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August 15, 2019 · 10:09 am

Disney’s FROZEN JR. Runs Sept. 13-29

THT_Frozen Jr logoDisney’s FROZEN JR.
Town Hall Theatre
Sept. 13-29
[Centerville]

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FROZEN JR. is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life, onstage. The show features all of the memorable songs from the animated film, with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 13-14 at 7pm
  • Sun, Sept. 15 at 3pm
  • Fri, Sept. 20 at 7pm
  • Sat, Sept. 21 at 11am (Sensory Performance) and 3pm
  • Sun, Sept. 22 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 27-28 at 7pm
  • Sun, Sept. 29 at 3pm

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August 15, 2019 · 9:20 am

GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES Run Aug. 30-Sept. 1

TRT_Gruesome Playground Injuries promoGRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
The Regular Theatre
Aug. 30-Sept. 1
Essex Studios [Avondale]

Directed by Kyle Parker Daniels

Cast: Mandy Goodwin as Kayleen & Micah Price as Doug

GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES is a surreal, anecdotal two-hander that explores the tumultuous relationship between two childhood best friends, Doug and Kayleen. Through a non-linear timeline, Joesph explores life, loss, and codependence as the characters discover, lose, and rediscover each other over the span of thirty years.

  • Fri, Aug. 30 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Aug. 31 at 2:30pm & 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 1 at 2:30pm

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August 15, 2019 · 8:58 am

Exciting 2020 ‘Summer Classics Season’ Announced for Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

WFIT_Sign at nightAll Musical  Season Features Dancing, Laughs, Love Songs and One of Musical Theatre’s All Time Classics

Cincinnati Landmark Productions announced this week its four-show 2020 Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

The 2020 Summer Classics Season, presented by TriHealth, includes:

  • NEWSIES – April 22 – May 17, 2020
  • A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM – June 3 – 28, 2020
  • JERRY’S GIRLS – July 8 – August 2, 2020
  • CAROUSEL – August 19 – September 13, 2020

“We broke our own attendance records with our Summer Classics Season in 2018, but wouldnt you know it – we did it again in 2019,” said Tim Perrino, Executive Artistic Director for Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “We can’t wait to present these four great titles in 2020 and keep this amazing momentum going for years to come!”

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is the purpose-built, 229-seat performing arts center and parking garage in the Incline District in East Price Hill. Located at the corner of Matson Place and West 8th Street, the $6 million project opened on June 3, 2015.

Subscriptions for the 2020 Summer Classics Season – only $104 – are now on sale.

Subscribers to the 2019 Summer Classics Season will have their seats held for renewal until March 2, 2020. All seats not renewed by that time will be released. Tickets to individual shows go on sale on March 23, 2020.

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is programmed year-round by Cincinnati Landmark Productions, culminating in over 120 show nights. In addition to the Summer Classics Season, the venue hosts the three-show District Series season (September to May), an edgier slate of productions designed as an alternative to the concurrent Marquee season at the Covedale Center.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions has been serving the West Side for over 35 years – first through its Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre program and then through its ownership and management of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in West Price Hill.

For more information about the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, visit www.clpshows.org or call (513) 241-6550.

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More about the 2020 Summer Classics Season
at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

NEWSIES
April 22 – May 17, 2020
Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Jack Feldman; Book by Harvey Fierstein
Based on the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White

Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies.” When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions and fight for what’s right! Based on the 1992 motion picture and inspired by a true story, Newsies features a Tony Award-winning score by Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman and a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots). Featuring the now classic songs “Carrying the Banner,” “Seize the Day,” and “Santa Fe,” Newsies is packed with non-stop thrills and a timeless message.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
June 3 – June 28, 2020
Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart; Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Based on the plays of Platus

Broadway’s greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a nonstop laughfest in which Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his young master, Hero, in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors and a showgirl or two.

JERRY’S GIRLS
July 8 – August 2, 2020
By Jerry Herman, Larry Alford and Wayne Cilento

A beautiful musical revue! Jerry Herman has always put the “larger-than-life” female characters in his shows center stage. There’s Dolly Gallagher Levi of Hello, Dolly!, Auntie Mame Dennis of Mame, Countess Aurelia of Dear World, Mabel Normand of Mack and Mabel. And female impersonator ZaZa of La Cage Aux Folles. So it is fitting that in Jerry’s Girls, the powerhouse women are center stage again. The all-women cast affectionately celebrate Jerry’s special gift for writing songs that capture the true spirit of the American musical theatre. A gorgeous, moving two-hour musical entertainment of glamour, optimism, love, melody, and women.

CAROUSEL
Aug. 19 – Sept. 13, 2020
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstien II; Based on the Play LILIOM by Ferenc Molnar; As adapted by Benjamin F. Glaser; Original Dances by Agnes de Mille

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries a naïve millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent “up there.” Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day, 15 years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager. Her father’s reputation as a thief and bully has haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. A powerhouse musical and one of theatre’s all-time classics.

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August 14, 2019 · 2:50 pm

Nomadic Performance Initiative Inaugural Production of THE CHILDREN’S HOUR Opens Sept. 5

NPI_logoNomadic Performance Initiative Invites Audiences to “Wonder With Purpose” During THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

Set in a fictional New England town in the 1930s, THE CHILDREN’S HOUR tells the story of two women who are unjustly accused of homosexual activity by one of their students. The outraged community quickly withdraws all of their students, causing a witch hunt that ultimately forces the school to close. A relevant and haunting reminder of the power of words, lies and intolerance.

Past productions of THE CHILDREN’S HOUR featured artists such as Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Elisabeth Moss and Keira Knightley.

The cast includes: Blair Godshall as Martha Dobie, Katrina Reynolds as Lily Mortar, Tony Newton as Joseph Cardin, Jennifer Trier as Amelia Tilford, Lexi Rigsby as Mary Tilford, Kayla Vogel as Karen Wright, Katie Keller as Rosalie Wells, Erin East as Peggy Rogers, Brooke Singleton as Agatha, Emily Keller as Evelyn Munn, Emma Wolfe as Lois Fisher, TBA as Helen Burton, TBA as Catherine & Ethan Glahn as Grocery Boy.

THE CHILDREN’S HOUR is directed by Farley Norman and produced by NPI founder Blair Godshall.

Performances run Sept. 5-8, 2019 at the Lincoln Grant Scholar House, 824 Greenup Street, Covington, KY 41011. Curtain is 7:30pm on Thursday-Saturday with the closing Sunday matinee at 2pm.

Tickets
General admission tickets are $15. For groups of 10 or more, tickets are $10 each. Tickets are available online at https://childrenshourplay.bpt.me.

The Nomadic Performance Initiative, founded by Blair Elizabeth Godshall, started in 2019 as a way to provide opportunities for artistic expression by showcasing the complex roles women play (both onstage and off) with the hope of reaching new audiences and creating community. As nomads travel, we believe mobility is the most efficient strategy for discovering scarce resources. We strive to replace scarcity with abundance. Please join us for our inaugural production of “The Children’s Hour” as we “wander with purpose.”

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August 14, 2019 · 2:04 pm

Cincinnati Opera and CCM Opera’s Opera Fusion: New Works Presents CASTOR AND PATIENCE

CO_Opera Fusion Castor and Patience logoMusic by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Tracy K. Smith 

Workshop dates: August 26-September 4, 2019

Free public performance of excerpts on Wednesday, September 4

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the workshop offers the combined resources of Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music to further the development of new American opera 

CINCINNATI, OH—Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) are pleased to announce that their groundbreaking joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works, will host a residency for the new opera Castor and Patience from August 26 through September 4, 2019, in Cincinnati.

Castor and Patience, with music by composer Gregory Spears and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, has been commissioned by Cincinnati Opera in honor of its 100th anniversary season and will receive its world premiere as part of the company’s 2020 Summer Festival. It will be Spears’s second work for the company, following the extraordinary critical and popular success of Fellow Travelers, with librettist Greg Pierce, in 2016.

During the Opera Fusion: New Works residency, the work’s creative team will collaborate with singers and musicians for a 10-day workshop, culminating in a public performance of excerpts on September 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Music Hall’s Wilks Studio.

Tickets: Admission to the Opera Fusion: New Works public performance on September 4 is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Tickets will become available from the Cincinnati Opera box office on Tuesday, August 20 at 10 a.m. Call (513) 241-2742 to reserve.

The Opera Fusion: New Works residency for Castor and Patience is generously underwritten by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

OPERA FUSION: NEW WORKS PRESENTS
CASTOR AND PATIENCE

Music by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Tracy K. Smith

Kevin Newbury, stage director
Kazem Abdullah, conductor

Workshop:
August 26-September 4, 2019 

Public performance:
Wednesday, September 4, 7:30 p.m.
Music Hall’s Wilks Studio, 1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati
Tickets are free, but reservations are required; call (513) 241-2742 beginning August 20 at 10 a.m.

Castor and Patience, with music by composer Gregory Spears and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of a historic parcel of land they have inherited in the American South. According to Smith, “It’s 2008, and Patience is fighting to stave off overzealous developers. Castor has a ballooning mortgage to contend with and is hoping to sell his share of the land. But if they’re going to get anywhere as a family, they must first learn to see past their differing allegiances and trust one another. Castor and Patience is the story not just of a single family or even a particular geography, but of America’s warring tensions between reckoning with the hard facts of history and racing blindly forward toward the dream of progress.”

Castor and Patience will receive its world premiere at Cincinnati’s School for Creative and Performing Arts as part of Cincinnati Opera’s 2020 Summer Festival. For tickets and details, visit cincinnatiopera.org.

ABOUT OPERA FUSION: NEW WORKS
Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW) is a partnership between Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) dedicated to fostering the development of new American operas. This collaboration is jointly led by Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, and Robin Guarino, Professor of Opera at CCM. OF:NW offers composers or composer/librettist teams the opportunity to workshop an opera during a residency in Cincinnati. Residencies utilize the facilities, personnel, and talent of both Cincinnati Opera and CCM. The workshops are cast with a combination of CCM students and professional artists, and each workshop concludes with a free public presentation of excerpts followed by an audience Q&A session. Since its founding in 2011, OF:NW has developed 12 new American operas, including Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Great Scott, Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, and Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor’s Hadrian, among others. For more information, visit ofnw.org. 

ABOUT CINCINNATI OPERA
Founded in 1920, Cincinnati Opera presents a thrilling season of opera every summer in multiple venues, including the recently renovated historic Music Hall. The company’s repertoire includes beloved classics and contemporary works brought to life by some of the world’s most dynamic performers and creative teams.

Cincinnati Opera’s 2020 100th Anniversary Summer Festival will run June 18 through August 1, featuring Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, the world premiere of William Menefield and Sheila Williams’s Fierce, Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka, the world premiere of Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s Castor and Patience, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. The 2020 season is made possible with support from ArtsWave, Ohio Arts Council, The Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund, and many generous individuals, corporations, and foundations.

Cincinnati Opera’s mission is to enrich and connect our community through diverse opera experiences.

cincinnatiopera.org

ABOUT CCM
Declared “one of the nation’s leading conservatories” by The New York Times, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is a preeminent institution for the performing and media arts. The school’s educational roots date back to 1867, and a solid, visionary instruction has been at its core since that time.

CCM offers nine degree types (BA, BM, BFA, MFA, MM, MA, AD, DMA, PhD) in nearly 120 possible majors, along with a wide variety of pre-collegiate and post-graduate programs. The synergy created by housing CCM within a comprehensive public university gives the college its unique character and defines its objective: to educate and inspire the whole artist and scholar for positions on the world’s stage.

CCM’s 2019-2020 Opera Series includes Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride (Nov. 21-24), George Frideric Handel’s Partenope (Feb. 20-23) and W.A. Mozart’s The Magic Flute (April 2-5).

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