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January 7, 2021 · 9:40 am

MEZZULAH, 1946 Zoom Reading on Jan. 10 from BPI

BPI_logoBeechmont Players is holding another ZOOM play reading on Sunday afternoon, January 10th from 2-4pm.

MEZZULAH, 1946 is an as-yet-unpublished dramedy (see below) by acclaimed playwright Michele Lowe, who wrote THE SMELL OF THE KILL (produced by BPI four years ago).  

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83608562971?pwd=MnlSdGlTVWNETGFFbDQ4OWRmakdEQT09

MEZZULAH, 1946
A spunky young woman tries to carve out a career and a life in the chaotic period following the end of World War II. Mezullah is the last woman working at a Boeing aircraft factory.  The men want her out, but she doesn’t want to go.  Meanwhile, friends and relatives try to resolve relationships that include a ghost and a woman hunting her missing (soldier) husband.

Cast:

  • Mezzulah Steiner: Katie Jensen
  • Mary Steiner: Aubrey Wilson
  • Suzannah Hart: Carrie Knauer
  • Clementine Flynn/Sally Cauley: Katherine Anderson
  • Elvira Glass/Mrs. Bates: Maggie Harris
  • Isaiah Benson: Bryce Willson
  • Horace Steiner/Man #1: Jody Hart
  • Charlie Steiner/Reverend: Jim Waldfogle
  • Errol Hart/Man #3: Steve Phelan
  • Fist/Man #2: James Christian Jr.

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January 5, 2021 · 1:34 pm

CCM’s MOVEABLE FEAST Makes Virtual Debut on Jan. 22, 2021

CCM_2021-Moveable-FeastEnjoy the artistry of CCM students and prominent alumni — all from the comfort of your own home during the college’s virtual fundraising event

CINCINNATI, OH— Cincinnati’s premier arts fundraiser gets a virtual makeover when the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music presents Moveable Feast online on Jan. 22, 2021. Join us as we travel around the country to see firsthand how CCM sets the bar in the arts world.

Enjoy an evening with the CCM family, despite the miles or the social distance that may separate us. Audiences from coast to coast can experience CCM’s student and alumni stars in a variety of online performances that showcase the full spectrum of the performing and media arts.

Alumni guest artists include stars from popular titles of the stage and screen like Hamilton, Frozen, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix’s Dead to Me and more! Featuring CCM Musical Theatre alumni Nikki Renée Daniels (BFA, ‘01), Noah J. Ricketts (BFA, ’14) and Stephanie Jae Park (BFA, ’14); Opera alumnus Edward Nelson (BM, ’11; MM, ‘13); and Acting alumni Diana Maria Riva (BFA, ’91; MFA, ’95), Aaron Serotsky (BFA, ’97), Torrie Wiggins (BFA, ’03), Blake Kubena (BFA, ’07) and more. The full line up of alumni guests and program information will be announced in January. Moveable Feast offerings feature performances by the college’s Wind Symphony, Philharmonia and Jazz Ensemble, and by students in CCM’s Musical Theatre, Dance and Piano programs. The program also showcases video pieces by CCM Media Production and Theatre Design and Production students.

In addition to the performances, Moveable Feast’s virtual debut features a silent auction, private VIP chat rooms and dinner at home from Jeff Thomas Catering for Cincinnati audiences.

Hosted by CCMpower — a dedicated volunteer group comprised of friends, advocates and alumni — Moveable Feast generates essential support to fund student scholarships, projects and travel opportunities. These unique educational offerings are essential to the CCM experience and provide creative opportunities for students that are vital to their growth as creators and collaborators. This year, COVID-19 cancelled paid work that students rely on and drastically changed students’ family financial circumstances. Our students need scholarship and emergency funds now more than ever. Your support will set the stage for our students to be and to create what is next in the arts. Learn how to become a sponsor of Moveable Feast.

Virtual Moveable Feast: From Coast to Coast
8 p.m. Jan. 22, 2021

Schedule of events:

  • Sponsor pre-show chat: 6:30-7:45 p.m.
  • Performances: 8-9 p.m.

Purchasing Tickets
Purchasing Tickets Sponsor and Host tickets to Moveable Feast are on sale now and can be purchased online at foundation.uc.edu/MoveableFeast2021 or over the telephone at 513-556-2100.

General Admission, Young Professional and CCM Alumni tickets will be available beginning Jan. 8, 2021. General Admission and Young Professional tickets cost $25; CCM Alumni tickets cost $15.

After purchasing tickets, audience members will receive registration information on how to access the event website. If you don’t live in the Eastern Standard Time zone or simply want to watch Moveable Feast at a different time, the performances will be accessible at your convenience on the event website with your login information.

Sponsorship and host levels range from $150-$10,000. To discuss benefit details or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Libby Coletta, Assistant Director of Development, at 513-556-2100 or olivia.coletta@uc.edu.

  • Concert Master $10,000 – Concert Masters receive special recognition on the CCM and Moveable Feast websites and electronic communications. Your name or logo will be placed on screen during the event. Sponsorship includes registration and dinner delivered for up to 20 guests. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, private VIP chat room for you and your guests, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content. Benefits for this sponsorship level also include a customized CCM experience.
  • Producer $8,000 – Producers receive special recognition on the CCM and Moveable Feast websites and electronic communications. Your name or logo will be placed on screen during the event. Sponsorship includes registration and dinner delivered for up to 16 guests. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, private VIP chat room for you and your guests, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content.
  • Prodigy $5,000 – Prodigies receive special recognition on the CCM and Moveable Feast websites and electronic communications. Sponsorship includes registration and dinner delivered for up to 12 guests. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, private VIP chat room for you and your guests, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content.
  • Maestro $3,000 – Maestros receive special recognition on the CCM website, Moveable Feast event website, and electronic communications. Sponsorship
    includes registration and dinner for up to eight guests. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, private VIP chat room for you and your guests, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content.
  • Diva $1,500 – Divas receive special recognition on the CCM website, Moveable Feast event website, and electronic communications. Sponsorship includes registration and dinner for up to four guests. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, private VIP chat room for you and your guests, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content.
  • Soloist $600 – Includes recognition on the CCM website, Moveable Feast event website, and in electronic communications. Enjoy virtual access to the Moveable Feast event and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content and a charcuterie board for two.
  • Patron Package $250 – Includes recognition on the Moveable Feast website, virtual access to the Moveable Feast event, and the exclusive 2020-21 Not Famous Yet Senior Showcase content.
  • Host Ticket $150 – Includes recognition on the Moveable Feast website and virtual access to the Moveable Feast event.

A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is the largest single source of performing arts presentations in the state of Ohio. For a complete calendar of events, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.

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January 4, 2021 · 2:28 pm

Online Auditions Announced for CHECK PLEASE: The Stay-at-Home Edition at Lumos Players

LP_logoOPEN (Zoom) Auditions for CHECK PLEASE: The Stay-at-Home Edition by Jonathan Rand

January 17 from 1-4pm

Auditions, rehearsals and performances will all take place via Zoom (so you do not need to be local to take part!). Audition spots must be reserved in advance by emailing LumosPlayers@gmail.com.

Auditions will consist of sides from the script that will be sent out when your audition is scheduled.

Performance dates – February 14th at 2pm & 7:30pm.
Rehearsals: Sundays & Wednesdays (7-9pm), beginning January 24th.

Synopsis: Dating can be hard. Especially when your date is pretending to know multiple languages, or giving you a PowerPoint presentation, or doing a psychic reading of your feet. As Guy and Girl each endure a series of blind dates, they think it can’t get any worse — until it does. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?

The most off-the-wall dates occur online in CHECK PLEASE: Stay At Home Edition, an updated version of the classic comedy written especially for performance on video chat.

A full copy of the script can be read at https://www.playscripts.com/play/4703

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January 4, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Digital Auditions Announced for TEXAS ANNIE: THE LEGEND OF THE MOAN RANGER

MISC_Auditions2Announcing Digital Auditions for
TEXAS ANNIE: The Legend of the Moan Ranger
A New (Adult) Musical by Jennifer Howd and Ross Mihalko
Performances: TBD Late May/Early June of 2021

Rehearsals will take place digitally beginning in Late January/Early February for table work and character development. Rehearsals will move to in-person rehearsals as weather and covid conditions apply. No rehearsal schedule is established at this point but will be negotiable based on actor schedules. Technical rehearsals in May will be mandatory, but again, can be scheduled based on actor schedules.

TEXAS ANNIE is a campy, sex-positive musical comedy following the adventures of a renegade dildo runner in Texas when sex toys are declared illegal. Think ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW meets John Waters.

Auditions by Video Submission Only. What to send:

  • A short video showcasing 3 original/improvised characters. For each character, introduce yourself as the character and give a little backstory. Remember to give each character a specific voice and physicality. Read the character descriptions below so you have a sense of the diversity of age and styles of the character work we’re looking for in this show.
  • You may be asked to film an additional side from the show after submitting the first video.
  • If considered in the final round of casting, you may be asked to attend a Zoom or in-person, socially distant callback.

Please send video with resume and headshot attached to Maggie Perrino, mperrino@thecarnegie.com by 5pm on Friday, January 15th to be considered for the show. Links preferred rather than video files. 

ALSO NOTE:

  • TEXAS ANNIE requires a diversity of race, gender identity, age, and body type in its casting. Actors from all backgrounds and life experiences are encouraged to audition. Actors must be able to play the characters as listed, but needn’t match the role specifically in age or gender identity. 

Compensation Information

  • TEXAS ANNIE is being staged as part of a larger festival format. All actors will be involved in a profit-sharing agreement that entitles them to part of the revenue earned. Details of agree will be hashed out collaboratively once dates, capacity, and ticket prices are known. 

Performance Tracks

TEXAS ANNIE will require a cast of 8 performers to play a wide variety of characters throughout the show. Specific tracks are still being decided and may change based on actor talents/abilities

Character Descriptions
(Please note some characters currently have actors being considered and may be cast by the 15th.)

TEXAS ANNIE / ANNIE GINA [Gender: Female] [Age: 20s-30s] [Fortune Feimster type]
Annie’s spent most of her life as an antisocial wall-flower working the counter of her grandmother’s sex toy store. But when Governor Killjoy outlaws sex toys and sends her Granny to the penitentiary, Annie dons a fake mustache to become the curvaceous and confident freedom fighter of fornication instrumentation known as “The Moan Ranger.”

ASHLEY KILLJOY [Gender: Female] [Age: 20s][Lily Collins type]
Ashley is the prim and proper daughter of Texas Governor Killjoy. She’s lived most of her life being told sex is a sinful act performed by deviants, but after her accidental kidnapping by Annie, Ashley opens her eyes (and thighs) to the power of sex and love.

GOVERNOR KILLJOY [Gender: Male) [late 40s/early 50s] [Tom Selleck type]
Governor Killjoy is the conservative Christian leader of the Loan Star state who has made it his personal crusade to outlaws sex toys, since “Dildos are the Devil’s Tools.” He’s a Tom Selleck type (complete with mustache) who loves western wear and justice.

WOLF JOHNSON – TEXAS RANGER [Gender: Male] [late 40s/early 50s][Matthew McConaughey type; Good at physical comedy]
Wolf Johnson is the Governor’s iron-fisted right hand man. He’s a hard-fighting, door-kicking Chuck Norris-type who has declared war on Texas Annie after he lost his eye in a dildo fight. He’s a master of disguise who speaks in unintentional sexual innuendos.

RAINBOW / RAINBOW FLESHLIGHT [Gender: Female] [Early 60s][Lily Tomlin type]
Rainbow is Granny’s long-time live-in life partner. She’s a peace-loving hippie who dies during an out-of-body experience and goes on to possess a fleshlight (a flashlight-shaped fake vagina sex toy) and become Annie’s spiritual advisor.

JOY GOODBODY [Gender: Female] [50s/60s][Kim Catrrall type]
Dr. Joy Goodbody is a sensual sex educator who teaches self-exploration workshops to women in her Pussy Palace. She’s absolutely dripping with sexuality and confidence at all times. Think Kim Catrrall in Sex In The City after a dozen oysters.

COOKIE SPEDGEWICK [Gender: Female] [40s] [Jennifer Coolidge type]
Cookie is one of Texas Annie’s first customers. She’s a white trash psychic/hairdresser with a heart of gold.

MANGUS SPEDGEWICK [Gender: Male] [40s/50s] [Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump type]
Mangus is Cookie’s husband. He’s a wheel-chair bound war veteran who needs Texas Annie’s tools to help him satisfy his wife.

CHERRY and CANDI [Gender: Female] [20s]
Cherry and Candi are Ashley’s smoking-hot, slut-proud sorority sisters. They are the ones who initially set the governor’s daughter on her road trip to self-discovery.

JUDGE CROSS [Gender: Male] [60s]
Jude Cross is the conservative Texas State Judge who can’t wait to throw the book and The Bible at anyone who violates the anti-sex toy laws.

THE MOAN RANGER [Gender: Male] [20s]
The Moan Ranger is the confident, handsome, mask-wearing star of the show. He ends up being the inspiration for Texas Annie’s mustached persona.

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January 4, 2021 · 12:05 pm

THE SELFISH GIANT and THE HAPPY PRINCE Online Jan. 23 via Irish Heritage Center of Cincinnati

IATC_logoFrom Ireland Oscar Wilde’s best loved short stories
Adapted for the Stage
THE SELFISH GIANT & THE HAPPY PRINCE

Friday January 23, 2021 at 7PM

  “A Virtuoso Performance, Hungerly Appealing, A tonic for our times”      Irish Independent

Accompanied by a haunting musical score
With poet/ actor/ story teller Gary Jermyn
Actors/ Story tellers  Michael James Ford and Bairbre Ni Chaoimh

One show only!!  Performance is Virtual online to your home. There is limited social distanced seating in the Irish Center Theater on The Big Screen. Reservations a must for theater seating!

Tickets $15 per person.  Help keep the arts alive at the Irish Heritage Center with your ticket orders.

Go to www.IrishCenterofCincinnati.com and click on the Box Office tab OR call the Irish Center at 513-533-0100

Award-winning actors feature Selfish Giant Puppets in the first performance; Great for children and adults of all ages.

Consider becoming a member of the Irish Heritage Center. The Center welcomes all ages and ethnicities and provides a wide range of programming including Theater, Music, Art Exhibits, Dance, Genealogy, Celebrations & Commemorations.

Contained within its 44,000 square feet of space are an Irish Pub, Library, Museum, , Children’s Room, Tea Room and more. Space Rentals are available for private events as are leased office areas.

Want to book a Tea, Help with Travel to Ireland, buy from the Irish shop, attend  Drive in Concerts, celebrate Bloomsday, Mardi Gras, or St. Patrick’s Day? It’s all available here! Volunteer opportunities are available too.

Come and join in the fun as pandemic restrictions lift. We want to meet you!!

Maureen Kennedy
Irish Heritage Center of Cincinnati, Co-Founder
The Irish American Theater Company, Founder
3905 Eastern Avenue
Cincinnati Ohio 45226
Irish Center 513-533-0100

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