Monthly Archives: December 2023

Auditions Announced for TIMELESS at Mason Community Players

MCP_logoTIMELESS: A Musical Revue

Sat, Jan. 6 from 10am-Noon
Sun, Jan. 7 from 5-8pm

Please sign up for a 15-minute slot.  Place your song title(s) in the comment section.  Please bring 1 to 3 songs with you.  These are songs of your selection.  Additionally, come prepared with your sheet music ready for the music director.

Walk-in auditions are welcome based on availability.

Plan to arrive a few minutes early to complete an audition form.  If you have a resume, please have it ready for auditions.  Also, bring your conflicts from February through April 2024.  Rehearsals will begin in February.

Performances are April 12-14 and April 18-20.

If you are unable to attend auditions and would still like to be considered, please email mktoft04@gmail.com for futher details.

Location
Mason Community Playhouse
5529 Mason Road
Mason, Ohio 45040

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THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES Runs Jan. 18-Feb. 11

LAC_The Marvelous WonderettesTHE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
La Comedia Dinner Theatre
Jan. 18-Feb. 11
[Springboro]

This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to a 1958 high school prom where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Featuring over 30 throwback 50’s and 60’s hits like “Mr. Sandman,” “Lollipop,” “Lipstick On Your Collar,” “Respect,” “It’s In His Kiss,” and “It’s My Party,” The Marvelous Wonderettes is a musical trip down memory lane that will have you humming along in your seat!

  • Thu-Fri, Jan. 18-19 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Sat, Jan. 20 at 5:30pm
  • Sun, Jan. 21 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Jan. 25-26 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Sat, Jan. 27 at 5:30pm
  • Sun, Jan. 28 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Feb. 1-2 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Sat, Feb. 3 at 5:30pm
  • Sun, Feb. 4 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Feb. 8-9 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
  • Sat, Feb. 10 at 5:30pm
  • Sun, Feb. 11 at 10:30am & 5:30pm

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CLP Announces its 2024-2025 Marquee Season at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts

CCPACincinnati Landmark Productions announces its 2024 – 2025 Marquee Season at the Covedale Center for Performing Arts!  

NUNSENSE
September 12 – October 6, 2024
Book, Music and Lyrics by Dan Goggin

The all-time hit musical spoof about the misadventures of five star-struck, singing, dancing nuns! Sadly, the rest of the sisterhood died from botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia Child of God. The remaining nuns – ballet-loving Sister Leo, streetwise Sister Robert Anne, befuddled Sister Mary Amnesia, the Mother Superior Sister Regina, and mistress of the novices Sister Mary Hubert – stage a wildly off-kilter talent show to raise the money to bury their dearly departed. With catchy songs and irresistible comedy, Nunsense is sure to keep you rolling with laughter. NUNSENSE is habit-forming!

SOMETHING ROTTEN
October 17 – November 10, 2024
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick

Welcome to the Renaissance! The Black Plague has ceded power to the Puritans. Farthingales and codpieces are the latest fashion trends. And the biggest celebrity in England is some guy named William Shakespeare. Meanwhile, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom, in trying to keep their acting company afloat consult a soothsayer who informs them that the future of theatre involves acting, singing, and dancing – sometimes all at once! With hilarious songs like “I Hate Shakespeare,” “Will Power” and the title tune “Something Rotten,” the Bottom brothers write the world’s very first “musical,” as they battle the Bard himself. SOMETHING ROTTEN is a hysterical, joyous musical celebration of everything you love about Broadway!

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
December 5 – 29, 2024
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton

Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, this internationally famous, full-stage production includes all the famous songs including “Be Our Guest,” “If I Can’t Love Her,” “Home” and the title tune “Beauty and the Beast.” The story tells of Belle, a girl in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end, and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out! Our production will be bedecked for the holidays! Think of Belle’s village, the enchanted forest and the Beast’s castle sparkling like ornaments on the Covedale stage. It’s a yuletide treat for the entire family. Experience this “tale as old as time” for Christmas!

KEN LUDWIG’S LEND ME A TENOR
January 23 – February 16, 2025
By Ken Ludwig

Winner of 3 Tony Awards! LEND ME A TENOR is the perfect comedy to perk up the gray days of winter! On a big night for the Cleveland Grand Opera, Tito Mirelli, the world-famous Italian tenor, is set to star in “Pagliacci.” Henry Saunders – general manager of the company – is beyond stressed-out and insists that his assistant, Max – a nervous fellow and secret tenor extraordinaire – watch over Tito’s every move to ensure smooth sailing. But after a fight with his fiery wife Maria, Tito accidentally gets a double dose of tranquilizers! Throw in Diana, an ambitious, female co-star; Maggie, Max’s giddy girlfriend; Julia, a flirty head of the opera guild; and a meddling bellhop fighting for Tito’s attention, and you get a recipe for comedic disaster! LEND ME A TENOR is one side-splitting night at the theater!

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
March 13 – April 6, 2025
Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Songs by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc.

One of the greatest musicals in history! SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, has earned the top spot atop AFI’s 100 Years of Musicals list and, in 2007, was ranked as the 5th greatest motion picture of all time. Now adapted for the stage, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN captures the waning days of the silent screen era as they give way to new-fangled “talkies” and movie musicals. But Monumental Studios’ silent film siren, Lina Lamont, can’t sing – and her speaking voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard! Enter Kathy Selden, an aspiring actress whose lovely voice is used to over-dub Lina’s screech, but she doesn’t get the credit! Of course, in the end Kathy finds stardom, plus love with her leading man, Don Lockwood. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN includes some of the best-loved comedy routines, dance numbers, and love songs ever written including “Good Mornin’,” “Make ‘em Laugh,” and – of course – the show-stopping dance number, “Singin’ in the Rain.”

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Subscriptions on sale Thursday, December 7, 2023
Subscription renewal deadline is Friday, July 26, 2024
Subscription package tickets will be mailed Friday, August 9, 2024
Single tickets go on sale, Monday, August 12, 2024
Single ticket pricing:  $33.00 for Adults; $30 for Students and Seniors

Due to availability, season titles are subject to change.
Please note performance times: Thursday 7:30 pm; Friday 8:00 pm; Saturday 8:00 pm; & Sunday 2:00 pm.

You can purchase OR renew a subscription by one of the following methods:

  • Call the box office @ 513.241.6550
  • Mail your subscription order form to:  CLP, P.O. Box 5255  Cincinnati, OH  45205
  • Log on to:  www.CLPShows.org
  • In person at the Covedale or Incline box office ticket counters

Single tickets go on sale Monday, August 12, 2024.
$33 for Adults; $30 for Seniors/Students

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Submissions Sought for MIAMI WRITES 2024

MURT_logoIt’s time again for the Miami Writes Program for New Plays.

What have you been writing? Got something you’re eager to share? Don’t know what your play is trying to do and need a reading to figure it out? Submit your play and we’ll host a reading for the winning plays.

Send play submissions to

  • Bekka Eaton at eatonrl@miamioh.edu
  • Electronic submissions only.
  • Submit short plays or portions of longer ones. Maximum length presented at the reading—10-15 minutes. Usually, one page equals roughly one minute of playing time.
  • Each playwright must submit one play only
  • If you are submitting a longer one-act or full-length play, please be clear about what 5 to 15-minute section you would like to have read. Submit the entire play. You must include a clear and cogent recap of the action preceding and following the section of the play you are submitting. This will be for the audience’s information should your play be selected.
  • Scripts must follow the Standard American Template —City Theatre SA Help.
  • It is highly recommended that you use either Times or Courier fonts. These are standard for play submission. If you do use another font, make sure it is a standard font available to all computers. A good guideline is to use only HTML fonts.
  • Scripts must be paginated.
  • Clearly underline or highlight any stage directions you will need to be read aloud. A guide for what stage directions to include is to imagine what the audience will need to know that is happening visually. The less stage directions, the better your play will read.
  • FRONT MATTER:
    • Include a brief synopsis
    • Include the setting
    • Include brief character breakdowns for each character
    • On a cover page include:
      • Contact phone number
      • Email
      • Playwright’s brief bio
    • All playwrights must be able to attend the reading in person.
    • Deadline for entries: March 10, 2024, by 11:59 PM
    • If you have any questions, feel free to contact Bekka Eaton at eatonrl@miamioh.edu or at 513.330.1503 (c).

The reading is April 5, 2024
7:30 PM
Studio 307

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Mason High School Theater Presents AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD

MHS_And a Child Shall LeadOn January 19, 20, 26, & 27, Mason High School Theater will present AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD by Michael Slade.  Show time is 7 pm each day with an additional afternoon performance at 2pm on Saturday the 20th.  We invite senior citizens to attend our final dress rehearsal on January 18 @ 7pm free of charge. The play is produced by special agreement with Playscripts.com.

AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD by Michael Slade is the heroic and true story of children coming of age in Terezin, the “Jewish city” established by the Nazis near Prague as a way station before the death camps. In the face of unspeakable horror, these children use their determination and creativity to build lives filled with hope and beauty — playing, studying, making art, and writing an underground newspaper — all at the peril of being executed. Their actual poems and stories are woven into a fast-paced drama, evoking the universality of children caught in the insanity of war.  The show is rated PG-13 for some adult situations, language, and tragic moments.  It is best suited for theater goers middle school aged and up.  General Admission Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students, children, and seniors.  Reserved patron seats are also available for $15.  Purchase your tickets here.

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