BLOOMING the Musical
Presented by Cincinnati Playwright Initiative
Sept. 20
Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Written by Louise Epperson
Music by Bill Corcoran
Directed by Chris Lee
Music directed by Bree Hunter Cox
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative is a grassroots arts organization of local playwrights, directors, actors, and theater supporters devoted to bringing new plays by local playwrights to the Cincinnati stage.
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PULP
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Oct. 7-29
Over-the-Rhine
Directed by Andrew Hungerford
Cast: Paul Riopelle as PI Frank Ellery, Maggie Lou Rader as Desiree St. Clair, Justin McCombs as Walter Kingston-Smith, Darnell Pierre Benjamin as Bradley Rayburn, Dylan Shelton as R.A. Lyncroft
Los Angeles, 1933. Washed-up PI Frank Ellery takes on the strangest case of his life. A hack literary agent has been gruesomely murdered, and the four suspects are the agent’s remaining clients: wildly eccentric writers for different pulp magazines. Frank dives into the mystery, and his world turns upside down as life begins to imitate literature. In this genre-bending, comedy, whodunnit, the plot swings from laughs to chills as science fiction, romance, adventure, and horror combine with one down-on-his-luck gumshoe who’s about to learn what really lurks between the lines.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre
Oct. 6-9
Parrish Auditorium [Hamilton]
Directed by David Radtke
Produced by Teresa Bayer-Iltzsch & Mary St. John
Cast: Kaleigh-Brooke Dillingham as Wednesday, Brett Parr as Lucas, Gregory Good as Gomez, Monica Weber as Morticia, Jenni Sheets as Alice, Gary Herman as Mac, Joe Schneider as Uncle Fester, Cindy Miller as Grandma, Jacob Hibbard as Pugsley & Steve Lakes as Lurch
Ancestors: Rose Vanden Eynden, Ellen Imbronyev, Michael Wright, Kait White, Jacob Spicer, Joan Crawford-Angst, Matt Reed, Alex Cottle, Amber D’Souza & Dylan Turner
The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.
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STUPID F***ICK BIRD
Miami University
Oct. 5-9
Studio 88 Theatre [Oxford]
Directed by Saffron Henke
Love, death, beauty, despair and one unfortunate seagull collide in this unabashedly provocative riff on Chekhov’s classic. Con is a burgeoning playwright in love with his ingénue; his mother, an aging actress, is involved with a famous novelist; the novelist, in turn, is increasingly enchanted with Con’s girlfriend; and everyone else suffers on the sidelines. Chekhov’s characters still ruminate on love, revolution and the pursuit of happiness, but this time convention is severly compromised.
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TOXIC AVENGER The Musical
Falcon Theatre
Sept. 30-Oct. 15
Newport
Directed by Charles Russell
Music direction by Jay P. Myers
Choreographed by Pam Blessing
Cast: Zach Huffman, Katie McCarthy, Amy Grace Curtis, DeAndre Smith & Robert Breslin
Based on a 1984 cult classic, this romantic musical features a nerd-turned-hero who tries to clean up corruption in New Jersey. Falcon is proud to present this regional premiere to the Cincinnati area.
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