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November 14, 2022 · 5:59 am

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR – A Holiday Cabaret Runs Dec. 9-17

MLT_The Most Wonderful Time of the Year logoTHE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR – A Holiday Cabaret
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Dec. 9-17
[Middletown]

Directed by Charley Shafor 
Music Director/Pianist: Sara Davis

Cast: Heather Evans, Shana Fisbein, Abbie Miller & Karen Oehler

This original cabaret will feature music from, That Time of the Year a musical revue of all-original Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s songs. There will also be dancing, traditional carols and storytelling. This cabaret is sure to spark your holiday spirit no matter which holiday you celebrate.

  • Fri-Sat, Dec. 9-10 at 8pm
  • Fri, Dec. 16 at 8pm
  • Sat, Dec. 17 at 3pm

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November 14, 2022 · 5:58 am

HOLIDAY POPS On Dec. 9-11

CPO_Holiday Pops logoHOLIDAY POPS
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Dec. 9-11
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

John Morris Russell, conductor
Annie Moses Band
Bernard Holcomb, tenor
Winton Woods High School Varsity Ensemble, Beth Miller, director
School for the Creative and Performing Arts Chorale, Richard Hand, director
Sycamore High School Select Ensemble, Ken Holdt, director
The Studio for Dance

It’s not the holidays until it’s Holiday Pops! Experience the splendor of Music Hall decked out like a winter wonderland, and feel the warmth as JMR and the Pops perform beloved holiday classics. The Annie Moses Band, who wowed Pops audiences at Riverbend last summer, adds to the joy that makes Holiday Pops the perfect tradition.

  • Fri, Dec. 9 at 11am & 7:30pm
  • Sat, Dec. 10 at 2pm & 7:30pm
  • Sun, Dec. 11 at 2pm & 7pm

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November 12, 2022 · 8:52 am

HARVEY Runs Nov. 11-20

DPH_Harvey logoHARVEY
Dayton Playhouse
Nov. 11-20
[Dayton]

Directed by Dawn Roth-Smith

Cast: Ted Eltzroth as Elwood, Peggy Allen as Veta, Megan Hohman as Myrtle Mae, Martin Foster as Wilson, Jenni Cypher as Mrs. Chavenet, Cathy Long as Mrs. Chumley, Sean Gunther as Dr. Chumley, Mark Garner as Judge Gaffeny, Mary Beringer as Ej Lofgren/Ms. Johnson,Brandon Shockney as Dr. Sanderson & Katie Gainey-West as Nurse Kelly

Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood’s sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium. Veta is so hysterical when she explains her brother’s condition that she is committed instead. Elwood leaves the sanatorium grounds unbothered, turning the town upside down as everyone goes on the lookout for this mind-mannered hero and his invisible rabbit.

  • Fri-Sat, Nov. 11-12 at 8pm
  • Sun, Nov. 13 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, Nov. 18-19 at 8pm
  • Sun, Nov. 20 at 2pm

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November 9, 2022 · 5:49 am

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER Runs Dec. 9-10

CPAM_The Best Christmas Pageant Ever logoTHE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
Children’s Performing Arts of Miamisburg
Dec. 9-10
Parkview United Methodist Church [Miamisburg]

Kids–probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

  • Fri, Dec, 9 at 6:30pm
  • Sat, Dec. 10 at 2:30pm & 6:30pm

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November 9, 2022 · 5:48 am

PLAID TIDINGS Runs Dec. 8-12

LTC_Plaid Tidings logoPLAID TIDINGS
Lebanon Theatre Company
Dec. 8-12
[Lebanon]

Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who discovered that they shared a love for music and then got together to become their idols – The Four Freshman, The Hi-Lo’s and The Crew Cuts. Rehearsing in the basement of Smudge’s family’s plumbing supply company, they became “Forever Plaid”. On the way to their first big gig, the “Plaids” are broadsided by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end that the story of Forever Plaid begins and leads to posthumous performance.

A short time after, Francis, Jinx, Smudge and Sparky aren’t sure why they’ve returned to Earth for ANOTHER posthumous performance. However, a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they’re needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites, like their riotous three-minute-and-eleven-second version of The Ed Sullivan Show – this time, featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, as well as a Plaid Caribbean Christmas that puts the “Day-O” in Excelsis!

  • Thu-Sat, Dec. 8-10 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Dec. 11 at 2pm & 7pm

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