace Caccavari
Benita Tse-Leung, Leung Studio
Discipline: Piano
Nominated by: Jenny Hu
Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of two of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 700,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.5 million students.
CAA is proud to be a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Greater Cincinnati Alliance for Arts Education, Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greater Cincinnati Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce, and Performing Arts Center Consortium.
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Queen City Productions is looking for musicians to play in the orchestra for their production of Titanic the musical. The production runs April 11th-14th with tech week starting April 7th. A rehearsal schedule will be put together once all the musicians are in place. We are looking for:
3 Violins I & II (2 vol. each)
1 Viola
1 Cello
1 Bass
1 Reed I: Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute (or Clarinet) and Clarinet
1 Reed II: Oboe and English Horn (or Clarinet)
1 Reed III: Clarinet
1 Reed IV: Flute and Clarinet
1 Reed V: Bassoon and E-flat Contrabass Clarinet (or Bassoon)
2 Horn I & II
2 Trumpet I & II (both double B-flat Piccolo Trumpet -8 measures only)
1 Trombone I (tenor)
1 Trombone II (bass)
1 Keyboard Synthesizer I – principally Harp.
Additional registrations for: Glockenspiel, Piano, Steel Guitar, Harpsichord, Vibraphone, Tuba and optional Bass Trombone. (2 vol.)
1 Keyboard Synthesizer II – principally Strings.
Additional registrations for: Marcato Strings, Fast Strings, Pizz. Strings, Trem. Strings, Double Basses, Celeste, Celeste + Vibes, Harmonium & Harp. (2 vol.)
2 Percussion I & II: (trap drum set & mallet instruments)
(I – mallet instruments)
Tubaphone (or Bells)
Xylophone
Timpani (2 pedal drums)
Bells
Gran Cassa (2 drums)
Anvil (2 sizes)
Piatti (Hand Cymbals)
Small Triangle (share w/Perc. 2)
Even Smaller Triangle
(II- trap drum set)
Snare Drum
Bass Drum
Wood Blocks (hi and low)
Cow Bells (hi and low)
Bell Tree
Xylophone (share w/Perc. 2)
Crotales
Triangles (2 sizes)
Tam-Tam
Cymbals:
several suspended
Crash
Crash Hi-Hat
Hand
If you are interested, please email us at queencityproductions@yahoo.com or our music director, Brian Harvey, at bbharvey1976@gmail.com
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TWO TRAINS RUNNING explores the lives of ordinary people during the civil rights movement
Photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates.
CINCINNATI – Beginning March 2, history unfolds around everyday lives in August Wilson’s TWO TRAINS RUNNING at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Part of Wilson’s American Century Cycle, the masterpiece play portrays ordinary people swept up in a rapidly changing world against the backdrop of the civil rights movement. TWO TRAINS RUNNING is presented in the Marx Theatre by Moe and Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth through March 30. Opening night is Thursday, March 7.
Wilson is widely regarded as the world’s foremost African-American playwright and as one of the most important and influential voices in the history of theatre. He won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his 1987 play, Fences. He won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The Piano Lesson. Wilson’s American Century Cycle is a trailblazing 10-play series about the African-American experience. From 1979 to 2004, he wrote one play for each decade of the 20th century.
Variety stated that TWO TRAINS RUNNING was “perfection… a work by a writer at the peak of his powers.”
Set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in a local diner in 1969, long-time regulars gather to gossip, flirt and play by the numbers. The owner must decide whether or let the city take over his building or sell it to a shrewd, local businessman.
Playhouse Associate Artist Timothy Douglas, who directs the production, is one of the country’s preeminent directors of Wilson’s plays. Douglas has directed several productions of Wilson’s work, including the Playhouse’s 2016 production of Jitney.
“When August Wilson’s plays first came on to the scene, one of the major impacts was in filling the void that was the lack of authentic black lives and voices on mainstream American stages,” explains Douglas. “August Wilson’s works are unapologetically pro-black, which is the polar opposite of being anti-white, and it is because of this reality — by way of his plays, characters and dynamic use of language — he is able to convey universal truths.”
The play explores topics such as inequality and injustice, balanced with moments of humor and optimism. Though it marks the seventh play of Wilson’s American Century Cycle, TWO TRAINS RUNNING stands on its own, painting a compassionate portrait of ordinary people in the midst of transformation.
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SPONSORS
TWO TRAINS RUNNING is presented by Moe and Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth. Design Sponsor is TriVersity Construction. Artist Sponsors are Fifth Third Bank; Bahl & Gaynor; Rosemary and Mark Schlachter; and World Pac Paper, LLC. Honorary Producer is Leon Meyer. Marx Theatre Season Sponsor is Schueler Group and Season Design Sponsor is Macy’s. Season Sponsor of New Work is The Rosenthal Family Foundation.
The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of almost 40,000 contributors to the ArtsWave Community 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.
CAST
Frank Britton (Hambone); Doug Brown (West); Chiké Johnson (Sterling); Jefferson A. Russell (Wolf); Malkia Stampley (Risa); Raymond Anthony Thomas (Memphis); Michael Anthony Williams (Holloway)
PRODUCTION
Timothy Douglas (Director); Tony Cisek (Set Designer); Kara Harmon (Costume Designer); Michael Gilliam (Lighting Designer); Matthew M. Nielson (Composer/Sound Designer); Stephanie Klapper, CSA (Casting Director); Jenifer Morrow (Production Stage Manager); Brooke Redler (Second Stage Manager).
TICKETS
Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, at 8 p.m. Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. An additional matinee takes place at 1 p.m. on March 27. Please note there are no public evening performances on March 13 or 24. Individual tickets start at just $35. Tickets to all 7 p.m. Sunday performances are priced at just $10 for college students with a valid school ID. Student tickets are $15 on the day of the show for all other performances. Discounted ticket prices for children and teens are available for all performances and are $30.
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Behind the Curtain Cincinnati 