MAMMA MIA!
Wright State University
March 19-April 12
Festival Playhouse [Dayton]
A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you will never forget!
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OLIVER!
Hamilton Rotary
March 19-22
Miami University Hamilton Parrish Auditorium [Hamilton]
Directed by Rodney Neal
Produced by Angie Neal & Mandy Gambrell
Cast: Gabe Neal as Oliver, Wayne Wright as Fagin, Evan Blust as Artful Dodger, Mary Vosseberg as Nancy, Coby Osborn as Bill Sykes, Scott Christian as Mr. Bumble, Kelly Massey as Widow Corney, Bill Balfour as Mr. Sowerberry, Lacey Parsons as Mrs. Sowerberry, Abby Merrill as Bet, Clayton Eschenbrenner as Noah Claypole, Olivia Jones as Charlotte, Bob Dronberger as Mr. Brownlow, Matt Guion as Dr. Grimwig & Joan Angst as Mrs. Bedwin
Ensemble: Katelyn Moore, Holly Meyer, Molly Wanko, Marco Colant, Ella Pfirman, Naomi Wanko, Marijo Farley, Gary Bracknell, Tom Angst, Mathew Dieffenderfer, David Went, Maddi Bates, Hannah Neal, Evie Sias, Makayla Platt, Samira Platt, Tyler Hull, Ben Brown, Ryleigh Doss, Josie Halverson, Grace Martin, Ava Martin, Elli Maddock, Chloe Kime, Kaylee Beck, Mia Biondo, Maggie Hochwalt, Aiden Dieffenderfer, Abby McCullough, Devon Adams, Janelle Benjey, Owen Benjey, Morgan Greenwood, Clark Pfirman, Kate Pfirman, Ryder Parsons, Patrick Oehlenschlager, Charlie Ernst, Lilly Gibson, Jossie Garrett, Rylan Jackman, Rebecca Moore, Gwen Halverson, Alondra Scott, John Horton, Franz Horton, Joshua Braun, Dexter Harold Carpenter, Sunny Dieffenderfer, Kristina Stoddart, Maria Helbig, Shelby Carter, Dani Jones, Chelsea Smith, Ursula Biron, Katelyn Moore, Sam Murray, Morgan Garrett, Bethany Roundtree & Megan Rademacher
The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.
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JEKYLL AND HYDE
Dare to Defy Productions
March 19-21
Brightside Music & Event Center [Dayton]
An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself– both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind’s most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man that the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.
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ANNE & EMMETT
Cincinnati Black Theatre Company
Feb. 28-March 8
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center [Downtown]
Directed by Don Sherman
An imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the 14-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the American Civil Rights Movement.
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EARTH AND SKY
Mariemont Players Inc.
March 13-29
Walton Creek Theatre
Directed by jef brown
Cast: Patricia Mullins as Sara McKeon, CJ Bossart as David Ames, Al Kersnowski – Detective Michael Ireland as Al Kersnowski, Darren Lee as Detective H.E. Weber, Elizabeth Hickerson as Joyce Lazlo, Bryce Willson as Billy Hart, Burt McCollom as Carl Eisenstadt, Natasha Boeckmann as Marie DeFaria & Fred Murrell as Julius Gatz
EARTH AND SKY is a poetic thriller about a would-be poet and part-time librarian named Sara McKeon whose lover of ten weeks, David Ames, is found dead one hot August morning in the city of Chicago. It appears that David, owner and manager of an expensive art-deco restaurant, may have been involved in several illicit activities including kidnapping, rape and murder. Unable to believe that the man she gave her heart to was a killer, and outraged that the police seem to have closed the book on the case, Sara begins her own investigation of the crime and is led deeper and deeper through the urban labyrinth into the contemporary underworld. As the detective story moves forward in time, scenes from the love affair take us back to the moment when Sara and David first met. Finally the plots converge, and Sara finds herself face to face with the person who murdered her beloved.
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