Update on our remaining 19/20 season shows: Due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, the upcoming engagements of ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE, ANASTASIA and THE BOOK OF MORMON have been cancelled. Ticket holders who purchased from Broadway Across America/Broadway in Cincinnati or the Cincinnati Arts Association/Aronoff Center should have received emails yesterday regarding your ticketing options.
Thank you for your support and patience. We look forward to welcoming you back to the theater soon!
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Comedian Ricky Glore (Dry Bar Comedy, The Bob & Tom Show, Laughs Per Minute) is set to release his first full-length album Spitting Image through Circus Trapeze Records on
June 19th, 2020.
Glore said of the album, “I’ve had an amazing time working on this show the past couple years performing at comedy clubs, colleges, theaters, wineries, breweries, bars, Utah, basically anywhere there was a group of people willing to listen.”
The album was recorded in front of a sold-out crowd at the Burning Bridges Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA earlier this year where Glore delighted the audience with jokes
about his new baby, growing up in Kentucky, and how he learned to nail celebrity impressions. Glore honed the material over months on the road headlining shows across the country, and he’s excited to get it out into the world.
Circus Trapeze Records founder Glen Tickle said, “When Ricky first reached out I wasn’t
familiar with his work, but after seeing him perform there was no question that I wanted to work together. I’m really proud to have produced the album and I think audiences are going to love it.”
Spitting Image drops on June 19th on all digital platforms, and CDs are available through the Circus Trapeze Records store at circustrapeze.com/rickyglore
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While things remain extremely uncertain and will be for a while, we have unfortunately decided to postpone Something Rotten, our October show, to a date to be determined. Again, our top priority is the safety of our patrons as well as cast and crew, and despite the disappointment, look forward to the time when we can all be together again (absent the distancing) to enjoy our theatre and our great productions, together. Given the ongoing uncertainty surrounding when we will be able to reopen, we are also not going to offer season subscriptions at this time. In the meantime, we are working toward some alternate entertainment for you, so stay tuned for future announcements!
Chris Tully
President – Footlighters
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This year, the forums for ACT Presidents and Judges will be held
virtually.
Available dates include:
Here is the link to signup for a session:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0A4EADA829A13-actjudges.
As the date approaches, you will receive an email with the information to join your session.
All group presidents and judges should sign up to attend a session.
Looking forward to “seeing” everyone!
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7 years later, married and still very much in love, the creators of PETUNIA AND CHICKEN return to Cincinnati. And this time, they’ve got live music
Since premiering this show at the 2013 Cincinnati Fringe Festival and winning the Artists’ Pick Award, Carrie Brown and Karim Muasher of Animal Engine Theatre Company have taken it to fringe festivals and schools across North America. After collaborating last year with violinist and composer Natalia Steinbach to add live music to the show, they’re pleased to present this 2019 recording of PETUNIA AND CHICKEN to Cincinnati audiences. The audiences that started it all!
About the Show
Petunia and Chicken is a 4 time award winning play for audiences of all ages, inspired by the works of Pulitzer Prize winning author Willa Cather. It brings to life a heartwarming, funny, and thrilling story of immigration and love on the turn of the century prairie.
Petunia, a Czech immigrant girl determined to tame the wild land around her, meets Chicken, a Nebraska farm boy with dreams of great adventures. As the joys of their youth give way to the harsh realities of adulthood, they struggle to stay together. Performed by just two actors and a violinist in Animal Engine’s unique physical style. They create sprawling fields of wheat, bustling train stations, rain-soaked kisses and more with just their bodies, a hat, a scarf, and folk songs.
About Animal Engine
Animal Engine is the collaboration between Karim Muasher and Carrie Brown. We are two movement-based theatre artists who met while training at the London International School of Performing Arts, and found that we had a shared love of reading. Our mission is to make old stories new, by creating and performing uniquely physical plays that reimagine classic works of literature for the stage.
Working from a place of serious playfulness, we create our plays using research, improvisation, movement, and music. Fascinated with the simple act of storytelling, our plays are performed by just the two of us, with simple design elements, and are often accompanied by a live musician.
We believe in healing, that the artistic experience can help people learn and grow, so the characters in our plays persevere and become better versions of themselves in spite of difficult and often tragic circumstances. Our plays are also written for multi-generational audiences, because healing is as necessary for a child as it is for a grandparent. Our plays have been called “hard to beat” by the Washington Post and “remarkably clever” by City Beat Cincinnati. We perform and teach in our hometown of New York City, across the United States, and internationally at theaters, festivals, and schools.
Where/When:
Online as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, May 29-June 13
Digital talkback Saturday, May 30 @ 6pm (facebook and youtube)
Tickets:
$10-$15, available at cincyfringe.com
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